Agathosma. | RUTACEZ (Sond.) 399 
Has. Cape, cultivated in Europe (v.v. cult. and in Herb. Wendl.) 
A slightly branched shrub, 2 feet high. Branches scattered or ternate, ascending, 
sub-flexuous, terete, as thick as a pidgeon-quill, grayish, leafy ; the twigs 1-2-uncial, 
filiform. Leaves ternate, rarely scattered, little longer than the internodes, mostly 
horizontally patent, shortly petiolate, oblong-linear, or linear, impresso-punctate at 
the margin, sparsely punctate beneath, 4-6 lines long, the lower 6-8 lines, 3-1 line 
wide. Peduncles 8-10, equal, 4-6 times long, 2-3 times as long as the obtuse floral 
leayes, minutely downy, as well as the calyx. Calyx gland-dotted, the segments one 
line long, reflexed. Petals 4-1 longer than the calyx, oblong, obtuse, marked with 
a pellucid gland under the apex, white. Stam. longer than the petals, with glabrous 
filaments ; sterile fil. } as long as petals, linear-oblong, ciliate, narrowed to the point 
and tipped with a small gland. Ovary glabrous. Style rather shorter than the 
stamens.—Allied to B. microcarpa. 
G~100 VIII. AGATHOSMA, Willd. 
Calya 5-parted, with sub-unequal segments. Petals clawed. Fila- 
ments 10, the 5 alternate petal-like. Style as long as the petals, or very 
rarely longer; stigma obtuse. Capsule mostly 3-coccous, rarely 2~4- 
coccous ; the cocci horned at the external angle. B. ¢ W..¢. p. 121. 
Diosme, Sp. Linn., Thunb. ke. 
Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite intermixed. Flowers at the ends of the 
branches capitate or more commonly densely umbellate, in one species f 
towards the ends of the branches, as in Barosma. Peduncles short or long, one- 
flowered, mostly 2-bracted in the middle. Sterile filaments sometimes much ex- 
panded and like the petals, and as long, mostly inserted on the disc at the base of 
the petals, very rarely connate with the claw. The name is derived from aya(os, 
good, and ocun, a smell. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
I. Barosmoides.—Inflorescence of Barosma. Petals with long claws. 
II. Capitato-racemosee.—Flowers crowded in a dense, capitate-raceme. 
Calye angular, Leaves hairy. Style elongate ... (2) hirta 
TIT. Alares.—Umibels sessile or pedunculate in the forking of the 
branches. Petals clawed. (Sp. 3-6.) 
(a.) Leaves of two forms ; the lower lanceolate : a. 
upper I te-subcordate, with glabrousedges (3 
upper ernie os with villous edges ... - (4) affinis. 
(b.) Leaves uniform : ee 
l keeled, gibbous at the point ; : fe 
grote. sae Sue = ee ee ee (5) leptospermoides. 
lws. ovate. —— flat, not gibbous ; style © 
ore oe oes -- oo oor woe wee 
leaves subcordate-ovate, acute, not thick-edged, ciliate (10) cephalotes, 
margin ome (7) involucrate, — 
3-cornered, the : thickened... oe 
lvs. lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, with incurved points (8) sabulosa, = 
