Acmadenia. | RUTACEE (Sond.) 381 
the branches and twigs leafy, downy; leaves alternate, erect, sub-in- 
curved, linear, three-cornered, acute, sub-pungent, bifariously punctate 
beneath, seabrid ; flowers terminal, about 3 together ; bracts leafy, ci- 
liate ; calyx-lobes villoso-ciliate, ovate-acuminate, the ‘leaf. like apex re- 
curved ; petals obovate, narrowed into a short-bearded, ciliate claw ; fer- 
tile filaments thrice as long as the sterile. 
eae Has. Hanglip, Mundt & Maire! Cape District, Ecklon! (Herb. reg. Berol., 
ye 
Very like A. juniperina in habit and foliage, but readily known by the constantly 
alternate leaves, with concave sides, smaller flowers, narrower hook-pointed calyx- 
lobes, and petals with a scarcely bearded claw. 
6, A. obtusata (B. & W.! l.c. p. 63.excl. syn. Thunb.) ; apg i 
leaves opposite, quadrifariously imbricate, linear-lanceolate, or linear, 
with a narrow channel, sub-trigonous, obtuse, ciliate ; flowers solitary ; 
the broadly-ovate, sub-acute, bracts and the calyx downy ; ; calyx-lobes 
oblong, keeled, ciliate, membrane-edged ; petals sub-orbicular, downy 
within, the hairy claw equalling the calyx; ; sterile filaments very short. 
Diosma obtusata, Willd. Sp. 1. p. 1134. R. & Sch. Syst. 5. p. 452. Acm. 
pungens, E. & Z.! 828, non B. & W. 
Has. Clayey hills at Zwellendam, Zeyher! 2160, Dr. Pappe! Hassagaiskloof 
TCD. Beal} E.g¢Z.! Speerbosch, Drege! 7144. Aug.Sep. (Herb. reg. Berol., 
Stems many from a thick root, 6-8 inches long, much-branched above. Leaves 
on very short petioles, 2~3 lines long, thinly dotted at the back. Flowers nearly as 
in A. juniperina, but the bracts and calyces are downy. Filaments glabrous, the 
fertile thrice as long as the sterile. Capsule equalling the calyx. It varies with 
downy or glabrous leaves. 
** Leaves roundish, or elliptic-oblong, complicato-carinate, imbricate. (Sp. 7~9.) 
4. Be hee, Sonne & W.! 1. c.p. 65) ; twigs pubescent ; leaves 
posite, decussate, ind, complicate, acutely "keeled, su 
acute, ciliate, or roughened at margin, the uppermost densely imbricate ; 
flowani solitary ; calyx-lobes and floral leaves cuneate, ciliate, dilated 
and ear-shaped at top, sub-recurved, apiculate ; petals thrice as long as 
the calyx, obovate, apiculate, ciliolate, narrowed into a villous-bearded 
claw ; sterile filaments filiform, equalling the fertile. Diosma tetragona, 
L. Suppl. p. 155, Thunb. Cap. p. 224. Bucco tetragona, R. § Sch. V. p. 
444, Acm. strotulina, E. Mey. ! in Hb. Drege. — 
Hesse! Between C: and the P; “pee.” 
Pron pile 20 5 ree i Jan. (Herb. Wendl, Lan Man TOD, = 
A foot or more high, with or downy branches, ‘and short, crowded branch- 
lets. Leaves minutely vaahon: betas ee ere wider. 
oo afr mci Bo ne pe 
@, A. cuculiate (E. Mey. ! in Hb. Drege) ; sub-dichotomously branch~ = 
ed, the twigs thinly downy ; leaves alternate, densely imbricate, elliptt- 
cal-obtuse, complicate, with flat sides, very smooth, the hyaline margin 
not ciliate ; flowers solitary ; bracts ovate, calyx-lobes — obtus 
