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THE GENUS AGATHOSMA 
Fruticulus gracilis, ad 0-5 m. altus, ramis paucis fastigiatis vel 
rectis, albidis, glabris. Folia adpressa, vix imbricata, fere amplexicaulia, 
demum ascendentia, perbreviter petiolata, lanceolata, paullulo calloso- 
obtusa, circiter 4 mm. longa, 1 — T3 mm. lata, coriacea, utrinque 
glabra, supra concava, subtus convexa, obscure punctato-glandulosa, 
margine primo laxe pilosa, mox glabra, integra. Umbellae capitatae, j 
fere orbiculares, congestiflorae, 1-5 cm. diam., albae; bracteis late 
ovatis, fere rotundatis, circ. 2 mm. longis, concavis, scariosis, pectinato- 
ciliolatis; pedicellis 1 — 1-5 mm. longis, glabris, bracteolis binis, basi- 
laribus elliptico-oblongiusculis, scariosis, 1-3 mm. longis, ciliolatis. 
Calyx 1-7 mm. longus, utrinque glaber, segmentis late deltoideis, 
obtusis, dorso obtuse carinatis, margine pectinato-ciliolatis. Petala 
unguiculata, 4 — 4-5 mm. longa, lamina late elliptica, rotundata, 
1-7 mm. lata, glabra, unguibus medio parce pectinato-pilosis. Stamina 
glabra. Staminodia oblanceolata, 3 — 3-5 mm. longa, sub apice glandula 
notata, medio patenter pilosa. Pistillum superne longe albo-pilosum, 
stylo interne albo-piloso. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Ceres Div., nr. Laaken 
Yley, Matroosberg, 5000 ft.?, Nov., 1917, Dr E. P. Phillips, 1967! (in 
Herb. S.A. Museum, 11767). 
One of the section Euagathosmae perhaps nearest to A. erecta, 
B. and W., and its forms, but easily distinguished by its glabrous 
twigs, relatively larger, adpressed, dorsally convex, less thickish 
leaves, the larger almost orbicular capitate umbels, the scarious 
bracts, the shorter glabrous pedicels, and floral distinctions. 
A. muizenbergensis, var. planitiensis. 
Fruticulus robustus, ad 0-5 m. altus. Folia lanceolato-subulata, 
obtusiuscula, ad 1-5 cm. longa, dorso costato-carinata, apicem versus 
paullulo gibbosa, margine primo parce pectinato-ciliata. Pedicelli 
pilosi, pilis ascendentibus, undulatis. Calycis lobi pilosi, 2 mm. longi. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Cape Div., among short 
Restiaceae and bushes, in sandy flats east of Mowbray, 10th Aug., 
1912, N. Pillans, 1901 ! (in Herb. Pillans, 1901). 
A peculiar variant and new record for the Cape Peninsula Flora, 
distinguished from the type — a montane species — by its more robust 
habit, the leaves, when young, being marginally and dorsally pectinate- 
ciliate, and relatively longer, with a slight dorsal subapical gibbosity, 
by the pubescence of the pedicels which is of an ascending and wavy 
nature (and not stiff and patently spreading), by the ciliate calyx- 
lobes, and the slightly larger and flesh-coloured flowers. Superficially 
not unlike A. Dummeri, Phillips, from the French Hoek Mountains, 
but more dwarf. 
