324 3 HAMAMELIDEE (Sond.) [Trichocladus. 
Has. Mountains between Nordhoek and False Bay, Thunberg ; near Muysenberg, 
Simonstown, Hanglipp, and Hemel en Aarde, H. § Z.! Dr. Pappe, Zey.! 2653. April- 
Aug. (Herb. Th., Sd., &c.) : : 
_ About 2-3 feet high. Leaves 2-4 lines long. Flowers about 4 lines long. ~ 
IX. THAMNEA, Brogn. 
Calyx adhering to the ovary at the base, but free at the apex, divided 
into 5 lanceolate, smooth, scarious, imbricate segments. Petals with 
2-keeled claws, and an ovate, spreading limb. Stamens included. Ovary 
inferior, covered by a fleshy disk, 1- (or 5-2-) celled, many-seeded. Ovule 
hanging from the apex of the column. Style simple. Stigma entire. 
Endl. No. 4604. 
A small shrub with filiform, erect, fastigiate branches. Leaves very small, some- 
what rhomboidal, short, blunt-keeled, closely-pressed, spirally inserted ; upper ones 
a little longer than the rest, forming an involucre to the flower. Flowers solitary, 
terminal, white. Name from @ayvos, a shrub. 
1. T. uniflora (Sol. MSS. Brogn. 1. c. p. 30, t. 4, f. 3.) 
Has. Cape of Good Hope, Masson in Herb. Banks. (n. v.) 
Orper LI]. HAMAMELIDEZ, R. Br. 
(By W. Sonper). 
Flowers perfect or diclinous, small, regular, in heads or spikes, 
Calyx-tube more or less adnate to the ovary ; limb 4~—5-cleft or obso- 
lete. Petals 4-5, rarely none, inserted in the throat of the calyx or 
epigynous, more or less valvate in estivation, deciduous. Stqmens 
usually twice as many as the petals, those opposite to them mostly 
sterile ; rarely indefinite ; anthers erect, two-celled, each cell either 
opening by an introrse valve, or slitting at the side. Ovary more or 
less inferior, 2-celled or incompletely 2-celled; ovules solitary, pen- 
dulous from the apex of the dissepiment ; rarely numerous, and then 
all but the lowest abortive ; styles 2, distinct or 2 sessile stigmata. 
Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved, 2-seeded, loculicidal ; or indehiscent nuts. 
Seed pendulous, with copious albumen and a straight embryo ; radicle 
next the hilum. 
Trees or shrubs, natives of North America, China and Japan, India, Persia, 
yand 8. Africa. Leaves mostly alternate (opposite in Grubbia), petiolate, 
simple, penninerved, entire or toothed. Stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers 
small, white or pink, mostly bracteate. This Order is obviously nearly allied to 
Saxifragacee and Bruniacese, from both of which it differs in the structure and 
dehiscence of the anthers. 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
'- I. Trichocladus.— Flowers diclinous, spicate. Petals §, linear-clavate, very long. 
Stamens §, alternate with the petals. 
“| IL Grubbia, — Flowers perfect, capitate, Petals 4, ovate, minute, hairy. Stamens 8. 
I, TRICHOCLADUS, Pers. 
Flowers, by abortion, moneecious or dicecious ; the female flowers 
apetalous. Calyx 5-cleft, adnate to the base of the ovary, persistent, 
with valvate xstivation. Petals s, linear-clavate, (much longer than 
