26 AN ENUMERATION OF THE BRUNIACEZE [Pseudobcsckea 



ing the flowers in length. Petals broadly obovate or oblong, 

 equalling the calyx- segments or slightly longer. 



Central Eegion. — Ceres Div. : Stony slopes of the Skurfdeberg 

 Eange, near Gydouw, 5000 ft., Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr. and 

 Keiu, 1154 ! 



9. P. palustris Dtimmer, comb. nov. Brunia ixilustris 

 Schlechterex Kirchner, Beitr. Kennt. Brun. Breslau (1904), 15. 



A much branched, greyish, densely pilose shrublet, with 

 crowded subfastigiate twigs. Leaves crowded, erect, imbricate, 

 sessile, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, subacute, tipped with a black 

 apiculus, long, slightly convex, sparingly pilose without, glabrous 

 and shining with a slightly elevated midrib within, ciliate. Flowers 

 solitary, axillary, very shortly pedicellate, disposed in the axils of 

 the upper leaves and shorter than them. Bracteoles 2, opposite, 

 subulate, pilose, ferruginous, 1-1^ mm. long. Calycine segments 

 narrowly ovate, as long as the bracteoles, pilose without, glabrous 

 within ; the petals shorter, obovate, glabrous, whitish above, 

 brownish below, slightly incurved, and enclosing the stamens and 

 styles. Ovary tomentellous. 



Central Region. — Ceres Div. : Klein Vley, Cold Bokkeveld, 

 5500 ft., Schlechter, Herb. Brit. Miis. and Keio, 10,055 ! 



10. P. teres Diimmer, comb. nov. Brunia teres Oliver in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. ix. 333 (1867). 



Coast Region. — Caledon Div. : Tops of the mountains of 

 Baviaan's Kloof, near Genadendal, Burckell, Herb. Keiv, 1100 ! 

 A specimen in the British Museum collected by Niven, but with- 

 out locality. 



A peculiarly distinct species, with the aspect of Thamnea 

 gracilis Oliver. 



IX. STAAVIA 



Dahl, Obs. Bot. 14 (1787) ; DC. Prod. ii. 45 (1825) ; Brongn. 

 ojh cit. 378 (1826) ; Sonder, op. cit. 321 ; Hooker, op. cit. 672 ; 

 Niedenzu, op. cit. 136. Stavia Thunb. Nov. Gen. vii. 108 (1792) ; 

 Fl. Cap. 207 (1823). Levisanus Schreb. Gen. i. 149 (1789). Astro- 

 coma Neck. Elem. i. 112 (1790). Brunia, of various authors. 



The genus was accredited to Thunberg by Sonder, but the 

 name dates back to Dahl, who published a very complete account 

 of the genus and the species then known, viz. S. cjlutinosa and 

 S. radiata in his Observationes Botanicce in 1787. 



Key to Species. 

 * Flowers capitate. 



t Flower-heads large, 13-35 mm. in diameter. 



Bracts white, linear to oblong, much longer than 

 the flowers. Flowers glutinous. 

 Flower-heads 2^-3^ cm. in diameter. 



Leaves 2-2^ mm. broad (S) Dodii. 



Flower-heads 1^-2 cm. in diameter. 



Leaves 1-1:|^ mm. broad (1) glutinosa. 



