Agathosma. ] RUTACE (Sond.) 417 
denly acuminate, spinous-pointed, very entire, glabrous dotted beneath ; 
flowers umbellate ; peduncles longer than the leaves, and with the calyx- 
tube villoso-pubescent ; cal, lobes lanceolate, keeled, acuminate, ciliate . 
petals equating the calyx, oblong, downy at base within, sub-sessile ; 
sterile filaments more than twice as short as the calyx, oblong-linear- 
Semiterete, ciliolate, tipped with a large gland; ovary and style gla- 
brous. 
Has. Interior regions, Niven ! erb. Mart. ' 
Erect, with apnectine greyish, pon win Set branches ; twigs 2-4 inches 
long, leafy. Leaves erect, 2 lines long, 1 line wide, very smooth above, one nerved 
beneath, paler, with 16-24 blackish dots, the marginal pellucid. Pedune. 3-4 lines 
long, 2-bracted at base. Calyx 2 lines long, its lobes glabrous, reflexed in anthesis. 
Petals dotted. Fert. fil. glabrous, equalling the petals. Like A. imbricata in aspect, 
but readily known by the sharply mucronate leaves and sub-sessile petals. 
43. A. punctata (Sond.); twigs downy; leaves spreading, elliptic 
or suborbicular, with a short obtuse mucro, flat, the apex sub-recurved, 
underneath minutely downy and dotted with large glands; flowers um- 
bellate; peduncles and calyx velvetty ; calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse ; pe- 
thrice as long as the calyx, obovate-oblong, narrowed into a very 
short claw; sterile filaments linear-filiform, rather longer than the calyx, 
throughout. ciliato-puberulous, glabrous externally ; ovary velvetty ; 
style glabrous. 4. acuminata, E. Mey.! Hb. Drege, non Willd. 
Has. Rocky places between Zwarteberg and Kendo, and in Witpoortsberg, 2000~ 
4000 f. Drege/ 7122. Jun.-Aug. (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.) : ; 
Two feet or more high, erect, slender, 2~3-chotomous, the ultimate twigs scarcely 
uncial, leafy. Leaves 14-2 lines long, 4 line wide, horizontal, quite smooth and 
glabrous above, obsoletely one nerved beneath, with many raised glands. Pedune. 
3-6, 2-24 lines long. Calyx semi-fid, its segments 1 line long, ciliolate. Petals 24 
lines long, scarcely clawed, downy above and at the margins. Fertile fil. scarcely 
longer than the petals, glabrous ; sterile 3 as long, tipped with a large gland, Style 
as long as the stamens. oe 3 
44. A. mucronulata (Sond.); twigs scarcely downy; leaves erecto- 
patent, orbicular, ith S =< acute, recurved mucro, flat, underneath 
minutely downy, and sprinkled with large glands ; flowers rege 
peduncles and calyx velvetty, the calyx lobes ovate, keeled at point 
setaceo-acuminate ; petals little longer than the calyx, obovate, = 
Towed into a downy base, with scarcely any claw; sterile a 
— thickish, shorter than the ealya downy within, glabrous exter- 
nally; ovary sub-velvetty; style glabrous. ' S 
Has. Rocky places in Zwaanepoelspoortberg, 3000-4000 f. Drege / Aug. (Herb. 
oe lke the preceding.—Branches trichotomous, erect. Leaves 1} lines long 
and wi smalle: sth gla te, more evidently petiolate than in A. punctata. 
Pome. 54 seat eee. Cal lobes 1 ine; petals 1h ine long. Sterile 
filaments tipped with a minute gland. 
45. A. spi nd.); twi bescent; leaves quadrifarious, pa- 
tent, dich Sooaene hen ee ca aannevontil concave and very — 
smooth above, convex, minutely downy and roughly many -eaniot 
neath, with a thickened pale margin; flowers umbellate ; peduncles 
pubescent, as long as the calyx ; cal. lobes mucronate ; ss 9 
