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LXXXVIII. BRUNT ACE ^. 



B. pinifoUa. 

 Fruit cut vertically (iiiag.)| 



Brunia nodiflora. 



Bi-unia. Diagram. 



Shrubs or undbkshrtjbs from the Cape of Good Hope, Heath-like in habit. 

 Leaves small, acerose, sub-trigonous, entire, usually imbricated in 5 rows, exstipu- 

 late. Flowees 5 , small, regular, generally in a spike or head, sessile, 5-bracteate. 

 Calyx 5-4-partite, persistent or deciduous, imbricate in bud. Eeceptaculab cup 

 enveloping the ovary, very rarely spread into anepigynous disk (Thamnea). Petals 

 5-4, inserted on the edge of the cup, alternate with the calyx-lobes, usually free, 

 sometimes connate with the stamens into a tube at the base, imbricate in bud. 

 Stamens inserted with the petals, equal in number and alternate with them ; fila- 

 ments free, or sometimes adnate to the claws of the petals ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, 

 cells opposite, parallel or diverging at their base, and opening longitudinally. Ovary 

 semi-inferior or inferior, very rarely free {B(ispailia), 1-2-3-celled ; styles 2-3, 

 terminal, more or less cohering ; stigmas minute, papillose ; ovules anatropous, 

 solitary or 2, collateral in the cells of the 2-3-celled ovary, and pendulous from the 

 central angle or near the top of the septum, solitary in the 1 -celled ovaries (in 

 Tha/mnea the ovary is 1-celled, with 10 pendulous 1-seriate ovules). Fruit crowned 

 by the calyx, and sometimes by the persistent corolla and androecium, dry, indehis- 

 cent or capsular, often with two 1-2- seeded cocci, dehiscence internal, longitudinal.; 



