AN ENUMERATION OF THE BRUNIACE^ 7 



BRUNIACE^ 



B. Broion in Clarke Abel's Narrative of Journey in the Interior 

 of China, App. B. 374 (1816-1817). Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 Paris, viii. 357-389 (1826).- Endlicher, Enchirid. 401-403 (1841). 

 Lindley, Veg. Kingd. 785 (1846). Sonder in Harv. & Sond. Fl. 

 Cap. ii. 309-324 (1861-62). Baillon, Adans. iii. 318-334 (1862- 

 63), and Hist. PI. iii. 384-389 ; 454-456 (1872). Benth. d Hook. 

 Gen. PI. i. 670-673 (1865). Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. ix. 

 331-333 (1867). Niedenzu in Engler u. Prantl, Pflanzenfamilien, 

 iii. 2a, 131-136 (1891). Colozza in Ann. Istit. Bot. di Roma, ii. 

 1-42 (1905). Sim, Forest Fl. Cape Colony, 220 (1907). 



Key to Genera. 



='=Corolla gamopetalous, tubular, with spreading limbs ; 



stamens nearly subsessile, epipetalous... (12) Lonchostoma. 

 ='"'Tetals free or slightly cohering at the base ; stamens free, 

 f Ovary 3-celled, each cell 2-ovulate. 



Connective prolonged, bilobed. Inflorescence spici- 



form, flowers cricoid (11) Audouinia. 



ff Ovary 2-celled, each cell 2-4-ovulate. 

 Anthers linear or oblong. 

 Connective not prolonged. Flowers solitary, termi- 

 nal or axillary. 

 Eeceptacle shortly obconic, not verrucose. Nut 

 eventually crowed by the annular disc 



and style (5) TJiamnea. 



Eeceptacle globose or turbinate, verrucose. Nut 



crowned by the remains of calyx and corolla 



(4) Tittmannia. 

 Anthers cordate or sagittate, their lower halves 

 usually free and often divergent. 

 Fruit indehiscent. 



Stamens exserted, anthers versatile ; styles fili- 

 form (2) Brunia. 



Stamens not exserted ; anthers dorsified ; styles 



stout, short (8) Pseudohcechea. 



Fruit dehiscent. 



Inflorescence capitate (very rarely spiciform) ; 

 flowers not scarious ; petals clawless. Con- 

 nective not prolonged. 

 Styles two ; ovary half-inferior. 



Bracts scarious, pale flesh or straw-coloured ; 



stamens always exserted (3) Nebelia. 



Bracts leafy or absent ; stamens very rarely 



exserted (7) Baspalia. 



Style one, deeply and longitudinally grooved. 



Petals epigynous (9) Staavia. 



Inflorescence spicate, flowers scarious ; petals 



unguiculate. Connective prolonged (10) Linconia. 

 fffOvary 1-celled, 1-ovulate ; style one. 



Stamens exserted. Flowers congested in ovoid or 



globose nude heads (1) Bcrzelia. 



Stamens not exserted. Flowers solitary, axillary 



or terminal, inconspicuous (6) Mniotliamnea. 



* Sonder quotes a reprint of this treatise in the Flora, differently paged. 



