382 RUTACE (Sond.) [Acmaden 
keeled, ciliolate; lamina of the petals roundish, pointed, with a bearded 
claw ; sterile filaments very short. ‘ 
Has. Limestone hills between Cape L’Agulhas and Potberg, Drege! Aug. (H 
Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) : 
A foot or more high. Twigs very short. Leaves 4-5-ranked, glabrous, 2 lines 
long, acute at back. Flowers rather large, pale rosy or white. Bracts } as long as 
the calyx, not keeled, coloured and membranous, a8 well as the calyx, Cal. 3 lines 
long ; petals 5-6 lines. Fertile filaments 1 line long ; sterile gland-like. Capsule 
as long as the calyx. This has the habit of A. levigata, from which it differs in the 
leaves being alternate, membrane-edged and not ciliate, the round-backed sepals, and 
the presence of sterile filaments. | 
9. A. Mundtiana (E. & Z. !825); di-tri-chotomous, the twigs minutely 
pubescent; leaves alternate, densely imbricate, oblong, obtuse, comphi- 
cate, sub-incurved, with flat sides, pubescent or glabrous, the hyaline a 
margin and the keel ciliate ; flowers solitary ; bracts ovate ; calyx-lobes 
obtuse, without keel, ciliolate; the limb of the petals roundish, pointed, 
bearded on the claw; sterile filaments very short. 
Has. Mountain sides near Swellendam, Mundt. Oct. (Hb. Sond.) 
Next the p ing, but with narrower leaves, 4 lines long and 2 lines wide, pu 
bescent and ciliate, the adult glabrous with a rough margin ; the stem also is taller 
and stronger. Flowers nearly as in A. cucullata, but the petals downy and ciliolate. 
*#* Leaves flat, sub-distant, not imbricate. (Sp. 10). 
se 10. A. flaccida (E. & Z.! 823); quite glabrous, di-taa-choiqmeyts : 
branches terete, twigs compressed; leaves sub-remote, opposite, a 
longo-lanceolate, or lanceolate, very acute, flat, one-nerved, obsoletely 
glanduloso-denticulate ; flowers in the forks of the upper branches, 
aero 9 uncle once or twice three-forked, bracteate bei 
Visions ; icels compressed, longer than the calyx, bibracteolate ® — 
base ; calyx-lobes oblong, acute, keeled ; claws of the petals thinly 
bearded, limb obtuse ; sterile filaments very short. 
Has. Heathy spots on the Mts. near Brackfontein, Clanw., E. & Z./ Oct. Herb. 
Lehm., Sond.). : : 
A foot or more high, with erecto-patent branches, and slender yellowish ithe 
Leaves equalling the internodes, or shorter or longer, patent, green, ages ae} 
with the nerve prominent beneath, 6-7 lines long, 13-2 lines wide. Infl. cymo! 
Bracts like the leaves, but smaller ; pedicels 2-3 lines long. Cal.-lobes 1-14 iy 
long, sub-unequal. Disc erect, obsoletely sinuate. Petals 4 lines long, the claw 
equalling the calyx, the limb obtuse. Fertile filaments } line long ; sterile gland- 
_ tke. _ Capsule 6 lines long, with horns as long as the carpels. 
___B. Sterile filaments none. Leaves imbricate. (Sp. 11-13-) 
A. levigata (B.&. W.! 1c. p. 64) ; twigs minutely downy; 
teaves mostly opposite, Sent Bien etre: rare hy obtuse, complicate, — 
with flat sides, very smooth, ciliated ; flowers terminal, solitary, or sub- _ 
| aggregal bracts ob’ ong, obtuse; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acut.¢ 
us, ciliolate ; petals sub-rotund, with bearded claws. D, 
I. p. 1139. Acm. tetragona, and levigata, HZ. 
astian Bay. Near the Paarl, Stell., and Zoutendal, 
sn ber the 2 oe aa 
