22 AN ENUMERATION OF THE BRUNIACE^ [Baspalia 



Wood, 3029 ! Along the streams behind the Eiver Enkweni, 

 Bachmann, 1668, 1669, 1670, 1671, 1680. Natal: Sutherland, 

 Herb. Keiu ! 



Sutherland's specimens at Kew bear only 2-styled flowers, and 

 hence I am inclined to suspect that the 3-stylar character men- 

 tioned by Schlechter represents some abnormahty. 



9. R. Schlechteri Diimmer, sp. nov. Fruticidus 0-3 m. vel 

 ultra altus, Erica margaritacecB Sol. habitu, ramis subfastigiatis, 

 junioribus brevibus pilosulis foliatis. Folia minuta, spiraliter 

 subimbricata, sessilia, adpressa, oblonga, 2 mm. vix longa, ob- 

 tusiuscula, ustulata, paulo barbata, subcarnosula, subtus convexo- 

 carinata vel convexa, demum utrinque glabra, Integra. Cajntida 

 plurima, nuda, giobosa, 2-4 mm. diametro, 5-12 flora, albida, 

 ramulos laterales breves terminantia ; pedicelli perbreves ; brac- 

 teolae oppositae, minutae, subulatae, ciliolatse vel denticulatae. 

 Calycis segmenta late deltoidea, obtusa vel interdum subbifida, 

 margine ciliolati excepto omnino glabra. Petala calyce duplo 

 longiora, obovata vel oblonga, paulo cucullata, glaberrima. 

 Ovarium ovoideo-globosum, superne albo-tomentellum ; styli 

 duo, perbreves, subrecurvati, obtusi, glabri. 



Coast Eegion. — Eiversdale Div. : Langebergen Eange, 

 200 mm. Schlechter, 1750 ! 



A plant with the facies of Erica margaritacea Sol. ; it differs 

 from the enumerated species, except B. trigyna Schlechter, in the 

 smaller, subnude flower-heads, and from that species by the com- 

 paratively larger leaves, more globose inflorescences, white, not 

 tawny flowers, and incurved, cucullate petals. 



VIII. PSEUDOB^CKEA 



Niedenzu, op. cit. 136 ; Colozza, op. cit. 36. Bceckea Burm. 

 Prod. 12 (1768) (not Linnaeus). Beckea Ecklon & Zej'her, Enum. 

 139 (not of Persoon or St. Hilaire). Brunia Brongn. op. cit. 

 374-377 ; Hooker, op. cit. 671 (in part) ; Sonder, op. cit. 313 

 (in part). 



Key to Species. 



* Flowers aggregated in heads, racemes, or panicles, 

 f Ovary villous. 



Leaves patently spreading. Flower-head 4-5 mm. 

 in diameter. 

 Shrubby, robust. Leaves trigonous, glabrous 



(3) capitellata. 

 Decumbent, slender. Leaves flat, herbaceous, 



sparingly villous (7) villosa. 



Leaves ascending or appressed, imbricate, convex, 

 very villous. Flower-head 6-8 mm. in diameter 



(8) sacculata. 

 If Ovary glabrous. 



Leaves ericoid, closely appressed to the axis, 

 small, 2-3 mm. long, glabrous without, 



tomentellous within (2) virgata. 



Leaves not ericoid, ascending or spreading. -5- 

 2 cm. long. 



