AN ENUMERATION OF THE BRUNIACE^ [BeVZelia 



I. BERZELIA 



Brongn. op. cit. 370 ; Sender, op. cit. 310 ; Hooker, op. ciU 

 671 ; Niedenzu, op. cit. 136 ; Colozza in Ann. Istit. Bot. di Roma, 

 ii. 13-18 (1905). Brunia of various authors. Babenhorstia Reichb. 

 Norn. 159 (1841). 



Key to Species. 



"^ Flower-heads racemosely-disposed. 



Leaves 1 cm. or over (6) squarrosa. 



Leaves 3-5 mm. 



Leaves broadly subulate (1) commutata. 



Leaves filiform (3) lanuginosa. 



-^'•'Flower-heads corymbosely-disposed. 



Leaves 4 mm. broad, cordate ; flower-heads pale sulphur- 

 yellow (7) cordifolia. 



Leaves ^-2 mm. broad, subulate, ovate or lanceolate ; 



flower-heads orange-red. 

 Leaves subulate, acute ; flower-heads invariably ob- 

 ovoid or ellipsoid. 



Leaves glabrous at maturity, light green (2) intermedia. 



Leaves downy, conspicuously ashy-grey (5) Burchellii. 



Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse. 



Flower-heads globose (4) abrotanoides. 



1. B. COMMUTATA Sonder, I. c. ; Colozza, op. cit. pp. 13, 39. 

 - B. comosa Ecklon & Zeyher, Enum. PI. 137. 



Coast Region. — Uitenhage Div. : In the channel of the 

 Zwartkops River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 1051 ! Uitenhage, Zeyher, 

 734 ! between Bethelsdorp and Uitenhage, Burchell, 4402 ! slopes 

 of the Vanstaadensbergen, ilfac02i;a7i! Eort Beaufort Div. : Fort 

 Beaufort, Zeyher, 5 ! Port Elizabeth Div. : Port EHzabeth, Ethel 

 West, 33 ! Central Region. — Graaff Reinet Div. ; Near Blaauw 

 Krantz, in a woody ravine, Bicrchell, 3703 ! 



Without Locality. — Beeves ! Zeyher, 2644 ! 



2. B. intermedia Schlechtendal in Linnaea, vi. 188 ; Ecklon & 

 Zeyher, I. c. ; Sonder, op. cit. 311 ; Colozza, op. cit. pp. 13, 40. 

 B. intermedia ioYma> gracilis ColozzQ^, I.e. B. We7idla7idiana 'Eicklon 

 & Zeyher, op. cit. 137. B. ericoides Ecklon & Zeyher, I. c. Brunia 

 paleacea Wendl. Coll. t. 21 (not Berg or Willd.). B. ericoides 

 Wendl. Coll. t. 57. B. intermedia D. Dietr. Syn. PI. i. 848. 



Coast Region. — Riversdale Div. : Great Valsch River, Bur- 

 chell, 6558! George Div. : Lange Kloof, Ecklon & Zeyher, 1052. 

 Georgetown, Pappe ! Bowie, 10 ! Uniondale Div. : Kammanassie 

 Mountains, near Avonhuur, Bolus, 1573 ! Swellendam Div. : 

 Puspas Valley, Ecklon & Zeyher, 1052 ! Duyvelsbosch, near Swel- 

 lendam, Ecklon d Zeyher, 1053. Uitenhage Div. : Vanstaadens- 

 river Mountains, Ecklon & Zeyher, 1054 ! near Galgebosch, Bur- 

 chell, 4691 ! Albany Div. : On mountains near Howison's Poort, 

 1800 ft., MacOioan, 851! 



Without Locality. — Thorn, 175, partly ! 



