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filiformes, »lalierrimi , bracleolis diiabns alternls lennlssiinis 

 sniiiil.itis siibciliatis dccidnis supra medium iiislrncti. CaJya: 

 glalMTiimns, liii. longus, 5-partitiis, lariniis siibaequalibas 

 ovato- lancoolatis, cariuatis, inforne margine membraiiaceis, 

 band ciliatis. Annulus perigynus late apcriiis, angustns, 

 sinnatiis. Pctaia alba, glaborrima, iingiie calyce diiplo bre- 

 TJore angnste liiioari, lamina oblongo-obovata rotiindato- 

 obliisa basi in ungiiem attoiinata ooqiie dnplo lougiore, nni- 

 nervi, nervo infra apiccm glanddla minuta terminata. Sta^ 

 mina glaberiima. Filamenta sterilia calycem vix snperan- 

 lia, erecta, angnste lineari-oblonga, acuminata, glandnla 

 parva terminala, a basi ad aciimen glabrnm nsqne pilis bre- 

 vissimis pubescenli - ciliaia. Stylus glaberrimus. Stigma 

 aeqnale obtnsnm. 



Proxima Ag. erectae ^ qnae tarnen diversa: foliis poling 

 oblongis subtiis convexis, pediinciilis villosis pnbescentibusve 

 snpra basin bracteolatis, petalornm unguibus longioribus et 

 filamentorum sterilinm indole. 



AGATHOSMi CHORTOPHILA Eckl. et Zcyh. 



A. glabra: foliis augnste linrari- oblongis snbtrigonis 

 eroclinseulis sabincurvis, snbtus qnadrifariam glanduloso* 

 tnbercnlntis; floribus suburabellatis ; filamontis sterilibns ca- 

 Ijcem paiilo snperaniibns Innccolato-Iinearibns concavis, in- 

 ferne ciliatis, superne rccurvis glabris. 



Agathosma chortophila Eckl. et Zejh. ! ennm. p, 116. 

 11. 914. 



Habitat in tcrritorii Capensis distr. Worccstor inter gra- 

 mina et Restioues ad radic«»s montiiim vallis Tnibngh infra 

 Waterfall. Eckl. et Zeyh. ! 



Fruticulus ercctiis, exccptis ramniis uovelHs ad lenfera 

 tennissime piibornlis glaberrimus; ramis priraariis erectis vel 

 adscendentibus, parce ricatrisatis, crassitie pennam colnm- 



