Grisebachia. | ERICACEE (Brown). 345 
about 2 lin. in diam., 3-6-flowered, apparently nodding, white; 
pedicels | lin. long, bracteate near the top; bracts spreading or 
applied to the calyx, 2-8 lin. long, linear, slightly broadest at the 
obtuse apex, ciliate with minutely gland-tipped simple or finely 
hispid hairs; ealyx 4-partite, white; segments 3—1 lin. long, 1 lin. 
broad, linear, obtuse, ciliate and hairy on the back with minutely 
gland-tipped simple or slightly hispid hairs about 4 lin. long; corolla 
white; tube 14 lin. long, constricted near the top, obconic-oblong and 
4-angled below the constriction, very minutely puberulous outside and 
at the constriction within ; lobes 1 lin. long, ovate, obtuse, concave, 
erect, glabrous; stamens shorter than the corolla; filaments glabrous 
or nearly so; anthers } lin. long, cuneate-subquadrate, with minute 
awn-like spurs on the back above the base, white; ovary obtuse, 
with a few very minute hairs at the top; style 11-14 lin. long, 
exserted ; stigma capitate. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Grey ! 
13. G. hirta (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 226); branchlets rather 
crowded, puberulous with an intermingling of short gland-tipped 
subhispid hairs; leaves 3-nate, imbricate or spreading, probably 
clammy, 1-1} lin. long with the petiole, oblong, obtuse, minutely 
puberulous on both sides, ciliate with gland-tipped more or less 
hispid hairs and with 2 rows of similar hairs on the back, 
deciduous, leaving minute teeth and tuberculate points; heads 
terminal, 6—8-flowered, often drooping; pedicels 3~2 lin. long, 
bracteate at or above the middle, glandular-pubescent; bracts un- 
equal, applied to the calyx, ciliate and hairy on the back with long 
gland-tipped hairs, the larger 8-1 lin. long, lanceolate, subacute ; 
calyx about } lin. long, campanulate, 4-angled, lobed to § of the way 
down, ciliate and hairy outside with long simple gland-tipped hairs ; 
lobes 3 lin. broad at the base, elongate-deltoid or deltoid-ovate, 
acute ; corolla 11-1} lin. long ; tube constricted near the top, sharply 
4-angled and puberulous outside below the constriction, pubescent at 
the constriction within; lobes } lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, 
apparently spreading; stamens ]1]in. long; filaments hairy; anthers 
3 lin. long, scabrous, without spurs; ovary compressed, subacute, 
slightly pubescent at the apex; style exserted, 1}—-1% lin. long, 
glabrous; stigma capitate. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 701. 
Coast Recion: Malmesbury Div. ; sand flats near Groene Kloof (Mamre), 
Drége, 7795! 
I have not seen an avthentic specimen, but describe from specimens distributed 
by Drége as ‘‘ Blairia, 7795” named G. hirta, Klotzsch, by Bentham, which 
I assume to be correct, and quote the locality as given by Klotzsch, since Drége’s 
number is not quoted in his Zwei PAanzengeogr. Documente. 
14, G. plumosa (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 226) ; branchlets 
puberulous or minutely tomentose and beset with short hispid hairs ; 
leaves 3-nate, imbricate, 3—14 lin. long, linear-oblong, lanceolate or 
ovate, obtuse, at first puberulous all over and ciliate with long hispid 
