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elliptica, 1 mm. vix excedentia, parcissime pubescentia, vix capitato- 
glandulosa. Stylus cum ovario glaber, filiformis, ad 4 mm. longus. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Mossel Bay Div., Montagu 
Pass, 3500 ft., Nov. 1894, Schlechter, 5812 ! (in Herb. Bolus and Albany 
Museum). A specimen in the Gill College Herbarium received Oct., 
1904, from A. Kennedy in the neighbourhood of Humansdorp. 
Apparently closely allied to A. Burchellii, mihi, but distinguished 
by the relatively shorter, broader, and glabrous leaves rarely disposed 
in threes, their subacute apices, shorter pedicels, eglandular sepals and 
petals, which latter have moreover not the tiny tuft of hairs at their 
apices. Like A. Burchellii it has the facies of Barosma microcarpa. 
A. Marlothii, A. planifoliae, ut videtur, accedit, sed foliis ellipticis vel late 
lanceolatis, puberulis, pedicellis calycibusque glabris longioribusque, 
petalis brevioribus, ceterisque distinguitur. 
Fruticulus erectus, vel paullo decumbens, ad 17 cm. altus, laxe 
ramosus, ramulis gracilibus puberulis. Folia patentia, vix ascendentia, 
complanata, elliptica vel late lanceolata, obtusa vel subacuta, basi 
cuneata vel cuneato-rotundata, petiolo ad 0-5 mm. longo, brunneo, 
planiusculo, suffulta, 5 — 8 mm. longa, 1-5 — 2-5 mm. lata, coriacea, 
utrinque minute griseo-puberula, olivaceo-viridescentia, subtus punc- 
tato-glandulosa, ecostata, margine incrassata, valde punctato-glandu- 
losa, minute ciliolata. Umbella hemisphaerica, laxe 5 — multiflora, 
ad 2 cm. diam., floribus purpureis ( teste A. Bolus), pedicellis gracilibus, 
ad 1 cm. longis, nudis, glabris. Calyx circiter 3 mm. altus, glaber, 
segmentis mox reflexis, late oblongis, extus valde punctato-glandulosis, 
apice obtusa vel rotundata. Petala breviter unguiculata, 3 3-5 mm. 
longa, U2- — 1*5 mm. lata, utrinque glabra, lamina late ovata vel ovato- 
elliptica vel elliptica, apice obtusa vel rotundata. Stamina 4 5 mm. 
„ longa, glabra. Staminodia parvula, elliptica, l - 5 mm. longa, medio 
parce pilosa, glanduloso-capitata. Stylus crasse filiformis, ad 3 mm. 
longus, cum ovario glaberrimus. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Tulbagh Div., Great 
Winterhoekberg, Dec., 1896, A. Bolus in Herb. Bolus, 4187! 
Related to A. planifolia, Sond., apparently (which latter has not 
been rediscovered since the time of Niven, and of which dried material 
is only in the Herbaria of Martius and Sonder), from which it differs 
in its elliptic or broadly lanceolate relatively longer but narrower 
puberulous leaves, glabrous and longer pedicels and calyces, the lattei 
punctate-glandular, shorter petals (the petals are not much Jona- 
than the calyces), and other floral characters. 
Specimens of this species are also in Dr Mailoth s Her • 
collected by him on Matroosberg at 6000 ft., Dec., 189o, Her . o. 
