AGATHOSMA minutaSchlect [family RUTACEAE], ! Linn. 6, p. 206;—E. & Z.! 886 exclus. sp. from Zwarteberg.
Information
twigs downy; leaves (minute) patent or reflexed, thickish, oblong-elliptical, or oval, obtuse, concave above, somewhat keeled and sparsely gland-sprinkled beneath; flowers umbellate; peduncles and calyx glabrous; cal.-lobes roundish; claws of the petals equalling the calyx, limb obovate-elliptical, narrowed at base; sterile filaments linear, wider and pubescent in the middle; ovary and style glabrous. Scarcely 6 inches high, in ramification and whitish colour of the branches resembling the last, differing in the leaves, never orbicular, but oval, thicker, more strongly nerved beneath, and prominently keeled, scarcely more than 1/2 line long. Umbels 4–8 flowered; peduncles glabrous, 1–1 1/2 line long. Petals thrice as long. Stamens longer than the petals; the sterile 1/3 shorter. Carpels 3, cylindrical. Style lengthening.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Kars-river and Potberg, E. & Z.! Between Cape L'Agulhas and Potberg, Drege! 7121. Aug.-Oct. (Herb. Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.)