392 RUTACEZ (Sond.) [ Bavosma. 
longer than the leaves, bibracteate, and the calyces glabrous ; cal. lobes 
ovate, obtuse, reflewed; petals roundish, thrice as long as the calyx. 2B. 
& W.!1.¢. p. 92. Diosma marginata, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 155. Thunb. 
Cap. p. 229. D. rosmarinifolia, Lam.! Ency. 11, p. 286 (pars superior.) 
_ Var. 8. angusta ; leaves mostly or all lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. 
A. intermedia, E. & Z.! 782. 
Has. Between the Cape and Drakenstein, near French Hock, and at the Paarl, 
Thunberg ! B. at Winterhoeksberg, Tulbagh, HZ. & Z./ Nov. (Herb. Thunb. Sond.) 
6-12 inches high, the branches and twigs scattered or subumbellate-aggregate, 
short, filiform, erecto-patent. Leaves sub-remote, spreading, reflexed at the sides, 
pellucid at the margin, gland-dotted, dull green above, paler beneath, 4—6 lines long ; 
in 8. the lower longer and linear. Flowers the smallest in the genus. Upper ped- 
uncles 6 lines, lower 12 lines long, with two small bracts above the middle, Calyx 
1 line long, the lobes very obtuse, membrane-edged. Petals white, red outside. 
Capsule twice as long as the reflexed calyx. 
21. A. humilis (E. & Z.! 784); erect, branching; twigs downy, 
leafy; leaves alternate, rarely opposite, on very short petioles, spread- 
ing or erect, lanceolate or linear, sub-obtuse, glabrous, with revolute, 
membranous margins, one-nerved beneath ; peduncles corymbose, much 
longer than the leaves, bibracteolate ; calyx glabrous, its segments ovate 
or sub-lanceolate, erect in flower and fruit, one-third as long as the ovate- 
sub-cordate petals, 
Var. a. glabra; A. humilis, F. &. Z.! A. linifolia, Bartl. Linn. 1. 
c. 360. A. marginata, EL. & Z.! 783. Schl. l. c. p. 199. 
Var. £8. imbricata ; glabrous; leaves erect, 5—6-fariously imbricate, 
obtuse ; calyx-lobes subcordate-ovate, obtuse. 
Var. 7. pubescent ; branches and leaves thinly pubescent ; pedunc. 
and calyces glabrous, 
Has. Stony places above the baths at Zwarteberg and Klynriviersberg, Caledon ; 
Palmiet R., Howhoek, and on to Potrivier, Swell., E. & Z./ Niven. Paarl, Mad. 
Pallas. Babylonstoorensberg, Zey.! 2154. Jul.-Oct. (Herb. Lehm. ; Sond.) 
6-8 inches to a foot high, with erect or ascending branches. ‘Lower leaves 4-6 
lines long, 1 line wide at base, upper 3-4 lines long. Peduncles 3-8 at the end of 
the twigs, uncial or shorter. Bracts } line long, subulate, obtuse. Calyx 1} lines 
long, glandular. Petals obtuse or mucronulate, white, reddish beneath. Capsule 4 
times as long as the calyx, muricate, obtuse.—Very close to A. marginata, R. & 
Sch., if not a mere variety.—A. marginata, E. Mey.! by its acute, erect calyx would 
belong to this species ; by its shorter, ovate or oblong, minutely apiculate leaves, to 
the preceding. Is it a species distinct from both? [or, rather, an intermediate 
form, connecting both? H.}. I have seen but few specimens, gathered at Tradow, 
near Gnadendahl. 
