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GRUBBIACEAE 



The relationship of the family has been misunderstood 

 by some authors. Sondkr (Flor. Cap. n, 325) included it in 

 Hamamelideae but Bentham placed it near Santa- 

 laeeae. 



One genus only ot 4 species, all endemic in the Cape region. 



Grubbia*, Bt-rg. 



Fig. 81 b. Gruhbia rosmar'niifolia Berg. With Dovra muaonata. 

 Edge of a swamp on Table Mountain. 2600 rect. August. 



In one section (Ophira L.) each inflorescence con- 

 sists of 3 connate flowers, and the pseudocarp originating 

 from it is covered with hairs, being thereby adapted to 

 dispersal by the wind. In the other section (containing 

 only G. strictd) several 3-flowered heads are joined into 

 a cone-like inflorescence and form a sub-succulent, 1- 

 seeded pseudocarp. 



* Named after Michael Grubb, a Swedish merchant of the 17th century, who on 

 his way home from China bought a parcel of plants collected by Johann Auc;e, the 

 Company's gardener at Capetown, and took them to BBRGIUS at Stockholm. 



