386 MR. P. MACOWAN ON NEW CAPE PLANTS. 
Hab. Inter frutices montis Malowe in ditione Griqualand East, 
alt. e. 4000 ped., Febr. 1885, Tyson, no. 2082; Herb. Norm. 
Austro-Afr. no. 890, foliis acutioribus. Buffalo River, Brit. 
Kaffraria, Feb., alt. e. 1200 ped., MacOwan, no. 1266 ; & Nov., alt. 
e. 3000 ped., MacOwan,no. 1325. Bazija, R. Baur, no. 17; Cooper, 
no. 165, 301, 1914, 1926; Gerrard, no. 1202 ; Wood, no. 1805. 
This plant is allied to P. Ohlendorfiana, Eckl. & Zey., and has 
frequently been distributed as a variety of that species. The 
leaves vary on the same branch both in size and acuteness— 
some being an inch long, others only half that size. Mr. Baur's 
specimens have leaves varying from elliptic to typically ovate. 
AGATHOSMA Wrrentit, MacOwan, n. sp. [$ Eu-Agathosma].— 
A. ramulis minute pubescentibus ; foliis patentibus demum de- 
flexis, elliptieis, planis, supra plus minusve transversim rugosis, 
subtus suleatis, glabris vel pilis paucis hine inde instructis ; 
umbellis 12-15-floris, pedunculis glabris, prope basin bracteatis ; 
calyce glabro, lobis obtuse ovatis ecarinatis ; petalis ellipticis in 
unguem linearem sparse pilosum desinentibus ; filamentis steri- 
libus linearibus petala equantibus piloso-ciliatis; ovario et stylo 
glabris. 
A small bush, 1 to 14 foot high, of compact habit, with nume- 
rous short floriferous twigs. Leaves of the older branches 
about 4 lines long, 14 line broad; those of the flowering-twigs 
2j lines Jong, ultimately deflexed. Peduncles 21-3 lines long, 
glabrous, but minutely roughened with immersed glands; bracts 
solitary, or less frequently 2 placed alternately, minute, with a 
red glandular tip. 
Hab. Stony places on the heights behind Simonstown, Cape 
of Good Hope, alt. 1200 feet, June 1884, Herb. MacOwan, 
no. 2550; Herb. Norm. Austro- Afr. no. 555. 
This handsome Agathosma differs from A. thymifolia, Schlecht., 
by the much longer and pilose petal-claw, the sterile filaments 
piloso-ciliate for two thirds of their length, and the much larger 
size of the plant. The leaves occasionally show a few scattered 
white hairs chiefly at the margin. It was first gathered by Chas. 
Wright, the botanist attached to the American Survey under 
Commodore Wilkes, during the short stay of the squadron in the 
harbour of Simonstown; the late Dr. W. H. Harvey acknow- 
ledges his serviees to Cape Botany in the preface to the third 
volume of the * Flora Capensis.' 
