426 RUTACEH (Sond.) [ Agathosma. 
65. A. ambigua pao ; twigs hairy; leaves erect or spreading, 
sub-imbricate, ovato-lanceolate, or lanceolate, acuminate, patent-mucro- 
nulate, concave above, keeled beneath, piloso-ciliate at keel and margin; 
flowers umbellate; peduncles rather longer than the floral leaves, very 
hairy; calyx-lobes ovato-lanceolate, keeled; petals twice as long, with 
glabrous claws equalling the elliptic-oblong limb; sterile filaments 
longer than the calyx, lanceolate-linear, pubescent to the middle, spread- 
ing ; ovary piloso-setose at top; style glabrous. A. Thunbergiana, Schl. ! 
Lin. 6. p. 204, excl. syn. Thunb., non. B.& W. 
_ Has. Stony places on mountain sides, Lion’s and Table Mt. ; and Hott. Holland 
| and Elandskloof, £. & Z.! Oct.-Nov. (Herb. Sond.) 
More than a foot high, much branched, with crowded branches and short pubes- 
. cent or hairy twigs. Leaves 3 lines long, 3 line broad at base, the upper mostly 
i smaller, broad based, nerve-keeled ; glabrate when old. Pedunc. 12-20, 13-2 lines 
long. Calyx lobes unequal, acuminate, often ciliate, 14 line long. Petals sometimes 
downy above the base. Fert. fil. exserted. Ovaries 3—Known from A. Thunbergiana 
by the hairy branches and peduncles and the sub-concave, acuminate and mucronate 
leaves ; from A. variabilis by the leaves not 3-angled ; and from A. euspidata by the 
wider and shorter, not narrowed leaves. : 
_ 66. A. Ventenatiana (B. & W.! 1. c. p. 161) ; twigs pubescent; leaves 
| erecto-patent, the uppermost sub-imbricate, ovato-lanceolate, straight- 
| pointed, flattish, or slightly channelled above, with a medial row of hairs, 
| keeled and hairy beneath; flowers umbellate; peduncles equal, villous, 
thrice as long as the floral leaves; calyx-lobes lanceolate, sub-acute ; 
: petals, more than twice as long as the calyx, with a subciliate claw 
| equalling the calyx, and an oblong limb; sterile filaments twice as long 
as the calyx, pubescent to the middle; style glabrous. D. hirta, Vent. 
Malm. t. 72, excl. syn. Lam. Bucco Ventenatiana, R. & Sch. 1. c 442. 
| Has. Cape, v. v. cult. (Herb., Wendl., Sond.) 
| A much branched bush, t foot or more high, the branches and twigs rather 
; crowded. Leaves 3-4 lines long, 1 line wide, the upper smaller, closer and more 
oo evidently channelled. Peduncles several, slender, 2-21 lines long. Calyx 1 line 
se : long. Petals lilac, purple, or white. Fert. fil. equalling the petals, glabrous. Car- 
pels 2.—Very near A. villosa, and perhaps merely a cultivated variety. 
67. A. villosa (Willd.! enum. p. 2 59); twigs pubescent; leaves im- 
bricate, erect, swb-incurved and complicate-triquetrous, lanceolate, glabrous 
above, channelled, keeled and hairy beneath ; flowers sub-umbellate; 
peduncles mostly wnequal, villous, longer than the floral leaves; calyx- 
l.¢. p. 163, excl. syn. D. villosa, Th. E. de Z.! 907. D. corym- 
. Montin ! D. pubescens, Thunb, ! Cap. p. 225. as villosa, Wendl. 
t4. t. 2, D. Wendlandiana, DC. Prod 1. p-715. Ag. hirta, Bot. 
». Ait. Kew. 2. p. 30, excl, syn, 
leaves hairy beneath; pedunc. unequal, scarcely longer 
8 twice as long as the sub-acute calyx. 
green; peduncles yery villous, 
