Coleoneme. | RUTACE (Sond.) Sr 
oblong, obtuse. Berg. / Cap. p.65. Thunb. / prodr. p. 43. Fl. Cap. p. 
223. Bd W.! 1c. p.36. D.recurva, Cham. & Schl. ! Linn. 5. p. 51. 
D. thyrsophora, E § Z.! 840. 
Has, Cape, Thunberg. Cango, Mundt § Maire. Heathy mountain-sides near 
Riv. Zonderende, Swell., Z. ¢ Z./ Feb.-Mar. (Herb. Thunb., Berl., Lehm., Sond.) 
1-2 feet high, sub-dichotomous below, branches erect, leafy, twigs short, mostly 
crowded. Leaves erect, appressed at base, recurved at point, the upper sub-imbri- 
cate, keeled, somewhat 3-angled, concave and nerveless above, bifariously dotted 
below, 2-2} lines long, $-1 line wide, thickish, with entire margins. Peduncles 2-3, 
rarely 4-9, in a crowded cyme. Calyx turbinate, 14 lines long, calyx-lobes broadly 
ovate, sub-acute. Petals sub-concave, elliptic-oblong, or obovate, narrowed into a 
short claw, twice as long as the calyx, reddish, often with a few hairs on the disc, 
and very short marginal cilia. Dise free, 5-lobed. 
10. D. obtusifolia (Sond.); much-branched, branches glabrous, twigs 
erecto-patent, downy ; leaves sessile, either opposite, ternate or alter- 
nate, imbricate, appressed at base, recurved at apex, the lower oblong- 
lanceolate, upper ovate-obtuse, furrowed above, keeled below, the margin 
and keel rigidly ciliolate ; flowers terminal, solitary, sessile ; calyx-lobes 
broadly ovate, obtuse, keeled, ciliate ; petals ovate, obtuse. 
Has. 8. Africa, Drege, 7114. (Herb. Sond.) 
A shrub, with the habit of the preceding. Branches terete ; ultimate twigs 3-1 
inch long. Leaves smooth above, with 2-4 rows of glands beneath, the lower more 
distant, 2-3 lines long, a line wide, upper a line long. Cal. 1 line long. Petals 2 
lines, with a minute claw, reddish. Unripe capsule 2 lines long, with obtuse horns 
equally long.—Allied to D. ericoides and D, cupressina ; from the first it differs by 
the downy twigs, more appressed leaves, the upper shorter, ovate, sub-trigonous, 
and ciliate at back and margin ; from the latter by the thicker, blunt- backed, ciliate 
leaves, the calyx and petals. From D. ramosissima it differs s by the differently shaped 
leaves and capsule. 
11. D. passerinoides (Steud. ! Flora, 1830, p. 549); much-branched, 
the branches patent ; twigs, leaves, calyx, and ten minutely velvetty ; 
leaves alternate, sessile, erect, quadrifarious, gob ovate 5 ae = 
tals elliptical, obtuse, or apiculate. — as 
pre! Avg. (ier Son re: Sega) pat ly, 40008, 
-cleft to the middle, the segments = 
the lobes oqualliig We ores Petals reddish, maser 
hairy. Style about as long as the Capsule 4Tnes long, the bak of 
the carpels , Seecto-patent, 1 line 
Diosma squalida, E. Mey ! in Hb, Droge is « Bruniacen 
ee ee 
Calyx 5-parted. H; ightly free at the edge. Petals 5, 
sae tapering 2 longitudi eer below. Filaments ten ; aes 
_ fertile equalling the oopels the sterile filiform, naked, hid in the chan 
of the petals. Anthers roundish, with an adnate gland. Style 
atigma capitate. Capsule 5-coccous, the cocci sory —_ 
