BRUNIACE^E. II. BRUNIA. III. STAAVIA. IV. RASPALIA. V. BERARDIA. 



Long-headed Brunia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1815. Sh. 1 to 3 ft. 



1C B. SUPE'KBA (Donn, hort. cant. Willd. spec. 1. p. 1143.) 

 leaves semicylindrical, spreading, incurved, pilose, ending in 

 spacelate awns. Tj . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 B. speciosa, Hortulan. Flowers unknown. 



Superb Brunia. Fl. May, July. Clt. 1 791. Shrub 1 to 3 ft. 



f Species only known by name, from catalogues, without any 

 description. These are probably identical with some of those 

 described above. 



1 B. capitata (Desf.). 2 B. elegans (Dum. Cours). 3 B.for- 

 mbsa (Dum. Cours). 



Cult. Elegant heath-like shrubs, but with insignificant flowers. 

 A mixture of peat and sand suits them best, and young cuttings, 

 planted in sand with a bell-glass placed over them, will strike 

 root. 



III. STAA'VIA (in honour of Martin Staaff, a correspon- 

 dent of Linnseus). Dahl. diss. Thunb. prod. 41. D. C. prod. 

 2. p. 45. Brogn. et Dum. mem. Brim. p. 22. Levisanus, 

 Schreb. gen. 377. Astrocoma, Neck. elem. no. 196. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogijnia. Calyx adhering to the 

 bottom of the ovary (f. 8. G. g.) but free at the top, ending in 

 .5 awl-shaped callose lobes (f. 8. G./.). Petals free (f. 8. G. c.). 

 Ovary half-inferior, 2-celled (f. 8. G. k. g.) ; cells 1-seeded. 

 Style simple. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit bicoccous (f. 8. G. A-.).- 

 Small shrubs, with linear, spreading leaves, which are callose at 

 the apex. Flowers collected into terminal, disk-like heads (f. 

 8. G. a.), involucrated by numerous shining, whitish bracteas, 

 which are either longer or shorter than the leaves. Receptacle 

 of flowers villous or chaffy. 



1 S. RADIA^TA (Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 96.) young branches and 

 leaves pilose ; leaves linear, acute, hardly keeled, spreading or 

 deflexed, mucronate ; heads of flowers corymbose ; bracteas 

 of involucre membranous, mucronate, arched, deflexed, white, a 

 little longer than the flowers. Jj . G. Native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Phylica radiata, Lin. spec. ed. 2. p. 283. Brunia 

 radiata, Lin. mant. 209. Pluk. mant. t. 454. f. 7. Breyn. cent, 

 t. 82. Flowers dusky. 



.Royerf- flowered Staavia. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1787. Shrub 

 1 to 2 feet. 



2 S. GLUTINOSA (Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 95.) branches and leaves 

 quite smooth ; leaves linear, trigonal, thickish, blunt, callose, 

 mtulate, approximate, erect ; heads of flowers usually solitary, 

 terminal ; bracteas of involucre erect or stiffly spreading, not 

 arched, white, much longer than the flowers ; flowers aggluti- 

 nated with resinous juice. Jj.G. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, on the Table Mountain. Wendl. coll. 1. t. 22. Brunia 

 glutinosa, Lin. mant. 210. Pluck, mant. t. 431. f. 1. Flowers 

 dusky. 



Glutinous-flowered Staavia. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1793. 

 Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



3 S. NU'DA (Brogn. et Dum. mem. p. 23.) branches fasti- 

 giate, and are as well as the leaves smooth ; leaves oblong-linear, 

 short, trigonal, erect, imbricate ; heads of flowers solitary, ter- 

 minal ; involucre shorter, or equal in length to the leaves, and 

 of the same colour. \i . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Flowers dusky ? 



Naked Staavia. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



4 S. CILIA'TA (Brogn. et Dum. mem. p. 24.) branches fas- 

 tigiate, villous ; leaves sessile, erect, imbricate, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute, smooth, keeled on the back, and ciliated with long 

 hairs on the margins, and with callose points ; heads of flowers 

 discoid, woolly (bracteas and segments of the calyx very villous) 

 involucre shorter than the flowers, imbricate, pilose, of the 



same colour as the leaves, f; . G. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Brunia ciliata ? Lin. spec. 288. 



Ciliated-leaved. Staavia. Fl.May.Jul. Clt. 1812. Sh. 1 to 2 ft. 



Cull. See Brunia for culture and propagation. 



IV. RASPA'LIA (in honour of M. Raspal, who has written 

 on the structure of grasses and the formation of fecula). Brogn. 

 et Dum. mem. brun. p. 21. 



LIN. SYST. Pcnldndria, Digynia. Calyx free, 5-cleft (f. 8. 

 C. c.). Petals and stamens inserted in the free ovary (f. 8. 

 C.g.). Ovary 2-celled (f. 8. C. /*.).; cells 1-seeded. Styles 

 2 (f. 8. C. e.). A subshrub, with twiggy, fastigiate branches, 

 alternate, opposite, or whorled, short branchlets. Leaves small, 

 rhomboid, keeled, closely pressed to the branchlets, quite smooth, 

 spirally inserted. Heads of flowers solitary, twin, or tern 

 (f. 8. C. a.), at the tops of the branches, downy, not involu- 

 crated. Flowers small, white, with a spreading limb and enclosed 

 anthers. 



1 R. MICROPHY'LLA (Brogn. etDum. mem. p. 22. t. 37. f. 1.). 

 tj . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Brunia micro- 

 phy'llu ? Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 94. 



Small-leai-ed Raspalia. Clt. 1 804. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Brunia. 



V. BERA'RDIA (in honour of M. Berard, a professor of 

 chemistry at Montpelier). Brogn. et Dum. mem. brun. p. 

 21. Brunia and Linconia, species of authors. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia, Calyx adhering to the 

 ovary at the base, but free at the apex, 5-cleft (f. 8. D. b.). 

 Petals 5, cohering into a tube at the base. Stamens adhering 

 to the petals more or less at the base. Ovary half inferior. 

 Styles 2 (f. 8. D. I.). Fruit bicoccous (f. 8. D. i.). Small 

 shrubs, with erect, fastigiate, slender branches, awl-shaped, 

 acute, close-pressed leaves, covering the stem on every side. 

 Flowers capitate (f. 8. D. .), involucrated, with awl-shaped 

 bracteas, which are longer than the leaves, each flower is fur- 

 nished or propped by 3 bracteas, the lower one is twice the length 

 of the flower (f. 8. D. c.), the two lateral ones are about equal 

 in length to the flower. 



1 B. PALEA'CEA (Brogn. et Dum. mem. p. 25.) leaves awl- 

 shaped, acute, short, closely pressed to the stem, quite smooth, 

 ustulate ; heads of flowers corymbose ; lower bractea twice as 

 long as the flower, awl-shaped, ustulate, hairy at the base ; 

 segments of calyx shorter than the petals, villous ; anthers 

 ovate. T? . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Brunia 

 paleacea, Thunb. prod. p. 41. Lin. mant. 559. Wendl. coll. 

 t. 21. Flowers white. 



Chaffy Berardia. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1791. Sh. 1 to 2 ft. 



2 B. AFFINIS (Brogn. et Dum. mem. p. 25.) leaves awl- 

 shaped, acute, closely pressed to the branches, smooth, or a 

 little fringed ; lower bractea awl-shaped, smooth, longer than 

 the flowers ; segments of calyx longer than the petals, smooth ; 

 anthers linear-oblong. Tj . G. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Linconia capitata, Banks, herb. Flowers white. 



Allied Berardia. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



3 B. FRAGARIOIDES (Schlecht. in Linnaea. 6. p. 188.) leaves 

 linear-filiform, triquetrous, smooth, closely pressed to the stem 

 with the margins and ribs densely ciliated, tj . G. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Brunia fragarioides, Willd. spec. 1. 

 p. 1143. 



Strawberry-like Brunia. Clt. 1794. Shrub 1 to 3 feet. 



f" An allied species or a new genus, 



4 B. PHYLICO!DES (Brogn. et Dum. mem. p. 25.) leaves ovate, 

 obtuse, imbricate, convolute, in 5 rows, downy externally ; heads 



