Thamnea
(from thamnos, a shrub; alluding to the nature of the plant). ORD. Bruniaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a pretty, little, greenhouse under-shrub. It thrives in a compost of peat and sand. Propagation may be effected by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass. T. uniflora (one-flowered). fl. white, small, terminal, solitary; calyx adnate with the ovary,five-lobed; petals five, with two-keeled claws and an ovate, spreading limb; stamens five, included. April. l. very small, somewhat rhomboidal, short, blunt-keeled, closely pressed, spirally inserted; upper ones rather longer, forming an involucre to the flower. Branches filiform, erect, fastigiate. h. 1ft. South Africa, 1810.