376 RUTACEEX (Sond.) [Diosma. 
serrulato-scabrid or ciliolate margin; flowers sub-glomerate or sub-_ 
sessile ; calyx acute, ciliolate ; petals acute. H. & Z./ 848. 
Has. Cape, Hesse/ Mountains near Brackfontein, Clanw., 2.4 Z. Langevalei, 
Pappe. Jul. (Hb, Wendl., Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) 
} Very slender, a foot or more high, with filiform, pale or reddish branches. Leaves 
crowded, the upper sub-imbricate, narrow, glabrous, obtusely channelled above, bi- 
| fariously dotted below, 3-6 lines long, minutely petiolate. Flowers 2-3 or more, 
shortly pedicellate at the end of the branchlets : the bracts keeled, ciliate, scarcely 
aline long. Calyx a line long, with keeled segments. Petals twice as long, obo- 
vate-elliptical, narrowed at base, sub-carinate, acute, white. Stamens about equal- 
ling the calyx. Unripe capsule 3 lines long, glabrous, with filiform, obtuse, i- 
curved horns. Habit nearly that of a Passerina. 
(b.) Leaves shorter, obtuse. (Sp. 7-11). 
7. D. ramosissima (B. & W.! 1.c. p. 48, excl. syn. Lam.) ; branchlets — 
downy; leaves alternate, sessile, straight, imbricate, linear, 3-angled, 
very obtuse, convexo-carinate, glabrous ; flowers terminal, sub-solitary, 
sessile ; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse ; petals obtuse. Pluk. Almag. 136, 
t. 279. f. 2. 
Has. Cape, Hesse / (Herb. Wendl.) 
A foot or more in height, much-branched ; branches mostly ternate or quater- 
nate, filiform, glabrous, the ultimate branchlets shortened, sub-umbellate, fastigiate. 
Leaves rather remote on the branches, crowded on the twigs, erect-appressed, flat 
and furrowed above, obtusely keeled, bifariously dotted, glabrous or (under a mag- 
nifying power) minutely scaberulous, 1-2 lines long. Flowers solitary or twin, mr 
f nute. Cal. lobes 3 line long. Petals white or reddish, elliptical, a line long. Pies 
Hes = glabrous. Capsule 4-5 lines long, the carpels with thick, obtuse horns. D. ramo- 
i sissima does not exist in Herb. E. & Z. ; the habitat given in their Enumeratio must 
therefore be erased. 
8. D. teretifolia (Link. enum. p. 237); much-branched, with downy = 
twigs ; leaves opposite or alternate, petiolate, crowded, spreading, terete, 
obtuse, pubescent, hispidulous, narrow-furrowed above ; flowers terml- — 
nal, solitary, or few together, sessile; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse ; petals: : 
te obovate, obtuse, narrowed at base. B. § W.l.c. p. 206. D. ferulacea, 
ee Hort. Kew. Agathosma ? teretifolia, Don. . 
Var. 8. glabrata ; twigs and leaves glabrous or nearly so. Acmade 
nia obtusata, EL. & Z.! 827, excl. syn. 
‘ Has. In the Interior, Niven. Dutoit’s Kloof, 2-3000f. Drege! B. Winterhoeks- 
berg near Tulbagh, Worcester, £, § Z.! Sep.-Jan. (Herb. Sond.) pee 
A foot or more high, with leafless branches, and di-tri-chotomous, terete twigs 
the ultimate short and leafy. Leaves densely set, 4-6-farious, shortly petiolate, — 
: with involute margins, callous-tipped and very obtuse, sparingly glandulous below, _ 
2-3 lines long, 4 line wide. Flowers solitary, or 2-4, cb Disc free, lobed. 
ee Calyx covered by the upper leaves, downy, nearly 2 lines long, white-edged. Petals — 
‘White, 3 lines long, narrowed into a very short claw. Stamens included, § fertile — 
_ filaments subulate, glabrous ; anthers with a minute sessile gland ; the place of the == 
filaments occupied by small sessile glands, Style glabrous ; stigma capitel- 
. D. ericoides (L. Sp. p. 287); much-branched, the branches and 
te, crowded, recurvo-patent, oblong, — 
flowers terminal, 2~3 together, very _ 
vate, obtuse, ciliolate ; petals elliptic- 
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