Simocheilus. | ERICACEX (Brown). 371 
21, S. glaber (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 705); branchlets puberu- 
lous, greyish; leaves 3-nate, erect or imbricate, $11 lin. long, 
oblong-linear, glabrous, minutely serrulate on the acute edges or the 
serratures tipped with a gland ; flowers solitary, axillary and terminal 
(racemose ex Thunberg), subsessile ; bracts 3, subequal, 1-1 lin. 
long, linear, obtuse, ciliate; calyx lin. long, fleshy or rigidly 
coriaceous, glabrous; tube scarcely longer than broad, campanulate, 
distinctly but not stoutly 8-ribbed ; teeth erect, more than half as 
long as the tube, deltoid-ovate, acute, very minutely ciliate; in fruit 
the calyx becomes ovoid-conical, not more than 1 lin. long, the tube 
thickening very much and the ribs forming prominent elongated 
tubercles, those opposite the teeth very broadly deltoid-ovate in 
outline, those alternating with the teeth mueh narrower, tapering 
downwards ; corolla 14~1% lin. long, tubular, scarcely narrowed at 
the base, nearly or quite straight, glabrous (white ex Thunberg), the 
exserted part shorter than or not longer than the calyx; lobes erect, 
subquadrate, more or less emarginate ; anthers half-exserted, dorsi- 
fixed near the base, + lin. long, oblong, spurless ; ovary minutely 
puberulous at the top; stigma simple. rica glabra, Thunb. Prodr. 
69, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 346. Bleria glabra, Thunb. Diss. 
Bleria, 10. Pachycalyx glaber, Klotasch in Linnea, xii. 231; Rach 
in Linnea, xxvi. 791. 
South Arrica: without locality, Thunberg ! Masson ! 
Coast REeGion: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Gift Berg, Drege, ex Klotzsch. 
Centrat Reeion: Calvinia Div.; between Grasberg River and Watervals 
River, Drége, 7790! 
Imperfectly known species. 
22, Pachycalyx inzequalis (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 231) ; this is 
referred to Simocheilus glaber by Bentham and by Rach. I have 
not seen it, but the statement that the flowers are in heads, whilst 
in all the specimens of S. glaber that I have seen they are solitary, 
and the different locality, seem to indicate that it may be distinct. 
The following is a translation of the original description :— 
Leaves 3-nate, adpressed, linear, acute, glabrous, evanescently 
serrate-hispid ; flowers in heads at the tips of the branchlets ; bracts 
3, unequal, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, puberulous-ciliate on the 
margin, the 2 lateral smaller; calyx glabrous; corolla tubular, 
glabrous, yellowish. It was collected by Ecklon & Zeyher near 
Tulbagh Waterfall. 
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XII. SYNDESMANTHUS, Klotzsch. 
Braets 0,1 or 3 adpressed to and coming away with the calyx. 
Calyx obconic, obconic-oblong, campanulate, tubular-oblong, pear- 
shaped or dorsally flattened, 3-4-toothed ; tube with or without 
3-4 acute or obtuse angles, thin - “inate not fleshy. Corolla 
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