410 R. A. Dümmer. 
1,7 cm diametro, floribus (sicco) albis; pedicelli 2,5—3,5 mm longi, pu- 
beruli, medio inconspicue. bibracteolati. Calyx parvulus, 1,5—1,7 mm 
longus, extra glabrescens vel glaber, lobis deltoideis obtusis aut sub- 
acutis dorso carinatis haud ciliolatis. Petala unguiculata, spatuliformia- 
toto 3,5—4 mm longa, limbis oblongiusculis subacutis, unguibus parce 
pilosis. Stamina 5 mm lenga, glaberrima; staminodia lineari-lanceolata, 
2,5 mm longa, apice caudato-acuminata, glandula terminata, dimidio in- 
feriore vel medio pilosula, ciliata. Pistillum glabrum vel carpellorum 
cornubus pilis paucissimis instructis, stylo filiformi 4,5—5 mm longo. 
A. cerifolium Bolus and Wolley Dod in Trans. Phil. Soc. S. Africa, 
XIV, III (1903), 246, non Bartl. et Wendl. 
Coast Region. Cape Div.; Cape Peninsula, on the slopes of the 
Muizenberg, 360 m. March, 1880, Bolus, 4647! Klein Slangkop, Sept. 
1896, Wolley Dod, 1569! hills west of Simonstown, Oct. 1896, Wolley 
Dod, 1832! hills near Simonstown, 120 m, July, 1892, Schlechter 
1070! the latter probably seedling forms (Herb. Brit. Mus.). 
Approaching A. cerefolium Bartl. and Wendl., but distinguished by the 
obtuse leaves, which are costately keeled dorsally, ciliate, not pilose- 
ciliate on the keel and margin; the pedicels are moveover puberulous 
and not pubescent villous, the calyx-lobes more orless obtuse, not cilio- 
late, and the ovary glabrous. 
Var. minor nov. var. 
Folia circiter 2,5 mm longa. Calycis segmenta linearia. Petala 
glabra. 
The variety in distinguished by its relatively shorter leaves, the 
narrower calyx-segments and the wholly glabrous petals; the specimen 
is one of Dr. Thom's gathering (no. 548) and is incorporated in the 
Hooker Herbarium, Kew. 
14. Agathosma platypetala Eckl, and Zeyher var. glabricalyx Dümmer, 
nov. var. 
Umbella 6—13-flora, 1—2 cm diametro, floribus sicco albidis; pedi- 
celli 5—7 mm longi, parcissime pilosi, mox glabri, verruculoso-glandu- 
losa, bracteolis minutissimis. Calyx 2—2,5 mm longus, glaberrimus, 
lobis ovato-deltoideis acutiusculus dorso convexiusculis aut carinatis 
punctata-glandulosis, margine transparentibus haud ciliolatis. Petala 
unguieulata, 4—4,5 mm longa, lamina elliptica, rotundata vel obtusa, 
3 mm longa, intra sparse pilosa, margine haud ciliata. Stamina 5 mm 
longa, glaberrima; staminodia filiformia, 3—3,5 mm longa, superne glabra, 
glandula terminata, inferne albo-villosa pilosaque. Stylus filiformis, 
3,5 mm longus ovarioque glaber. 
Coast Region.  Paarl Div.; French Hoek, 1080 m, Nov. 1896 
Schlechter, 9271! (Herb. Kew.). 
A. platypetala Ecklon and Zeyher antedates À. Thunbergiana Sond. 
by twenty-five years, and hence the former name must be adopted. Two 
varieties are described by Sonder, of which. the additional, described 
above, differs from the type in the glabrous or very slightly pilose pedi- 
