a 
Buvosina.] RUTACEZ (Sond.) 397 
and branches 4-6 lines long, 2 wide, on the twigs, or on dwarf specimens, 2-3 lines 
long, 1-1} wide, all narrower towards the obtuse point, pale and one-nerved beneath. 
Petioles very short. Twigs leafy, floriferous towards the apex. Peduncles glabrous, 
mostly longer than the leaf. Calyx 4 line long, glabrous or downy. Petals oblong, 
2 lines long, white, reddish underneath. Stam. longer than the petals, the filaments 
glabrous, 4 times longer than the sterile. Capsule 2 lines long, with erecto-patent 
horns 1 line long.—The specimens with leaves mostly oblong constitute B. & W.’s 
bio = macrophylla; and those with smaller and broader leaves their var B., micro- 
ylla, 
11. B. lanceolata (Sond.); branches mostly opposite or ternate ; 
twigs very thinly pubescent ; leaves opposite ; lanceolate or linear, acute, 
with recurved or revolute margins, glabrous or downy, sparsely punctate 
beneath ; peduncles 1-4, one-flowered, axillary, equalling the leaves or 
shorter ; calyx-lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse ; ster. filaments hairy ; 
style glabrous; capsule much longer than the calyx, glabrous, impressed- 
glanded, its horns sub-acute and nearly half as long. Diosma lanceolata, 
Lhunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 226. 
Var, «. linifolia (B. & W.); leaves lanceolate, mucronate, with re- 
curved margins and an obtuse or acute, straight point. D. dioica, Ker. 
Bot. Mag. t. 582. B. dioica, B.d& W.! p. 114. E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege. 
_ Var. 8. hamata (B. & W.); leaves mucronate, with revolute mar- 
gins and a hooked point. Bucco hamata, Wendl.! pat. in Hb. 
Var. y. Natalensis; leaves linear, sub-obtuse, with recurved glan- 
dular-crenulate margins. B. Kraussiana, Buch.! in Krauss, Beytr. p. 40. 
Var. 4. obtusifolia ; leaves linear, with revolute margins, obtusely 
truncate or emarginate, often with a pellucid gland at the point. B. 
angustifolia, B. & W.! p. 116. B. dioica, EB. & Z.! 816. 
Has. Mountains of the Langekloof, near Wolwekraal, Thunberg! Kromme R., 
Kriss! y. on the Tafelberge, Natal, Krauss/ 3, woods at Adow, and Olifantshoek, 
Vit. ; and near Grahamstown, &c. EF. d&Z./ Atherstone! Williamson! Zey./ 2155. 
Aug.-Nov. (Herb. Thunb., Wendl., Meisn., Hook., Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) 
A grayish-brown shrub, 1-3 feet high, with rodlike, glabrous branches. Leaves 
Sometimes ternate, rarely on the young shoots sub-alternate, dull green abeve, paler 
beneath, the lower spreading or reflexed, 6-8 lines long, 1 line wide, upper more 
erect, incurved, mostly oblong-lanceolate, with short petioles. Flowers small, on _ 
capillary peduncles. Calyx minute, semiquinquefid ; petals 3-4 times as long, white, 
reddish at back, few glanded. St. longer than the corolla, glabrous; the sterile fil. 
3 Of fertile. Ovary glabrous, sometimes abortive. Capsule 2 lines long. It varies 
in the same specimen with wider or narrower, obtuse or acute, downy or glabrous _ 
leaves. Ecklon gathered specimens with double-flowers, nearGrahamstown. = 
12. B, pungens (E. Mey! in Hb. Drege); branches glabrous, twigs 
pubescent, leafy ; Abe opposite, close-set, erecto-patent, lanceolate, 
acuminate-pungent, mucronate, carinate-concave, very smooth above, 
gland-dotted beneath, with thickened, glabrous or basally ciliate mar- 
gins; peduncles axillary, 1-3, one-flowered, shorter than the leaves; 
rescarcusene lanceolate, obtuse ; sterile filaments pubescent; style gla- 
rous, . 
aaa Zwarteberg, at the Klaarstrom, 3000f. 4000f. Drege./ July. (Herb., Lehm., 
ni : : ae 
More than a foot high, with terete branches and twigs. Leaves froma broad 
base, gradually narrowed to a very acute point, the lower 8-10 lines long, 1 line — 
wide at base, ‘upper mostly 6 lines long, and incurved, one-nerved beneath, with 
