316 BRUNIACEZ (Sond.) [Lonchostoma. 
smaller than the flower. Limb of the calyx longer than the tube. Petals obovate- 
oblong. Ovary cuneate. : 
10. B. staavioides (Sond.) ; branches virgate, 2-3-chotomous, gla- 
brous ; leaves petiolate, recurved-spreading, linear, trigonal, obtuse, ustu- 
late, mucronulate, glabrous ; heads of flowers terminal and axillary ; 
calyx villous, acute, shorter than the glabrous petals; ovary villous. B. 
capttellata, LZ. Mey ! non Thunb.! Raspalia capitella, Presl. 
Has. Mount Blauwberg, 3-5000f., Drege / Nov. (Herb. D. Sd.) 
A slender shrub, very like the preceding, but well distinguished by the trigonal, 
recurved leaves and the axillary heads. Branches reddish. Leaves 3-4 lines long, 
4 line wide, often bicarinate above. _Petiole adpressed, 4 line long. Heads invol- 
ucrated by some short leaves, the size of a small pea, mostly at the tops of very short, 
lateral branches, disposed in a leafy raceme. Flowers white, about 4 line long, 
Bracteolx setaceous, villous, shorter than the calyx. Petals obovate, narrowed at 
base. Stamens included. Ripe fruit glabrous, 1 line long, 1-seeded. Seed oblong, 
shining, 
Doubtful Species. 
B. alopecuroides (Brogn 1. c. p. 19, excl. synon.); branches slender, 
glabrous ; leaves subulate, trigonal, acute, smooth, imbricate, incurved, 
ustulate at the apex; heads of flowers terminal, ovate-globose, dense, 
naked, smaller than a pea; bractez shorter than the flowers ; styles 2. 
Has. Cape. (Herb. Burmann, n. v.) 
Perhaps the same as Berzelia alopecuroides, but Thunberg’s plant has only one 
style, not two. 
IV. LONCHOSTOMA, Wickstroem. 
Calyx adhering to the half-inferior ovary, 5-cleft. Corolla mono- 
petalous, tubular, 5-cleft, segments unguiculate. Stamens 5, very short, 
inserted in the mouth of the corolla; anthers oblong, bursting inwards, 
2-celled, opening lengthwise, cells diverging at the base. Ovary pubes- 
cent, 2-celled, cells 2-ovulate ; ovule pendulous, fixed to the upper part 
of dissepiment. Styles 2 or 1. Fruit capsular, dehiscent from the base, 
2-4-valved. Seeds 4, ovoid, reticulate, attached by a short, thick funi- 
ele; embryo small, orthotropus, in the apex of a copious, fleshy albu- 
men ; radicle superior. Wickst. in Kongl. Vetensc. Acad. Handl., St. 2. 
1818. Gravenhorstia Nees. Esenb. in Lindl. Introd. Ed. 2, p. 439. Endl. 
Gen. 3877, 4606. 
Branched shrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, imbricate, concave, coriaceous. 
Flowers axillary, disposed in leafy, oblong, or headlike spikes at the top of the 
branches, bibracteate, reddish or rose-colour. Name compounded of Aovxn, a lance, 
rab a mouth, alluding to the lance-shaped sepals and petals of one of the 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Calyx-segments and lobes of the corolla ovate, obtuse ... (1) obtusifiorum. 
Calyx-segments and lobes of the corolla lanceolate, acute : 
Styles 2, filiform, exserted ... 2... (2) acutiflorum. 
Soyde: 1, mor 9 5 si sae, > vin (3) monostylis. 
1. L. obtusiflorum (Wickstr.! L c. t. 10, f 2); leaves oval, hirsute 
beneath, at length glabrescent ; bractes oblong, obtuse, apiculate ; calyx- 
segments ovate, obtuse ; limb of the corolla ovate, obtuse ; styles 2, sub- 
clavate, included. Passerina pentandra, Thunb.! Prod. p. 76. Gnidia 
pentandra, Thunb.! diss. fruct. part. variet. Pp. post. sect. pr. p. 19. 
