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BURCHELLIA capensis. 
Cape Burchellia. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RuBiAcem. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. IV. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis polyspermus. Folia opposita; caulis sepe frutescens. — 
BURCHELLIA. Capitulum involucratum. Cor. clavato-infundibuli- 
formis: limbo 5-fido abbreviato fauceque imberbi; estivatione mutud im- 
bricata contorta. Stamina supra medium tubi inserta; antheris subsessilibus 
inclusis. Stigma clavatum. Bacca calyce alté 5-fido coronata, bilocularis, 
polysperma. Brown MSS. may 
Frutex ramosissimus pubescens, ramulis compressis. Folia opposita. 
Stipule interpetiolares, ¢ dilataté basi subulate, indivise, caduce. Capitus 
lum terminale, extra involucrum monophyllum pluridentatum abbreviatum 
pari unico foliorum minorum stipulis proportionatim latioribus subtensum. 
Ovaria supra receptaculum convexum villosum bracteolisque nonnullis minu- 
tissimis conspersum sessilia, distincta. Calyx: limbo foliaceo equali, tubum 
aliquotiés superante. Corolla coccinea, extis pilis appressis, intis glabra 
preter barbam annularem juata basin tubi. Anthere lineares. Discus 
epigynus carnosus, indivisus, imberbis. Stigma exsertum, utringue sulco ex- 
aratum. Bacca turbinato-globosa, bilocularis septo completo. Placenta 
adnata. Semina angulata. Embryo axilis, dimidio albuminis cartilaginet 
longior. Brown MSS. 
Burchellia capensis. Brown MSS. 
Cephalis bubalina. Persoon syn. 1. 202. 
Patabea. Hujus congener aut genere proxima LoNIcERA bubalina; &c. &c. 
Jussieu gen. 208. 
Lonicera bubalina. Lin. suppl. 146. Vahl symb. 3.57, Thunb. prod. 47. 
Ejusd. flor. cap. 2. 54. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 989. 
Buffelhorn. Colonis batavis Cap. B. S. (ab lignum durissimum ). 
Ramuli robusti. Folia saturaté viridia, subcoriacea, hispida, lato- 
oblonga: brevitér acuminata basi contractius subcordata, 3-5-uncialia, per 
paria distantia: petiolus brevis hirtus. Corolla uncialis vel paulo longior, 
diametro feré penne scriptorie, firma. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Long known in our 
Herbariums and the various botanical systems, though lately 
introduced into our gardens, where we believe it has: now 
flowered for the first time. 
By its original observer, the species had been ranked 
under the head Lonicera; but was afterwards referred by 
Jussieu to its true station, the Rusracem, though that 
learned botanist, in adopting an erroneous description, re- 
presenting the seeds of the berry as solitary, has placed the 
plant in a wrong section of the order. Mr, Brown having 
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