Simocheilus. | ERICACEA (Brown). 361 
tube, linear, obtuse, minutely ciliate; calyx 2 lin. long, thinly 
coriaceous, obconic-tubular; tube sharply 4-angled, glabrous; teeth 
opposite the angles, t as long as the tube, ovate, acute, minutely 
ciliate ; corolla 123 lin. long, tubular, contracted at the basal third, 
slightly curved, almost gibbous on one side just above the calyx, 
glabrous (whitish, Burchell) ; lobes as long as broad, rounded, erect ; 
anthers exserted, basifixed, nearly 1 lin. long, with slightly divergent 
cells or somewhat narrowed to the spurred base; spurs awn-like ; 
ovary very minutely puberulous, 2-celled ; stigma simple, or slightly 
obconically thickened. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 704. Blaria 
multiflora, Klotzsch in Linnea, viii. 661. B. aggregata, Wendl., and 
B. sessiliflora, Wendl. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 208. Blairia multi- 
flora, Dietr, Synop. Pl.i.443. Thoracosperma multiflora, O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 390. 
Var. 8, Atherstonei (N. E. Br.); probably 2-3 ft. or more high; main stems 
or branches erect, stout, densely covered with erect branches and short branchlets, 
forming long oblong or oblong-linear masses; calyx 2-2 lin. long, tubular, 
obtusely 4-angled, densely pubescent all over; stigma subcapitate ; otherwise 
exactly as in the type. 
Sourn AFRica: without locality, Mund SY Maire! Miller! 
Coast Rereion: George Div.; near George, Prior! near Grootfontein in 
Long Kloof, Drége, 7793! Montagu Pass, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 2239! Knysna 
Div. ; near the Keurbooms River, Burchell 5164! on the Parde Berg, Burchell, 
5188! and without precise locality, Buchanan! Var. B: Caledon Div. ; 
“Caledon, R.W.R.,” in the Cape Herb. ! George Div. ; without precise locality, 
Atherstone ! 
3. S. barbiger (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 237); compactly much- 
branched ; branchlets minutely tomentose-puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, 
imbricate to shorter than the internodes, 1-1} lin. long, glabrous or 
rarely thinly pubescent on the back, often tipped with a tuft of 
hairs and more or less ciliate when young ; flowers in small clusters, 
axillary or terminal on short lateral branchlets, more or less crowded 
along the main branchlets ; bracts 3, the middle one usually about 
as long as the calyx-tube, tipped with a tuft of hairs; calyx 
3-2 lin. long, coriaceous, tubular-oblong ; tube 4-angled, glabrous or 
minutely pubescent between the angles; teeth opposite the angles, 
4—1 as long as the tube, ovate, acute, minutely ciliate, with or with- 
out a tuft of hairs at the apex ; corolla about 1} lin. long, tubular, 
contracted at the basal third, straight or nearly so, the exserted part 
longer than the calyx ; lobes as long as or rather longer than broad, 
ovate or ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, erect ; anthers exserted, 
basifixed, 1 lin. long, with slightly diverging cells or somewhat 
narrowed to the spurred base ; spurs awn-like; ovary very minutely 
puberulous, 2-celled ; stigma obconically thickened. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 704. Thoracosperma barbigera, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 390. 
Coast Reaion: Uitenhage Div.; Vanstadens Mountains, Burchell, 4684! 
Drege, 7798! Zeyher, 716! 3323! Witte Klip, MacOwan, 1125! Bolus, 9131! 
This may possibly be only a local variety of S. multiflorus, but besides other 
slight differences, appears to be dwarfer, with less numerous flowers, and the 
angles of the calyx are thicker and less acute. 
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