Brunia.] BRUNIACE& (Sond.) 315 
6. B. racemosa (Sond.) ; branches virgate, glabrous, younger puberu- 
lous; leaves erectly-spreading, subimbricate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceo- 
late, obtuse, narrowed or obtuse at base, coriaceous, glabrous ; panicle 
terminal, composed of ovate or subglobose racemes; calyx obtuse, gla- 
brous ; fruit rugulose, papillate. Phylica racemosa, Thunb.! jl. Cap. p. 
202. Beckea laurifolia, E. § Z.! No. 1070. Br. laurifolia, Walp. 
Van. B, leaves ovate, obtuse at base, smaller. B. racentosa, E. § Z.! No, 107%. 
Has. Mountains, Tulbagh near Waterfall, Thunberg / Puspasvall Lange- 
kloof, #. § Z./ Drege, 68 inn Grootvadersbosch, Zey./ bee Var. B, See eave, 
RE & Z.! Vanstadensberg, Zeyher / 2225, Oct.-Feb. (Herb. Th., Hm., 
Very like the preceding. [+ differs by the mostly glabrous branches, and smaller, 
more oblong, coriaceous leaves, and mostly roundish racemes. Leaves on very short 
petioles, about 5-6 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, the upper much smaller and often 
recurved. Racemes 1-2 lines ; panicles pyramidal, about an inch long. Flowers and 
fruit as in B. cordata, 
”, B, villosa (E. Meyer); branches filiform, villous ; leaves petiolate, 
etect-spreading, lanceolate, flat, villous and ciliate, with a black mucro ; 
spike subglobose, solitary, or loose panicles; calyx acute, villous ; fruit 
striate, villous. Raspalia villosa, Presl. 
Has. Mount Blaauwberg, on rocks, 4-5000f., Drege. Dec.—Jan. (Herb. Sond.) 
Branches long, reddish-brown. Leaves about 3 lines long, 3 line wide, the upper 
smaller, not imbricate, but longer than the internodes. Spike headlike, the size of 
a small pea, sometimes ovate. Inferior bracts foliaceous, the bracteole half as long 
as the calyx. Flowers about } line long, white. Petals obovate-oblong, longer than 
the acuminate calyx. Stamens not exserted. Fruit one-seeded, seed oblong, glabrous. 
8, B. squalida (Sond.); branches short, villous ; leaves sessile, imbri- 
cate, lanceolate, bluntish, concave, glabrous above, villous and ciliate 
beneath ; spikes subglobose, terminal, solitary ; calyx subacute, as well 
as the ovary, villous. Diosma squalida, E. Meyer. 
Has. Dutoitskloof, 2-3000f., Drege. Oct.—Jan. (Herb. Sd.) 
‘A small shrub, branches 2—3-chomotous, ultimate about 1 inch long, leafy. Leaves 
s-farious, about 2 lines long, with a black mucro, villous, at length glabrous on the 
under surface. Spikes the size of a pea, at the top of leafy branches. Inferior bract 
foliaceous ; bracteole ovate, villous-barbate, somewhat shorter than the calyx. Flow- 
ers whitish, about 3 line long. Limb of the ee shorter than the tube. Petals 
obovate, narrowed at the base, longer than the calyx. Stamens notexserted. Ovary 
not papillose, 2-celled, cells 1- 
9. B, virgata (Brogn. Ll. ¢. p. 20); branches erect, slender, in whorls, 
ultimate filiform, fastigiate, tomentose, at length glabrous ; leaves sessile, 
closely pressed to the stem, lanceolate-subulate, acute, ustulate at the 
apex, channelled, glabrous ; heads of flowers terminal, globose; calyx 
and petals obtuse, equal, glabrous as well as the ovary. E.¢ Z./ No. 1065. 
Var. B. robustior ; branchlets woolly ; leaves carinate ; heads of flowers larger. 
B. verticillata, Thunb.! fl. Cap. p- 206. E. § Z.! No. 1066. 
Has. Mountains near Puspasvalley, Swellendam, FE. ¢ Z.! Niven. Var. B, Tul- 
‘ter Zonderende, EL. § Z.! Zey.! 2652. Sept. ere Sd.) 
flowered, in var. B. twice larger. Flowers whitish, about 1 line long, with 3 bracts, 
inferior bractee foliaceous, lateral ones (bracteoles) opposite, cuneate, shorter and 
