Simocheilus. | ERICACE (Brown). 367 
euneately tapering to the base at the lower third, glabrous, the 
exserted part as long as or slightly longer than the calyx ; lobes 
1 lin. broad, erect, rather broader than long, truncate or emarginate ; 
anthers exserted, basifixed, + lin. long, oblong, very shortly spurred 
at the base; ovary glabrous ; stigma simple. 
Coast Rraion: Swellendam Div.; mountains along the lower part of the 
Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3313! 
14. S. acutangulus (N. E. Br.) ; apparently of somewhat strag- 
gling growth, irregularly branched ; branchlets shortly and somewhat 
harshly pubescent ; leaves 4-nate, 1-2 lin. long, longer or shorter 
than the internodes, erect or spreading, incurved, linear-lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, minutely tuberculate and thinly 
éovered with short spreading hairs on the back; flowers minutely 
pedicellate, in terminal and axillary more or less clustered heads 
3-5 lin. in diam. ; bracts 0, except the floral leaves ; calyx 3 lin. long, 
stoutly obconie, coriaceous, not rigid; tube 4-angled, with 4 slight 
pubescent ribs alternating with the thin acute glabrous angles ; teeth 
alternating with the angles, erect, about 4 as long as the tube, 
broadly deltoid, acute, ciliate; corolla about 2 lin. long, tubular, 
narrowed downwards, slightly curved, glabrous, the exserted part 
nearly twice as long as the calyx; lobes short, erect, rounded ; 
anthers exserted, basifixed, 2 lin. long, linear, spurless at the 
truncate base ; ovary glabrous; stigma simple. 
Coast Rraion: Bredasdorp Diy. ; hills near Mier Kraal, 200 ft., Schlechter, 
10523 ! 
15. S. consors (N. E. Br.) ; compactly branched ; branches erect, 
rather stout, minutely subtomentose ; leaves 4-nate, imbricate, in- 
curved, 1-2 lin. long, ovate, acute, thinly villous-pubescent on the 
back, with sessile glands on the margins when young, becoming 
glabrous, minutely rugulose ; flowers sessile, in terminal heads 2-27 
lin. in diam., on short lateral branchlets ; bracts 0 except the floral 
leaves ; calyx 1 lin. long, stiffly coriaceous, somewhat pear-shaped- 
obconic ; tube 4- or occasionally 3-angled, with a deeply impressed 
groove between the angles, glabrous; teeth alternating with the 
angles, half as long as the tube, erect, like an equilateral triangle, 
ciliate ; corolla 2 lin. long, tubular, much narrowed below the middle, 
3-4-lobed, glabrous, but possibly with a velvet-like sheen; lobes 
shorter than broad, rounded, erect ; stamens 3-4; anthers exserted, 
basifixed, * lin. long, linear, spurless at the shortly cuneate base ; 
ovary glabrous ; stigma slightly thickened. 
Coast Reaion: Caledon Div.; Shaws Mountain, 1300 ft., Galpin, 3724! 
The surface of the corolla differs from that of the other species and appears as 
if it may have something of the velvet-like nature of a Pelargonium petal when 
alive. It may possibly be slightly viscid. 
16. S. subrigidus (N. E. Br.); main branches erect, irregularly 
and rather laxly branching at distant points; branchlets usually 
2-4 in a whorl, puberulous or pubescent; leaves 4-nate, 1-2 lin. 
