370 ERICACER (Brown). [ Simocheilus. 
glabrous; lobes scarcely as long as broad, rounded, apparently 
incurved or connivent; anthers exserted, dorsifixed near the base, 
linear-oblong, dorsally spurred at the insertion of the filament; spurs 
awn-like, 1-1 as longas the cells; ovary subglabrous or very minutely 
puberulous at the top; stigma minute, thickened or subeapitate ; 
fruit ellipsoid, crustaceous. S. ecklonianus, Benth., and 8. hispidus, 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 705. Blexria bicolor, Klotzsch in Linnea, 
viii. 660 (by error 606) ; Dietr. Synop. Pl. i. 448. Plagiostemon 
bicolor, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 232. Pachycalyx pubescens, 
Klotzsch, l.ec. 230, and P. hispidus, Klotzsch, l.c. 231. 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall (ex Bentham), Mund & 
Maire! near Tulbagh, Ecklon §* Zeyher! New Kloof, Burchell, 1000! Drege, 
7789! near Saron, 3000 ft., Schlechter, 10682! Cape Div.; mountain near 
Simons Town, 800 ft., Guthrie, 1402 ! 
The calyx appears to be red and the corolla white or pink. 
At Kew, the type of 8. hispidus (Drage, 7789) consists of 1 glabrous and 
1 puberulous-leaved specimen. The glabrous specimen I cannot distinguish from 
S. bicolor, whilst the puberulous specimen cannot, I think, be maintained as 
distinct from S. ecklonianus. 1 therefore consider them all to be slight forms of 
one species, which is evidently variable in its pubescence, for some specimens of 
Schlechter’s 10682 are pubescent, whilst others are glabrous, and they un- 
questionably belong to one species. Bentham describes the anthers of 8. 
ecklonianus and S. hispidus as spurless, whilst Klotzsch does net mention them, 
except in the generic character of Pachycalyx, where this character is probably 
taken from S. glaber, as there are no flowers with anthers on the type of 
S. ecklonianus or on Drége’s specimen of S. hispidus at Kew, all are in the 
fruiting stage; in ‘Burchell’s 1000, however, which Bentham quotes under 
8. hispidus, the anthers are shortly but distinctly spurred. 
20. S. albirameus (N. E. Br.); apparently laxly branched; 
branches and branchlets minutely tomentose or densely woolly- 
tomentose with longer hairs, becoming subglabrous, white; leaves 
usually 3- (rarely 4-) nate, erect or ascending, imbricate or shorter 
than the internodes, 1-2 lin. long, linear, acute, serrulate on the 
acute edges, softly pubescent on the back, slightly puberulous on the 
upperside, often with small leafy branchlets or leaf-tufts in their 
axils; flowers 1-3 together terminating the very short axillary 
branchlets, subsessile ; bracts 8, the middle one longest, } lin. long, 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, the lateral linear-oblong, all subacute 
or obtuse, ciliate ; calyx only seen in a fruiting stage, rigidly coria- 
ceous or fleshy, nearly 1 lin. long, conical-ovoid, 8-ribbed, glabrous; 
teeth erectly connivent, half or rather more than half as long as the 
tube, elongate-deltoid, acute, ciliate ; corolla 14 lin. long, the part 
exserted from the calyx inflated oblong or conical-ovoid, abruptly 
contracted into a narrow tube within the calyx, oblique or slightly 
curved, glabrous ; lobes connivent, as long as broad, obtuse ; anthers 
not seen; young fruit ellipsoid, minutely puberulous at the top, 
erustaceous, 2-celled; stigma capitate. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div.; by the Oliphants River or near Brak- 
fontein, Ecklon & Zeyher, 282 ! 
