420 RUTACEZ (Sond.) [ Agathosma. 
2 feet or more high, much branched, white-barked, with filiform flexuous, patent 
branches, and short erect twigs. Leaves either orbicular, cordate, elliptical or 
broadly ovate, one nerved beneath, 1 line long or shorter. Flowers 6-10, very small. 
Peduncles capillary, 2 lines long. Calyx downy, tline long. Petal 14 lines. Sterile 
filaments narrowed at point, gland-tipped, fertile longer than the petals, glabrous. 
Carpels 3. Capsule 1% line long, glandular, short-beaked. 
50. A. minuta (Schlect! Linn. 6, p. 206); twigs downy; leaves (mi- 
nute) patent or reflexed, thickish, oblong-elliptical, or oval, obtuse, con- 
cave above, somewhat keeled and sparsely gland-sprinkled beneath ; 
flowers umbellate ; peduncles and calyx glabrous ; eal.-lobes roundish ; 
claws of the petals equalling the calyx, limb obovate-elliptical, narrowed 
at base ; sterile filaments linear, wider and pubescent in the middle ; 
ovary and style glabrous. H. & Z./ 886 eaclus. sp. from Zwarteberg. 
Has, Kars-river and Potberg, #. 4 Z./ Between Cape L’Agulhas and Potberg, 
Drege! 7121. Aug.-Oct. (Herb. Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) 
‘Scarcely 6 inches high, in ramification and whitish colour of the branches re- 
sembling the last, differing in the leaves, never orbicular, but oval, thicker, more 
strongly nerved beneath, and prominently keeled, scarcely more than 4 line long. 
Umbels 4-8 flowered ; peduncles glabrous, 1-14 line long. Petals thrice as long. 
—— longer than the petals ; the sterile 4 shorter. Carpels 3, cylindrical. Style 
engthening. 
51. A. thymifolia (Schlecht! 1c, p. 205); twigs glabrous; leaves 
patent, oval or obovate, obtuse, flat, glandular beneath ; flowers umbel- 
late ; peduncles downy at base ; calyx glabrous, its lobes oblong, obtuse, 
keeled ; claws of the petals shorter than the calyx, glabrous; limb obo- 
vate-oblong, narrowed at base ; sterile filaments linear-filiform, twice as 
ro as the calyx, pilose at base; ovary and style glabrous. Z. § Z./ 
Has. Sand dunes near Saldanha Bay, Z. & Z.! Groenckloof and Saldanha Bay, 2 
Drege! 7119, Aug.-Oct. (Herb. Sond.) 
A span-high, erect, dichotomous, or with ternate or clustered branches and short 
_ twigs. Leaves 1-1} line long, 1 line wide, rather longer than the internodes, Mig! 
smooth above, one nerved and with 4 rows of glands beneath, the marginal glan 
pellucid. . Umbels 6-10 flowered, pedunc. 2-2} lines long, downy below or to the 
middle. Calyx lobes 3 line long. Petals 2 lines long, the claw half longer than 
the calyx. Fert. fil. longer than the petals, glabrous ; sterile half as long. Style as 
ne as the stamens.—Easily known from the preceding by the larger flowers and 
es. 
52. A. glandulosa (Sond.); twigs pubescent ; leaves spreading, cor- 
date-ovate, acute, flat, with reflexed margins, minutely pubescent on both 
sides, impunctate, glandular at margin ; flowers umbellate; peduncles 
and calyces glandular-pubescent ; calyx lobes ovate, keeled; petals more 
than twice as long as the calyx, glabrous, with a linear claw equalling 
the calyx, limb elliptic-oblong ; sterile filaments twice as long as the 
calyx, lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, ciliate; ovary and style pilose. 
esis Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 229. 
are pee Phunberg! (Herb. Thunb.) 
twigs, the ‘ilioes bcedhags — flexuous-erect branches and sub-umbellate 
Leaves sub-remote , reddish, with partially glandular pubescence 
lose, and with a oti pees: sortly petioled, coriaceous, shining above, mae 
24-3 lines long, 14 wide. Umbel (ots holeced peas with a raised nerve, 
pedune, 3 lines long. Calyx 14 
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