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mannia lateriflora, Brongn. Z. c, having axillary flowers, and the 

 apex of the ovary free as in that species, hut with two distinct 

 styles. The ovary is two-celled, with the ovules in pairs. The 

 young fruit is also wholly two-celled, with a thick bony dissepi- 

 ment, but I do not remember to have found any seeds. This plant 

 must, I think, be regarded as a link connecting Tittmannia with 

 Brunia ; and I would propose that the former genus, based upon a 

 solitary species, be reduced*. Here is a description of Mr, Bur- 

 chell's new plant ; 



Brunia teres, sp. nov. Erecta, ramuhs gracilibus fastigiatis, fohis 

 minutissimis ovatis subtrigonis vel dorso convexis obtusiusculis arete 

 adpressis imbricatis, floribus axillaribus solitariis sessihbus, ovario 

 af-^ infero biloculari, styUs 2 liberis, ovulis geminatis. 



Cape: Baviaan's Kloof at Genadendal, Burchelll in Hb. Kew. (no. 



7700). 



There yet remains another remarkable Bruniacea, also collected 

 by Mr. Burchell, allied in most technical points of structure to 

 Berzelia, but wholly unlike that genus in habit. It is a much- 

 branched softly pubescent shrub, with very minute sessile solitary 

 axillary and terminal flowers, frequently shortly spicate. The 

 petals are sessile and certainly valvate, the stamens included, the 

 ovary scarcely or not at all gibbous, with a free apex, as in Ber- 

 zelia^ and a solitary suspended anatropous ovule. As there is but 

 a solitary species thus characterized (or two very closely allied) it 

 may be for the present referred to Berzelia. The following is a 

 description of it : 



Mniothamnea 



sohtari 



tione valvata; stamina inclusa. An genus propriuml) cxhhVsoiDKB, 

 sp. nov. Adscendens vel procumbens, ramuUs tomentosis^ foliis 

 ovatis concavis eallo atro minute apiculatis^ margine dorsoque pilosis 

 vel rarius glabratis. 



lear Zwellendam (no. 73S2), and mountain near 

 Valley-Rivier's Poort (nos. 7097, 7116) BurcMll in Hb. Kew. 



A divaricate shrub, varying 9 in. to 2 ft. in height. 



* M. Baillon (*Adansonia') suggests that Staavia^ Lineonia^ and Berardia 

 should be reduced to sections of Brunia, of which genus he woidd regard 

 Saspailia as a uniovulate species j but tliis view is not likely to find general 

 acceptance. 



