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cels, the absence of ciliation on the calyx-lobes, tbe petals, which are 
sparingly pilose within, and the longer more filiform staminodes. The 
type-specimens were distributed as À. Thunbergiana Sond. In its ge- 
neral facies the species might be mistaken for A. chortophila Eckl. and 
Zeyher. 
75. Agathosma ciliata Link. r 
Coast Region. Cape Div.; Table Mountain, April-June, Ecklon 
and Zeyher, 878! June, 16, 1815, Burchell, 8423! Devil's Mountain 
(Devils Peak), near Cape Town, May 22, 1815, Burchell, 8400! 
Burchell, 1867! On the slopes of the Devil's Peak near Cape Town, 
540 m, Aug.-Sept. 1877 and 1884, Bolus!) 3940! 314! Wolley-Dod, 
42! on stony slopes of Table Mountain, 870 m, June, 1884, Bolus 4580! 
Near the summit of Table Mt, April 1896, Wolley Dod, 1041! 600 
—900 m, July, 1907, Dümmer, 163!?), below the Saddle, Devil's Peak, 
April, 1896, Wolley Dod, 1026! towards Newlands, Sept, Wilms’), 
3105! George Div.; on the mountains of George, Bowie, 22! (Herb, 
Brit. Mus.). 
Schlechter (no. 9148) from Bains Kloof, 750 m, Nov. 1896, is pro- 
bably a distinct species; it is however flowerless. 
16. Agathosma ambigua Sonder, l. c., p. 426. 
Coast Region. Cape Div.; on the slopes of the Lion's Head and 
Table Mountain, Ecklon and Zeyher, 895, partly! Stellenbosch Div.; 
Hottentot’s Holland Mts, Ecklon and Zeyher, 895, partly! Caledon 
Div.; in a valley of the Palmiet River near Grabouw, 210 m, Nov. 1879. 
Bolus, 5143! Hawston, 6 m, 28. Nov., 1896, Schlechter, 9478! Tul- 
bagh Div.; on mountains near Saron, 750 m, Oct. 1896, Schlechter 
10670! (a form). 
Var. major Dümmer, nov. var. 
Calyx 4—5 mm longus, lobis acute acuminatis apice saepe piliferis 
dorso valde carinatis strigilloso-ciliatis. Petala longe unguiculata, toto 
5—6 mm longa, glaberrima, limbis obovatis 1,3—1,7 mm latis. Stamina 
glabra; staminodia lanceolata, utrinque attenuata glandula apicali notata, 
3,5—4 mm longa, dimidio inferiore albo-pilosa ciliataque. Carpella imma- 
tura albo-strigillosa, stylo glabro. 
Coast Region. Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Nov.-Dec., 300— 
600 m, Drége 7106a! Caledon Div.; on hills near Babylon's Tower, 
240 m, Nov. 1893, Bolus, 9898! 
The specimens comprising this variety differs from the type in oc- 
casionally drying a dark brown, in the more prominent strigillose-ciliation 
of its leaves, the relatively larger flowers and shorter staminodes. 
1) Bolus in an accompanying note states that, on the roots of this I 
have twice found Cytinus dioicus Juss., a fact I have not seen recorded! 
2) These numbers of mine are in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanical 
Gardens, Edinburgh. 
3) This specimen was distributed as A. imbricata Willd. var. acumi- 
nata Sond. 
