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0 2 cm. lata , fiores solitares, termmales vel axillares, mconspicui ; 
bracteae foliaceae , sepala ovata, acuta, Integra, ciliata, glabra, carinata, 
infra glandulis paucis sparsis, 0'2 cm. longa, 013 cm. lata; petala late 
ovata, acuta, basi cuneata, integra, glabra, 0'3 cm. longa, 0'23 cm. lata, 
discus 5-lobatus, lobis sessili glandula apicali ornatis ; stylus subulatus, 
0'2 cm. longus ; ovarium 5-loculare; capsella glaberrima, cornubus 
O' 5 cm. longis inclusis 1 cm. longa. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; on hillside, Bredasdorp, 
F. Guthrie, 3844; H. Bolus, 8476. 
Nearest to D. succulenta, Berg, but to be distinguished by having 
longer and more obtuse sepals, smaller, glabrous and nonciliate petals, 
lobes of the disc furnished with a sessile gland, and longer horns to 
the capsule. Plate XV, D. 
Acmadenia heterophylla, Glover ( Rutaceae-Diosmeae ). A . laevigatae, B. and W. 
afifinis sed floribus terminalibus majoribus paucioribusque, petalis vix 
barbatis, staminodiis bene evolutis, distinguitur. 
Fruticulus ramosissimus circa 30 cm. altus, ramis pubescentibus ; 
folia erecto-patentia, apicem ramulorum versus imbricata, opposita vel 
sparsa, petiolata, ovato-oblonga, ovata vel subrotunda, acuta vel obtusa, 
supra concava, infra valde carinata, glandulis paucis sparsis, marginibus 
carinaque ciliata, integra, 0'3— 0'5 cm. longa, 0'2 — 0 - 3 cm. lata; fiores 
solitares vel apice ramulorum 2-nati vel 3-nati ; bracteae medio 
apieeque foliaceae, aliter membranaceae, sepalis bracteis similibus 
sed margine membranaceo latiore, 0‘4 cm. longa, 0'2 cm. lata; petala 
obovata, acuta vel obtusa, lamina glabra 0‘5 cm. longa, 0'3 cm. lata, 
ungue ciliato, parce pubescente, 0'2 cm. longo ; discus annularis ; 
filamenta 0'15 cm. longa; staminodia O'l cm. longa ; ovarium 5-loculare ; 
stylus O'l cm. longus ; stigma capitatum. 
Cape Province : South-Western Region ; Mossel Bay, Brother 
Moran (Bolus Herbarium 13,234). In fields near Mossel Bay, Browne 
(MacOwan, 3372). 
Nearest to A. laevigata, B. and W. but may be distinguished from 
that species by its larger and fewer flowers at the end of the branchlets, 
by its almost beardless petals, and by its well-developed staminodes. 
Plate XV, B. 
Acmadenia obtusata, Bartl. and Wendl. var. macropetala, Glover, nov. var. 
Petala obovata, acuta, circa 1 cm. longa, 0‘4 cm. lata, lamina 0*7 cm. 
longa, ungue 0'3 cm. longo. 
Cape Colony: South-Western Region; Hills around Albertinia, 
Riversdale Div., J. Muir , 930. Plate XV, A. 
Argyrolobium Muirii, L. Bolus {Leguminosae-P apilionatae- Genisteae). A. aci- 
culari accedit, sed ramis calyce legumineque pilis patentibus vestitis, 
