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BRUNIACEiE. II. Brunia. III. Staavia. IV, Raspalia. V. Berarbia. 



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Long-headed ^rux\\2i» Fl. Ju. Aug, Clt. 1815. Sh. 1 to 3 ft. same colour as the leaves. Tj . G. Native of the Cape of Gooi 

 16 B. supe'rba (Donn, hort. cant. Willd. spec. 1. p. 1143.) Hope. Brunia ciliata ? Lin. spec. 288. 



leaves semicylindrical, spreading, incurved, pilose, ending in 

 spacelate awns. T2 . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 B. speciosa, Hortulan. Flowers unknown. 



Superb Brunia. Fl. May, July. Clt. 1 791. Shrub 1 to 3 ft. 



f Species only known by natne, from catalogues, without any 

 description. These are j)'^obably identical with some of those 



C27ia/^c?-leaved Staavia. Fl. May, Jul. Clt. 1812. Sh.lto2fi 

 Cult. See Brunia for culture and propagation. 



described above* 



IV. RASPA'LIA (in honour of M. Raspal, who has writtea 



on the structure of grasses and the formation of fecula). Brogn. 

 etDum. mem. brun. p. 21. 



Lm. SYST. Pentdndria^ Digynia. Calyx free, 5-cleft(f. 8. 



C. c). 



Petals and stamens inserted in the free ovary (f. 8. 



mbsa (Dum. Cours). 



/' 



C. g\). Ovary 2-celled (f. 8. C. A.). ; cells 1 -seeded. Styles 



2 



(f. 8. C. €,). — A subshrub, with twiggy, fastigiate branches, 

 alternate, opposite, or whorled, short branchlets. Leaves small 



^1 7\ -ni . 1 V.1 11 I. x^ \ J. '.\ ' ' -a J. a miciuni^, opposire, or vvaorieu, snort urancnieis. Ajcaves siiiau 



Cult, Elegant heath-like shrubs, but with msiffnincant flowers. 1 i. • i i 1 i i 1 ^ ^ .1 i. ri . v a 



* . r . 1 1 •. A 1. ^ 1 .i.- rhomboid, keeled, closely pressed to the branchlets, quite smooth 



A mixture 01 peat and sand suits them best, and young cuttmgs, sn' - 11 t 1 ~ ' 



planted in sand with a bell-glass placed over them, will strike Cf g f* 



root. 



) 



Heads of flowers solitary, twin, or tern 



crated. Flowers small, white, with a spreading limb and enclosed 



anthers. 



III. STAA^VIA (in honour of Martin StaafT, a correspon- 1 r, microphy'lla (Brogn. etDum. mem. p. 22. t. 37. f. 1) 



dent of Linnseus). Dahl. diss. Thunb. prod. 41. D. C. prod. 



Brogn. 



2. p. 45. 



Schreb* gen. 377. — Astrocoma, Neck. elem. no. 196. 



Lin. syst. Pentdndria^ Monogyni'a. Calyx adhering to the 

 bottom of the ovary (f. 8. G. g.) but free at the top, ending in 

 5 awl-shaped callose lobes (f. 8. G.f). Petals free (f. 8. G. c). 

 Ovary half-inferior, 2-celled (f. 8. G. Jc, ^.) ; cells 1-seeded. 

 Style simple. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit bicoccous (f. 8. G. k.). 



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et Dum. mem. Brun. p. 22.— Levisanus, phylk ? Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 94. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Brunia micro 



SmalUleaved Raspalia. Clt. 1804. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 

 Cult. For culture and propagation see Brunia. 



V. BERA'RDIA (in honour of M. Berard, a professor o( 



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Small shrubs, with linear, spreading leaves, which are callose at ^i-— Brunia and Linconia, species of authors. 



Brogn. et Dum. mem. brun. p. 



the apex. Flowers collected into terminal, disk-like heads (f. 



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IN. SYST. 



Pentdndria, Digynia. Calyx adhering to the 



8. G. «.), involucrated by numerous shining, whitish bracteas, ^^^^Y ^^ ^^^^ ^^^e, but free at the apex, 5-cleft (f.8. D.6.). 



which are either longer or shorter than the leaves. Receptacle ^^^^^^ 5, cohermg into a tube at the base. Stamens adhering 



of flowers villous or chaffy. ^^ ^^^^ Petals more or less at the base. 



1 S. RADiA^TA (Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 96.) young branches and ^^y^^^ ^ (^- S. D. /.). Fruit bicoccous (f. 8. D. i.). 



leaves pilose ; leaves linear, acute, hardly keeled, spreading or shrubs, with erect, fastigiate, slender branches, awl-shaped, 

 deflexcd, mucronate ; heads of flowers corymbose ; bracteas 



Ovary half inferior 



.. ..,- Small 



shrubs, with erect, fastigiate, slender branches, 



acute, close-pressed leaves, covering the stem on every side. 



of involucre membranous, mucronate, arclied, deflexed, white, a Flowers capitate (f. 8. D. a.\ involucrated, with awl-shapefl 



the flowers. T? . G. Native of the Cape of bracteas, which are longer than the leaves, each flower is fur- 



little longer than 



) 



lengti 



Good Hope. Phylica radiata, Lin. spec. ed. 2. p. 283. Brunia 

 radiata, Lin. mant. 209. — Pluk. mant. t. 454. f. 7. — Breyn. cent. 

 t. 82. Flowers dusky. 



/JflT/eJ-flowered Staavia. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1787. Shrub 

 1 to 2 feet. . . 



2 S. GLUTiKosA (Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 95.) branches and leaves ustulate ; heads of flowers corymbose ; lower bractea 



quite smooth; leaves linear, trigonal, thickish, blunt, callose, ^^"S ^^ ^^^ flower, awl-shaped, ustulate, hairy at the base, 



Briinia 



in length to the flower. 



1 B. palea'cea (Brogn. etDum, mem. p. 25.) leaves awl- 

 shaped, acute, short, closely pressed to the stem, quite smooth, 



twice as 



ustulate, approximate, erect; heads of flowers usually solitary, segments of calyx shorter than the petals, villous; 



terminal ; bracteas of involucre erect or stiffly spreading, not 



arched, white, much longer than the flowers ; flowers aggluti- 



ovate. 



b. G. 



nated with resinous juice. ^2 • ^* Native of the Cape of Good *• 21. 



paleacea, 'J'hunb. prod. p. 41. 



Flowers white. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Wendl 



Lin. mant. 55d. 



Wendl. coll. 1. t. 





Hope, on the Table Mountain. 



glulinosa, Lin. mant. 210. — Pluck, mant. t. 431. f. 1. 



Brunia 



Flowers 



Chaffy 



Fl. June, Auor. 



Sh. 1 to 



2fl 



Clt. 1791. 



p. 25.) leaves a^l- 



dusky, 



G/?//^??o«5-flowered Staavia. 

 Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



FL April, May. Clt. 1793. 



3 S. nu'da (Brogn. et Dum. mem. p. 23.) branches fasti- 



2 B. AFFiNis (Brogn. et Dum. mem. ^. 

 shaped, acute, closely pressed to the branches, smooth, o^ ' 

 little fringed ; lower bractea awl-shaped, smooth, longer tMD 

 fhA flr»wAi-o . o«rrYv»r.»^fo ^p calyx lottgcf than the petals, smootD* 



T2 . G. Native of the Cape of Good 



Flowers white. 



giate, and are as well as the leaves smooth ; leaves oblong-linear, Hope. Linconia capitata. Banks, herb. 



short, trigonal, erect, imbricate ; heads of flowers solitary, ter- Allied Berardia. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. ^ 



minal ; involucre shorter, or equal in length to the leaves, and ^ ^' fragarioides (Schlecht. in Linnaea. 6. p. 188.) lea^_ 



of the same colour. h . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, linear-fihform, triquetrous, smooth, closely pressed to the ste 

 r lowers dusky i 



Naked Staavia. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. the Cape 



4 S. cilia'ta (Brogn. ct Dum. mem. p. 24.) branches fas- P- 1143. 



T2 . G. JNativc 



^s, Willd. spec- 



tifriate, villous ; leaves sessile, erect, imbricate, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute, smooth, keeled on the back, and ciliated with long 

 hairs on the margins, and with callose points ; heads of flowers 

 discoid, woolly (bracteas and segments of the calyx very villous) 

 involucre shorter than the flowers, imbricate, pilose, of the 



Strawberry4ike Brunia. Clt. 1794. Shrub 1 to 3 keX. 



^ An allied species or a new genus* 



4 B. phylicoIdes (Brogn. et Dum. mem. p. 25.) leaves ovatj^ 

 obtuse, imbricate, convolute, in 5 rows, downy externally ; tea 



