408 RUTACE (Sond.) [ Agathosma, 
the leaves, pubescent as well as the calyx; cal. lobes lanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse; petals with pilose claws, bearing the sterile filaments in their 
middle ; the limb ovate-oblong ; ovary 2-coccous, pubescent ; style pilose. 
Has. Rocky places on the Blaawberg, 4000 to 5000 f., Drege./ Dec.-Jan. (Herb. 
Sond.) ; 
A very dwarf shrub, 3-4 inches high, much branched, with crowded bi-uncial, 
twiggy branches. Leaves 21 lines long, 3 line wide, close on the branches and 
twigs, short-petioled, narrowed from a wider base, glabrous or thinly pilose above, 
clothed with patent hairs beneath; the younger with longer hairs. Flowers 4-10, 
at the ends of the branchlets; the peduncles slender, villous, equalling the leaves. 
Calyx-lobes unequal, 1 line long. Petals white, thrice as long as the calyx. Capsule 
minutely pubescent, 2 lines long. 
Sect. 6. Diplopetalum. Sterile-filaments resembling the petals, and 
equally long or longer. Flowers terminal, pedunculate, closely umbellate 
or capitate. (Sp. 14-27). 
14, A. umbellata (Sond.); twigs glabrous; leaves imbricate, linear- 
oblong or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, acutely-keeled, sub-incurved at the 
point, ciliate; umbel many flowered, the peduncles glabrous, longer than 
the leaves ; calyx-lobes not ciliate ; sterile filaments equalling the petals, 
pilose at base, mostly gland-bearing below the apex. D. wmbellata, 
Thunb.! Cap. p. 224. D. bifida, Jacq.! Coll. 3. t. 20. f. 1. Ag. bifida, 
B.§ W.! 1. ce. p. 152. EL. Mey.! in Hb. Drege, b. (nona). A. bifida & ser- 
ruriefolia, E. & Z. 855. 856. ce 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Hills between Caledon and Genadendal, and on sand © 
dunes by the shore, near the mouth of the Klynrivier and Cape L’Agulhas, £. Z./ _ 
Babylon’s Toorenberg and Hott. Holl. in steep places, Zey/ 2172. Franschehoeks- — 
Kloof, Drege,’ Nov.-Feb. (Herb. Thunb., Willd., Lehm., Sond.) i 
An erect shrub, 1-2 feet high, the branches rough with leaf-scars ; twigs crowded, ~ 
1-3 uncial. Leaves close-set, erect, concave above, prominently nerved beneath, 
punctate at margin, 5-6 lines long, 3-1 line wide, the younger and upper piloso-ciliate, 
older glabrate. Petiole 4-3 line long. Umbel larger than in other species, Pe- 
duncles purple, 4-6 lines long, 2-bracted above the base. Calyx 1} line long; its =~ 
segments very unequal, linear-oblong, glabrous, gland-dotted at back. Petals white; = = 
brous, twice as long as the calyx, linear-oblong, with narrow, pilose claws. Fert. = 
fil. shorter than the petioles, glabrous. Carpels 3, pilose at top. Style equalling the 
stamens, glabrous.—It varies in the length of the claws of the petals and staminodia, 
whose limbs are either glanded or glandless. 
_ 15, A. lediformis (FE. & Z. 854); twigs glabrous, leaves imbricate, 
linear-oblong, or lanceolate-attenuate, sub-acute, concave above, convex 
beneath, glabrous-margined ; umbel many flowered ; peduncles glabrous, 
longer than the leaves, calyx-lobes glabrous-margined ; sterile filaments 
| ing the glabrous petals, pilose at base, glandless at the point. 
Bartl. Iinn. 17. p. 372. A. bifida, E. Mey.! c. : . 
s Bas In heathy ground near Brackfontein, Clan., Z.@Z.! Oct. (Herb. Lehm., — 
_ Very like the ing. It differs by its round-backed, not keeled leaves, more 
equably acute, eden petals and sterile filaments, Perhaps a mere variety? 
16. A anomala (E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege); twigs pubescent or sub- 
glabrous; leaves imbricate, linear-oblong, Scotia above, con- — 
veu-keeled beneath, glabrous-margined ; umbel many flowered ; peduncles | 
villous, equalling the leaves or rather longer; calyx-lobes ciliate; petals 
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