BracJuj siphon,'] pex^ace j: (Stephens). 1 



4 in each cell, inserted half-way down on a median placenta, 2 erect 

 and 2 pendulous) ; style filiform, terete or cylindrical; stigma small, 

 obscurely 4dobed. 



4 

 J 



Low miicli-braucbed uiider5bnib3 ; branches quadrangular or subqurnlrangular 

 iu the younger parts, becoming terete lo^-er down, upper more or leas thickly 

 beset with leaves, lower often defoliated ; flowers in scanty bracteate racemeii, 

 hi the axils of the upper leaves, usually gathered in many-flowered terming [ 

 clusters, rarely solitary ; bracts leaf-like, coloured, all fertile or the lower sterile ; 

 bracteoles 2, as long as or nearly as long as the bracts, but narrower ; inflores- 

 cence tiuged to a rosy red. 



DiSTRiB. Species 5, endemic. 



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Erect undershnibs, 1-2 ft. high : 

 Leaves glabrous ; bracts all fertile : 

 Leaves sessile, broadly ovate to obovate ; 



Perianth-tube ovate-cylindric ; ovary minutely 



scabrous (1) imtiricatus. 



Perianih-tube narrow cylindrical ; ovary glabrous... (2) acutus. 



Leave shortly petiolate, narrowly spathulate ... (3 ) Mundii. 



Leaves denticulate-ciliate ; lower bracts sterile ... ( 4 ) speciosus. 



Dwarfj partly decumbent uiidershrub. under 6 in. high (5) rupestris, 



1. B. imbricatus (A. Juss, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3"^^ ser. vi. -Jo^ 



t. 2j fig. 3); an erect mueb-Lranehed nndersbrub, l-li ft. high; 

 branches glabrous, upper branches and leaves sometimes with a 

 hoary bloom, lower defoliated ; leaves sessile, widely ovate to 

 elliptical or obovate, acute, glabrous, upper leaves erect, imbricate, 

 lower suberect or spreading, almost or quite as broad as long, 4-5 lin. 

 long, 3-4 lin. broad, with a minute bundle of dark -brown setae at each 

 side of the axil ; stipules when present minute, subulate, incurved ; 

 flowers in groups of 2 to many at the top of the branches; pedicels 

 less than 1 lin. long ; bracts all fertile, obovate, acute to inucronatc, 

 narrower and slightly shorter than the leaves, tinged with red ; 

 bracteoles oblongdinear, acute or obtuse, denticulate-ciliate or 

 •entire, as long as the bract, inserted on the peilicel at or near the 

 base of the flower, caducous; perianth 4 lin. long, pale to deep 

 pink ; tube tinged with red (SlepJiens), ovate-cylindric, scarcely 



longer than the limb ; lobes widely ovate, acute or obtuse ; stamens 

 slightly more than 1 lin. long, cells much shorter than the 



•connective ; ovary minutely scabrous. A. DC, in DC. Prodr, xiv. 



487. B. fucatiis, GUg in EnyL JaJirh. xviii. 520, /j.?. L-Js, ^»'^ 



in Engl d: Pranil, Pjianzcnfanu iii. 6 A, 212, jig. 73, L-N^ Fenmi 

 imhricata^ Grali, in Dot, Mag. f. 2809. P. squamosa, Linn. Sp. PL ed, 

 il 162; Thiinh.FL Cap, cd. SchulL 149. P. SarcocoUa, Berg. Bescr. 

 FL Cap, Zb; Thmh. Fl. Cap, ed, SehulL 150. P. fucata, Linn. 



Mant. Alt. 199; Lam. Ill I 317, t. 78, Jig. 1. P. fuscafa, Lam. 

 Encycl. vi. 540. 



SoiTTH Africa: without precise locality, Burmann I Roxburgh \ Maadl 

 Mtmd d: Malrel Verrauxl Slcberl Martini Lvdwig \ Lalande I Pappel 



Coast Regiox : Cape Div. ; among the rocks on the summit of Table Moun- 

 tain, £er(/hfjil Eclion, 621! Bachmann, 311! Kraussl Wilms, 3G02 ! Cooper^ 



