368 ERICACEE (Brown). [ Simocheilus. 
long, erect, shorter than the internodes or imbricate, linear, sub- 
acute, slightly incurved, subtuberculate-rugose and thinly covered 
with spreading hairs on the back; flowers subsessile, in terminal 
and axillary heads 2-3 lin. in diam. ; bract 0, except the floral leaf ; 
ealyx rather more than 1 lin. long, rigidly coriaceous, but not thick, 
slightly obconic-tubular; tube sharply 4-angled, with slight ribs 
alternating with the angles, glabrous; teeth alternating with the 
angles, erect, broadly deltoid, acute, about + as long as the tube, 
ciliate ; corolla 12 lin. long, tubular, gradually tapering downwards 
from the apex, slightly curved, glabrous; lobes erect, not longer 
than broad, rounded; anthers exserted, basifixed, 2 lin. long, linear, 
spurless ; ovary glabrous; stigma eapitate. 
Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Div.; by the Koude River near Elim, 700 ft., 
Schlechter, 9383 | 
17. §. quadrisuleus (N. E. Br.); branches stout ; branchlets 
puberulous or also with a minute close greyish tomentum; leaves 
3-nate, often with leafy tufts in their axils, imbricate or shorter than 
the internodes, and erect or spreading, 1-2 lin. long, linear, acute or 
subacute, glabrous or minutely puberulous; flowers subsessile, 1-4 
together, axillary or terminal on very short axillary branchlets; 
bracts 3, snbequal, about 4 lin. long, linear, subacute or obtuse, 
minutely ciliate ; calyx 3 lin. long, becoming rather larger in fruit, 
fleshy, ovoid, toothed to half-way down, with 4 deep cut-like 
grooves alternating with the teeth, and the 4 faces opposite the teeth 
flattened or slightly grooved in the upper part and rounded below, 
glabrous ; teeth erect, becoming connivent in fruit, ovate or deltoid, 
acute, very minutely ciliate or without cilia in fruit; corolla 11 lin. 
long, tubular, very slightly narrowed below the middle, scarcely or 
but slightly curved, glabrous; lobes as long as broad, erect, ovate, 
rounded ; anthers basifixed, about 3 lin. long, linear-oblong, with 
minute or awn-like spurs at the truneate base; ovary glabrous; 
stigma simple, 
Centrat Recion: Prince Albert Div.; mountains near Seven Weeks Poort, 
5000 ft., Marloth, 2977! Div.? Zwart Berg, Atherstone, 267! 
18. §. klotzschianus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 703) ; rigid, 
stoutly branched ; branchlets minutely tomentose, whitish or pale 
grey; leaves 3- (rarely 4-) nate, erect or slightly spreading, varying 
from densely crowded to about equalling the internodes, mostly 
incurved, 2-12 (rarely 2) lin. long, ovate-lanceolate to linear, serru- 
late, in the type specimen densely pubescent and mucronate with a 
very short gland-tipped bristle when young, in others puberulous 
and simply mucronate or acute or subobtuse, becoming glabrous with 
age; flowers sessile, usually 3-7 together in small axillary clusters, 
which are racemosely arranged and often crowded along the upper 
part of the branchlets, which sometimes grow out beyond them; 
bracts 3, subequal, 1—1 lin. long, ovate or oblong, obtuse, shortly 
ciliate ; calyx 2 lin. long, toothed to the middle or beyond, puberu- | 
lous; tube hemispheric-campanulate, somewhat obseurely 8-ribbed 
