312 _ BRUNIACE (Sond.) [Tittmannia. 
Has. Plains near Capetown. Var. 8. mountains near Tulbagh and Capetown ; 
vars, y. and ¢. Franschehoek ; var. §. Table Mountain, Aug.-Dec. (Herb. Thimb. 
Holm. Sond. D.) 
1-3 feet high, branches purplish, the uppermost fastigiate, very leafy. Leaves 
about 2-3 lines long, the upper smaller. Heads globose, the young ones elliptic. 
Flowers 4-cleft, 4-androus ; or 5-cleft, 5-androus. Petals white, spathulate. Anthers 
oblong. Fruit glabrous, gibbous. 
6. B. squarrosa (Sond.); branches glabrous, younger ones cobwebbed ; 
leaves petiolate, spreading or recurved, lincar-lanceolate, trigonal, ustu- 
late at the apex, glabrous, younger ones pilose ; heads of flowers size of 
a nut, terminal or axillary, racemose. Brunia squarrosa, Thunb. ! dissert. 
P. 5, (1804). B. rubra, Willd. ! Denkschrift. Acad. Muench. (1808), t. 4, 
J. 1. Spreng. syst. 1, p. 782. B. arachnoidea, Wendl. coll, t. 62. (1810). 
#. & Z.! No. 1057. B. ericoides, Wendl.l.c t.5,f.(non bona). B. plumosa, 
Lam. Enc. t,p. 475% B. superba, Reichenb. hort. bot. t. 100, eacl. syn., 
analysis incorrect. Heterodon superbum, Meisn. gen. 72 (52). 
Var. B. glabra; branches and leaves glabrous. B. superba, E. & Z.! No. 1056. 
Ms y. reflexa it ae Bae = Sores ericnte, incurved, —e 
or reflex: igid, lanceolate, ra tetragonal towards the a; 0 r ones pilose 
or villneas Spore Schlecht.! Linn. 6, p. 189. eo“ 4 Se : 3 
Has. Mountain rivers in the districts of Worcester, Caledon, and Swellendam. 
Thunb. E. § Z.! Dr. Pappe, Zey. 2641, 2643. Drege, 6842. (Herb. Thunb., Willd., 
Wendl., Sond., D.) . aos 
A shrub with greyish or yellowish branches ; branchlets often verticillate. Leaves 
flat or subcanaliculate above, keeled beneath, 4-1 inch long, about } line wide. Heads 
globose, 4-6 lines in diameter ; peduncle 5-6 lines, in fruit often an inch long, in 
var. ‘y, much shorter, villous, and scaly. Receptacle hairy. Calyx 5-dentate, never 
1o-dentate as described by Reichenbach, the teeth blunt, unequal, 3 are longer 
and gibbous. Petals oblong, spathulate. Anthers ovate, cells diverging at the base. 
Style simple. Fruit about 1 line long. 
7. B. cordifolia (Schlecht. 1. c. p. 189) ; branches erect, younger ones — 
pubescent ; leaves very short, petiolate, spreading or reflexed, subcordute- 
ovate, bluntish, callous at the tip, flat above, keeled beneath, smooth ; 
heads of flowers the size of a nut, solitary on the tops of the branches, 
corymbose. LZ. & Z./ No. 1061. 
Has. Near Mount Potberg, Swellendam, EF. ¢ Z.! Mundt! Oct. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 
2 feet or more in height, with di-tri-chotomous branches. Petioles large, persistent. 
Leaves tipped with an obtuse, black mucro, with a pale margin, coriaceous, about 3 
lines long, 2-2§ lines wide. Capitules about 8-12 in a corymb ; peduncles scaly, 
ee a ona villous. — shaw eucullate, callous-mucronate, 
some’ airy. ing, oblong- i Ww. 
aE hairy. spreading, oblong-spathulate, with a two-crested cla 
II. TITTMANNIA, Brogn. 
Calyx with a spheri tube, wrinkled and glandular on the outside, 
adnate to the ovary, 5-cleft, with scarious, erect segments. Petals with 
the claws 2-keeled on the inside, and with ovate-roundish, spreading 
lamina. Ovary inferior, spherical, 2-celled, with a membranous dissepi- 
- ment, free at the edges ; cells 2-seeded. Ovules pendulous, fixed to the 
dissepiment. Style simple, conical ; stigma bidentate. Brogn.l. ¢. p, 29, 
sro Endl. gen. 4603. Moesslera Reichenh. consp. 160. Meisn. gen. 
re . 
__ A-small shrub with fastigiate, subumbellate branches. Leaves linear, subcylin- 
