150 LXA^II. EUBIACE^. 



Corolla funnel-shaped, 6-lobed ; style filiform ; 



stigma 2-lobed '..... 15. Bunbueya. 



Tribe 6. Spermacoce.t:. Fruit nearly dry, with 2-6 pyrense or nuts. 

 Stigma 2-lamellar or globose. — Herbs, rarely shrublets. Stipules commonly 

 spht into many bi'istles. 



Corolla with a long tube, 5-lobed. Flowers in 



terminal heads 16. Pentanisia. 



Corolla 4-lobed. 



Flowers crowded, glomerate or densely whorled. 

 Capsules splitting longitudinally into 2 parts, 



1 open, the otlier closed 17. Spermacoce. 



Capsules membranous, splitting across . . .18. Mitracaepum. 

 Flowers axillary, subsolitary. Fruit corky, an- 

 gular 19. Htdrophtlax. 



Tribe 7. Anthosperme^. Flowers mostly dioecious. Fruit nearly dry, 

 or rarely fleshy, 2-parted or 2-celled. Stigmas 1 or 2, very long and hairy. 

 — Small shrubs or herbs, with inconspicuous, greenish flowers. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Fruit didymous. Stigmas 



2. Flowers panicled 20. GtAlopina. 



Calyx 4-5-toothed. Fruit didymous. Stigmas 2. 



Flowers axillary or rarely subpanicled . . . .21. Anthospermum. 

 Calyx 4-5-lobed. Fruit 2-1-seeded. Stigma 1. 



Flowers axillary 22. Carpacoce. 



Calyx 4-5-toothed. Fruit 3-4-cened. Stigmas 2. 



Flowers axillary 23. Ambraria. 



Tribe 8. Stellat.^. Fruit 2-partefl, dry or fleshy. Style 2-parted or 

 2-fid ; stigmas capitate. — Herbs, with whorled leaves. 



Corolla 5-parted. Fruit fleshy 24. Rfbia. 



Corolla 4-parted. Fruit dry 25. Galium. 



Tkibe 1. G-AEDENIE.1:. (Gren. 1-5.) 



1. BURCHELLIA, E. Br. 



Calyx-tube obovate ; limb equally 5-cleft beyond the middle 

 and prolonged above the ovary. Corolla tubular- funnel-sbaped, 

 slightly ventricose, the inner surface of the tube glabrous, ex- 

 cept a circle of hairs near the bottora ; throat naked ; limb of 

 5 short, acute, twisted-imbricate-lobes. Stamens inserted in 

 the middle of the tube ; filaments very short ; anthers in- 

 cluded. Stigma oblong-clavate, with 5 crests and 5 tufts of 

 hairs. Berry subglobose, crowned by the calyx, 2-celled. — 

 Fl. Cap. iii. p. 2. 



B. Capensis, R. Br., the only species, is a large shrub, frequent in forests 

 to the east of Swellendam. Leaves ovate, acute, downy. Flowers dull- 

 scarlet, sessile in terminal heads. 



2. OXYANTHUS, DC. 



Calyx-tube obovate; limb short, sharply 5-toothed. Corolla 

 salver-shaped, with a very long, slender tube, a glabrous 



