proved it not to be consistently reducible to any established 
genus, has formed a new one from it, and, with that li- 
berality and vigilance which he extends to every interest 
of science, availed himself of the appropriate occasion of 
honouring the merits of Mr. Burchell, the zealous and 
enterprising investigator of the regions to which our plant 
belongs. t 
The shrub is called Buffelhorn (Buffaloe-horn) by the 
Dutch colonists at the Cape, from the hardness of the wood, 
according to Mr. Masson. The drawing was taken from a 
sample in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville in 
the King’s Road, Chelsea, and is the first ever published. 
Shrub fall of branches, furred; branchlets compressed. 
Leaves opposite. Stipules between the petioles, broad at 
the bottom subulate at the top, undivided, caducous. 
Flower-head terminal, subtended on the outside of a short 
involucre of one piece and with several indentations by a 
single pair of smaller leaves with proportionately broader 
stipules. Germens sessile, distinct, resting on ¡a convex 
villous receptacle beset with a few minutely small bracteoles. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft, with an equal foliaceous limb several 
times longer than the tube. Corolla scarlet, clavately fun- 
nelform, close-pressedly furred on the outside, except a 
bearded circle near the bottom of the tube quite smooth on 
the inside: limb 5-cleft, short: cestivation (folding of the 
segments in the unexpanded flower) mutually overlapped (as 
distinguished from alternately overlapped, a more common 
mode in this tribe). Stamens inserted just above the middle 
of the tube; anthers subsessile, enclosed, linear. Stigma 
protruded, clavate, with a furrowed line on each side. Berry 
turbinately globular, surmounted by the persistent calyx, 2- 
celled with an entire partition, many-seeded. Placenta 
(receptacle of the seed) adnate. Seeds angular. Embryo in 
the axis of the cartilagitious albumen, and longer than half 
the length of it. (From the latin manuscript of Mr. 
Brown.) 
