324 ERICACE® (Brown). [ Bleria. 
SournH Arrica: without locality, the type and var. B, Drége ! 
Coast Reaion: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Sehlechter, 10265! Stellenbosch 
Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8252! Caledon Div. ; tops of the mountains near 
Genadendal, Burchell, 7697! Bolus, 5416! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 
612! on the Zwart Berg, near Sandfontein, Schlechter, 10339! Bredasdorp Div. ; 
near Elim, Schlechter, 9639! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; mountains near Gennu- 
dendal, Bolus, 5419! and in Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 613! Guthrie, 8140! 
I retain this as distinct from B. purpurea (which it closely resembles) on — 
account of its different anthers. Var. 8 is intermediate between typical 2. 
dumosa and B. campanulata in structure, but differs from the latter in the 
colour of its flowers and fewer stamens. 
9. B. campanulata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 698) ; plant 6-10 
in. high, with erect slender rather straight glabrous branchlets ; 
leaves 3-nate, adpressed, very shortly petiolate, }-14 lin. long, {-3 
lin. broad, oblong or linear-oblong, subacute, glabrous with minutely 
scabrid margins ; umbels or superposed whorls terminal, 3-6- 
flowered ; pedicels 2-1 lin. long, with 3 linear-subulate ciliolate 
bracts near the middle; calyx 2 lin. long, equally 4-lobed to below 
the middle, glabrous ; lobes lanceolate or linear-oblong, acute, rigid, 
minutely gland-ciliate ; corolla 1-14 lin. long, 3-1 lin. in diam., 
campanulate, 4-angled, glabrous, white; lobes erect, } lin. long, 
broadly rounded ; stamens usually 6, sometimes 5; anthers exserted, 
1 lin, long, divided nearly to the base, distinctly constricted at the 
base of the cells into a subquadrate truncate spurless base, scabrid, 
dark brown ; ovary elliptic-obovoid, glabrous, 4-angled; cells 2-3- 
ovuled ; style much exserted, 11-14 lin. long, slightly dilated at the 
simple stigma. ; 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; tops of the mountains of Baviaans Kloof, 
near Caledon, Burchell, 7693! 7773! 
I do not find the corolla-lobes fimbriate as described by Bentham. The 
specimens collected by Drége which were referred to this species by Bentham, 
differ in having purple flowers, fewer stamens and spurred anthers. I place 
them with others like them as a var. of B. dumosa, Wendl. 
10. B. flexuosa (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 698) ; dwarf ; branches 
very slender, flexuose and interwoven, glabrous ; leaves opposite or 
3-nate on the same plant, adpressed, very shortly and stoutly 
petiolate, 3-134 lin. ‘long, linear, subacute, glabrous, minutely 
scabrid on the narrowly’ cartilaginous margins; flowers terminal, 
solitary or 2-6 in an umbel; pedicels 8-1 lin. long; bracts remote 
from the calyx, linear, glabrous, very minutely gland-ciliate ; calyx 
lobed to below the middle; lobes 2 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
coriaceous, keeled, glabrous ; corolla 13-12 lin. long, % lin. in diam., 
campanulate, distinctly 4-angled, glabrous ;. lobes erect, 4 lin. long, 
broadly rounded ; stamens 4—5; anthers not exserted, } lin. long, 
bipartite, indistinctly scabrid, spurless but with very minutely 
projecting angles at the base; ovary 4-angled, glabrous; cells about 
4-ovuled ; style equalling or shortly exserted from the corolla, % lin. 
long; stigma simple. 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; near the Steenbrass River, Niven, 6! 
