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4 mm longus, stigmate obtuso. Carpella in toto 5—6 mm longa, glabra, 
atrocastanea, verrueuloso-glandulosa. 
Coast Region. Uitenhage Div.; between Galgebosch and Melk 
Fontein, Feb. 17, 1814, Burchell, 4777 (Herb. Kew)! 
A. acutissima exhibits affinities to À. pilifera Schlecht., but the ascend- 
ing imbricate longer narrowly triangular leaves, with rounded truncate 
or subcordate bases, the more acuminately-aristate apices, the pubescent 
scarcely puberulous pedicels and lower portion of the calyces, afford cha- 
racters of discrimination. 
35. Agathosma Dielsiana Schlechter, MSS., nov. spec. 
Fruticulus circiter 0,3 m altus, multiramosus, densifoliosus; rami 
graciles, stricti, apicem versus verticillatim ramosi; ramuli teretiusculi, 
patenter puberuli bruneique. Folia ascendentia, deinde patula, .sub- 
eurvata, subimbricata, parvula, oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa, 
basi cuneata vel cuneato-rotundata, petiolo 0,5—0,7 mm longo planiusculo 
suffulta, 2,5—4,5 mm longa, 1,5—2 mm lata, magisminusve complanata, 
utrinque glabra, pallide viridescentia, supra laevia, eglandulosa, subtus 
obscure punctato-glandulosa, apicem versus carinato-incrassata, margine 
saepe inferne recurva, distanter et obsolete denticulato-ciliolata, mox fere 
integra. Umbella hemisphaerica, 4 - 8-flora, circiter 1 em diametro, flo- 
ribus albidis, pedicellis 2—2,5 mm longis parcipuberulis mox glabris 
medio bracteolatis, bracteolis oppositis 0,5—0,7 mm longis. Calyx circiter 
2 mm longus, scariosus, extra glaber, lobis anguste triangularibus obtusis 
dorso carinatis margine parciciliatis. Petala 4 mm longa, 1 mm lata, late 
oblanceolato-cuneata, apice rotundata, inferne patenter parciciliata. Sta- 
mina 5 mm longa, glaberrima; staminodia 3 mm longa, filiformia, medio 
ampliata denseque pilosa, ceterum glabra, glandula apicali notata, Stylus 
filiformis, 5—6 mm longus, cum ovario glaberrimus. 
Coast Region. Bredasdorp Div.; Cape Agulhas, 45 m, 27th April 
1897, Schlechter, 10558! (Herb. Kew). 
Probably nearest to A. pilifera Schlecht. from which its densely 
leafy habit, smaller not apiculate leaves with scarcely punctate margins 
fashioned with distant and tiny denticulatious, and a dorsal gibbosity, 
relatively shorter almost glabrous pedicels, and glabrous calyces, distin- 
guish it immediately, 
Var. parcipilosa Diimmer, nov. spec. 
Folia inferne parcipilosa. Calycis lobi creberrime ciliolati, interdum 
apice barbulata. 
Specimens representing this variety gathered by Dr. Thom (no. 516), 
at the Cape are to hand at Kew; they only deviate from the type in their 
sparingly pilose leaves and closely ciliolate calyx-lobes, which are 
occasionally slightly bearded at their apices. Schlechter (no, 10522), 
from Mierkraal 60 m, April 1897 with more spreading glaucous and revo- 
lute leaves, I regard as an edaphic form of the species, which was 
distributed as A. rugosa Link. 
