RHAMNACEAE 
RHAMNACEAE 
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Calyx glabrous. 
Flowers in umbellate clusters; fruit juicy. 
Flowers paniculate ; fruit dry. 
Calyx pubescent. 
Scutia 
Scutia, Comm. 
Noltea, Reichb. 
Phylica, Linn. 
capensis, Don. 
Phylica 
Leaves stipulate. stipularis, Linn. 
Leaves exstipulate. 
Bracts much longer than the flowers, forming plumes at the ends of the 
branchlets. 
Flowers spicate. plumosa, Thunb. 
Flowers capitate. 
Bracts about \ 1. wide. capitata, Thunb. 
Bracts 1 — 1^- 1. wide. Dodii, N. E. Br. 
Bracts often longer than the flowers but ± leaf-like and not forming plumes. 
Flowers in dense spikes \ — 2 in. in length. spicata, Linn. f. 
Flowers usually in heads rarely elongating into short spikes ^ in. long. 
Heads 5 Is. or more in diameter. 
Involucral leaves conspicuously longer than the flowers. 
Calyx-tube hirsute. reflexa, Lam. 
Calyx-tube glabrous. callosa, Thunb. 
Involucral leaves shorter or scarcely longer than the flowers. 
Calyx-tube glabrous. callosa, Thunb. 
Calyx-tube hirsute. 
Hairs on the calyx-tube reversed, petals glabrous. 
bicolor, Linn. 
Hairs on the calyx-tube not reversed, petals ciliate. 
cuspidata, E. and Z. 
Heads of fls. < 5 Is. in diameter. 
Heads stalked; leaves usually > 2 Is. wide. buxifolia. Linn. 
Heads not stalked ; leaves usually < 2 Is. wide. 
Calyx 1| — 2 Is. long, the tube pubescent or woolly. 
Leaves 5 — 10 Is. long. 
Hairs on the calyx-tube reversed. strigulosa, Solid. 
Hairs on the calyx-tube not reversed. eriophoros, Leig. 
Leaves 2 Is. long. selaginoides, Sond. 
Calyx 1 1. or less long, the tube glabrous 
Leaves cordate-lanceolate ; calyx-segments lanceolate. 
acmaephylla, E. and Z. 
