46 BAROSMA CRENULATA 



white, purplish in bud. Stamens 5, hypogynous, alternating 

 with the petals, and ultimately recurved between them over the 

 side of the flower ; filaments as long as or longer than the petals, 

 hairy for | of their length upwards ; anthers 2-celled, innate, 

 roundish ; between the stamens and opposite the petals are 

 5 erect, linear- oblong, blunt, gland-tipped staminodes not half 

 the length of the stamens, slightly hairy. Ovary large, of 

 5 rounded lobes, each crowned by a spreading, fleshy, pubescent 

 appendage, surrounded at the base by a narrow, prominent, 

 entire disk, 5-celled, with 2 4 ovules in each cell attached to the 

 upper end of the axis ; style simple, hairy below, about as long as 

 the stamens ; stigma simple, blunt. Fruit of 5 cocci, adherent by 

 their inner margins, about f inch long by \ inch wide, gland- 

 dotted, rugged and warty externally, each coccus terminating at 

 the outer angle above in a projecting ear, and containing a single 

 seed; dehiscence along the summit and ventral suture of each 

 carpel ; the inner wall of the pericarp also splitting away from the 

 rest and down its dorsal suture, and forming a hard, smooth, 

 shining, pale yellow, two-lobed envelope to the seed. Seed 

 oblong, rounded at each end, smooth, shining, black, with the 

 hilum white, embryo without endosperm, with large cotyledons 

 and a small superior radicle. 



There is a considerable range in the form of the leaves of this 

 species, and, as shown by the synonymy, it has been divided into 

 several. Berg, who has very carefully studied the Buku plants, 

 considers J5. crenata, Kunze, as distinct, and figures a twig in 

 Berg and Sch., 1. c., fig. A 2, and the leaves in his elaborate 

 paper in the Bot. Zeit. quoted below, figs. J N. He also makes 

 a new species, B. Eckloniana, Berg, characterised by the leaves 

 rounded below and the young twigs pubescent, of which a branch 

 and enlarged drawings of the leaves are given in the same paper, 

 figs. Q. The present species, B. crenulata, Hook., he divides 

 into three varieties, of which the plate in Berg and Sch. repre- 

 sents var. latifolia, and figs. A H in the Bot. Zeitung, vars. 

 longifolia and angustifolia. 



Habitat. The true Buku bush grows abundantly ^in stony, 



