lUl XLVH. BRUNIACE,E. 



half-inferior, oblique, 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style simple, with 

 a subcouical stigma. Fruit iudehiseent, gibbous. — Fl. Cap. ii. 

 p. 310. 



Heath-like shrubs, with sliort, 3-angled, imbricate or spreading leaves. 

 Flowers in globose, terminal heads, white. — 8 species, dispersed.* 



2. TITTMANNIA, Brongn. 



Calyx-tube spherical, wrinkled and glandular outside, ad- 

 nate f limb 5-cleft, with scarious, erect segments. Petals with 

 the claws 2-keeled inside ; limb roundish-ovate, spreading. 

 Ovary inferior, spherical, 2-celled, with a membranous septum, 

 free at the edges ; cells 2-ovuled ; style simple, conical ; 

 stigma 2-dentate.— i^Z. Cap. ii. p. 312. 



A small shrub, with subumbellate branches. Leaves linear, subcylindrical, 

 wrinkled, incurved, erect, imbricate. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 upper leaves.— Native of Tulbagh and Stelleubosch districts. 



3. THAMNEA, Brongn. 



Calyx adhering to the ovary at base, free above, with 5 lan- 

 ceolate, smooth, scarious, imbricate segments. Petals with 2- 

 keeled claws, and an ovate, spreading limb. Stamens included. 

 Ovary inferior, crowned by a fleshy disk, imperfectly 2-celled, 

 4-or8-ovuled; style simple; stigma entire. — Fl. Corp. ii. p. 321?. 



T. iiniflora, Soland., the only species,t is a small shrub, with filiform, erect, 

 fastigiate branches. Leaves very small, rhomboid, bluntly keeled, close- 

 pressed, spirally inserted, the upper ones a little longer than the rest, form- 

 ing an involucre to the terminal white flower. — A specimen of this, found 

 by Masson, exists in the British Museum ; no recent collector has found it. 



4. BRUNIA, Linn. 



Calyx half-adnate. Petals ovate or spathulate. Ovary half- 

 inferior, 2-celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell -, styles 2, diverging. 

 Fruit indehiscent, rarely septicidal-dehiscent, 1-seeded. — Fl. 

 Cap. ii.p. 313. 



Small shrubs, erect or diffuse ; in some the leaves are small, linear or 

 subulate, and the flowers in heads ; in others (^Sect. BecJcea) the leaves are 

 larger, often expanded, ovate cordate or lanceolate, and the flowers in 

 panicles. — 10 species, chiefly Western, 2 or 3 going east to Uitenhage. 



5. BERARDIA, Brongn., ex parte. 



Calyx adhering to the ovary at base, free at apex, 5-cleft. 

 Petals 5, free or cohering at base. Stamens 5 ; anthers with- 



* A species, discovered by Burchell, and not included in Fl. Cap., is 

 figured in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1014.—./. D. H. 



t Two additional species, discovered by Burchell, are figured in Hook. 

 Ic. PI. t. 1011-13. All are Western.— J. D. R. 



