Agathosma. | RUTACEZ (Sond.) 425 
twigs. Leaves close, prominently nerved beneath and thicker at the point, margined 
with glands and very slender hairs, or the uppermost sometimes with minute glands, 
2-3, rarely 4 lines long, 4 line wide. Peduncles 14-2 lines long, 2 bracted. Calyx 
4-1 line long, ciliolate. Petals oblong, or linear-oblong, narrowed at base, 2 lines 
long. Fert. filaments exserted, glabrous; sterile downy at base, tapering to a fili- 
form, glabrous, recurved point. Ovaries 3. Capsule 1}-2 lines long ; the carpels 
obtuse, glabrous, with a very short beak. ar. 8. is chiefly distinguished by its 
smaller leaves, 1-1} line long, at margin and back furnished with stalked glands ; 
some, however, quite glabrous. ; 
63. A. Thunbergiana (Sond.); twigs minutely pubescent; leaves 
(small), erect or.spreading, lanceolate, acute, pointless, flat above, keeled 
beneath, piloso-ciliate; peduncles pubescent; calyx pubescent at base, 
the lobes lanceolate, keeled, ciliate; petals about twice as long as the 
calyx, the glabrous claws shorter than the calyx, limb oval-oblong, ob- 
tuse, narrowed at base; sterile filaments a little longer than the calyx, 
lanceolate, villous, with a subulate, glabrous, recurved point ; ovary and 
style glabrous. Diosma ciliata, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 225. A. platypetala, 
E.§Z.! 915. Bartl. Linn. 17. p. 371. 
Var. @. patula; leaves more patent, naked at margin or ciliate and 
rr towards the apex; peduncles glandular-downy ; calyx rather 
8 er, 
Var. y. hirtula; leaves appressed or patent, lanceolate, shortly 
ciliate at keel and margin; calyx downy; ovary pilose at top. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Winterhoeksberg, near Tulbagh, Worcester ; var. 8. on 
sand dunes near Cape L’Agulhas; var. y. on mountains near Tulbagh, Zeyher / 
Nov. (Herb., Thunb., Holm., Stuttg., Sond.) ; : 
Erect, 2 feet high, much branched, the branches and twigs crowded, yellowish, 
rather hairy, at length glabrescent. Lower leaves sub-distant, upper close, punctate 
beneath, with prominent nerve, 14-3 lines long, }-} wide. Peduncles 4-12, fili- 
form, 3-4 lines long. Calyx lobes 1 line long. Capsule 2 lines long, of 3 carpels.— 
A. platyphylla, E. & Z.! only differs from Thunberg’s specimen of A. ciliata, by the 
leaves in that often, in this rarely, concave. Our var. 8. is very like A. cerefolium 
B., but differs by the acuminate leaves. Var. y. is known by denser pul 
and ciliated keels to the leaves, ete. Se oe 
64. A. ciliata (Link! enum. 1. p.238); twigs hairy; leaves patent, 
ovato-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, flat, glabrous on both nen “— 
recurved, denticulate, ciliate margins; flowers umbellate ; peduncles Fd 
brous; calyx-lobes ovato-lanceolate, obtuse; petals about ee ain 
as the calyx, the claws glabrous, about equalling geen sins 
tic-oblong; sterile filaments twice as long as the calyx, abe << 
Pilose below, above exserted, wider, glabrous ; ovary ne . Be #8 Reg. 
glabrous. B.& W.1 1. c. p. 155. D, ciliata, Linn. Sp. p. 297. 90% LJ 
366. D. myrsinites, Lam. D. ri fea asa 
Has. Am Table Mt., Hesse, E. & Z., Drege, 4 
Drege, 1086. “Borchans's River, Albany, Ecklon, Ap.June. (Hb. Holm., Lam., 
endl., Lehm., : é : ‘ 
1-2 fet. high, with reddish or yellowish, seattered or crowded. often long 
and short twigs. Leaves close, broad-based, acuminate, ae ‘cake 
cies one-nerved, pellucid-dotted at ager rigidly ciliate, 5—10 tines tong, 
ide. capillar pi > - J 
Capsule aj lines long, earpols mostly 2, with spreading hors, 1 line long. 
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lines long. Calyx 1} line long, ciliate. a 
