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_ upper subsessile, subimbricate, 3-2 lines long, slightly concave above. Heads 
leaves. Bracteole 2, opposite, setaceous, very villous, as long as the flowers. Petals 
wide. Heads globose, the size of a pea. Leaflets of involucre at base ciliate. Bracteo- 
Audouinia.] BRUNIACEZ (Sond.) 323 
colour, segments of calyx subulate, villous, longer than the petals. Phy- 
Lica trichotoma et globosa, Thunb./ fl. Cap. p. 201, 204. P. elongata, 
herb. Willd.! St. ciliata, Brogn. 1. c. p. 24, excl. syn. 
Has. Sandy places, Thwnberg. Gnadenthal, Herb. Sond. (Herb. Th., Wld., Sd.) 
A small shrub with the aspect of a Phylica, 1-2 feet high, erect ; the ultimate 
branches 1-2 inches long. Inferior leaves longer, petiolate, the petiole 1 line long ; 
the size of asmall cherry. Leaflets of the involucre not different from the upper 
obovate-oblong. Stamens short. 
5. 8. capitella (Sond.); branches fastigiate, subverticillate, puberous ; 
leaves spreading or reflexed, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, keeled, 
flat above, at the base ciliate, heads of flowers terminal ; interior leaflets 
of involucre somewhat spreading, subcolorate, as long as the flowers ; seg- 
ments of calyx subulate, hairy, shorter than the petals. Brunia capitella, 
Thunb.! fl. Cap. p.206. S. rupestris, nuda (ex pte.) et ciliata, HE. § Z.! 
1077, 1078, 1079. 
Var. B, composita ; heads of flowers aggregate, forming an ovate spike or corymb. 
8. adenandraefolia, E. § Z./ 1076. 
Has. Mountain sides near Hemel en Aarde and Klynrivier, Z. § Z.! Zwarteberg, 
Caledon, Zey.! 2647. Var. 8. Hauhoeksberge, Stellenbosch, Zwarteberg, #. § Z./ 
Gnadenthal, Drege, 6855. Aug.—Oct. (Herb. Th., Hm., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Habit of S. radiata, 1-3 feet high. Leaves short, petiolate, 14-2 lines long, 4 line 
le 2, opposite, setaceous, at top hairy. Petals obovate-oblong. Style 1, 
6. 8. Zeyheri (Sond.); branches pubescent; leaves a little spreading, 
lanceolate, channelled above, keeled beneath, at the top triquetrous, ustu- 
late, glabrous ; heads of flowers aggregated, forming a dense, ovate, or 
globose spike ; exterior scales of involucre foliaceous, interior spreading, 
coloured, twice as long as the flowers; calyx-segments subglabrous ; petals 
at top hairy. 
Pe i re on mountains near Appelskraal,{Rivier Zonderende. Zey.! 2648. Sept. 
erp, ma. - ‘ sae 
Habit of z Phylica or of Stilbe Pinastra, much more robust than the preceding. 
Branches subverticillate. Leaves 6-8 lines long, 1 line wide. Petiole adpressed, 
1 line long. Spike $-1 inch long, or twice as long and branched at the base. Heads 
few-flowered. Exterior scales ciliate at margin, interior yellowish or whitish, chan- 
nelled, with a black mucro, at the wider base ciliate. Bracteolz 2, setaceous, hairy, 
as long as the flowers. Calyx-segments shorter than the oblong, obtuse petals. 
Stamens equalling the calyx. Style 1. Fruit dicoccous. 
VIII. AUDOUINIA, Brogn. 
Calyx adhering to the ovary, BS segments large, imbricate. Petals 
with a long, 2-keeled claw, and a spreading, roundish limb. Stamens 
included. Ovary half-inferior, 3-celled; cells 2-ovuled. Style simple, tri- 
gonous, terminated by 3 small, papilliform stigmas. Hndl.Gen.N0.4602, 
A. heathlike shrub with erect branches and subverticillate, mostly — nae 
branchlets. Leaves spirally inserted, sessile, imbricate, linear, trigonous, bis es 
beneath, scabrous. Flowers crimson, crowded into oblong, spikelike, terminal heads. 
Named in honour of M. Audouinia, a celebrated entomologist. Saag 
1, A. capitata (Brogn.].c.p. 28,t. 4,f.1); Z. & Z.! No. 1085. 
capitata, Thunb. ! Prod. p. 43. Linn. Mant. p. 210. 
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