326 ss AMAMELIDE. (Sond.) [Grubbia. 
alternate with the petals rather longer than the others, all slightly 
adnate to the base of the petals ; anthers 2-celled, minute, roundish, 
opening lengthwise by introrse valves. Ovary inferior, covered by an 
annular disc, when young (ex Due) 2-celled, with a single pendulous 
ovule in each cell; afterwards, by a rupture of the septum, falsely one- 
celled, with an ovule pendulous, as if from the apex of a free central 
columnar placenta. Style very short; stigma bifid. Muts laterally 
connate, one-seeded, crowned by the disc and style. Seed with a 
straight cylindrical embryo, lying in fleshy albumen ; radicle superior, 
are longer than the narrow, appressed cotyledons. DC. Prod. XIV. 
p. O17. 
Small, much branched, South African shrubs, with the habit of Phylica. Branches 
opposite, with swollen nodes, as if jointed. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, with 
revolute margins. Flowers axillary, minute, three or more united or soldered 
together, in a bracteate capitulum. Named in honour of Michael Grubb, a Swe- 
dish patron of Botany. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Flower-heads 3-2-flowered : lvs. linear or lin-lanceolate : 
Bracts hemispherical, bifid, compressed below : 
Branches tomentose or hirsute ; lvs. subsessile ... (1) rosmarinifolia. 
Branches minutely downy ; lvs. petiolate ... ... (2) pinifolia. 
Bracts ovate, undivided, not compressed bee wis. «p= (3) Rireata. 
Flower-heads 15~20-flowered; leaves lanceolate ... ... -.. (4) stricta. 
Seo. I. Grubbia. Berg. Klotzsch, Linnza, 1838, p. 378. DC. 1c. Ophira 
Burm. non Lam. Fruit, consisting of 3, rarely 2 hard, laterally connate nuts, sur- 
rounded by 2 scarious bracts. Flowers externally covered with long white hairs. 
1, G. rosmarinifolia (Berg. ! pl. Cap. p. 90, s. 2), branches tomen- 
tose or hirsute ; leaves subsessile, inear-lanceolate, with revolute margins, 
hairy and scabrous above, tomentose beneath ; bracts hemispherical, 
smooth, bifid, compressed below the fissure ; nuts equalling the bracts, 
smooth but hairy on the superior margins. Zhunb./ £1. Cap. p. 373- 
Ophira stricta L. mant. sec. p. 229. 
Has. Mountains near Cape Town, Hottentottsholland, in the districts of Stel- 
Peery i a and George, ete. Zeyh. 2654. Drege! 161. Oct.-Jan, (Herb. Holm. 
 D. Sond. 
_ Shrub 1-3 feet high with virgate branches. Branchlets terete or somewhat angled, 
hirsute or glabrescent. Leaves opposite or by abortion of branchlets verticillate, 
4-5 lines long, 4-1 line wide ; in other specimens 6 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, sub- 
cordate or pabanieniite at base, valvate above ; petiole not conspicuous, or at most 
}linelong. Flowers sessile, 1 line long. Bracts chestnut-coloured, rather shorter 
than the flowers. Fruit 1 line long and thick, about 14 line wide, enclosed by the 
bracts, brownish ; disk as well as the margins of the perianth hispid. It varies with 
hairy and subglabrous branches, hirsute or subglabrous, but always scabrous leaves. 
2. G. pinifolia (Sond.) branches minutely downy ; leaves petiolate, 
narrow-linear, obtuse, with revolute margins, glabrous and smooth above, 
shortly pubescent beneath ; flowers equalling or shorterthan the petiole ; 
berg —— smooth, bifid, compressed below the fissure ; 
nuts: .. : 
Has. Mountains near Grietjesgat, Stellenb. 2~4000 feet. E.&Z. / Jan. (Herb. Sd.) 
Not unlike a small leaved specimen of @. stricta. From the ion a ch 
tinguished by the evidently petiolate, very small and longer leaves. Branches 
nea nog Leaves 1 inch long, 4 line wide, not dilated at the base ; petiole 1 
long. Flowers exactly as in G. rosmarinifolia ; fruit unknown. 
