ORD. XXVI. MULTISILIQU. 
DIOSMA CRENATA. CRENATED DIOSMA. 
SYNONYMA. Diosma crenata. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.404.* De Cand. Prodr. 
v.i. p. 714. Thunb. Prodr. v.i. p. 43? Fl. Cerp. v. ii. p. 146? Linn. Aman. 
— v. iv, p. 308? Wildd. Sp. Pl. v. i. p. 1188? Hartogia betulina. Berg. 
Cap. 67. 
Class V. Pentandria. Ord. I. Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. Multisilique, Lin. Rutaceze, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Petals five. Nectary of five scalescrowning the germen. Cap- 
sules three or five, connected. Seeds in an elastic, bivalved arillus. 
: Spec. Char. Leaves ovate acute, dotted, with glands beneath, and at the 
serrated margins. Pedicels solitary, single-flowered, somewhat leafy. 
_ THIS species of Diosma forms a slender branching shrub. Its branches 
are smooth, rounded, or somewhat angular, and of a purplish colour ; the 
leaves are opposite, ovate, acute, crenated, of a dark bright green on the upper 
surface, paler on the under, and there full of small pellucid punctures, par- 
*The species of the genus Diosma are still involved in much obscurity, and none more 
so than the present individual; in eonsequence of the very imperfect characters given by 
its early describers. We have adopted the plant of Loddiges and De Candolle; the 
latter author very justly doubting if that of Linneus and Thunberg can be the same, 
since they describe the leaves as scattered, not opposite. Sprengel, again, though doubt- 
fully, unites the Linnzan Diosma crenata with the Diosma senatifolia of Antis, a | to~ 
tally different plant from ours, and the Barosma serratifolium of Willdenow. 
