416 RUTACES (Sond.) [ Agathosma. 
short twigs. Leaves very smooth above, dark green, 14-2 lines long. Pedunceles 
4-6, 1-1} lines long. Calyx } line long. Petals obovate-oblong. 
39. A. gnidioides (Schl.! Linn. 6, p. 206) ; clothed with a very short 
pubescence ; branches sub-ternate, erect ; leaves linear-lanceolate or 
lanceolate, acute, subpungent-mucronate, flat, with the margin thick- 
ened or sub-recurved, with 2 rows of gland-dots beneath; flowers um- 
bellate ; peduncles downy; calyx segments lanceolate, reflexed (in an- 
thesis) ; petals a little longer than the calyx, oblong, with a very short, 
downy claw ; sterile filaments half as long as the petals, linear, pubes- 
cent, tipped with a large gland. Diosma dubia, Spreng. D. puberula, 
Steud./ Fil. 1830, p. 548. Bar. gnidioides, EL. & Z.! 814. 
Var. 8. coriacea; leaves broader, more coriaceous, convex above ; 
calyx lobes with an obtuse gland. Bar. mucronata, Meisn. in Krauss. 
Beytr. p. 40. 
Has. In heathy soil, between Beaufort and Graafreynet, and between shrubs over 
Elandsriver, Zeyher! 2161. Mountain sides, Winterhoeksberg, Uit., B. § Z./ Drege, 
7089. 8B. north east side of Winterhoeksberg, Krauss./ E. & Z./ Ap.-Aug. (Hb. 
r. Stuttg., Meisn., Lehm., Sond.) 
Over a foot high. Leaves erect, dense, 7-8 lines long, 1 line wide, much longer 
than the internodes, flat or sub-convex, tipped with a very acute mucro nearly 1 line 
long, marked above with a furrow, and beneath with a raised midrib, having a Tow 
of glands at each side. Peduncles 4-6 lines long. Cal. lobes unequal, 14 line long. 
Petals few-glanded. Capsule of 3 carpels, 24 lines long, with a straight beak. 
40. A. barosmoides (Sond.); twigs velvetty; leaves erecto-patent, 
oblong, acute, mucronate, flat, very entire, with a straight point, glabrous 
above, velvetty, one nerved and dotted beneath; flowers umbellate; 
peduncles longer than the leaves, and the calyx velvetty ; calyx-lobes 
ovate, keeled, acuminate ; petals twice as long as the calyx, obovate-ob- 
long, cuneate at base, with a very short, downy claw; sterile filaments 
shorter than the calyx, downy ; ovary downy; style glabrous. 
Has. Sandfontein, Zey.! 285. Nov. (Herb. Sond.) 
Over a foot high, with the aspect of a Barosma. Branches erecto-patent, glabrous ; 
twigs short. Rameal leaves crowded, 3-3} lines long, 14 wide, quite flat, paler be- 
neath. Peduncles 4-8, 3-4 lines long. Calyx semi-5 fid, the lobes with membra- 
36 edges. raierch 2 — long, eee encore filaments = a et ri sie 
emargina . arpels 5 e equalling stamens. apsules 2 4 
gland-dotted, with straight ee 1 line long. 
41. A. acutifolia (Sond.); twigs downy; leaves erecto-patent, ovate- 
oblong, acute, mucronate, flat, recwrved at the points, margined, glabrous, 
dotted with large glands beneath; flowers umbellate ; peduncles vel- 
_Vetty; calyx glabrous, its segments ovate, obtuse; petals thrice as long 
as the calyx, downy at base, gradually narrowed, with scarcely any 
claw ; sterile filaments longer than the calyx, oblong-linear, downy, tip- 
se an oblong reversed gland, the 3 carpels and the style glabrous. 
1aB. Stony places, Aasvogelberg. 2000-3000 f. e! Aug. . Sond.) 
Pik much branched, sok i. ene. fans fara’ 3 lines 
lobes | patches pungent-mucronate, Pedunc. 4-8, about 14-2 lines long. Calyx- 
Fert. ~ longer than the cals, late. _— obovate-oblong, few glan 
a 5 Martiana (Sond. ; twigs downy ; leaves imbricate, ovate, sud- 
