840 ERICACEE (Browa).- [ Grisebachia. 
lobes 1-1 lin. broad, ovate to orbicular, densely ciliate with long 
hispid white hairs and with similar hairs on the back ; corolla 
2 lin. long, constricted above the middle, minutely puberulous out- 
side on the sharply 4-angled part of the tube, pubescent within at the 
constriction; lobes 1—2 lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, 
incurved, glabrous; stamens rather shorter than the corolla; fila- 
ments ciliate with very fine’ hairs ; anthers 2 lin. long and nearly as 
broad, scabrous, without spurs; ovary compressed, ellipsoid, very 
obtuse, glabrous ; style exserted, glabrous; stigma capitate. Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 701; Rach in Linnea, xxvi.790. Bleria ptilota, 
EE. Meyer ex Benth. Le. 
Sourn AFRIcA: without locality, Thunberg! Alasson ! 
Coast ReGion: Clanwilliam Div.; near Zwartbast Kraal below 1000 ft., 
Drege! near the Oliphants River and Brakfontein, Ecklon S Zeyher, ex 
Klotzsch. Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg and near Vogel Valley, Ecklon & Zeyher, 
ex Klotzsch. . ne 
3. G. involuta (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 227); branches and 
branchlets erect, puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed or imbricate, | 
straight or somewhat recurved, 11-21 lin. long, oblong-linear, sub- 
acute, glabrous or at first puberulous all over and ciliate with long 
slightly hispid or simple white hairs, but no long hairs on the back, 
soon becoming glabrous, with minutely serrulate margins; heads 
globose, terminal, 5-8 lin. in diam., 6-—12-flowered; pedicels 
4_] lin. long, bracteate at the middle; bracts adpressed to the calyx, 
unequal, the larger 11-2 Jin. long, all ovate-lanceolate or the lateral 
linear-oblong, glabrous, ciliate with very long simple or very slightly 
hispid hairs ; calyx divided almost to the base; segments 2 lin. long, 
1 lin, broad, lanceolate-oblong, acute, densely ciliate and more or less 
hairy on the back with simple or slightly hispid hairs, 3—1 lin. long ; 
corolla-tube 23 lin. long, constricted near the top, sharply angled, 
very slightly broadened at the basal part, minutely puberulous out- 
side, pubescent on the upper half within; lobes 2 lin. long and 
broad, ovate, obtuse, concave, incurved-erect, glabrous ; stamens not 
exceeding the corolla-lobes ; filaments hairy ; anthers 2—% lin. long, 
broadly cuneate-oblong, spurless, almost hispid-scabrous; ovary 
obtuse, glabrous ; style 3 lin. long, exserted, glabrous ; stigma small, 
capitate. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 701; Drége, Zwei Pfl. Docum. 
72. G. involucrata, Klotzsch ex Drége, l.c. 188. ' 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége (distributed as Blairiz) 7801! 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, near Krakadouw, 
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8680! Bosch Kloof, Drége, ex Klotzsch. 
Drége 7801 is the plant described by Bentham, and is possibly the same as 
the specimen from Bosch Kloof, although Klotzsch describes the calyx. of that 
as being glabrous. ’ 
4. G. Bolusii (N. E. Br.); branchlets white-puberulous or minutely 
subtomentose ; leaves 3-nate, 3-14 lin. long with the petiole, ad- 
pressed-imbricate, linear-oblong, obtuse, at first puberulous, minutely 
woolly on the margins and ciliate with a few short branched or 
