366 ERICACE® (Brown). [ Simocheilus. 
11. §. oblongus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 705); branchlets 
puberulous or pubescent ; leaves 4-nate, erect or imbricate, 1-2} lin. 
long, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, pubescent, at least when 
young ; flowers usually numerous in terminal clusters, subsessile or 
very shortly pedicellate; bract solitary, leaf-like, as long as or 
longer than the calyx-tube, hairy; calyx % lin. long, coriaceous, 
oblong-campanulate ; tube 4-angled, with flat sides, no alternating 
ribs, hairy all over; teeth alternating with the angles, erect, not 
connivent, half as long as the tube, deltoid, acute, ciliate; corolla 
2-21 lin. long, narrowly tubular, slightly narrowing downwards, 
slightly curved, the exserted part at least twice as long as the calyx, 
glabrous, its lobes shorter than broad, rounded, erect; anthers 
exserted, basifixed, 2 lin. long, linear, spurless; ovary occasionally 
3-celled, glabrous; stigma simple. Syndesmanthus capitellatus, 
Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 705. Thoracosperma oblonga, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 390. 
Coast ReGion: Clanwilliam Div.; sandy hills between Berg Valley and 
Lange Valley, Drege, 7796! Zeyher, 1119! 
12, §. patulus (N. E. Br.); branchlets puberulous, intermingled 
with a longer white pubescence ; leaves 4-nate, very spreading, 
11~2 lin. long, linear, obtuse, rugulose or subtuberculate and thinly 
pilose-pubescent on the back; flowers subsessile, 3-12 in a head ; 
heads 2-23 lin. in diam., on very short axillary branchlets; bract 
solitary often equalling the calyx-tube, linear, obtuse, pilose-pubes- 
cent; calyx }—2 lin. long, oblong or oblong-campanulate, coriaceous 
or subfleshy ; tube 4-angled, with 4 slight ribs alternating with the 
angles, having a few hairs on the ribs, otherwise glabrous ; teeth 
alternating with the angles, deltoid, acute, about half as long as the 
tube, ciliate with rather long hairs; corolla about 11 lin. long, 
tubular, narrowing downwards from the middle, curved, glabrous ; 
lobes broadly deltoid, subobtuse, erect; anthers much exserted, basi- 
fixed, 4 lin. long, oblong, minutely angular at the truncate spurless 
base ; ovary glabrous ; style 2 lin. long; stigma simple. 
Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; Klein River, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 7605! 
hills near Papies Valley, 500 ft., Schlechter, 10434! 
13. S. globiferus (N. E. Br.) ; less than 1 ft. high, not densely 
branched ; branches and branchlets ascending or erect, pubescent or 
puberulous ; leaves 4-nate, erectly imbricate, 1-2 lin. long, linear, 
subacute, glabrous or with a few hairs and cilia at the tips; flowers 
subsessile or very shortly pedicellate, 12-20 or more in small dense 
globose terminal heads 2—22 lin. in diam., on short lateral branchlets, 
somewhat racemosely arranged along the main branches; bract 
solitary, 1—% as long as the calyx, lanceolate or rhomboid-lanceolate, 
acute, tipped with a few hairs and minutely ciliate ; calyx 3 lin. long, 
oblong ; tube 4-angled, with 4 slight ribs alternating with the angles, 
thin, but slightly fleshy, glabrous ; teeth alternating with the angles, 
2 as long as the tube, erect, deltoid, acute, ciliate with sessile glands 
and tipped with a few minute hairs; corolla 1-12 lin, long, tubular, 
