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DIOSMA. hirta. 
Purple Diosma. 
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PENTANDRIA JZONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Ruracem®. Jussieu gen. 269. Div. III. Genera Rutaceis 
 affinia. 
Diosmem. Brown gen. rem. in app. to Flind. voy. 2. 545. 
DIOSMA. Supra fol. 366. 
Div. Agathosma. Filamentis alternis sterilibus cochleari-petaliformibus. 
D. foliis lanceolatis carinatis imbricatis hirtis, corymbis terminalibus, stami- 
nibus quinque sterilibus, germinibus apice biglandulosis. Venten. mal- 
_mais. 72. a se de 
Diosma hirta. Lamarck encyc. 2. 286. illustr. tab. 127 [Diosma] jig. 3. 
_ Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 30. 
losma purpurea. Herb. Banks. 
Frutex ericoides, prolifero-ramosus: rami 8-10, longiores caule, erecto- 
patentes, foliost, pubescentes; ramuli apice floriferi. Fol. sparsa, subsessilia, 
lineari-subulata, subtis convexo-carinata, hirta, supra concava, glabra, punc- 
tata, saturate virentia, trita odorem aromaticum fundentia, inferiora patentia, 
Ssuperiora imbricato-conferta: petioli brevissime tuberculo decurrenti impositi, ” 
albicantes. Unmbella terminales, convex, conferte ; flores numerosi, parvi, 
mtensiis roseo-purpuret: pedicelli capillacei, pubescentes, purpurei, duplo 
longiores flore, ebracteati. Cal. duplo brevior corolla, segmentis lanceolatis, 
extus nubescentibus. Pet. 5, disco hypogyno inserta, unguiculata, erecto-- 
patentia : ungues filiformes longitudine calycis: laminz ovales obtuse, longi- 
tudine unguium. Fil. 10, codem plano cum petalis inserta, alterné sterilia: 
Sterilia petalis opposita et eorum concolora, linearia, obtusa, concava, inferné 
pubescentia, longitudine unguium petalorum: fertilia subulata, albida, corol+ 
lam equantia: anth. erect@, ovales, obtuse, compresse, quadrisulcate, ru- 
escentes. Germ. globosum, supra biglandulosum, disco immersum: stylus 
rectus, coroll@ concolor, filiformis, longitudine staminum. Plurimim ex gall. 
enten. |. c. vers. 
The present species has been very generally mistaken by 
our gardeners and nurserymen for Diosma rubra, so much 
so that we have never met with it in any of our collections 
under its real name. It is one of the prettiest and liveliest 
flowered of the genus, and continues in bloom most part 
of the spring and summer. Introduced from the Cape of 
Good Hope (where the whole generic group is native) by 
Mr. Masson, about 1794. Requires the same treatment as 
the Cape Heaths, and is easily propagated by cuttings. 
A heathlike shrub, proliferously branched: branches 
8-10, longer than the stem, open, upright, leafy, furred; 
