30 AN ENUMERATION OF THE BRUNIACE^ [StCiaVia 



d- Zeyher, partly ! Cape Flats, Pappe, partly ! ZeyJier, 726 ! 

 Ecklon, 768 partly ! BurcJiell, 825 and 193 partly ! False Bay, 

 sand dunes, Schlechter, 799 ! 



Without Locality. — Masson ! and Herb. Forsyth ! 



A most ubiquitous species, occurring at all elevations from the 

 flats to mountain tops, but most abundant on the sandy low-lying 

 flats among the restiaceous element. The variety insensibly 

 passes into the type, but extreme forms are distinguished by the 

 slender and more glabrous twigs, smaller leaves and flower-heads. 



6. S. lateriflora Colozza in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. x. 397 

 (1903), and in Ann. di Bot. Eoma, ii. pp. 24, 36, t. ii. (1905). 



Coast Eegion. — Cape Div. : Between Eondebosch and Wyn- 

 berg, BurcJiell, Herb. Keiu and Florence, 7634 ! Caledon Div. : 

 Genadendal, 1500 ft., Schlechter, Herb. Keio and Brit. Mus., 9842 ! 



Closely allied to the following, but with the flower-heads more 

 or less laterally disposed. 



7. S. CAPiTELLA Sonder in Fl. Cap. ii. 323 ; Colozza, op. cit. 

 23. S. rupestris, S. nuda (in part), and S. ciliatcc Ecklon & Zeyher, 

 Enum. PI. 141. S. comosa Colozza in Ann. di Bot. Eoma, ii. 32, 

 35, t. i. Brunia comosa Thunb. in Hoifm. Phytog. Bl. i. 17 (1803) ; 

 Diss. Brun. 5. B. capitella Thunb. Diss. Brun. 5. B. Dregeana 

 Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 39. 



Coast Eegion. — Cape Div. : Table Mountain, Ecklon ct Zeyher, 

 1078 ! Cape Flats, Bowie ! Caledon Div. : Eocky and stony places 

 on the mountains near Genadendal, 3000-4000 ft., Drege, 6855 ! 

 Zwartberg, Ecklon & Zeyher, 1077 ! Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 9391 ! 

 Villiersdorp, Bolus, 5049 ! Bredasdorp Div. : On slopes near 

 EHm, Bolus, 6906 ! 



Without Locality. — Forsterl Boxburgh\ Herb. Miersl 



Var. composita Sonder, /. c. Staavia adenandricefolia Ecklon 

 & Zeyher, Enum. 141. 



Coast Eegion. — Caledon Div. : Zwartberg, Niven, 17 ! Bre- 

 dasdorp Div. : On mountain slopes near Elim, Bolus, 6907 ! 

 Swellendam Div. : Swellendam, Boivie ! 



The error of associating Brunia comosa Thunb. with Berzelia 

 lanuginosa Brongn. var. glabra Sond. has been pointed out by 

 Colozza, who in consequence has proposed the combination 

 Staavia comosa Colozza ; his photograph I. of Thunberg's speci- 

 men bears, however, such a striking resemblance to S. capitella 

 Sonder, that I have no alternative but to include this combination 

 and its synonymy in that of the latter species. 



In herbaria S. cayitella Sond. is apt to be confounded with 

 S. radiata Dahl., but the bracts surrounding the flower-heads are 

 invariably leafy, rarely white, and seldom exceed the flowers in 

 length ; it is however, not improbable that cases of hybridity 

 occur, a supposition which is strengthened by the occurrence of 

 intermediate forms between these two critical species. The variety 

 composita is well defined, and exhibits a peculiarity which is, 

 however, not confined to it, and that, the tendency of the deeply 

 sulcate styles to divide at maturity, when the apparently 2-styled 



