Simochetlus. | ERICACEE (Brown). 363 
at the tips and usually with sessile glands on the edges ; calyx rather 
more than 1 lin. long, 4-angled, rigidly coriaceous or somewhat 
fieshy ; tube with rather thick obtuse angles, glabrous; teeth alter- 
nating with the angles, } as long as the tube, erect, broadly deltoid, 
acute, ciliate with hairs and sessile glands; corolla 21—22 lin. long, 
tubular, straight or nearly so, purple, the exserted part a little longer 
than the calyx; lobes about as long as broad, rounded; anthers 
exserted, basifixed, 2 lin. long, oblong, spurless; ovary with 4 com- 
pressed angles, 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, glabrous; stigma 
simple. 
Coast ReGion: Piquetberg Div.; Piquet Berg, 2200 ft., Guthrie, 2661 ! 
7. §. glabellus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 704); branchlets 
varying trom pubescent with rather long white hairs to puberulous ; 
leaves 4-nate, usually spreading or occasionally imbricate, 1—3 lin. 
long, straight or slightly recurving, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 
often paler in colour and somewhat callus-like at the tips, glabrous 
and smooth or minutely scabrid-tuberculate, or thinly pilose, all 
forms sometimes present on the same specimen, minutely denticu- 
late, sometimes ciliate or with a few hairs at the tips or with sessile 
glands on the margins ; flowers subsessile, few or many in terminal 
heads 3—4 lin. in diam. on short lateral branchlets of longer branch- 
lets, often more or less crowded together; bracts solitary or some- 
times accompanied by 2 minute lateral bracts, from half as long as 
to equalling the calyx, glabrous, sometimes slightly ciliate; calyx 
about % lin. long, slightly obeonic-oblong, coriaceous ; tube 4-angled, 
with slight ribs alternating with the rounded angles, glabrous ; teeth 
alternating with the angles, nearly half the length of tube, deltoid, 
acute, erect, with or without cilia; corolla 14-2 lin. long, tubular, 
much narrowed within the calyx, glabrous, the exserted part dis- 
tinctly longer than the ealyx in the typical form, in others about 
equalling or shorter than it; lobes {—-3 lin. broad, erect, rounded ; 
anthers exserted, basifixed, 2—% lin. long, spurred or rarely spurless 
at the base ; spurs awn-like ; ovary glabrous ; stigma simple. rica 
glabella, Thunb. Prodr. 73, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 364. LE. 
fasciculata, Thunb. Prodr. 71, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 357. 
E. scabra, Thunb. Prodr. 72, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 357. 
E. embolifera, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 340. H. exilis, 
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 340. E. africana pumila, fe. 
Seba, Thes. i. 30, t. 20, fig. 2. Bleria pusilla, Linn. Mant. i. 39 ; 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iti. 169; Dietr. Synop. Pl. i, 443. 
B. purpurea, Berg. Pl. Cap. 34. B. glabella, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 631; 
Thunb. Diss. Bleria, 8; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 170; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 805. B. glabella, var. thunbergiana, Klotzsch 
in Linnea, viii. 662. B. fasciculata, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 629; Thunb, 
Diss. Bleria, 7; Roem. § Schultes, Syst. Veg. in. 169; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iii, 804. B. scabra, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 629 ; Thunb. Diss. Bleria, 
7: Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. 169; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 804, 
not of Wendl. B.capitata, Thunb. Herb. ex Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 
