oS longer. 4, 
Agathosma.| RUTACEE (Sond.) : ~ 409 
pilose ;" filaments pilose, the sterile as long and thrice as broad as the 
petals, and like them with a gland below the apex; ovary glabrous; 
style pilose, A. anomala & A. bifida? d., E. Mey. in Hb. Drege, 
Has. Mountain at Stellenbosch, and at Dutoitskloof, 3000-4000 f. Drege! Oct.- 
Jan. (Herb. Sond.) 
A shrublet with glabrous branches and reddish, crowded twigs. Leaves dense, 
glabrous, with 2-3 rows of glands beneath, 4-5 lines long, 1 line wide or wider ; pe- 
tiole 1 line long. Umbel smaller than in the preceding, the peduncles 2 lines long, 
with 2 linear, ciliated bracts. Calyx 14 lines long, the segments ovate-lanceolate, 
ciliate, glandular at back. Petals on long glabrous or pilose claws; limb oblong, 
hairy. Sterile filaments petaloid. Carpels 3. 
17. A. monticola (Sond.); twigs glabrous, with raised glands; leaves 
imbricate, linear, sub-acute, keeled, 3-angled, the younger ciliate, the adult 
minutely toothed; umbel many flowered ; peduncles pilose, longer than 
the leaves ; calyx-segments oblong, ciliate; petals on long claws, gla- 
brous, glandless ; fertile filaments glabrous, sterile as wide and as long 
as the petals, gland-bearing below the apex, the claw hairy; ovary 
Setose; style glabrous. 
Has. Hills near Caledon, and at Zwartberg, Zey./ 2170. Nov. (Herb. Sond.) 
A slender shrublet, 2 feet high, with long branches and short, crowded twigs. 
Leaves crowded on the twigs, erect, short-stalked, thickish, quite glabrous, 3-4 lines 
long, } line wide ; upper or floral ones } as long. Peduncles 2-3 lines long. Calyx- 
lobes unequal, 1 line long. Petals more than twice as long, the capillary claw with 
@ gland at its summit, and a few hairs at the base, longer than the obovate, obtuse 
limb. Sterile filaments quite like the petals. 
18. A. gracilicaulis (Sond.); twigs rather hairy, glandless; leaves 
erect, alternate or sub-opposite, linear, sub-acute, complicate-carinate, 
villoso-ciliate, at length glabrate, punctate beneath ; umbel many flowered; 
- peduncles glabrous, rather longer than the leaves; calyx-lobes ovate at 
base, ciliate, acuminate-subulate, keeled, and tipped with an obtuse gland ; 
the petals twice as long as the calyx, and the fertile filaments glabrous; 
sterile as long, and half as broad as the petals, with a glabrous claw ; 
ovary pilose; style glabrous. ee oe” a and 
Haz. Stony mountain places near Riv. Zonder Ende, Zey./ 2167. (Hb. Sond.)} 
A very idence shrabin 1-2 feet high ; branches virgate, glabrous ; twigs short, 
sparingly pilose. Lower leaves sometimes opposite, the rest alternate, longer than 
the internodes, less crowded than in the p ing, 4-5 lines long, } line wide. Pe- 
uncles z lines long. Calyx segments membrane-edged at base, Petals with a 
filiform claw, rather shorter than the calyx, and an oblong limb. Carpels 3, the 
younger pilose at top, adult glabrous. Style equalling the stamens. Capsule little | 
Jonger than the calyx; the carpels punctate, with short straight beak. . 
19. A. parviflora (B. & W.1.c. p. 181); branches virgate, glabrous ; 
‘twigs filiform, To aie erecto-patent, narrow-linear, egeeitaon 
mucronulate, glabrous, concave above, convex-keeled beneath ; : owers 
10-15 in a dense umbel; peduncles equalling or surpassing the leaves ; 
calyx-segments glabrous, lanceolate, keeled, petals a little longer than ec 
calyx, with glabrous claws, and obovate-oblong, spreading, recurve 
limb ; ster. filaments quite like the petals, glabrous; carpels 2; style 
glabrous. Diosma parviflora, Willd.! relig. in R. § Sch. Syst. v. p. 462. 
Var. 8. glabrata; twigs and peduncles glabrous; leaves mostly 
arviflora, H. § Z.! 899. ‘ 
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