374 ERicAcEa (Brown). Syndesmanthus, 
y 
Leaves ovate to lanceolate ; 
calyx usually 3-angled, 
4-8 lin. broad, without a 
white stripe on the faces . (18) sympiezoides. 
Leaves 3-nate, small, — thick, 
ovate, glabrous; calyx 3-4- 
angled, angles glabrous, teeth 
ciliate... ie ee ... (19) pulchellus. 
1, §. viscosus (N. E. Br.); ‘about a span high; branchlets 
pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, erectly spreading, * lin. long, narrowly 
ovate, very obtuse, with subcartilaginous ciliate margins, glabrous, 
shining ’’ ex Bolus, but the few loose leaves seen were 3—1 lin. long 
with the petiole, rather broad, oblong or ovate, obtuse, with minute 
glands on the obtuse margins when young, becoming entire; flowers 
covered with glutinous matter on the calyx and corolla and in the 
dried state agglutinated together in terminal heads 3-3} lin. in 
diam. ; bracts unequal, rigidly coriaceous, the middle one outside, 
very large, 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute, the lateral 
smaller, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse ; calyx 4 lin. long, concealed by 
the bracts, campanulate, 4-toothed to about half-way down, glabrous, 
thinly coriaceous ; teeth erect, deltoid, acute, one smaller than the 
rest, not ciliate ; corolla 13 lin. long, ovoid or ellipsoid, contracted 
at the mouth, glabrous; lobes 4, shorter than broad, suberect or 
subincurved, rounded ; anthers much exserted, basifixed, + lin. long, 
linear, recurving from the cuneate spurless base ; ovary pubescent, 
l-celled, with a very thick placenta down one side; style curved or 
tortuous ; stigma minutely capitate. Simocheilus viscosus, Bolus in 
Journ. Bot. 1894, 240. - 
Coast Rr@ion: Riversdale Div.; Drooge Vlakte, near Riversdale, 400 ft., 
Schlechter, 2142! : 
Of this distinct species 1 have only seen a few detached leaves and flowers in 
the Herbarium of Dr. Bolus. Dried flowers cannot be examined until they 
have been soaked in ether or some other solvent of the glutinous matter upon 
them. 
2. 8. Schlechteri (N. EH. Br.); about 4-6 in. high, intricately 
branched; branchlets rather slender, tortuous, at first minutely 
puberulous, soon becoming glabrous; leaves 3-nate, spreading or 
deflexed, 3-1 lin. long, mostly shorter than the internodes, very 
thick, subovoid or ellipsoid, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, ciliate on 
the petiole; flowers pedicellate, 1-3 agglutinated together in 
terminal heads 1-1} lin. in diam.; pedicels 1—1 lin. long; bracts 
unequal, adpressed to and as long as the calyx, i—} lin. long, ovate, 
acute, glabrous, shortly ciliate, the middle one much larger than the 
others ; calyx about 2 lin. long, cup-shaped, 4-toothed to half-way © 
down or rather more, glabrous, very glutinous, not ciliate on the 
ovate acute teeth; corolla rather more than 1 lin. long, obconie- 
campanulate or tubular-funnel-shaped, very glutinous, white ; lobes 
4, erect, deltoid-ovate, acute ; anthers exserted, basifixed, 3 lin. long, 
