362 ERICACEX (Brown). [Simochetlus. 
4. §. pubescens (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 236); more than 1 ft. 
high, branches and branchlets erect, tomentose-pubescent, greyish ; 
leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, 
8-2 Jin. long, linear, subacute, finely and. shortly pubescent or 
puberulous all over, usually with the apical hairs longer than the 
rest, minutely glandular on the margins when young; flowers very 
shortly pedicellate or subsessile, in small axillary and terminal 
clusters, which are more or less crowded along the short lateral 
branchlets or terminal on very short axillary branchlets scattered 
along the main branches; bracts 3, unequal, 1-2 lin. long, linear, 
obtuse, puberulous and ciliate with longer hairs; calyx 2 lin. long, 
tubular-oblong, sharply 4-angled, thinly coriaceous, hairy, or the 
basal third of the tube glabrous; teeth opposite the angles, erect, 
2 as long as the tube or less, ovate, subacute or obtuse, ciliate with 
rather long hairs; corolla about 11 lin. long, tubular, slightly 
narrowed just at the base, slightly curved, glabrous, the exserted 
part about as long as the calyx; lobes erect or slightly incurved, 
rounded, about as long as broad; anthers exserted, basifixed, + lin. 
long, linear or the cells slightly diverging with short pendant awn- 
like spurs at the base ; ovary puberulous at the top, 2-celled; stigma 
obconically thickened. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 704. Thora- 
cosperma pubescens, O. Kunize, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 390. 
Coast Reeion : Uitenhage Div. ; near the Elands River, Ecklon § Zeyher ! 
Described from the type in the Berlin Herbarium. 
5. S. dispar (N. E. Br.); branchlets puberulous ; leaves 4-nate, 
1-2 lin. long, incurved-erect, about equalling the internodes or laxly 
imbricate, ovate to linear, acute or subobtuse, entire or more rarely 
with a very few minute marginal teeth, glabrous ; flowers subsessile, 
3-8 in a cluster, terminal ; bracts 3, unequal, linear, acute, glabrous, 
not ciliate, the middle one at least 3 as long as the calyx-tube ; 
calyx nearly 1 lin. long, obconic, somewhat oblique, rigidly coria- 
ceous ; tube sharply 4-angled, glabrous ; teeth connivent, alternating 
with the angles, scarcely } as long as the tube, broadly deltoid, acute, 
not ciliate ; corolla 14 lin. long, tubular, scarcely or but slightly 
narrowing downwards, glabrous, the exserted part about as long as 
the calyx ; lobes erect, as long as broad, deltoid-ovate, emarginate or 
obtusely bifid ; anthers exserted, basifixed, oblong, spurless; ovary 
glabrous, 2-celled ; stigma simple. 
Coast Region: Riversdale Div. ; near Riversdale, Rust, 557 ! 
6. S. piquetbergensis (N. E. Brown); a small rigid shrublet, 
4-1 ft. high; branches subtomentose-puberulous, greyish, becoming 
brown and glabrous ; leaves 4-nate, erectly imbrieate, 2-21 lin. long, 
linear, acute, minutely tuberculate-scabrid, pilose with white hairs 
when young, becoming nearly or quite glabrous; flowers 6 to many 
in terminal heads 3-5 lin. in diam., on short lateral branchlets ; 
bracts 3, the middle one leaf-like nearly or quite as long as the calyx- 
tube, the others not half as long, more or less ciliate or with hairs 
