 Grisebachia.] ericacem (Brown). oe 
plumose-hispid hairs, becoming glabrous on the back and minutely 
serrulate ; heads globose, terminal, 4—5 lin. in diam., 6—8-flowered ; 
pedicels } lin. long, braeteate at the middle and base ; bracts 1-12 lin. 
long, the larger one 3—1 lin. broad, broadly ovate or rhomboid, acute, 
the lateral oblong, all green-tipped, glabrous, ciliate with short hispid 
hairs; calyx 4-partite; segments often somewhat unequal, about 
1} lin. long, }—% lin. broad, lanceolate, elliptic-ovate or subrhomboid- 
ovate, acute, densely ciliate and hairy on the back with hispid hairs 
3-¢ lin. long; corolla-tube 1} lin. long, constricted near the top, 
oblong and sharply 4-angled below the constriction, pubescent out- 
side and at the constriction within ; lobes } lin. long, ovate, obtuse- 
concave, connivent-incurved, glabrous ; anthers 4 lin. long, cuneate, 
subquadrate, scabrous, spurless ; ovary obtuse, glabrous ; style 24 lin. 
long; stigma capitate. 
Coast Re@ion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg Range, near Pakhnuis, Bolus, 
8681! 
5. G. apiculata (N. E. Br.); branchlets puberulous; leaves 3- 
nate, as long as or shorter than the internodes, adpressed, with 
slightly spreading tips, %--1 lin. long, linear, aeute, puberulous, at 
first usually with 2-4 minute gland-tipped hairs on each margin and 
one at the apex, the latter remaining as an apiculus; heads sub-. 
globose, terminal, 1-1 in. in diam., 3—9-flowered ; pedicels $—1 lin. 
long, bracteate at or below the middle ; bracts ascending-spreading, 
not reaching to the calyx, 3—% lin. long, linear, acute, ciliate with 
simple hairs; calyx 4-partite ; segments 3 lin. long, } lin. broad, 
oblong-linear, subacute, ciliate and hairy on the back with minutely 
gland-tipped simple hairs 3 lin. long; corolla-tube about } lin. long, 
constricted near the top, subglobose and sharply 4-angled below the 
constriction, puberulous outside and at the constriction within ; lobes 
2 lin, long, ovate, obtuse, concave, erect, glabrous; anthers } lin. 
long, scabrous, spurless; ovary glabrous, slightly emarginate at the 
apex ; style much exserted, 1} lin. long; stigma capitate. 
Coast Recion: Piquetberg Div.; mountains near Piquiniers Kloof, 1200 ft., 
Schlechter, 4969 ! 
6. G. velleriflora (Klotasch in Linnea, xii. 227) ; young braneh- 
lets puberulous; leaves 3-nate, adpressed-imbricate, 3-1 lin. long 
with the petiole, linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, at first more or 
less puberulous and minutely ciliate with very fine woolly hairs, 
becoming glabrous; heads loosely globose, terminal, about + in. 
in diam., 4~6-flowered; pedicels 3-1 lin. long, bracteate near 
the middle; bracts 2-1 lin. long, with the tips of the upper 
pair applied to the calyx and the lower one scarcely reaching it, 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, ciliate with very 
long simple hairs ; calyx 4-partite; segments about 1 lin, long, 5—) 
lin. broad, ovate or lanceolate, acute, hairy on the back and ciliate 
with simple or slightly scabrous hairs }-14 lin, long; corolla-tube 
31-18 lin, long, constricted at the middle, subglobose or oblong- 
