404 RUTACE (Sond.) [A gathosma, 
calyx, glabrous, with an oblong, obtuse lamina. Fertile filaments as long as the 
petals, glabrous or sparsely hairy ; sterile linear-filiform, equalling the claws of the 
petals, ciliate, not gland-tipped. Carpels mostly 3. Style glabrous, equalling the 
stamens ; stigma obtuse. 
Srot, IL. Capitato-racemosee. lowers crowded at the end of the 
branches, simulating an ovate, leafy raceme. Calyx angular. Leaves 
hairy. Style elongate. (Sp. 2.) 
2. A hirta (B. & W. lc. p. 188); twigs pubescent ; leaves imbri- 
cate, with spreading or recurved points, lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate, 
acuminate, concave and glabrous above, convex beneath, impresso-punc- 
tate, and pilose; flowers racemoso-subcapitate; pedicels angular up- 
wards, glabrous; calyx-lobes keeled, villous-bearded at the apex ; petals 
thrice as long as the calyx, the claw villous within, limb obovate ; 
sterile filaments twice as long as the calyx, narrow linear, villous, gla- 
brous-pointed ; ovary pilose, style glabrous. Diosma hirta, Lam.! Encye. 
2, p. 286. Bucco hirta, R. § Sch. Syst. V. p. 446. A. biophylla, EB. & Z.! 
861. Bartl. Linn. 17, p. 373. ‘aiels : 
Peseta petra ! fend aes = the Vanstaaden Mts. ie dt 
. 2166. Ston: es near Port Elizabeth, ! 2164. Drege, 5 .-Feb. 
(Herb, Lam., 3 Pose. T.C.D., Sond.) las cies 
_A shrub, 2 feet high or more, with terete branches, and crowded, sub-angular and 
pale, sub-umbellate, short twigs. Leaves 3-5 lines long, 1 line wide, close-set on 
the branches and twigs, short-stalked, appressed at base, then spreading or 
lanceolate, triangular-keeled at the point, softly hairy beneath, the hairs springing 
from glands. lowers numerous, in the axils of the uppermost leaves ; pedunc. 2- 
bracted, epialling the floral leaves. Calyx 1 line long, turbinate, acutely 5-angled, 
the lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Petals white or reddish, the slender claw rather 
longer than the calyx, the limb narrowed at base, not glanded. Ster.-filaments 
wider upwards, gland-tipped ; fertile longer than the petals, pilose below. Style 
nearly twice as long as the petals ! Carpels 3 or 4, about 24 lines long, impresso- 
punctate at back, with short blunt horns.—It varies with shorter, wider and gla- 
brescent leaves, A. villosa, Willd. is readily distinguished by its narrower, keeled 
leaves, with incurved points, inflorescence, &e. 
Secr. IIL Alares. Flowers umbellate-aggregate ; umbels sessile or 
pedunculate in the forks of the branches. Petals clawed. Ster.-filaments 
villous (in one sp. unknown). (Sp. 3-6.) 
8. A. alaris (Cham. & Schl. Linn. 5, p. 56); twigs scarcely downy ; 
lower leaves lanceolate from an ovate base, the rameal broadly ovate or 
sub-cordate, glabrous-margined ; umbels axillary ; pedicels bibracteolate 
ee in the middle ; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse; petals obovate-oblong; ster.- 
1 SAE Cane, Svescs h Maire! CElech x 
eS tn a. hang aire! (Herb. r. Berol.) 
filaments very villous; style glabrous, 
» than a foot high, erect; the branches or twigs in threes or fours, leafy. 
sub-imbricate, petiolate, thickish, with a thick nerve beneath, glandularly 
