Agathosma. | RUTACEH (Sond.) 407 
under the tip. Outer invol. leaflets very like the leaves, but longer and more acumi- 
hate, inner in two rows, -canescent outside, as long as the flowers. Calyx-lobes 
oe bearded at point. Petals 2 lines long. The rest of the flower as in A. in- 
Szor. 5. Pseudostemon. Sterile filaments villous, connate with the 
claw of the petals at base or in the middle. Flowers terminal-capitate 
or umbellate aggregate. (Sp. 11-13). 
11, A. collina (E. & Z.! 860); twigs hairy; leaves imbricate, thickish, 
keeled-three-angled, obtuse, little incurved at the point, scabrous beneath ; 
flowers capitate, the peduncles equalling the calyx; calyx-lobes ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, ciliate; petals twice as long as the calyx, with a villous 
claw ; sterile filaments linear-filiform, villous, glabrous at point and 
gland-tipped, adnate with the claws of the petals to the middle. A. gra- 
veolens, Meisn.! in Fl. 247. 1. p. 302. 
Has. Hills near Swellendam, Mundt./ Mountain sides near Genadenal, Krauss, 
Thom. Oct.-Dec. (Hab. Meisn., Hook., Lehm., Sond.) 
A foot or more high, with erect, crowded branches and twigs, the ultimate short, 
yellowish. Leaves 5-6 farious, imbricate, erect, lanceolate or linear-oblong, 3-angled, 
channelled above, scabrous beneath and at the margin, 1}-2 lines long. Petiole 
eed short. Heads densely flowered, 3-4 lines in diameter ; the peduncles glabrous, 
with linear, ciliate bracts at the apex. Calyx 1 line long, its lobes keeled, with mem- 
branous, ciliate margins. Petals white, 14 lines long, with oval-oblong limb and a 
capillary, villous claw slightly longer than the calyx. Fertile filaments as long as 
the petals, pilose ; sterile shorter ; style equalling the stamens.—In drying this turns 
dull green or blackish. It varies with leaves at length glabrate, and limb of the 
petals obovate or elliptical. 
12. A. Schlechtendalii (Sond.); twigs glabrous, hairy at the base of 
the petiole ; leaves ovate-oblong, or oblong, acute, glabrous above, beneath 
at the keel and margin ciliato-pilose, gibbous at tip; flowers capitate ; 
peduncles shorter than the calyx; calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, with 
naked margins; petals twice as long as the calyx, with villous claws ; 
sterile filaments dilated upwards, petaloid, with villous, filiform bases, 
and connate with the claws of the petals. Diosma eriantha, Steud./ 
#1. 1830. p. 550. A. serpyllacea, latifolia, Schl. Linn. 6. p. 205. A. 
Schlechtendaliana, E. & Z., ex pte. ee 
~ Has. Calcareous hills between the Breede and Duyvenhoeks rivers, Swell., Z.&Z./ 
, Sond.) 
A robust, much branched shrub, with branches and twigs aggregate-umbellate, 
short, pale. -2 lines long, 1 line wide, densely sub-imbricate, erect, chan- 
ee eS nee one adr Looied with & raised norve end furnished 
in the middle, Fert. ts longer than the petals, pilose ; 
oblong, gland-bearing below the point, shorter. Style equalling the petals, glabrous. 
2 lines long; carpels 2-3, glandular at back, with a straight horn. 
13, A. humilis (Sond.); twigs pubescent; leaves imbricate, erecto- 
patent, lanceolate, ae above, glabrous, conver and pubescent 
beneath; flowers in few-flowered, dense umbels; peduncles equalling 
