Agathosma. | RUTACEE (Sond.) 423 
paler underneath, almost impunctate, minutely pubescent on both sides ; 
flowers umbellate ; peduncles and calyx pubescent ; cal.-lobes ovate, 
keeled, sub-obtuse ; petals twice as long as the calyx, with a downy claw 
equalling the calyx; sterile filaments rather longer than the calyx, linear, 
ciliate in the middle ; style glabrous. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope, Mundt & Maire! Swellendam, Ecklon! (Herb. r. 
Berol. Sond.) 
Erect, much branched, with virgate branches and short, crowded, leafy ramuli. 
Leaves coriaceous, green above, 3 lines long, 1 line wide, the marginal glands often 
immersed, Flowering branches often fastigiate, forming a sort of corymb, sometimes 
araceme. Peduncles 8-12, 24-3 lines long. Calyx % cleft, 1 line long, with cilio- 
late segments. Petals obovate-oblong, the limb tapering into the claw. Fert. fila- 
ments glabrous, Style equalling the stamens. 
58. A. propingqua (Sond.) ; twigs downy; leaves appressed, oblong 
or ovate-oblong, acute, flattish above, keeled beneath, piloso-ciliate at the 
margin and keel ; flowers umbellate ; peduncles and calyx glandular ; 
cal.-lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse; petals thrice as long as the calyx, with 
glabrous claw as long as the calyx, limb oblong, narrowed at base ; 
sterile filaments nearly twice as long as the calyx, lanceolate-linear, 
downy as far as the middle, the narrow apex glabrous; ovary pilose ; 
style glabrous. 
Has. Sands between Tigerberg and Zandhoogte, Drege, 7092. Oct.-Dec. (Herb. 
nd, * 
Erect, 1 foot high, with scattered or crowded. branches, and purplish 1-2 uncial 
twigs. Leaves 14-2 lines long, } line wide, sub-imbricate, glabrous above, with a 
very prominent nerve beneath, and quickly deciduous cilia, Pedunc. 8-12, slender, 
2 lines long, 2-bracted. Calyx purplish, deeply cleft, 1 line long, the lobes keeled, 
pilose at back and apex, the hairs deciduous. Petals 24 lines long. Fert. fil. as long. 
Style as long as the petals. 
concave above, convex beneath, keeled with a slender prominent nerve, 
glabrous ; flowers umbellate; peduncles slightly er than the calyx, 
pilose ; calyx glabrous, its lobes ovate-oblong, keel long-ciliate ; pe- 
tals thrice as long as the calyx, the claw pilose, longer than the calyct, 
dilating into an oblong, basally ciliate limb ; sterile filaments twice as 
petals 3 lines. Fert. filaments as long, glabrous ; sterile very cs 
A. glabrata, but the leaves and flowers are different. It differs from A. fastigiata by 
the leaves not being three-angled. 
60. A. microphylla (G. F. W. Meyer, ad B. & W.! 1. c. p. 173); twigs 
scarcely ieee: ‘bok spreading, oblong, obtuse, flat above, keeled be- 
neath, thicki. s-pointed, gi lower often longer; flowers um- 
bellate ; peduncles glabrous ; calyx lobes oblong, obtuse ; petals twice 
as long as the calyx, glabrous; claw as long or longer than the calyx 
