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DIOSMA ameena. 
Circular-petalled Diosma. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4. a 
Nat. ord. RuTACER. Jussieu gen. 269. Div. ITT. Genera Rutaceis 
affinia. : 
DiosMER®. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 545, 
DIOSMA. Supra vol. 5, fol. 366. 
Div. Adenandra. Stamina basi coroné brevi connexa: 5 alterna sterilia: 
5 fertilia apice appendiculata. Willd. enum. 1. 256. 4 
D. amena, foliis ovalibus glabris, petiolis eglandulosis, floribus sessilibus 
ramorum umbellato-proliferorum seorsim terminalibus; petalorum laminis 
imbricatis orbiculatis cum mucrone margineque levi. 
Diosma ameena. Loddiges’s bot. cab. n. 161. 
Frutex erectus, prolifero-ramosus ; rami plurimi, axillares, per intervalla 
approximati, adscendentes, teretes, villost, floribus tenis foliosi, apice pro- 
ee omnilloee ramulis pluribus brevibus, foliosis, successive unifloriferis, 
umbellato-approximatis. Folia coriacea, erassiuscula, crebra, sparsa, pa- 
tentia, intervallis longiora, elliptica, utringue attenuata,  obtusiuscula, & 
uncie circiter longa latitudine duplo minore v. ultrd, nuda, opaca, enervia, 
disco subtus glauca cum ord glanduloso-punctaté costdque medid obsoleté sub- 
tus virente, floralia 2 opposita calyct subtensa subovata acutiora ciliata: pet. 
lineari-oblongus, appressus, decurrens, multoties brevior folio, intius planus. 
Flores sessiles, erecti, roseo-albicantes, inodori, unciam circa transversi, tur- 
binato-rotati, subtus rubro-lucentes. Cal. turbinato-patens, foliis (2 florali- 
bus proximioribus oppositis) obvallatus, corollé bis terve brevior, punctatus, 
viridi-ruber, segmentis ovatis ciliatis acumine brevi obtusiusculo. Core. pet. 
equalia, unguiculato-orbiculata cum mucrone, margine levi, plicd media 
verticali; laminis imbricato-contiguis; unguibus angustis, subulatis, rubris, 
erectis, distantibus, ter feré brevioribus calyce.. Stam. corone crassiori 5-lobe 
viridi germen @quanti insistentia, erecta, distantia, pilosa: fil. 5 alterna 
castrata duplo longiora, petalis opposita, subulato-jiliformia, apice rubro et 
appendicis lutescentis cerint rudimento introrso terminata; alia 5 antherifera 
crassius subulata, erecto-incurvescentia, antheris viz equalia; anth. majus- 
cule introrse, oblonge, ustulato-rufescentes, supra basin receptaculi lati antici’ 
loculorum afjixe, appendice ovato-rotundo completo cerino lutescente mobili 
ipsis 3plo minore extus convexo intis concavo cum glanduld lucidé prominente 
in disco ex arrecto post anthesin retrofrangendo articulato-prefixe: pollen 
ochroleucum. Germ. ovato-rotundum viride glandulis creberrimis sessilibus 
stipitalisque pustulatum: stylus viridis, columellaris, staminibus completis 
‘equalis, 5-striatus, é decurvo arrigendus, stigmate depresso penticolli viridis- 
simo apiculatus. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope, and said to have been 
introduced about 1798; though not recorded in any of the 
Catalogues of our gardens. 
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