Staavia. | BRUNIACEE (Sond.) 321 
9. B. aspera (Sond.) ; branchlets somewhat spreading, short, hairy ; 
leaves short-petiolate, ternate, imbricate, incurvo-adpressed, ovate-oblong, 
or ovate, mucronulate, impressed-canaliculate, rough with short, rigid 
hairs ; heads of flowers at base involucrated, bractex rigid-ciliate, Ras- 
palta aspera, E. Meyer. 
Has. Between Kromrivier and Pietersfontein, sandy places. Drege, July. (Hb. Sd.) 
Similar to the preceding. Leaves about 1 line long, 3-4 in a whorl. Heads the 
size of a pea. Flowers not seen. 
10. B. phylicoides (Brogn. 1. c. p. 25); branches dichotomons, woolly- 
tomentose ; branchlets short ; leaves sessile, 4—5-farious, imbricate, obo- 
vate-elliptical, obtuse, callous, concave, with convolute margins, puberous, 
at length glabrous, shining ; heads of flowers solitary or corymbose, 
lanate, tomentose, involucrated to the middle; calyx and petals adpressed- 
hairy beneath. Brunia passerinoides, Schlecht. Linn. 6, p. 190. E.& Z.! 
No. 1064. 
Var. 8. robusta; branches more robust, leaves twice larger, obovate-oblong, heads 
larger. Brunia phylicoides, Thunb.! fl. Cap. p. 207. B. deusta, Willd./ 1. ¢. p. 127, 
t. 7, f. 2, non Thunb. Phylica squamosa, Willd.! herd. 
Has. Mountain sides, Zwarteberg, Caledon, E.G Z.! Var. 8, interior regions, 
Thunb. § Niven. Aug. (Herb. Thunb., Willd., Sond.) 
A greyish shrub, 2 feet or more in height. Leaves 1 line long or smaller; in var. 
8, 2-23 lines long, 1 line wide. Heads the size of a pea, greyish-white, in var. B. 
twice as large. Bractee black-apiculate, villous, a little shorter than the flower, the 
laterals smaller. Flowers villous, about 14 lines long. Petals oblong. Filaments 
smooth. Ovary superior, very villous. Styles-2, short. Fruit dicoccous. 
11. B. Dregeana (Sond.) ; silky-pubescent, much-branched, branch- 
lets very short; leaves sessile, imbricate, lanceolate, concave, at top 
ustulate ; heads of flowers solitary, at base involucrated ; calyx, as well 
as the oblong petals, silky beneath. Brunia phylicoides, E. Meyer non 
Thunb, ! Raspalia phylicoides, Prest. 
Has. Ezelsbank, 3-4000f., Drege. Dec. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Branches brown-purplish, pubescent ; branchlets very leafy. Leaves about 2 lines 
long, the upper 1 line long, g inners above, silky-downy beneath. Heads the size of 
a pea. Flowers 1 line long. Bracteole setaceous, silky, shorter than the calyx. 
Stamens often twice longer than the yellowish petals. Fruit dicoccous. 
VIL STAAVIA, Thunb. 
Calyx adhering to the bottom of the ovary, free at the top, ending in 
5 subulate, callous lobes. Petals free. Ovary half-inferior, 2-celled, 
cells 1-seeded, Style simple. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit dicoccous. Brogn. 
Mem. p. 22. Endl. Gen. No. 4599. Bruni spec. Linn. 
Small shrubs, with linear, eh pmb which are callous at the apex. Flowers 
collected into terminal, disk-like heads, involucrated by numerous, mostly shining, 
whitish bractew, which are either longer or shorter than the leaves. Name in memory 
of Martin Staaf, a correspondent of Linnzus. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Flowers glutinous... kes ti bi oe ... (1) glutinosa, + 
Flowers not glutinous. 4 es 
involucre longer than the flowers, coloured : ee 
leaves linear ; heads solitary... si a eae 
leaves lanceolate, heads aggregated .., vs wes (@) Zoyheri. 
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