Simecheilus. | ERICACE® (Brown). 369 
at the flowering stage, enlarging and becoming globose and dis- 
tinctly 8-ribbed in fruit; teeth erect or very slightly spreading, 
deltoid-ovate or deltoid-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, thickened at 
the margins, shortly ciliate ; corolla 12 lin. long, tubular, contracted 
at the base within the calyx-tube, slightly curved, glabrous, the 
exserted part much longer than the calyx; lobes short, obtuse, erect ; 
anthers exserted, dorsifixed just above the base, + lin. long, oblong, 
not narrowed at the base, with short dorsal awn-like spurs just above 
the base, sometimes nearly obsolete ; ovary seated on a very thick 
disk, compressed, with a few very minute hairs at the obtuse apex ; 
style 2-3 lin. long ; stigma thickened or subcapitate. Plagiostemon 
puberulus, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii, 232. P. pubescens, Klotzsch 
ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 703. 
Var. 8, glabrifolius (N. E. Br.) ; leaves adpressed-imbricate to very spread- 
ing, glabrous, but often minutely ciliate when young ; calyx glabrous or puberu- 
lous; anthers often with rather longer spurs than in the type, sometimes 4~} as 
long as the cells, which occasionally diverge at the tips; style about 2 lin. long : 
otherwise as in the type. 
Coast Reaion : Clanwilliam Div.; near the OJiphants River or near Brak- 
fontein, Ecklon § Zeyher ! mountains near Modderfontein, 1200 ft., Schlechter, 
4974! Lange Kloof, 500 ft., Schlechter, 8042 (has also been distributed by error 
as 8043)! Cederberg Range, near Krakadouw, 3000 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 
8677! Var. 8: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Knagas (Konaquas) Berg, Zeyher, 1120! 
Clanwilliam Div.; Blauw Berg, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 8464 (in Herb, Bolus)! 
Cederberg Range, Shaw in Herb. Bolus, 5667! Piquetberg Div.; Piquetberg 
Range, Schlechter, 7908! ~ 
CrntrRAt Reacion: Calvinia Div.; Oorlogs Kloof, 2200 ft., Schlechter, 10961 ! 
Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, 4500 ft., Schlechter, 8864! 
The type specimen and Schlechter, 4974 are pubescent with much longer hairs: 
than on any other specimens I have seen. The specimen distributed to Herb. 
Bolus as Schlechter, 8464 belongs to this plant and is identical with Schlechter, 
8864 at Kew, but Schlechter, 8464 distributed to Kew is Scyphogyne rigidula, 
var. breviciliata, : 
19. 8. bicolor (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 703) ; probably dwarf, 
rigidly branched ; branchlets puberulous, whitish or pale greyish ; 
leaves 3-nate, erect or ascending, imbricate or shorter than the inter- 
nodes, 2—14 lin. long, linear, acute or obtuse, with or without a 
minute simple or gland-tipped apiculus, glabrous and smooth or 
slightly seabrid-tuberculate on the back, or puberulous with or with- 
out an admixture of a few minute gland-tipped hairs on the back 
and margins; flowers sessile, 1-7 together in lateral or terminal 
clusters ; bracts 3, unequal or subequal, }—} lin. long, linear to 
narrowly ovate, obtuse or subacute, minutely ciliate ; calyx nearly 
or quite 1 lin. long, subtubular or campanulate-tubular, at first of 
about equal diameter throughout, becoming conical-ovoid and con- 
tracted at the mouth in fruit, fleshy, rigidly so in fruit, 8-ribbed, 
glabrous or minutely puberulous; teeth }—{ as long as the tube, 
erect, somewhat elongated-deltoid, acute, very minutely and in- 
distinctly ciliate with hairs or with sessile glands ; corolla 12-12 
lin. long, tubular, much narrowed downwards within the calyx, 
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