310 : BRUNIACEA (Sond.) [Berzelia. 
Fruit dicoccous. 
' Ovary 2-celled, 2-4-ovuled. 
2 TV. Lonchostoma.—Ovary 4-ovuled. Corolla monopetalous, 5-cleft. (Flowers in 
terminal, leafy spikes). 
a. ate ey 4-ovuled. Styles 2. Petals free. Anther-connective with a 
conical dage at top. (Flowers axillary in leafy spikes). 
6 ~{/ VI. Seaittn Ovary 2-ovuled. Styles 2. Petals free or somewhat cohering into a 
tube at the base. Anther connective without appendage. (Flowers in dense heads.) 
©- {£VII. Staavia.—Ovary 2-ovuled. Style 1. Petals free. (Flowers in heads.) 
Ovary 6-10-ovuled. Calyx-segments scarious, imbricate. 
f~) VIII. Audouinia.— Ovary 3-celled, 6-ovuled. Style trigonous. (Flowers in spike-like, 
: terminal heads.) ‘ies 
.~ | IX. Thamnea.—Ovary 1-(or 5-?) celled, about 10-ovuled, Style cylindrical. (Flowers 
solitary, terminal.) 
L BERZELIA, Brogn. ' 
Calyx adhering to the ovary, segments 5, rarely 4, unequal, gibbous. 
Petals 5, rarely 4, free. Stamens 5, rarely 4, longer than the petals. 
Ovary half-inferior, oblique, 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Style simple, terminated 
by asmall, subconical stigma. Fruit indehiscent, gibbous. Brogn. Mem. 
p. 14. Endl. Gen. No. 4596. Bruniae spec. Linn. Wendl. 
Small heath-like shrubs, with short, somewhat trigonal, imbricate or spreading 
leaves. Heads of flowers naked, usually crowded at the top of the branches, with 3 , 
bractez at the base of each flower, inferior bractea larger, clavate and callous at top. 
Named in honour of Berzelius, the famous Swedish chemist. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES, 
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Heads the size of a pea: 
lys. subulate, wider at base, heads racemose re ... (1) alopecuroides. 
lys. subulate, attenuate at base, heads racemose ... ... (2) commutata. 
“ __lvs. filiform-triquetrous, heads panicled... ee ... (4) lanuginosa, = 
Heads the size of a nut : 
lvs. linear-trigonal, heads corymbose Re v4 ... (3) intermedia, 
lys. linear-lanceolate, heads racemose _..... a ... (6) squarrosa. 
lvs. ovate or ovate-lanceolate, heads subcorymbose ... (5) abrotanoides. 
lys. subcordate oe - ies ei (7) cordifolia, 
1. B. alopecuroides (Sond.) ; smooth, leaves sessile, 6-ranked, imbricate, 
ineurved, subulate, trigonal, obtuse, ustulate-apiculate, wider at base ; 
heads of flowers ovate-globose, the size of a small pea, forming racemes 
at the tops of the lateral branches. Brunia alopecuroides, Thunb.f dissert. 
p. 6. BR. & Sch, syst. veg. V. p. 411, 
‘Has. South Africa, Thunberg! October. (Herb. Thunb. Holm. 
A shrub 2~3 feet high, with the aspect of $ acovdions Temnebtelseigie heal. 
Leaves 14-2 lines long or shorter. Racemes 2-3 inches long. Head of flowers on 
leafy, 2-3 lines long branchlets, 2-3 lines in diameter. Petals spathulate. 
2. B. commutata (Sond.) ; smooth ; leaves petiolate, spreading or re- 
curved, subulate, obtuse, apiculate, aitenunted at the ‘base, flat above, 
keeled beneath ; heads of flowers globose, the size of a small pea, ter- 
minal, and axillary, racemose. B. comosa, E.d: Z.! No. 1651. excl. syn. 
Has. In the channel of the Zwartkopsrivier. FE. ¢ Z./ Zey. 2644, Dee. (Herb. Sd. 
A much-branched shrub. Leaves 4 lines long, ¥ tine ar the 2 lines 
long. Racemes 1-2 inches long. Heads of flowers on scaly, 1-3 lines long pedicels. 
= gtr oo pate Anthers ovate. > 
imilar to the var 3. of B. abrotanoides, differs longer petioled lea’ 
ipsa smaller, racemose heads, and smaller anthers, gas a oe . 
