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DIOSMA ciliata. 
Fringed-leaved Diosma. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord, Ruracem. Jussieu gen. 296. Div. II. Genera Rutaceis 
affinia. 
Diosmea. Brown gen. rem. in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 545. 
DIOSMA. Cal. profundé 5-fidus persistens, basi intus vestitus disco 
hypogyno?) ad limbum 5-crenato aut in 5 squamulas producto. Pet. 5, 
sessilia, saepé marcescentia, sub disco inserta et ejusdem crenis aut squa- 
mulis opposita. ; Stam. 5, ibidém inserta, petalis alterna. Germ. disco 
infra cinctum; stylus 1; stig. capitatum. Fructus 3-5-capsularis, capsulis 
compressis conniventibus oblongis, ints dehiscentibus, foetis arillo con- 
formi cartilagineo similitér dehiscente, mono aut polyspermo; sem. nitida,, 
Frutices ericoidei ; folia opposita aut sparsa, sepée conferla et linearia, inter~ 
dim subtis margine punctata ; flores corymbosi aut capitato-terminales. Calyces 
quorundam punctato-glandulosi. Juss. loc. cit. 298. 
Div. Agathosma. — Filamentis alternis sterilibus cochleari-petaliformibus. 
D. ciliata, foliis lanceolatis carinatis ciliatis, umbellis terminalibus. Willd. 
sp. pl. 1. 1135. ; 
Diosma ciliata. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.287. Berg. cap. 66. Thunb. prod. 43. 
Hort: Kew. 1. 275. ed. 2. 2. 30. : 
Hartogia ciliaris. Lin. syst. nat. ed. 12. 2. 625. A el 
Rami foliosi, teretes, fulvits-subhirsuti, erecti: ramuli plurimi, summitate 
et medio ramorum congregati, sparsi, axillares, diminuto-foliosi, filiformes, 
graciles, ascendentes, simplices, duplo longiores Jolits rameis v. ultra, apice 
umbellifert. Fol. numerosa, sparsa, divaricata, lanceolata, glanduloso-punc- 
tata, margine et nervo medio subtis hirto-ciliata, supra glabra,  uncie circitér 
longa, Aplo vel ultra angustiora. Umbella multi-(sub12-)-flore, convexas 
pedunculi capillacei, rubentes, @quilongi, % uncie circiter longi, pilosiusculi, 
ebracteati. Flores odorem herbaceo-resinosum spirantes, parvuli, albi, erecti, 
Cal. persistens, crassiusculus, albido-wvirens, turbinato-campanulatus, albo-punc-. 
talus, segmentis subulatis, erectis, ciliatis. Pet. turbinato-patentia, filamentis 
Jertilibus alterna, spathulato-oblonga, duplo.longiora calyce. Fil. 5 Sterilia, 
petaloda, cochleariformi-ligulata, angusta, alba, inferne pilosa: 5 fertilia, fli- 
Sormia, successtve procrescentia, inferné pilosa, erecto-patentia. Germ. disco 
glanduloso crasso immersum, viride, apice hirsutum, obovatum, compressum 
(in nostro specimine) biloculare, bicorne, cornubus erectis glanduloso-punas 
tatis: stylus setaceus, persistens, albus, glaber. 
——— 
The genus Drosma has been divided into four by Will- 
denow, in his Catalogue of the Berlin Garden. Our plant 
would belong to the AcatHosma of these distinguished from 
Diosma in having ten petals instead of five, the five alter- 
nate ones being however, in fact, sterile filaments, not pe- 
tals as they are termed by him. 
