374 RUTACE (Sond.) [ Diosma. 
upper shorter, oblong. D, seabra, Lam. l.c. 283. B. & W.! 1. ep. 29. 
E. & Z.! 838. D. succulenta, Wendl. coll. 1. p.2.t. t. Willd. En. p. 258. 
R.& Sch. p. 456. D. oppositifolia, BE. & Z.! 837, ex. pte. a 
Has. Common in the Cape Flats and throughout the Western Districts. Nov.- — 
Apl. (Hb. Berg., Thunb., Lam., Sond., T.C.D., &c.) a a 
| 1-2 feet high, erect, more or less branching, Leaves very rarely and in the up- — 
permost branches only, alternate, erecto-patent, minutely petiolate, dull green, sca- 
| brid, sometimes smoothish, deeply channelled above, 2—4 lines long in a., in A. the 
lower 8-12 lines, the upper 2-4 lines long. ‘Peduncles shorter than the calyx, gla- 
brous, bibracteolate. Calyx 1 line long. Petals about twice as long as the calyx, 
elliptical, white or reddish. Ripe capsule 4-5 lines long; the 4-5 carpels sub- 
compressed, glabrous, obtusely and shortly horned. D. succulenta 8, and y. of BE. 
& Z.! are starved specimens, with small leaves. 
2. D. cupressina (L. Mant. p. 50& 343); much-branched, the branch- — 
lets glabrous or minutely downy ; leaves sessile, opposite, erect, guadri- 
fariously imbricate, oblongo-lanceolate, or the upper ovate, convero-cart- 
nate, acute, glabrous, minutely ciliate ; flowers terminal, sub-solitary, 
sessile ; calyx-lobes Zanceolate ; petals oblong, acuminate. Thwnb. Fl. _ 
Cap. p.225. Wendl. coll. t1.p.59.t.61. B&W! p.50. E.GS.0 
853. Brunia uniflora, Lin. Hort. Clif. p. 71. D. dichotoma, Berg. ! 
Cap. p. 63. 3 
Has. Cape Flats and Hott. Holland, Thunberg, E. & Z./ Klipfontein, Zey.! 299- 
Noy.-Apl. (Herb. Wendl., Lehm., T.C.D., Mart., Sond.) ist 
_ Erect, « foot or more high. Branches ternate or quaternate, slender, di-tri-cho- 
He tomous, the ultimate short. Younger leaves close, adult sub-remote, with the apex 
{ ema or sub-recurved, underneath bifariously multiglandular, 1-2 lines long. 
lowers solitary or 2-3-4. Calyx 1 line long, its lobes ciliolate. Petals at wie 
sub-involute, twice as long as the calyx. Fil. glabrous. D. cupressina of Herb. 
Lam. is a Berzelia / 
inanimate aint 
2. Leaves alternate ; occasionally some ave opposite. (Sp. 3-11). 
(a). Leaves narrow, very acute or mucronate. (Sp. 3-6.) 
3. D. vulgaris (Schl. Linn. 6. p. 201); branchlets minutely pubes- 
cent; leaves scattered, rarely opposite, linear, convexo-carinate, subulate- = 
acuminate, serrulato-scabrous or ciliate at the margin ; flowers sub- 
corymbose ; calyx-lobes sub-obtuse, acute or acuminate, with mem- 
branous, ciliate margins ; petals obtuse or sub-acute. aie 
- Var. a. ; leaves opposite or alternate ; calyx acuminate; petals sub-— 
I. p. 1134, ewel. syn. Bot. Reg. t. 563. B- 
; ag fo Sea ys D.ericoides, BE. & 
