Curtis's Botanical Magazine/Volume 49/2339 Burchellia bubalina

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Class and Order.

Generic Character. Capitulum involucratum. Cor. clavato-infundibuliformis: limbo 5-fido abbreviato fauceque imberbi; aestivatione mutuo imbricata contorta. Stamina supra medium tubi inserta; antheris subsessilibus, inclusis. Stigma cla- vatum. Bacca calyce alte 5-fido coronata, bilocularis polysperma. Brown in Bot. Reg. Specific Name and Synonyms. bubalina. Burchellia capensis. Brown in Bot. Reg. 446. bubalina; capitulis terminalibus pedunculatis, foliis oblongis integerrimis glabris. Lin. Suppl. p. 146. bubalina. Persoon Syn. p. 202. n. 12. . Colonis batavis.

In the Supplementum Plantarum of the younger this plant was referred to the genus, but as it belongs to the natural order of Rubiaceæ it will by no means associate with that genus. joined it with Swartz's the  of  and ; but Mr. not finding it to accord with any esta- blished genus, has considered it as distinct from any, and given it the name of in honour of Mr., a very enterprising traveller in Southern Africa, who has favoured the public with an interesting account of his travels in that country. And, certainly, persons who, in spite of deprivations and difficulties, spend a large portion of their valuable time in such hazardous under- takings, for the promotion of science, merit this only re- ward

ward of the botanist; but we can by no means approve of altering the specific name, which, when once established, should remain inviolate, except for very particular reasons; we have therefore thought it right to restore the name of bubalina. bubalina is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it is called Buffelhorn or Buffaloe-Horn, a name given it by the colonists from the extreme hardness of its wood. Flowers in the spring or summer. Requires to be pro- tected from frost and we believe has seldom blossomed in this country without the assistance of the heat of the stove. Communicated by Messrs. and.