l62 THE SCOTTISH BOTANICAL REVIEW 



Hab. : In foliis dejectis Ilicis Aquifolii, Wimbledon in 

 Britannia. 



Considering the abundance of the host it is rather surpris- 

 ing that no record of this fungus has been previously 

 published. 



Agathosma trichocarpa, n. sp. By E. M. 

 Holmes, F.L.S., F.B.S.E/ 



(With One Plate.) 



SiN'CE the publication of Harvey and Sonder's " Flora Capen- 

 sis " many undescribed specimens of rutaceous plants have 

 been detected in Cape Colony, and not a few of these have as 

 yet remained unnamed in herbaria. The species of the genera 

 in the Diosmeae, in particular, are so closely allied that it is 

 difficult in the absence of complete material to separate one 

 species from another. The plant to which I have given the 

 above name occurs in herbaria under a number only, as No. 

 5240, Schlechter, " Plantae Afric. Austr." The specimen I 

 received was in fruit, and was sent to me as a variet}' of 

 Buchii used in S. E. Africa by the natives, by Mr. Stephen 

 R. Webb, and was collected by Dr. Froembling. 



On comparing it at the Kew Herbarium, a specimen 

 identical with it, but without flowers, was found there, and 

 subsequently a specimen of the same plant in flower was met 

 with in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 



Dr. F. Schinz of Zurich having paid much attention to this 

 group of plants, I wrote to ask him if it had been described 

 as yet, since it is not easy to keep pace with recent publica- 

 tions unless one is working at a group and can look up all 

 the literature up to date. He assured me that it had not yet 

 been described. I therefore thought it desirable to publish 

 a description and figure of the plant, which is here given: — 



Agathosma trichocarpa, n. sp. — Fruticulus erectus, ramosus, 

 ramis erecto-patentibus, apicem versus fastigiatis, subcorym- 

 bosis ; ramulis angularibus, densefoliatis, florentibus purpureo- 

 rubris, pilis et glandulis obtectis ; foliis parvis, sessilibus, 

 lineari-lanceolatis obtusis, inferioribus longioribus reflexis, 

 6 mm. longis, 1-2 mm. latis supra planis vel subcanaliculatis ; 



^ Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



