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RUTACE^E. XII. BAROSMA. XIII. AGATHOSMA. 



smooth or hispid at the base, tapering to the top into a minute 

 5-lobed stigma. Capsule of 5 joined carpels, each furnished 

 with an auricle at the top on the outside, and with glandular 

 dots on the back. Small, heath-like shrubs, with opposite or 

 scattered, coriaceous, flat, dotted leaves, with their margins 

 sometimes glandularly serrulated, sometimes almost entire or re- 

 volute. Flowers white or red, solitary or in threes ; pedicels short, 

 furnished with close-pressed, imbricate, sepal-like bracteas. In 

 B. trichopodis, Bartl. the flowers are in fascicles on ] -flowered 

 pedicels, rising from the minute, many-leaved, axillary buds. 



* Leaves glandularly serrulated. 



1 B. SF.RRATIFOLIA (Willd. enum. p. 257.) leaves nearly oppo- 

 site, lanceolate, stalked, glandularly serrulated, smooth ; pedun- 

 cles axillary, subdivided, tj . G. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Diosma serratif olia, Curt. bot. mag. t. 456. Lodd. bot. 

 cab. t. 373. Burch, voy. 1. p. 476. with a figure. Parape- 

 talifera serrata, Wencll. coll. 1 . t. 34. Adenandra cordata, Link, 

 enum. 1. p. 236. Petals white. 



Serrate-leaved Barosma. Fl. Mar. June. Clt. 1789. Shrub 



1 to 3 feet. 



2 B. ODORA'TA (Willd. enum. p. 257.) leaves opposite, ovate- 

 oblong, crenated, smooth, glandular ; pedicels axillary, solitary. 



T? . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Diosma odorata, 

 B.C. prod. 1. p. 714. D. latifolia, Lodd. bot. cab. t. 290. 

 Parapetalifera odorata, Wendl. coll. 1. t. 15. Branches tetra- 

 gonal. Peduncles sometimes 2-flowered. Flowers white. 

 Sweet-scented Barosma. Fl. Mar. June. Clt. 1789. Shrub 



2 to 4 feet. 



3 B. BETU'LINA (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. 1. c.) 

 leaves opposite, obovate, serrulated, sessile, spreading much, 

 covered with glandular dots beneath ; flowers axillary, solitary. 

 T? . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Diosma betulina, 

 Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 139. Hartogia betulina, Berg. cap. 69. 

 Bucco betulina, Roem. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 443. Diosma orbi- 

 cularis, Hort. Flowers white. 



Birch-like Barosma. Fl. Feb. Sept. Clt. 1790. Sh. 1 to 3 ft. 



4 B. LATIFOLIA (Roem. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 449.) leaves 

 opposite, ovate-oblong, sessile, serrulated, smoothish, without 

 glandular dots ; branches villous ; flowers usually solitary, la- 

 teral, fj. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Diosma 

 latifolia, Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 139. Lin. fil. suppl. 154. Andr. 

 bot. rep. t. 33. Flowers white. 



Broad-leaved Barosma. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1789. Sh. 1 ft. 



5 B. PULCHE'LLA (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. 1. c.) leaves 

 crowded, ovate, quite smooth, with thickened, crenate-glandular 

 margins ; peduncles axillary, usually solitary, exceeding the 

 leaves. T? . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Diosma 

 pulchella, Lin. spec. 288. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1357. Hartogia 

 pulchella, Berg. cap. 69. Bucco pulchella, Roem. et Schult. 

 syst. 5. p. 442. Flowers pale-red. The Hottentots use the 

 leaves of this plant, dried and powdered, under the name of 

 Buckti, to mix with the grease with which they anoint them- 

 selves. It gives them so rank an odour, that Thunberg says 

 he could not bear the smell of the men who drove his waggon. 



Neat Barosma. Fl. Feb. Sept. Clt. 1789. Sh. 1 to 3 feet. 



6 B. CRENA'TA (Sweet, hort. brit. p. 89.) leaves usually oppo- 

 site, ovate, acute, dotted, with glandularly-crenated margins ; 

 pedicels solitary, 1 -flowered. J? . G. Native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Diosma crenata, Lodd. bot. cab. t. 404. Pro- 

 bably the same as Diosma crenata of Lin. and Thunb. but the 

 leaves are said to be scattered, not opposite. Flowers white. 

 The leaves are used like the lash 



CVenafc-leaved Barosma. Fl. Jan. April. Clt. 1774. Shrub 

 1 to 2 feet. 



7 B. PU'LCIIRA (Nees, in Schlecht. Linnaea. 5. p. 53.) like B. 



pulchella but larger in every part ; fertile filaments ciliated at 

 the base, but the sterile ones all over ; petals full of glan- 

 dular dots. Tj . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Fair Barosma. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



* * Leaves entire or revolute. 



8 B. OVA^TA (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. 1. c.) leaves 

 nearly opposite, ovate, oval, obovate or ovate-roundish, smooth, 

 entire, beset with rusty dots beneath ; flowers axillary, stalked. 

 \y . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Diosma ovata, 

 Thunb. prod. 43. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1616. Bucco ovata, 

 Wendl. coll. t. 20. Flowers white. 



Quote-leaved Barosma. Fl. Feb. Sept. Clt. 1790. Shrub 

 1 to 3 feet. 



9 B. GRAVE V OLENS ; leaves ovate, quite entire, imbricate, 

 smooth ; peduncles axillary, solitary. J? . G. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. Diosma graveolens, Licht. in Roem. et 

 Schult. syst. 5. p. 461. 



Strong-scented Barosma. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



10 B. OBLONGA (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. I. c.) leaves 

 scattered, obovate-oblong, coriaceous, shining, with thickened, 

 revolute, glandularly-crenated margins ; branches pubescent ; 

 peduncles axillary, exceeding the leaves. Tj G. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Diosma oblonga, Thunb. fl. cap. 2. 

 p. 139. D. lanceolata, var. /3 et y, Thunb. prod. 43. Flowers 

 white. 



Oblong-leaved Barosma. Shrub 1 to 3 feet. 



11 B. DIOI'CA (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. 1. c.) leaves 

 scattered, upper ones tern, lanceolate, tapering to both ends, 

 full of glandular dots, spreading ; peduncles axillary, usually in 

 threes, shorter than the leaves ; flowers dioecious from abortion, 

 fj . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Diosma dioica, Ker. 



bot. reg. t. 502. Diosma linifolia, Lodd. bot. cab. t. 400. but 

 not of Licht. Stamens a little exserted. Petals purplish. 

 Dioecious Barosma. Fl. April, Jul. Clt. 1816. Sh. 1 to 2 ft. 



12 B. ANGUSTIFOLIA (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex. Juss. 1. c.) 

 leaves opposite, linear, truncate, revolute, quite smooth, with 

 pellucid, glandularly crenate dots on the margins ; flowers axil- 

 lary, aggregate, on short peduncles. 1? . G. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. Diosma stenophy'lla, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 

 785. Flowers white 1 



Narrow-leaved Barosma. Shrub 1 to 3 feet. 



13 B. FOZTIDI'SSIMA (Bartl. et Wendl. 1. c.) leaves linear, 

 very blunt, revolute, usually tern ; flowers terminal, somewhat 

 umbellately aggregate. Jj . G. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Diosma fcetidissima, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 785. Flowers 

 white. 



Very-fetid Barosma. Fl. Feb. July. Clt. 1824. Sh. 1 to 3 ft. 



14 B. TRICHO'PODIS (Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. ex Juss. 1. c.) 

 flowers in fascicles, on 1 -flowered pedicels, rising from the 

 minute, many-leaved, axillary buds, tj . G. Native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



Hairy-stalked Barosma. Shrub 1 to 3 feet. 



Cull. Barosma is a genus of pretty little shrubs, which 

 thrive best in a mixture of sand, peat, and a little turfy loam ; 

 and cuttings taken off from ripened wood, and planted in a pot of 

 sand, with a bell-glass placed over them, will strike root readily. 



XII f. AGATHO'SMA (from ayaSoc, agathos, good, and 

 oo-juij, osme, smell ; the plants contained in this genus have a 

 pleasant smell). Willd. enum. 259. Bartl. et Wendl. diosm. 

 ex Andr. Juss. in mem. mus. 12. p. 475. t. 20. no. 19. Bucco, 

 Wendl. coll. 1. p. 13. Diosma, species of authors. Hartogia 

 species, Lin. et Berg. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogyma. Calyx 5-parted. Disk 

 short, glandular, adnate to the bottom of the calyx, usually 



