Agathosma.]} RUTACEE (Sond.) 435 
oides, Willd, !—R. § Sch. p. 462. A. erecta, 8. Wendl. excl. syn. Lam. 
D. tenuissima, Lodd.— Willd. Sup. p. 12. Ag. tenwissima, Otto! D. Mey.} 
Var. 6, pilosa ; leaves long-ciliate at margin and keel. Schl. Lin. 6. 
Pp. 204. 
Has. Among shrubs in the Cape flats, and Zwartland. y. at the Paarl. Noy.- 
Dee, (Herb. Willd., Wendl., T.C.D., Sond.) 
A much branched bush, a foot high, with scattered or crowded twigs. Lower 
leaves sub-distant, upper closer, flat or channelled, keeled, 14-2 lines long, umbels 
many flowered, in var. a, often few flowered, the peduncles variably pubescent, with 
or without bracts. Calyx 1 line long or longer, keeled.—D. brevifolia, Lam., 
according to an authentic specimen sent by Prof. Roeper, is more robust and has 
larger flowers than the other varieties, but does not otherwise differ. War 8, pilosa, 
Schl. is unknown to me, and may belong to some other species. A. tenuissima, Otto! 
cannot be distinguished from specimens of A. thuyoides, in Hb, Willd. 
90. A. chortophila (E. & Z.!.914); glabrous; leaves erect, sub-ap- 
pressed, sub-incurved at point, oblong-linear, sub-acute, trigonous, with 
2-4 rows of tuberculoid-glands beneath; flowers umbellate; peduncles 
downy or sub-glabrous; calyx gland-tubercled, its lobes sub-obtuse ; pe- 
tals twice as long as the calyx, the claw equalling the calyx or longer ; 
sterile filaments longer than the calyx, lanceolate-linear, pubescent- 
ciliate, with a recurved point; ovaries and style glabrous. Bartl. Linn. 
17. p. 367. 
__ Var. a; leaves sub-distant, 2-3 lines long; peduncles downy or 
half-glabrous ; petals oval. A. chortophila, EB. & Z.! 
Var. 8. ; leaves sub-distant, 1 line long; pedune. sub-glabrous; pe- 
tals oval-oblong or oblong. ens : 
Var. y.; leaves sub-distant; the younger sub-imbricate, 13-2 lines 
long ; peduncles minutely downy ; petals oblong. A. cyminodes, E.G 4.! 
916. Bartl.!1.¢. p. 368. 
Var. 4. ciliolata; leaves, especially the lower, minutely ciliate. 
Has. Among grass and Restiacea at the base of the mountains near the Tulbagh 
Waterfall, Z. & Z./ Var B. same Pry Drege 7107. Var. y. near Swellendam and 
Koschmanskloof ; 8. with var. a. E.G Z./ Nov.-Dec. (Herb. Lehm., Sond.) 
Erect, many stemmed, from a thick root, a foot or more high, glabrous, except the 
Youngest twigs. Branches and. twigs slender, fastigiate. Leaves tuberculated with 
long convex-glands, umbels 5-8 flowered ; pedicels 3-4 lines long. Calyx 4-1 : 
long, glabrous, with oblong or lanceolate segments. Sterile filaments in vars. a, all 
B. but little exceeding the calyx, in y. twice as long, narrowed at point. : 
91. A. decumbens (E. & Z.! 912); stem decumbent-prostrate, branches 
divaricate, twigs sop pe aes bescent; leaves: sub-imbricate, 
linear-trigonous, obtuse, with thickened margins, 2-furrowed and im- 
Presso-multiglandular beneath ; flowers Rey arse wpeate a ites 
glabrous ; calyx-segments lanceolate, sub-obtuse ; petals twice 
the calyx, thoclne shorter than the calyzx, limb obovate ; sterile filaments 
linear, pubescent-ciliate, tapering to a recurved, glabrous point, longer 
than the calyx; ovary pilose at the summit ; style glabrous. 
z HA? Calcareous and angillaceous hills at Grasrugg, near Coega River Uit., B. § 
H.R. (He, SOULE ee ; 
numero’ a prostrate or rooting, 1-1} foot long, much 
i retias anaes wal hat sub-umbellate twigs. Leaves straight or 
sub-recuryed, with 4 rows of glands beneath, the lowest sub-distant, ee ee 
