364 ERICACEE (Brown). [ Simocheilus. 
791. Blairia glabella, Dietr. Syn. Pl. i. 448. Octogonia glabella, 
var. thunbergiana, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 233 ; Rach in Linnea, 
xxvi. 791. O. glabella, var. mutica, Rach, l.c. Thoracosperma glabella, 
T. fasciculata, and T. scabra, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 390, 391. 
SourH ArricaA: without locality, Thunberg! Bergius! Herb. Salisbury! 
Sieber, 153! 155! 178! Miller! Mund! 
Coast Rxeron: Cape Div.; able Mountain and other mountains near Cape 
Town, Thunberg! Burchell, 8405! Ecklon, 105! Milne, 108! MacGillivray, 
457! Prior! Bolus, 2970! 3714! 4909! 4944! 4994! 7905! 8048! Wolley 
Dod, 1289! 2686! Guthrie, 1460! Wilms, 3401! 3417! 
Very variable in foliage and in the relative length of the exserted part of the 
corolla to the calyx. Thunberg’s type of E. glabella consists of 5 small branchlets, 
on 2 of which the exserted part of the corolla is very distinctly longer than the calyx, 
on the other 3 it is about as long or very slightly exceeds the length of the calyx. 
E. fasciculata is described by Thunberg as having spurless anthers, but his type 
specimen has the anthers very distinctly spurred, and is identical with a specimen 
collected by Bergius and distributed from the Berlin Herbarium as Bleria 
glabella, var. thunbergiana, Klotzsch. The name Bleria capitata in Thunberg’s 
Herbarium, quoted by Rach, is in Salisbury’s handwriting. E. scabra, Thunb., 
seems somewhat intermediate between S. glabellus and 8. depressus, being like 
the latter species in habit and foliage, but the calyx is that of S. glabellus, and 
glabrous with the exception of a few hairs on the ribs in the grooves between the 
angles; the anthers are quite spurless. I have not seen any other specimen 
exactly like it ; Sieber’s 178 is the nearest approach, but it has spurred anthers, 
which, however, is a very variable character. 
_ 8. S. depressus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 704) ; like S. glabellus 
in all characters exeept :—leaves not paler in colour nor at all callus- 
like at the tips, always minutely seabrous-tuberculate and often 
hispid-pubeseent all over, sometimes sprinkled with gland-tipped 
hairs; calyx $ to nearly 1 lin. long, oblong or ellipsoid-oblong, 
more or less hairy all over the tube and ciliate with rather long hairs 
on the teeth ; corolla 11—2 lin. long, the exserted part varying from 
shorter than to 14 times as long as the calyx; anthers often spur- 
less. Bleria depressa, Lichtenstein ex Roem. Y Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
iii. 168. B. scabra, Wendl. Collect. i. 85, t. 31, not of other authors. 
B. fasciculata, Drege ex Benth, lc., not Willd. B. glabella, var. 
bartlingiana, Klotzsch in Linnea, viii. 662. Hrica exprompta, 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 195, ex Klotzsch, & Benth. Gypsocallis ex- 
prompta, Don, Gen, Syst. iii. 804. Octogonia glabella, var. bart- 
lingiana, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 234. Thoracosperma depressa, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 390. 
Var. 8, patens (N. E. Br.); calyx about 1} lin. long, its teeth more than half 
as long as the hairy tube, ciliate with long hairs; corolla 2 lin. long, the 
exserted part scarcely as long as the calyx; anthers spurless. §. patens, Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 704. Thoracosperma patens, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 390. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége! Mund § Maire! Forbes! Var. B: 
Stieber, 156! 
Coast REGION: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Burchell, 915! Prior! neck 
between Shoesters and Patrys Viey, Wolley Dod, 3040! ‘Twelve Apostles, Wolley 
Dod, 1199! hills near Simons Town, Wright ! MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 40! Bolus, 4993! Guthrie, 1461! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 
Scott-Elliot, 1194! 
