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All parts and leaves on both sides harshly and shortly pubescent W. scabra. 



Leaves more or less shortly pubescent beneath or almost glabrous ; panicles pubescent or 



tomeutose, W. tinctoria 



All parts, also the panicle, quite glabrous ; flowers minutely pedicelled, W. glabrata 



X X Calyx-teeth subulate acuminate, as long or longer than calyx-tube. 



Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, W. ligmtrina. 



Leaves lanceolate, membranous, along the rib beneath appressed pubescent,... W. glomerulata. 

 * * Flowers 4- or 5-merous, in one-sided spikes, forming a divaricate corymbose panicle. 



All parts glabrous ; flowers 5- and 4-merous, , JP". secnnda. 



All parts more or less tawny pubescent, flowers 4-merous, , W. corymbosa. 



COMPOSITJE. 



Conspectus of genera. 



Flower-heads homogamons, discoid, the florets all tubnlar, hermaphrodite, regular or nearly so 



Anthers usually fringed or tailed at base. Style usually slightly thickened at the base of the narrow 

 and blunt or slightly pointed often erect branches. 

 Leucomeeis. Pappus long, capillary. Involucre scarious , simple. 



* Flower-heads homogamous, discoid, the florets all tubular, hermaphrodite, regular or nearly so 



Anthers usually obtuse at base, without tails. Style-branches subulate and acute not swollen at 

 the base. 

 Veenoxia. Involucre ovoid, without leafy bracts. Pappus of capillary bristles with a few, or a ring of, short ones 

 outside. 



* Flower-heads either heterogamous or dioecious, the female florets ligulate or filiform, the herma- 



phrodite or males tubular. Anthers various. Style-branches in the hermaphrodite florets usually 



more or less flattened, produced beyond the stigmatic lines into tips or appendages, papillose on the 



outside. 

 CoxYZA- Female florets filiform. Pappus of simple capillary bristles. Anthers without tails. 

 Bluscea.. As former, but anthers with fine tails. lavolooral bracts herbaceous or soft. Style of the disk-florets 



branched. 

 Pluchea. Anthers with fine tails. InToluoral-braots rigid. Style of disk-florets simple. 



LEUCOMERIS. 



Leaves membranous, glabrous, flower-heads on densely scaled very short peduncles, L. decora. 

 VERNONIA. 



Tawny-puberulous ; petioles long and slender ; pappus brownish white, Y, arborea. 



Greyish-pubescent ; petioles short and thick ; pappue pure white, V. volliamcriaefolia. 



BlUMEA. 



All parts appressed silky-pubescent ; flowers yellow, B. halsamifera. 



CAMPANULACEJS. 

 Conspectus of genera. 

 ScAEVOLA. Corolla irregular, 1-or 2-lipped, posteriorly split to the base. Anthers free. Ovary 1- or 2-oelled. 



SCAEVOIA.-Only species s. Koenigii. 



ERIC AC E^. 

 Conspectus of genera. 



Ovary inferior ; frnit indehiscent, succulent. 



Vaccinitim. Calyx 4-5-toothed or-lobed or-cleft. Corolla tubular, oampanulate or nroeolate. Anbher-^jells produced 

 in a shorter or longer tube. Ovary .cells as many as corolla-lobes. 



* Ovary capsule dry, loculicidally opening superior. 



Andeomeda. Corolla globular- to tubnlar-urceolate with a 5-toothed reflexed limb. Stamens 10, enclose4, the anthers 



shortly one-awned. Stigma truncate. Calyx dry in fruit. 

 Gaultheeia. Calyx 2-bracted at base. Corolla ovate-urceolate, with a 5-cleft revolnte limb. Stamens 10 the 



anthers 2-cleft, the cells terminating iu 2 awns. Hypogynous scales 10, usually united at base. Calyx fleshy 



and berry-like. 



X X Capsule dry, septicidally opening. 

 Ebododendeon. Corolla funnel- or bell. shaped, S.cleft. Stamens 5 or 10, declinate ; anthers opening by terminal 



pores. Hypogynous disk nectariferous. 



