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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
tenuiter coriacea, pallide viridia, supra vix nitentia, subtus pallidiora, 
elevato-costata, glandulis paucis, magnis, conspersa vel interdum fere 
eglandulosa, margine grosse denticulato-crenulata, basin versus 
minute ciliolata, petiolo complanato, puberulo; cymae axillares, 
1 — 5-florae, racemoso-dispositae, pedunculis 0-5 — 1-5 cm. longis pube- 
rulis, apicem versus 2 — 3-bracteatis, bracteis verticillatis, foliosis; 
bracteolae basilares, vel medio positae, parvulae, ellipticae, rotundatae, 
0-5 — 0-7 mm. longae, dorso convexae, ciliolatae; flores albae (sicco); 
pedicelli crassiusculi, 2 — 4 mm. longi, minute puberuli ; calyx utrinque 
glaber viridisque, segmentis late ovatis, obtusis vel rotundatis, circ. 
1 mm. longis dorso obtuse lato-carinatis, marginibus ciliolatis; petala 
sessilia, obovato-cuneata, rotundafca, 4 — 5 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, 
utrinque glabra, dorso purpureo, 2 — 4-punctato-glandulosa ; stamina 
circ. 5 mm. longa, glaberrima ; staminodia anguste-oblonga, apice pur- 
pureo-recurva, circ. 2 mm. longa, glabra; pistillum ubique glabrum, 
stylo filiformi, 3 mm. longo. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; ClanwiJliam Div., Cedar- 
berg Mountains, Forster Bath (Herb. Bolus, No. 15691). 
A very interesting novelty among Buchus, the above description 
being based on material collected by Forester Bath and communicated 
by the Forestry Department in Oct., 1917. 
Its relationship is with B. crenata, Kunze (B. crenulata, Lindley) 
from which it is at once distinguished by its hairy twigs and petioles, 
the more elliptic less coriaceous texture of the leaves, which are 
occasionally epunctate dorsally, more often with a few large scattered 
glands, the distant and more rough crenulation of their margins, in 
the relatively smaller flowers, differently disposed, in the petals 
markedly gland-dotted dorsally, and in the totally glabrous staminodes 
and styles. 
The large size of the shrub and its large leaves suggest commercial 
possibilities, although the leaves do not possess many glands to the 
square inch. On the other hand pharmacologists assert that it is not 
merely the oil content of the leaves but also their mucilaginous pro- 
perties, which give to them their intrinsic value. It is a species worth 
taking up experimentally, and every effort should be made to secure 
a fair quantity of the leaves and these submitted to careful analysis. 
Lebeckia elongata, Hutchinson ( Leguminosae-Genisteae ); affinis L. spinescenti, 
Harv., et L. microphyllae, E. Mey., ab ilia ramulis elongatis minus 
spinescentibus, ovario dense pubescente, ab hac petiolis multo longiori- 
bus differt. 
Suffrutex laxe divaricatus, subdichotome ramosus; rami leviter 
costati, straminei; ramuli elongati, cinerei, graciles, laxissime foliati, 
