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DIOSMA rubra. 
Juniper-leaved Diosma. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SE Jussieu gen. 269. Div. TT. Genera Rutaceis 
affinia. 
DiosMExX. Brown gen. rem, in flind. voy. 2. 545. 
DIOSMA. Supra vol. 5, fol. 366. 
Div. Diosme vere. Stamina extra coronam inserta; 5 fertilia: sterilia 
nulla. : 
D. rubra, foliis linearibus mucronatis glabris (molli-ciliatis) carinatis subtis 
bifariam punctatis. Lin, sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 287. 
Diosma rubra. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 3. ° Berg. cap. 62. Thunb. prod. 42. 
Willd. sp. pl. 1.1134. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 29. 
Diosma ericifolia. Andrews’s reposit. 451. ° 
Diosma tenuifolium. Willd. enum. 1. 258? 
Spirza africana odorata, floribus suavé rubentibus. Commel. rar. 2. t. 2. 
Frutex IRC? erectus, prolifero-ramosus; rami teretes, foliost, sub- 
rubentes, ramulis corymboso-approximatis virentibus cum pube minutd, apice 
Sloriferis. - Folia sparsa, proxima, imbricato-patentia, crassiuscula, stricti- 
uscula, lineari-subulata, cartilagineo-mucronata, subjus carinato-convexa 
punctisque glandulosis biseriato-notata; villoso-ciliata, caterum glabra, se- 
muncialia ad uncialia usque, supra plana: pet. brevis, appressus, compla- 
natus, pallidus. Cymule terminales, pauciflore; flores albo-rubentes, 
parvuli, erecti, ut et folia odorem strenuum herbaceo-resinosum spirantes ; 
pedunculi in summis foliis axillares tisque subequales, bis terve divisi, erecti, 
teretes, lanuginosi; pedicelli brevissimi bracteis trinis pallentibus ad basin. 
Cal. lanuginosus, duplo brevior corolla4 magisve, patens, segmentis. ovate- 
acuminatis apice roseis. Petala campanulato-patentia, obovato-oblonga, 
sessilia, planiuscula, equalia, apice rotundata, disco glanduloso calycis in- 
serta. Stam. 5, petalis breviora et cum tis in plano eodem extra coronam in- 
serta, primd inflexa inde successive arrigenda atque divaricanda; sterilia nulla: 
fil. subulata, rubentia; anth. ovate, erecta, a bast infixe, introrse, glandula 
minutd concolori ex erecta reflectendé prefixe, primo roseo-rubentes denuo 
nigricantes, polline grumoso, aureo-flavescente. Germ! 5, supera, in stellam 
connexa, pallido-virentia, intra coronam concavam 5-lobo-plicatam recon- 
dita: stylus cylindricus, pallidus, crasstusculus, inflexo-arrigendus, stamini- 
bus equalis; stigma subcapitato-obtusum. 
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A species of that group which, according to Willdenow, 
should alone constitute the true Diosma; but which in our 
view connects too naturally and conveniently with the others 
that have been detached from it by that botanist to induce 
us to regard it as usefully separable. 
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