Tas. 5607. 
BRACHYSTELMA Banuznra. 
Mrs. Barber's Brachystelma. 
Nat. Ord. AsctertapE®.—Pentanpria Draynta. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-phyllus. Oorolla campanulata, sinubus angulatis. : 
Corona staminea 5-phylla, foliolis gynostegio medio adnatis, 3-lobis, lobis 
antheris oppositis simplicibus longioribusque ad basin dentibus binis in- 
trorsum plus minus pilosis stipatis. Gynostegiwm inclusum. Anthere sim- 
plices, membrana destitute. Masse pollinis erectz, supra basin affixe, 
cum margine pellucido quasi operculate. 
graciles, lieves, erecti, pedunculo recto. Semina comosa.—Herbe Austro- 
African, perennes, radice tuberosa, eduli. 
Bracuystetma Barberie; caule brevissimo, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis, 
floribus numerosissimis in capitulum amplum globosum congestis, co- 
roll limbo explanato, lobis caudatis elongatis apicibus arcuatis cohe- 
rentibus. 
Bracuyste_Ma Barberixs. Harv. mss. 
The ‘ Botanical Magazine’ claims the privilege of figuring, 
from time to time, plants which are not as yet in cultivation 
in England, but which are so remarkable for their interest 
or beauty as to be objects of great and special interest, and 
to which public attention should hence be drawn. Amongst 
such subjects few can rival the subject of the present Plate, 
of which an admirable coloured drawing, made by our ac- 
complished correspondent Mrs. Barber, of The Highlands, 
Graham’s Town, was transmitted to me for our late mutual 
friend Dr. Harvey, of Dublin, who had already named the 
plant from dried specimens. On hearing of Dr. Harvey's 
decease, Mrs. Barber transferred the drawing to me; and 
_ though unable to offer any botanical description of the parts 
of the flower, I have not hesitated to publish it, both in jus- 
tice to Dr. Harvey’s memory and to his wish that it should 
bear the name of the amiable person and zealous botanist to 
whose exertions we owe our knowledge of it. 
The genus Brachystelma is a rather large South-African 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1866. 
Stigma muticum. Folliculi 
