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smooth or hispid at the base, tapering to the top into a minute 
5-lobed stigma. Capsule of 5 joined carpels, each furnished 
with an auricle at the top on the outside, and with glandular 
dots on the back.—Small, heath-like shrubs, with opposite or 
scattered, coriaceous, flat, dotted leaves, with their margins 
sometimes glandularly serrulated, sometimes almost entire or re- 
volute. Flowers white or red, solitary or in threes ; pedicels short, 
furnished with close-pressed, imbricate, sepal-like bracteas. In 
B. trichépodis, Bartl. the flowers are in fascicles on 1- flowered 
pedicels, rising from the minute, many-leaved, axillary buds. 
* Leaves glandularly serrulated. 
1 B. serratiroxra (Willd. enum. p. 257.) leaves nearly oppo- 
site, lanceolate, stalked, glandularly serrulated, smooth ; pedun- 
cles axillary, subdivided. h.G. Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope. Didsma serratif olia, Curt. bot. mag. t. 456. Lodd. bot. 
cab. t. 373. Burch, voy. 1. p. 476. with a figure. Parape- 
talifera serrata, Wendl. coll. 1. t. 34. Adenandra cordata, Link. 
enum. l. p. 236. Petals white. 
Serrate-leaved Barosma. Fl. Mar. June. 
1 to 8 feet. 
2 B. opora ra (Willd. enum. p. 257.) leaves opposite, ovate- 
oblong, crenated, smooth, glandular ; pedicels axillary, solitary. 
h. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Diésma odorata, 
D.C. prod. 1. p.714. D. latifdlia, Lodd. bot. cab. t. 290. 
Parapetalifera odorata, Wendl. coll. 1. t. 15. Branches tetra- 
gonal. Peduncles sometimes 2-flowered. Flowers white. 
Sweet-scented Barosma. FI. Mar. June. Clt. 1789. Shrub 
2 to 4 feet. 
3 B. geru'tina (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. I c.) 
leaves opposite, obovate, serrulated, sessile, spreading much, 
covered with glandular dots beneath; flowers axillary, solitary. 
h. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Didsma betilina, 
Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 139. Hartògia betùlina, Berg. cap. 69. 
Bucco betilina, Roem. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 443. Diósma orbi- 
cularis, Hort. Flowers white. . 
Birch-like Barosma. Fl. Feb. Sept. Clt. 1790. Sh. 1 to 3 ft. 
4 B. tatiroria (Roem. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 449.) leaves 
opposite, ovate-oblong, sessile, serrulated, smoothish, without 
glandular dots ; branches villous; flowers usually solitary, la- 
teral. kh. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Didsma 
latifolia, Thunb. fi. cap. 2. p. 139. Lin. fil. suppl. 154. Andr. 
bot. rep. t. 33. Flowers white. 
Broad-leaved Barosma. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1789. Sh. 1 ft. 
5 B. runcue’txa (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. 1. c.) leaves 
crowded, ovate, quite smooth, with thickened, crenate-glandular 
margins; peduncles axillary, usually solitary, exceeding the 
Clt. 1789. Shrub 
leaves. .G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Didsma 
pulchélla, Lin. spec. 288. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1357. Hartogia 
pulchélla, Berg. cap. 69. Búcco pulchélla, Roem. et Schult. 
syst. 5. p. 442. Flowers pale-red. The Hottentots use the 
leaves of this plant, dried and powdered, under the name of 
Bucku, to mix with the grease with which they anoint them- 
selves. It gives them so rank an odour, that Thunberg says 
he could not bear the smell of the men who drove his waggon. 
Neat Barosma. Fl. Feb. Sept. Clt. 1789. Sh. 1 to 3 feet. 
6 B.crena‘ra (Sweet, hort. brit. p. 89.) leaves usually oppo- 
site, ovate, acute, dotted, with glandularly-crenated margins ; 
pedicels solitary, 1-flowered. h.G. Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. Didsma crenita, Lodd. bot. cab. t. 404. Pro- 
bably the same as Didsma crenata of Lin. and Thunb. but the 
leaves are said to be scattered, not opposite. Flowers white. 
The leaves are used like the last. 
Crenate-leaved Barosma. FI. Jan. April. Clt.1774. Shrub 
1 to 2 feet. 
7 B. ru'tcura (Nees, in Schlecht. Linnea. 5. p. 53.) like B. 
RUTACEZ. XII. Barosma. 
XIII. AGATHOSMA. 
pulchélla but larger in every part ; fertile filaments ciliated at 
the base, but the sterile ones all over; petals full of glan- 
dular dots. h. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Fair Barosma. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
* * Leaves entire or revolute. 
8 B. ova‘ra (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. l. c.) leaves 
nearly opposite, ovate, oval, obovate or ovate-roundish, smooth, 
entire, beset with rusty dots beneath ; flowers axillary, stalked. 
h.G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Didsma ovata, 
Thunb. prod. 43. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1616. Búcco ovata, 
Wendl. coll. t. 20. Flowers white. 
Ovate-leaved Barosma. FI. Feb. Sept. 
1 to 3 feet. 
9 B. GRAVEOLENS; leaves ovate, quite entire, imbricate, 
smooth; peduncles axillary, solitary. k. G. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope. Didsma gravéolens, Licht. in Roem. et 
Schult. syst. 5. p. 461. 
Strong-scented Barosma. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
10 B. osténca (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. l. c.) leaves 
scattered, obovate-oblong, coriaceous, shining, with thickened, 
revolute, glandularly-crenated margins; branches pubescent ; 
peduncles axillary, exceeding the leaves. k G. Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope. Didsma oblonga, Thunb. fi. cap. 2. 
p. 139. D. lanceolata, var. 8 et y, Thunb. prod. 43. Flowers 
white. 
Oblong-leaved Barosma. Shrub 1 to 3 feet. 
11 B. piorca (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. l. c.) leaves 
scattered, upper ones tern, lanceolate, tapering to both ends, 
full of glandular dots, spreading ; peduncles axillary, usually in 
threes, shorter than the leaves; flowers dioecious from abortion. 
h.G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Didsma dioica, Ker. 
bot. reg. t. 502. Didsma linifòlia, Lodd. bot. cab. t. 400, but 
not of Licht. Stamens a little exserted. Petals purplish. 
Dioecious Barosma. Fl. April, Jul. Clt.1816. Sh. 1 to 2 ft. 
12 B. ancustirorra (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex. Juss. l. c.) 
leaves opposite, linear, truncate, revolute, quite smooth, with 
pellucid, glandularly crenate dots on the margins ; flowers axil- 
lary, aggregate, on short peduncles. h. G. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope. Diósma stenophylla, Spreng. syst. 1. p- 
785. Flowers white? 
Narrow-leaved Barosma. Shrub 1 to 3 feet. ; 
13 B. va@ripr'ssrma (Bartl. et Wendl. 1. c.) leaves linear, 
very blunt, revolute, usually tern; flowers terminal, somewhat 
umbellately aggregate. h.G. Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope. Didsma foetidissima, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 785. Flowers 
white. 
Very-fetid Barosma. Fl. Feb. July. Clt. 1824. Sh. 1 to 3 ft. 
14 B. rricno’popis (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. L c) 
flowers in fascicles, on 1-flowered pedicels, rising from the 
minute, many-leaved, axillary buds. h. G. Native of the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
Hairy-stalked Barosma. Shrub 1 to 3 feet. 4 
Cult. Barésma is a genus of pretty little shrubs, which 
thrive best in a mixture of sand, peat, and a little turfy loam ; 
and cuttings taken off from ripened wood, and planted in a pot 0 
sand, with a bell-glass placed over them, will strike root readily. 
Cit. 1790. Shrub 
XIII. AGATHO’SMA (from ayalo, agathos, good, and 
oopn, osme, smell; the plants contained in this genus have a 
pleasant smell). Willd. enum. 259. Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. 
ex Andr. Juss. in mem. mus. 12. p. 475. t. 20. no. 19. Bucco, 
Wendl. coll. 1. p. 13. Diósma, species of authors. Hartogia 
species, Lin. et Berg. `k 
Lin. syst. Pentándria, Monogýnia. Calyx 5-parted. Dn 
short, glandular, adnate to the bottom of the calyx, usua"y 
