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costata, margine haud incrassata, eglandulosa; petiolo complanato, 
citrino, ad 0-7 mm. longo, glabro. Umbella pauciflora (2— 5-fl.), 
circiter 1 cm. diam., floribus carneis (sicco); pedicelli 3 — 3-5 mm. longi, 
puberuli. Calyx 4 — 4-5 mm. longus, tubo parcissime puberulo, lobis 
glabris, obovato-oblongis, setaceo-cuspidatis, dorso obtuse scarioso- 
carinatis, glandulis verrucosis notatis, marginibus glabris. Petala 
obovato-elliptica, obtusa vel rotundata, 5 mm. longa, 2 — 2-5 mm. lata, 
interne parcissime puberula, mox glabrescentia. Stamina glabra. 
Staminodia crassa, anguste oblonga, circiter 2 mm. longa, ciliolata, 
apice glandula deltoidea notata. Pistillum glabrum, stylo crasse 
filiformi, ad 3 mm. longo. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Willowmore Div., on the 
mountains near Swanepoelspoort, 4000 ft., Sept., 1905, Marloth, 4128! 
(in Herb. Marloth and Bolus). 
Differs from typical A. mucronulnta, Sonder, which also emanates 
from the same locality. From it, the more erect habit, essentially 
glabrous leaves, puberulous calyces (not velvety), longer calyx-lobes, 
longer petals, and glabrous ovary afford salient characters of distinction. 
Burchell’s specimens (No. 4999) Kew Herb, from a rocky hill near 
Haarlem and Avontuur (Uniondale Div.), March 14th, 1814, may 
belong here. Cf. Fedde, Repertorium, xi (1912), 403, under A. mucro- 
nulata, Sond. What I take to be good A. mucronulata, Sonder (A. mucro- 
nata in Sonder’s key to the species of this group), is a specimen in the 
Albany Museum collected by Mrs T. V. Paterson in Nov., 1912 (3065), 
near Uniondale — the only dried specimen I am aware of in S.A. 
collections. 
A. Tugwelliae, A. sessilipetalae affinis, sed foliis ellipticis glaberrimis, margini- 
bus glanduloso-notatis, capitulis minoribus, pedicellis longioribus, 
calyce multo minore, lobis eglandulosis, petalis minoribus angustiori- 
busque differt. 
Fruticulus gracilis, multiramosus, circiter 0-3 m. altus, ramis 
fastigiatis, griseo-puberulis, foliatis. Folia ascendentia, vix imbricata, 
late elliptica vel ovato-elliptica, subacuta, inferne in petiolum per- 
brevem sensim attenuata, 4 — 7 mm. longa, 2 — 2-5 mm. lata, valde 
coriacea, glaberrima, nitidula, supra olivaceo-atroviridia, subtus 
pallidiora, parce punctato-glandulosa, costata, margine incrassata, 
punctato-glandulosa. Umbella pauciflora (2 — 5-flora), 0-7 cm. dia- 
metro, floribus roseis (sicco), pedicellis 4 — 5 mm. longis, puberulis. 
Calyx 6-5 — 6-7 mm. longus, segmentis deltoideis obtusis, dorso minute 
puberulis, obtuse carinatis, marginibus ciliolatis. Petala elliptico- 
oblonga, obtusa vel rotundata, 3 — 3-5 mm. longa, 1-5 mm. lata, e 
basi parcissime puberula. Stamina glabra. Staminodia elliptica, 
