Grubbia.] HAMAMELIDEZ (Sond.) 325 
the calyx), their margins revolute, valvate in wstivation. Stamens 5, 
alternate with the petals; filaments short, fusiform ; anthers erect, 
adnate, with valvular dehiscence. Styles 2, spreading. Capsule didy- 
mous, 2-celled; endocarp 2-valved, separating from the two-valved 
sarcocarp. Seeds solitary, pendulous; embryo orthotropous, lying in 
copious, fleshy albumen; cotyledons broadly ovate, flat ; radicle long. 
DC. Prod. 4 p. 269. ’ 
Small shrubs, natives of S. Africa, with opposite or alternate, ovate or oblong 
leaves, and densely hairy or pubescent twigs and branches. Flowers white, in dense 
os spikes. Name from @pit, a hair, and xAados, a branch :— Hairy- 
rancn, 
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ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Branches and leaves opposite ... ... 2... .. ... .. (1) crinitus. 
Branches and leaves alternate ... ... ... ... ... ... (2) ellipticus. 
1. T. crinitus (Pers. ench. 2 p. 597); branchlets and_ petioles 
opposite, hirsute; leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, auriculate or obtuse 
at base, glabrous above, densely clothed with brown stellate hairs 
_ below, at length glabrate. DC. Prod. 4 p. 269. E. § Z! 2269. 
Dahha crinita Thunb.! prod. p. 1, Act. Soc. Hist. nat. Hafn., 2 vol. 1, p. 
133,8.4. 7. vittatus Meisn ! in herb. Krauss. 
Has. Forests in Houtniquas, Thunberg ; Krakakamma and Vanstadensrivier, 
Plettenbergsbay, K’nysna, Grootvadersbosch, E. g Z. Zeyh. 2657. Drege 2311, 
Mundt, Alexander Prior, Krauss, Oct.—Jan. (Herb. D. Sond). 
Branches slightly compressed. Petioles 4-6 lines long, rarely longer, as well as 
the ramuli often blackish villous. Leaves with parallel nerves, prominent on the 
under surface, 2-6 inches long, 1-3 inches wide. Head of flowers on short peduncles 
many flowered, sphzrical or ovoid, as large as a hazel nut. Male flower: calyx 
segments obtuse, hirsute, 1 line long, recurved. Petals (white ?) narrow linear, atten- 
uate at base, with involute margins, about § lines long, Stamens 2 lines long, the 
erect, mucronulate anthers opening with 2 oblong lateral valves, equalling the thick 
filaments. Styles 2, abortive. Female flower: calyx lobes about 1} lines long. 
Petals none. Styles 2, divaricate, hirsute at base ; stigma punctiform. Capsule 
hairy, about 4 lines long. Séed white, 2} lines long. The specimens collected by 
E. & Z., Drege and Mundt. are dicecious, one in Herb. D. has moneecious flowers. 
2. T. ellipticus (E. & Z.! 2270), branchlets and petioles alternate, 
pubescent ; leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminate, cuneate at base, glabrous 
above, reddish or whitish-tomentose beneath. 
Has, In the forests on Bosjesmansrivier, near Philipstown and Balfour, Ceded 
Territory, E, § Z., District of George, Mundt., Mrs. F. W. Barber. Drege 2311. 
Sept.—Oct. (Herb. D. Sond.) 
More slender than the preceding, and distinguished by alternate branches and 
tomentose, sublepidate leaves. Petioles 2-3 lines, leaves 2-34 inches long, 34-14 
inch wide, shining above. Head of flowers somewhat smaller than in 7. crinitus, 
Calyx with shorter lobes ; petals 3-4 lines long ; stamens very short. Female 
flower not seen. Capsule 3 lines long. One of the E. Z. specimens has monecious 
flowers, the rest is dicecious ? 
T. verticillatus (E. & Z. ! 2271) is Bowkeria triphylla, Harv. Thes. Cap.t. 37 (Scro- 
phulariacea). 
i Il. GRUBBIA, Berg. : 
_ Flowers perfect, capitate, in a diphyllous involucre. Calya a 
with the ovary ; limb abortive, truncate. Petals 4, epigynous, decidu- 
ous, ovate, hairy outside, valvate in sxstivation. Stamens 8, the 4 
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