Burosma. | RUTACEZ (Sond.) 393 
Tulate. Flowers on axillary twigs, resembling peduncles, solitary or tufted, very 
rarely sub-umbellate at the end of the branchlets. Possibly, it would be better to 
unite this genus with Agathosma. Name, from Bapus, heavy, and ocun, a smell. 
Sect. I. Eubarosma. Style villous below. Peduncles short, termi- 
nating the“floral twigs. Barosme vere, B. & W.l.c. p.97. (Sp. 1-3) 
1. B. serratifolia (Willd. Enum. p. 257); branches and twigs gla- 
brous ; leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, equally narrowed at both ends, 
truncate-obtuse, sharply serrulate, glabrous, paler beneath, and pellucid- 
dotted in the incisures; peduncles axillary, 1~3 flowered, mostly leafy ; 
style villous below. B. & W./ excl. var! B. 4. & Z.1 802. O. Berg. 
Bot. Zeit. 1853, p. 911, t. xii, fig. R.—T. ( folia) ; Darstellg. offic. Gew. ii. 
a. opt. Diosma serratifolia, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 456. DC. Prod. i. p. 
714. Parapetalifera serrata, Wendl, coll. I, p. 92, t. 34. Baryosma 
serratifolia, R. § Sch. Adenandra serratifolia, Link. En. p. 239. 
Has. Mountain sides above Duyvelsbosch and Grootvadersbosch, £. § Z./ 
Drege! Voormansbosch, Swell., Zey.! 2173. Sep.-Oct. (Herb. Wendl., Lehm., Sond. ) 
€ An erect shrub, several feet high, with rod-like branches and angular twigs. Leaves 
very rarely sub-alternate, shortly petiolate, twice as long as the internodes, spread- 
ing, flat, a little wider in the middle, 1-1} uncial, 2-3 lines wide, 3-nerved, with 
sub-incurved serratures. Peduncles (flowering twigs) shorter than the leaves, 4-6 
lines long, glabrous, leafy at the apex, and bibracteolate under the calyx, or leafless 
and 4-6 bracted ; bracts 1 line long ; pedicels very short. Calyx-lobes ovato-lan- 
ceolate, obtuse, keeled, 1 line long. Petals 3-4 times longer than the calyx, 1} 
lines wide, oblong, obtuse, ciliolate at base, punctate at back, white. Stamens 
equalling the corolla, at length recurved ; the anther with a minute gland. Sterile 
filaments linear-oblong, pubescent at the margin, gland-tipped. Style as long as 
the stamens. Capsule 4 lines long, shortly § horned. 
2. B. crenulata (Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3413) ; branches and twigs gla- 
brous ; leaves opposite, oblong, oval, or obovate, crenulate or serrulate, 
glabrous, paler beneath, the incisures pellucid-dotted ; peduncles axil- 
lary, 1-3 flowered ; style villous below. Diosma crenulata, Lin. Amoen, 
IV. p. 308. D. crenata, Lin. Sp. p. 287. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 227. D. ser- 
ratyfolia, Burch. Trav. 1, p. 476, icon. D. latifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 290. 
D. odorata, DO. 1, p. 714. Barosma odorata, Willd. Baryosma odorata, 
&. § Sch. Bucco crenata, R. § Sch. l. c. 444. Adenandra cordata, Link. 
Bar. serratifolia, 8. B. & W.p. 99. B. crenata, Kunze, EB. Z.1 800, 
2. crenulata, crenata § Eckloniana, O. Berg, Bot. Zeit. 9, p. 91-911, 
tab. wit. B. crenulata, O. Berg. Darst. Of: Gew. 1, ¢. sabe ice ee 
; . Fissures i emountain, Zwartland and Hott. : 
uh eae Taek theken tes Boe Dae Drege, 7079, &¢. Oct. (Herb. 
natty edo 
vi i preceding, and seemingly only differing in the constantly 
der Seaitbi Doaisnicaies twigs quite glabrous ; the sterile een ee 
velvetty and furnished with broader leaves (B. Eckloniana, Berg.) sabia mostly 
5-nerved, uncial, 3-6 lines wide, crenate or crenulate-serrulate, but wi - og 
and less prominent serratures than in the . ee ea 
leafy at the summit ; pedicels very short. Calyx, corolla and capsule as in 4. ser- 
ratifolia. This is the true Buku bush. . 
3. B. betulina (B. & W.! 1c. p. 102); branches and twigs glabrous 5 ee 
leaves opposite, coriaceous, cv 
sat 
-obovate, with obtuse, sub-recurved 
