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broadly lanceolate, acute ; upper petals ^-f line, narrow-linear, 

 subacute. Capsule not seen. 



Orange Kloof. July, Wolley Dod, 2726. 



Near .1/. demissa, but differing in habit and leaves, sepals some- 

 what narrower and more acute, and upper petals shorter and less 

 acute. A plant from near Simon's Town, Wolley Dod, 1565, is 

 intermediate in foliage, but has very acuminate broad sepals. It 

 may be distinct. 



Hermannia rudis N. E. Brown, sp.n. Suffruticose, branched, 

 6-12 inches high. Branches erect or ascending, woody, tuber- 

 culate, tubercles stellately hairy on the apex. Leaves subfasci- 

 culate, f-^ inch long, 2-4 lines wide, coriaceous, cuneate, folded, 

 very obtuse or subtruncate at the apex, 3-5 -toothed. Stipules 

 1-3 lines long, |— 1|- Ime wide, lanceolate, acute, glabrous on both 

 sides, or stellato-scabrid on the back, stellato-ciliate. Flowers 

 crowded or subcapitate at the apices of the branches. Peduncles 

 very short, ^-'i line long, 2-flowered. Bracts and bracteoles 2-3 

 lines long, ^-1|- line wide, lanceolate, acute, stellato-scabrid on the 

 back ; bracts sometimes connate, deeply bifid. Pedicels l-l line 

 long, stellato-pubescent. Calyx 4 lines long, 5-lobed to the middle, 

 subinflated, pentagoual-campanulate, stellato-pubescent ; lobes 

 2 lines long, l|-2 lines wide, ovate, acute, erect, incurved at the 

 apex. Petals scarcely exserted from the calyx, convolute, 4 lines 

 long, l|-2 lines broad at the apex, claw concave, strongly inflexed 

 at the edges, densely pubescent from the top to the sides. Lamina 

 broadly obovate, subtruncate, or shortly emarginate, glabrous. 

 Stamens included; filaments l|-2 lines long, ^ line wide, oblong, 

 acute, connate at the base into a very short tube, glabrous. Anthers 

 f line long, linear-oblong, obtuse. Ovary shortly stipitate, penta- 

 gonal, tomentose above. Style 1^ line long. 



Cape Peninsula, July-Sept., Bolm, 4950 ; Chapman's Bay, 

 Wolley Dud, 1446; ridge by Smitswinkel Vley, Wolley Dud, 2704. 



This is a very frequent species on the southern portion of the 

 Cape Peninsula, and, though it has been known for many years, it 

 has not been described. It most resembles H. Jiammea Jsicq^., iov 

 which it has been mistaken, but it differs in its subcapitate inflor- 

 escence, and its corolla being scarcely longer than the corolla. 



Var. exserta N. E. Brown. Branches more slender. Leaves 

 narrower, 1-2^ lines broad. Calyx subglobose, 3 lines long and 

 broad. Corolla shortly exserted. 



Slopes above Miller's Point, Wolley Dud, 2997. 



Agathosma stricta, sp. n. Very erect, about 12 inches high, 

 with erect pubescent branches ; leaves erect, linear, 3-5 lines long, 

 somewhat incurved at the subobtuse apex, channelled above, bluntly 

 keeled beneath, longly ciliate, and minutely denticulate ; flowers 

 umbellate, on glabrous peduncles H-2 lines long ; calyx lobes 

 linear, about 1 line long, obtuse, glabrous on back, ciliate at the 

 edges ; petals white, about 2 lines long, the claw shorter than or 

 about equalling the calyx lobes, slightly ciliate below, very gradually 

 expanded into the lamina ; sterile filaments equalling the petals, 



