Diosma. | RUTACEZ (Sond.) 375 
Var. 6. longifolia ; branches virgate, often flaccid; leaves mostly 
longer, narrow, erect or patulous, glabrous; the upper " mostly ciliate ; 
flowers white ; capsules mostly shortly horned. Leaves erect, rigid, 
D. ericoides, Sime, Bot. Mag. 2332. D. Simsii and D. longifolia, B.¢Z! 
ex pte., 847, 846. D. hirsuta, E.§ Z.! 843. D. glabrata. E. Mey! 
Leaves spreading, flaccid, D. pectinata, Thunb, / Cap. 222. D. longifolia, 
Wendl.! Coll. 1. p.61,t. 19. B. & W.l. c. p.43. D. rubra, Lam. excl. 
syn. D. tenuifolia, Willd.? R. & Sch.! 454. D. rubra and ericoides, 
E.§ Z! ex pte. 
Var. ¢. hirsuta ; villous, at length sub-glabrous. D. hirsuta, Linn. 
Sp. 286. Thunb.! Cap. p. 222. Willd. ! Sp.1.p.1134. Bog W. p. 38. 
Has. In ston und and on hills throughout the Colony, common, flowering 
hg throughout the eae (Herb. Thunb., Lam., Sond., T.C.D., in 
aw dun'Suaeh 1-2 or more feet high, erect, much-branched. "Leaves eg inch long, oe 
Ghol- al Waal bifariously punctate underneath, with a very narrow, diaphanous rigs Oe Cal.- 
lobes }—14 line long. Petals about twice as long as the calyx, elliptical, white, or red 
on the outside, Capsule 3-4 lines long, the carpels compressed, punctate at back, 
with shorter or longer, straight or hooked, obtuse horns. 
4, D. aspalathoides (Lam.! 1. c. p. 286); branchlets minutely 
downy ; leaves alternate, erect, sub-appressed, linear or oblong-linear, 
carinato-trigonous, glabrous, with a recurved mucro, serrulato-scabrous 
at the margin ; flowers sub-corymbose, the peduncles: and calyx quite 
glabrous ; petals obtuse. R. & Sch. lc. p. 455. D. ericoides, Lam.! 1. 
c.p. 285. D. glabrata, Meyer. B. & W.1.c. p. 34. E. & Z. 850. E. 
Mey.! Hb. Drege. D.amligua, EB. § Z.! 844. D. acmeophylla, E. & Z.! 
849. D. depressa, B. § Z.! 85r. 
Var. £.; leaves longer. D., linearis, E. § Z.! 845, non Thunb. and D. 
longifolia, E & Z.1 846, ex pte. 
Has. Cape Flats, and man: Lin ee ee 8. near Tulbagh. 
(Herb, C.D., Sond.) 
“ea inchos io 1 fot high, ig eaves 3-4 lines, in . 4-6 tines Tong, the muro 
‘ vg - deficient in the lower spot larger 
striate at the sides, 4 lines long, with 
Known from the last y its dwarfer habit, shorter and erect 
5. D. S tanee. (Sond.) ; ; much-branched, nantes ad branchlets 
ene labrous ; leaves alternate, Birch linear, dabrow, tipped wih 
: Has. hills near Zonderende R., Swell., Ecklon. Herb. Sond.) 
Recs feck high, oak any Shasiie boson. Trek so izontally 
an patent, 4-8 lines long, 4 line wide, with one or two tows of Ee ae 
_ slender mucro. Flowers 2-3, on minute pedicels. Calyx-lobes 
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6. D. virgata (G. F. W. Mey. ap. B. & W.! p. 46); branches 
branchlets erect, slender, quite glabrous; leaves arantas 2 
— linear, mucronate, convex beneath, with a narrow di 
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