330 R. A. Dümmer. 
hairs on their inner face. The variety is distinguished from the type 
by the more ascending, shorter and slightly narrower leaves, which are 
strigillose at first, and are terete and slightly thickened towards their 
apices, and relatively shorter pedicels. The specimens comprising the 
variety were distributed as A. ericoides var. Whether the staminodes are 
scarcely worthy of being ranked as petaloid, and thus prohibit the specie's 
inclusion in $ Diplopetalum, future investigations must decide. 
23. Agathosma virgata Bart. and Wendl.!) 
The specific distinctions (glabrous or pilose claws of the petals) 
given by Sonder in separating A. commutata Sond. and the preceding 
species, are not tenable as both characters occur in forms of the former 
species; the alternative character appears to be the best, viz.: length of 
the leaves; thus A. commutata = leaves 5—15 mm long, acutely acuminate, 
A. virgata = leaves 2—3 mm long, obtuse. 
Hence to the former species, the following recent specimens are 
referred. 
Coast Region. Tulbagh Div.; Mitchells Pass, 600 m. Nov. 1896, 
Schlechter, 8938! Worcester Div.; Dutoit’s Kloof, 300—600 m, Oct.— 
Jan, Drege a and b! Bain's Kloof, 900 m, Nov. 1896, Schlechter, 
9092! Els Kloof, Hex River, Aug. 1897, Wolley Dod, 4033! Hex 
River, near De Doorns, 510 m, Sept. 1907, Bolus 13083, partly! Caledon 
Div.; Genadendal, 660 m, April 1897, Schlechter 10287! (distributed 
under an unpublished nome). : 
24. Agathosma commutata Sond. var. 8. — A. commutata v. virgata 
Dümmer, comb, nov. — A. virgata Ecklon and Zeyher Enum. Pl. 115 (1835), 
in part, not of Bart. and Wend. or E. Meyer. 
Coast Region. Caledon Div.; on the slopes of the mountains near 
the mouth of the Klyn River, Aug., Ecklon and Zeyher 904 partly (Herb. 
Sonder). : 
The variety is reputed to differ from the type in the ovary being 
hairy at the top, but in the specimens, constituting the type number at 
Kew, the ovaries are undoubtedly glabrous. 
25. Agathosma commutata Sond. var. glabripetala Dümmer nov. var. 
Coast Region. Caledon Div.; mountains of Baviaans Kloof near 
Genadendal, Feb. 15, 1815, Burchell, 7600! Tulbagh Div.; near the 
Tulbagh Waterfall, 330 m, Nov. 1879, Bolus, 5142! 
This variety only differs from the typical species in the wholly 
glabrous petals; the latter specimen was distributed under the name of 
A, commutata Sond. 
Var. pubescens Diimmer, nov. var. 
Coast Region. Worcester Div.; Hex River near ,De Doorns“, 
510 m, Sept. 1907, Bolus, 13083 partly! 
1) These authors state that the petals are glabrous in their original 
description, while Sonder whom I follow and who examined Thunberg's plant, 
states that their claws are hairy. 
