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LXXXVIII. BRUNIACEJE. 



B. pinifolia. 

 Flower (mag.). 



B. pinifolia. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



B. pinifolia. 

 Fruit cut vertically (mag.) 



Brvnia nodijtora. 



Brunia. Diagram. 



B. nodiftora. 



Transverse section of 

 fruit (mag.). 



liruniu. 



Seed cut vertically 

 (mag.). 



SHRUBS or UNDERSHRUBS from the Cape of Good Hope, Heath-like in habit. 

 LEAVES small, acerose, sub-trigonous, entire, usually imbricated in 5 rows, exstipu- 

 late. FLOWERS ? , small, regular, generally in a spike or head, sessile, 5-bracteate. 

 CALYX 5-4-partite, persistent or deciduous, imbricate in bud. EECEPTACULAR CUP 

 enveloping the ovary, very rarely spread into anepigynous disk (Thamnea). PETALS 

 5-4, inserted on the edge of the cup, alternate with the calyx-lobes, usually free, 

 sometimes connate with the stamens into a tube at the base, imbricate in bud. 

 STAMENS inserted with the petals, equal in number and alternate with them ; fila- 

 ments free, or sometimes adnate to the claws of the petals ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, 

 cells opposite, parallel or diverging at their base, and opening longitudinally. OVARY 

 semi- inferior or inferior, very rarely free (Raspailia), 1-2-3-celled ; styles 2-3, 

 terminal, more or less cohering ; stigmas minute, papillose ; ovules anatropous, 

 solitary or 2, collateral in the cells of the 2-3-celled ovary, and pendulous from the 

 central angle or near the top of the septum, solitary in the 1 -celled ovaries (in 

 Thamnea the ovary is 1 -celled, with 10 pendulous 1 -seriate ovules). FRUIT crowned 

 by the calyx, and sometimes by the persistent corolla and androecium, dry, indehis- 

 cent or capsular, often with two 1-2- seeded cocci, dehiscence internal, longitudinal. 



