372 ERICACER (Brown). [ Syndesmanthus. 
small, hypogynous, longer than the calyx, tubular and tapering. from 
the apex or middle to the base, funnel-shaped, or more or less 
inflated or cup- or broadly funnel-shaped above and abruptly con- 
tracted into a very slender tube below, 3—4-lobed, often 3—4- (rarely 
8-) angled. Stamens 3-4, hypogynous, always more or less exserted 
when mature ; filaments free, linear or filiform, glabrous ; anthers 
free, basifixed or dorsifixed just above the base, linear, oblong or 
more or less cuneate, bipartite, with parallel or slightly divergent 
cells, spurless ; cells opening by oblique pores. Ovary seated on a 
disk, l-celled ; style exserted, filiform, glabrous; stigma minute, 
simple or capitate or thickened, rarely disk-like and produced into a 
short terete or clavate point near the centre or towards the margin. 
Ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit (not seen fully ripe) elongated, 
narrow, apparently indehiscent ; pericarp thin. 
_ Small shrubs or shrublets resembling Hvica ; leaves grooved down the convex 
back ; flower-heads terminal or axillary, few- or many-flowered, erect or nodding ; 
flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate. 
DistR1B, Species 19, endemic. 
’ Inthe following descriptions the measurements of the leaves always include 
the petiole. Some of the species with a 3-angled calyx might be supposed to 
belong to the genus Sympieza, especially where, as in &. breviflorus, S, sympi- 
zoides and S. pumilus, the calyx is dorsally flattened and the angle next the 
axis but little developed, the 3-lobed corolla and 1-celled ovary, however, readily 
distinguish them. 
I. Flowers covered with very viscid matter and aggluti- 
nated together when dried; stigma capitate : 
Flower-heads 3-34 lin. in diam. ; corolla ovoid or 
ellipsoid, contracted at the mouth sip ne 
Flower-heads 1-14 lin. in diam.; corolla obconic- 
campanulate or tubular-funnel-shaped, not con- 
tracted at the mouth sve ne ie ... (2) Schlechteri. 
II. Flowers not agglutinated together : 
* Bracts 3, coming away with the pedicel, except 
in 3. 8. ciliatus : 
Calyx pear-shaped, pallid and nerved at the 
lower half : 
Calyx-tube with 4 small puberulous 
tubercles at the middle of the flattened 
faces, otherwise glabrous, 4-nerved ... (3) ciliatus. 
Calyx pubescent all over; tube 8-nerved . (4) squarrosus, 
Calyx villous all over with long hairs ; 
tube 4-nerved ... bee oe ... (5) paucifolius. 
Calyx obconic-campanulate, obscurely 4- 
angled, nerveless; teeth villous with 
long hairs ... si nes we “ 
** Bracts O or solitary at the base of the very 
minute pedicel and rarely coming away with the 
calyx; calyx sharply 3—4-angled : 
§ Angles of the usually villous calyx opposite 
(1) viscosus. 
(6) Niveni. 
the teeth : 
Stigma peltate, disk-like, excentrically 
produced into a short point... .. (7) Erinus, 
Stigma simple : : 
Corolla about ? Jin. long, funnel- 
shaped above, abruptly narrowed 
