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rotundata attenuatave, 4,5—7 mm longa, 2—2,5 mm lata, coriacea, vis- 
cida, intra nitentia, subconcava, glabra, extra fusciora, scaberula, costa 
inerassata conspicua ornata, costa marginibusque albo-pectinato-ciliatis. 
Umbella capituliformis, 1—1,4 cm diametro, densiflora, bracteis foliosis 
floribus brevioribus; pedicelli 1—2 mm longi, pilosiusculi, brunei; brac- 
teolae haud oppositae, lanceolatae, 1,5 mm longae, pilosae. Calycis seg- 
menta erecta, lanceolata, 3,5 mm longa, extra scabriuscula, carinata, intra 
glabra concavaque, marginibus et carinis pilis albis instructis. Petala 
longe unguieulata, ungui valde villoso, lamina obovata 1,7—2 mm longa 
glabra alba. Stamina 2,7—3 mm longa, filamentis pilos paucos patentes 
breves gerentibus; staminodia petala simulantes eoxumque unguibus ad- 
nata, sed limbis angustioribus obovato-oblanceolatis. Stylus subulatus cum 
ovario glaber, staminibus aequilongus, stigmate minuto. Fructus ignotus. 
This species of the § Pseudostemon, occupies a position intermediate 
between A. collina E. and Z, and A. Schlechtendalii Sond., but is distinguished 
from the former by its obscurely petiolate or subsessile more or less 
flattened longer somewhat viscid lanceolate to ovate leaves, and their con- 
spieuous marginal and costal pectinate ciliation, obovate-oblanceolate limb 
of the staminodes and the pilose pedicels; from the latter species, the 
hairy twigs and pedicels, obtuse or truncate leaves, the ciliate calyx-seg- 
ments constitute points of distinction. A. Schlechtendalii Sond. is not 
represented at Kew, but I have seen a presumable cotype in the Oxford 
Herbarium, gathered by Baron von Ludwig between Rhenoster and Klip- 
fontein. The plant like A. collina dries a dark green, merging on to a 
dinstictly dark blueish green towards the apices of the twigs. The type 
specimen infested with a scale-insect, gathered by Thom (no. 39) at the 
.Cape of Good Hope*, when or precisely where, it is impossible to as- 
certain, is preserved in the Herbarium at Kew. 
11. Agathosma Peglerae Dümmer, nov. spec. 
Fruticulus e basi ramosus, caulibus ascendentibus vel rectis ad 
0,4 m altis saepe simplicibus vel apicem versus verticillatim ramosis 
teretibus, inferne nudis griseis, superne atrocastaneis verrucosis glabris 
densifoliatis. Folia ascendentia, mox patula, linearia, pseudo-semiteretia, 
obtusiuseula, basin versus in petiolum 0,5—1 mm longum attenuata, 
9—11 mm longa, 0,7—1 mm lata, supra profunde angusteque canali- 
culata, subtus carinato-convexa aut convexa, impresso-punctata, coriacea, 
mox utrinque glaberrima, griseo-viridescentia. ` Umbella confertiflora, 
1,5—2,3 em diametro, foliis supremis pedicellis saepe longioribus; flores 
albi (teste Pegler); pedicelli 3—4 mm longi, glabri, verruculoso-glandu- 
losi, medio bracteolati, bracteolis geminis vix oppositis 0,7 —1 mm longis. 
Calyx 2,5—3 mm longus, extra verruculoso-glandulosus, segmentis ovato- 
oblongis glanduloso-apiculatis dorso carinatis, margine hyalinis ciliatis, 
Petala unguieulata, circiter 5 mm longa, lamina obovato-cuneata, fere 
glabra, unguibus distante ciliatis. Stamina gracilia, 6 mm longa, fila- 
mentis patenter parcipilosis; staminodia staminum unguibus adnata, fili- 
