Grisebachia. | ERICACEH (Brown). 349 
and simple hairs; calyx } lin. long, obconic or funnel-shaped, 
lobed to the middle, pubescent outside; lobes very slightly 
spreading, oblong or ovate-oblong, ciliate with gland-tipped hairs 
hispid on their basal half; corolla funnel-shaped, not constricted, 
glabrous outside and within; tube 3 lin. long; lobes } lin. long, 
ovate, obtuse, concave, erect ; stamens about as long as the corolla; 
filaments glabrous, doubled upon themselves above the middle; 
anthers 1 lin. long, oblong, very minutely scabrous on the outer 
margins which are spurred at about } above the base ; spurs awn- 
like, 4 as long as the cells, spreading and more or less upcurved; 
ovary obtuse, puberulous at the top; style } lin. long, not exserted, 
much curved (after fertilization ?) ; stigma simple. 
CENTRAL ReEGIon: Ceres Div.; near Klein Vley, in the Cold Bokkeveld, 
4000 ft., Schlechter, 10064. ! 
20. G. eremioides (MacOwan in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxv. 392); 
branches erect, straight, pubescent or puberulous, beset with very 
numerous short branehlets; leaves 3-nate, crowded, very spreading, 
recurved or rarely straight, 1-14 lin. long with the petiole, linear or 
rarely ovate, trigonous, subacute, glabrous or at first minutely puberu- 
lous, with or without a few gland-tipped hairs on the margins and 
back ; flowers 1—4 at the ends of extremely short axillary branchlets, 
which are arranged in a spike-like manner along the main and lateral 
branches ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long ; braets 3, subequal, adpressed 
to the calyx, 1—1 lin. long, linear, acute, ciliate ; calyx 3} lin. long, 
campanulate, lobed to or beyond the middle ; lobes subquadrate and 
cuspidate-apiculate, glabrous, ciliate with short gland-tipped hairs or 
at the lower part with fine simple hairs; corolla 3-1 lin. long, funnel- 
shaped, not constricted at any part, glabrous outside and within ; 
lobes broader than long, obtuse, concave, erect or incurved ; stamens 
4; filaments glabrous; anthers 3-3 lin. long, with parallel but 
rather widely separated cells, spurred above the base, minutely 
seabrous ; spurs awn-like, +} as long as the cells or occasionally 
rudimentary or absent ; ovary more or less pointed and puberulous 
at the top; style exserted, 3-2 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma minute, 
capitate. Hremia parviflora, Klotzsch in Linnea, xi. 498 ; Benth. 
in DO. Prodr. vii. 700; supra, p.334. Erica shalliana, Hort. Berol. 
ex Klotzsch l.c. 498. 
Var. B, eglandula (N. E. Br.) ; leaves turgidly trigonous, recurved-spreading ; 
calyx-lobes subquadrate, subtruncate with a thickened apiculus, closely ciliate 
with short simple fine hairs; corolla glabrous outside; ovary densely white- 
pubescent on the upper half. : : : 
Var. y, pubicalyx (N. E. Br.) ; leaves turgidly trigonous, recurved-spreading 5 
calyx-lobes ovate, acute or acuminate, puberulous, ciliate with gland-tipped 
hairs ; corolla puberulous outside; ovary thinly puberulous. 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg, Zeyher, 1117! Pappe! near 
Tulbagh Waterfall, MacOwan, 2685! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 564! 
Swellendam Div. ; hills between Puspas Valley and Kokmans (Kogmans) Kloof, 
Ecklon! Var. 8: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg Range at Hzels Kop, 4000 ft., 
Schlechter, 8818! near Clanwilliam, Leipoldt, 1851 Var. y: Tulbagh Div. ; 
mountains of Tulbagh Kloof, 1400 ft., Bolus, 5304! 
