Agathosma. | RUTACER (Sond.) — 431 
Allied to the preceding. Six inches high or less, with naked branches and leafy 
twigs. Leaves 3-4 lines long, acutely keeled, the younger rigidly-ciliate, the old 
scabrous-edged and keeled. Umbel rarely few-flowered ; pedune. 2-3 lines long. 
Calyx 1 line long. 
79. A. adenocaulis (E. & Z.!-902); twigs downy; leaves spreading, 
linear, acute, channelled and quite glabrous above, convex-sub-carinate 
beneath, pilogo-ciliate, the short petiole springing from a large gland ; 
flowers umbellate ; peduncles twice as long as the calyx, downy, brac- 
teolate; calyx glabrous, its lobes ovate, angularly-keeled, ciliate; petals 
twice as long as the calyx, the claw a little longer than the calyx, rather 
hairy, limb obovate; sterile filaments longer than the calyx, linear, downy 
to the middle, glabrous tipped; ovary and style glabrous. 
Has. Hills near Krakakamma, Uit, £. & Z./ July. (Herb. Sond. 
A slender bush, the branches a span md with shies Fas Leaves <2 i 
or patent, 4-6 lines long, the upper smaller, sub-imbricate. Peduncles numerous, 
1}-2 lines long. Calyx 1 line long. 
80. A. prolifera (B. & W.! 1. c. p. 185); twigs pubescent ; leaves spread- 
ing, lanceolate-subulate, somewhat 3-angled, channelled and glabrous 
above, keeled beneath, and ciliate at keel and margin; flowers umbel- 
late; peduncles pubescent-hispid, thrice as long as the calyx; calyx gla- 
brescent, its lobes lanceolate, ciliolate ; petals twice as long as the calyx, 
the claw equalling the calyx, limb oblong-linear ; sterile filaments twice 
as long as the calyx, linear-lanceolate, ciliate to the middle, style gla- 
brous, Bucco prolifera, Wendl. ! coll. iti. 9.t.77. Rog Sch. lc. p. 445. 
Has. Cape. erb. Wendl, sp. cult. 
* eacchet cals twigs crowd mans the upper one lengthening beyond the 
flowers. Leaves close, sub-erect or spreading, pellucid-dotted at edge, the lower 3-5 
lines long, } line wide, upper half that size. Peduncles 10-15, 2-3 times longer than 
the floral leaves. Calyx 1 line long. Petals glabrous,—In the shape of its leaves it 
resembles A. Thunbergiana and A. cerefolium. Acpome cugheenien 2 
81. A. melaleucoides (Sond.); twigs glabrous ; leaves recurvo-patent, 
lanceolate-subulate, ern Piiod above, keeled beneath, gla- 
brous; flowers umbellate ; peduncles glabrous, 3-4 times as long as the 
calyx ; calyx glabrous, its segments ovate-oblong, obtuse ; petals sary as 
long as the calyx, the claw sparsely-ciliate, twice as long as the oblong 
limb ; sterile filaments twice as long as the calyx, linear-ciliate, style 
glabrous, ae 3 
Has. Cape. (Herb. Hook.) : NS aE: viata 
Branch d twigs scattered or ternate, the ultimate crowded, 4-1 inch long. 
Petiole shoots ona i ‘Leaves crowded, 2-3 lines long, } line wide, 
it 2 
wered ; pedunc. 
gland-dotted at margin and cere floral smaller. Umbel 4-12 flow ; : 
2 lines long, slender. Calyx } line long. Petals with a gland.— Allied to A, proli- 
Jera ; differing in the glabrous, recurved leaves and long-claw -“ 
82. A. ericoides (Schl! in Linn. 6. p. 206); twigs pubescent ; leaves 
erect-sabpatent, po keeled, and trigonous, channelled —t sub- 
obtuse, shortly pilose all over ; flowers umbellate ; peduncles, downy, oe 
than the glabrous calyx; cal. lobes inear-lanceolate, ciliate ; pe s 
twice as long as the calyx, the glabrous claw equalling the oblong limb; 
sterile filaments equalling or slightly exceeding the calyx, linear villoso- 
