418 RUTACE (Sond.) [ Agathosma. 
obtuse, sub-sessile ; carpels 2, truncate, pubescent, with a short, straight 
horn. 
Has. South Africa (no station given), Drege! 7153. (Herb. Sond.) 
A span long, grey, with robust branches, and slender, uncial, leafy twigs. Leaves 
sub-imbricate, the cucullate base appressed to the branch, mostly curved back, not 
keeled beneath, 14-2 lines long, and tipped with a mucro 4-1 line. Peduncles few. 
Calyx pubescent at base, the lobes ovate, pungent-mucronate, ciliated, few-glanded. 
Petals downy, tapering into a very short claw. Capsule densely pubescent, 3 lines 
long ; the beaks 1 line. Style glabrous, filiform in the ripe fruit and as long as the 
carpels.—In habit this resembles Acmadenia pungens. 
Srot. 8. Imbricate. All the leaves, or at least those of the 
branchlets, densely imbricated, roundish-ovate, or ovate, obtuse or acu- . 
minate, concave above, ciliate. Flowers sub-umbellate-capitate. Petals: 
with a long, capillary claw, and a roundish or obovate limb. Sterile 
filaments not longer than the claws of the petals. (Sp. 46-48.) 
46, A. squamosa (B. & W.! 1c. p. 141); twigs sub-pubescent ; leaves 
closely imbricate, roundish-ovate, obtuse, concave, glabrous, gland-tu- 
bercled beneath, villoso-ciliate; flowers capitate ; calyx lobes ovate- 
oblong, ciliate; petals twice as long, the capillary claw equalling the 
calyx, limb oblong, obtuse; sterile filaments linear, villous. Diosma 
squamosa, Willd.! in R. & Sch. Sqat. V. p. 462. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. (Herb. Willdenow.) be 
A dwarf shrublet, with 2-3-chotomous branches and short twigs. Leaves 4-4 line 
ong, appressed, sub-sessile, dark green, convex externally, with large glands. Head 
as large as a pea; with sessile flowers. Calyx 3 line long ; petals with capillary, 
eerraen Ste fil. gy glabrous ; sterile equalling the claws of the petals,. 
47. A. lycopodioides (B. & W.! 1. c. p. 148); twigs pubescent ; leaves. 
closely imbricate, rowndish-ovate, cuspidate, tomentose beneath; flowers 
sub-capitate 3 peduncles downy or sub-glabrous ; calyx lobes oblong, 
obtuse, pilose, and ciliate ; claw of the petals twice as long as the calyx; 
limb roundish ; sterile filaments linear, villous, with glabrous points, 
gland-tipped. Diosma lycopodioides, Willd. ! ap. R. § Sch. ¢. p. 461+ 
Has. Cape, Hb, Wil ipfontei _ 
. Send) ldenow ! Cape flats, near Klipfontein, Zeyher, Nov (He 
A foot high, erect, much branched. Leaves minutely petiolate 1-1} line long 
and wide, glabrous above, the nerve beneath aceiibeck cane the point, impresso- 
eomearicg aig + arpectiewee een 1 line long. Calyx 1 line pe? ce 
I very long claws ort li iry at 3 iry. = 
ialiey ap , hairy ai base. Ovary hairy. Sty: 
: 48. A. imbricata (Willd. ! enum, Berol. 2 1 twigs ubescent or 
gla 3 leaves erect, imbricate, the Tavita sea Yb ath a ovate-acu- 
‘minate, ciliate or pubescent ; flowers sub-capitate ; peduncles pubescent 
th She ; calyx lobes obtuse or sub-acute, keeled at the point, ciliate; 
ours iota oe Petals 2~3 times as long as the calyx, limb roundish oF 
Pag) ene Hilaments linear-spathulate, ciliate below. B. d W.h& 
—= xa; leaves ciliate, the lower erecto-patent ; calyx lobes 
ovate, Bg Wile. Hartogia ciliata, Berg. cap. 68, H. imbricata, Lint 
