XLYI. IIAMAMELIDE^. 103 



and densely hairy or pubescent twigs and branches. Flowers white, in 

 terminal spikes. — 2 species, both Eastern and South-Eastern. 



2. GRUBBIA, Berg. 



Plowers perfect, capitate, in a 2-leaved involucre. Calyx 

 adnate, its limb abortive, truncate. Petals 4, epigynous, de- 

 ciduous, ovate, hairy outside, valvate in bud. Stamens 8, the 

 4 alternating Avith the petals rather longer, all slightly attached 

 to the bases of the petals ; anthers 2-celled, minute, roundish, 

 opening by valves. Ovary inferior, crowned with a fleshy 

 disk, w^hen young {fide Dene.) 2-celled, with a pendulous 

 ovule in each cell ; afterwards 1-celled (the septum breaking 

 •up), with an ovule pendulous from a central, columnar placenta. 

 Nuts laterally coiniate, 1-seeded, crowned by the disk and 

 style.— i^/. Cap. ii. ;;. 325. 



Small, much-branched South African shrubs. Leaves opposite, with re- 

 volute margins, exstipulate. Flowers 3 or many, soldered together in 

 bract eat ed heads. — 4 species, 1 only going so far east as Uitenhage. 



Oeder XLVII. BRUNIACE^. 



Elowers bisexual, regular, small or minute, sessile, spiked 

 or capitate, rarely solitary, axillary. Floral characters nearly 

 as in Saxifragacea, but the ovules are definite, either solitary 

 or in pairs, very rarely 10. — Small South African shrubs, with 

 needle-shaped or heath-like, rarely ovate, crowded, small, very 

 entire, sessile or subsessile leaves, with a discoloured or 

 withered tip {ustulate). Stipules 0. 



Fruit 1-seeded, mostly indehiscent. 



Ovary 1-celled. Style 1 1. Bebzelia. 



Ovary 2-celled. 



Style 1. Flowers axillary 2. Titt3iannia. 



Style 1. Flowers sohtary, terminal 3. Thamnea. 



Styles 2. Flowers capitate or panicled .... 4. Brunia. 

 Fruit dicoccous, or a splitting capside. 



Ovary 2-celled, 2-ovuled. Flowers capitate. 



Styles 2. Petals free, or slightly cohering at base 5. Beeaedia. 



Style 1. Petals free 6. Staavia. 



Ovary 2-ce]led, 4-ovuled. Flowers in leafy spikes. 



Flowers mouopetalous, 5-lobed 7. Lonchostoma. 



Flowers 5-petaled. Anthers apiculate .... 8. Linconia. 

 Ovary 3-celled, 6-ovuled. Style ti'igonous. Flowers 



in spike-like, terminal heads, red 9. Audouinia. 



1. BEBZELIA, Brongn. 



Calyx adnate ; lobes 5, rarely 4, unequal, gibbous. Petals 

 5, rarely 4, free. Stamens 5-4, longer than the petals. Ovary 



