376 ERIcACEa (Brown). [ Syndesmanthus. 
tube, rather large, connivent, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, rather 
thick and rigid, probably green and leafy, grooved down the back, 
ciliate with hairs like those of the pubescence ; corolla 11-12 lin. 
long, inflated ovoid or subglobose and faintly 8-angled at the upper 
half, rapidly narrowed into a very slender tube at the lower half, 
glabrous, with a minutely papillate surface, pink (Grisbrook) ; 
lobes 4, more or less connivent, broadly ovate, obtuse or rounded, 
the sinuses between them forming minute spreading teeth which are 
very conspicuous on the buds ; anthers exserted, subbasifixed, linear, 
spurless, the very tips of the cells with a slight divergent curvature ; 
ovary surrounded by a rather thick disk, very small, glabrous; 
stigma simple. Macrolinum paucifolium, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 
242 (at least as to Ecklon & Zeyher's specimens distributed from 
Berlin under this name), exel. synonym Blaria paucifolia, Klotzsch 
in Linnea, viii. 664 2 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thom ! Ecklon §° Zeyher ! 
Coast Re@ron : Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg and region of the Baths 
near Caledon, Zeyher, 3826! Guthrie, 2509! Zoetemelks Valley, Grisbrook ! 
and in Herb, Bolus, 6313! near Caledon, Bolus, 8499! 
Possibly this plant may have been confused with S. paucifolius, Benth., by 
Klotzsch. 
5. §. paucifolius (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 707) ; apparently 
4—6 in. high, somewhat laxly branched, sometimes spreading over 
the ground; ultimate branchlets 1-2 in. long, slender, tortuous, 
puberulous, with a longer pubescence sometimes intermingled, soon 
becoming glabrous ; leaves 8-nate, spreading, 1-1} lin, long, mostly 
3a the length of the long internodes, linear-subterete, obtuse or 
subacute, at first thinly pilose, soon becoming glabrous; petiole 
ciliate; flowers shortly pedicellate, about 6—9 together in terminal 
globose heads 1-6 lin. in diam. ; bracts unequal, adpressed to the 
calyx, {~} lin. long, linear, acute, densely ciliate with long white 
hairs; calyx 1 lin. long, somewhat pear-shaped, villous with white 
hairs, those on the tube not half as long as those on the teeth ; tube 
obconic, 4-angled, 4-nerved, pallid, semitransparent in water ; teeth 
opposite the angles (nerves), longer than or equalling the tube, 
incurved-erect or connivent, thick and rigid, ovate, ovate-oblong or 
lanceolate-oblong, acute or apiculate, ciliate with minute sessile 
glands under the hairs; corolla 11-14 lin. long, clavate, inflated and 
somewhat obovoid or urceolate-obovoid and very distinctly 4-angled 
at the exserted part (which equals or is shorter than the calyx, but 
much exceeds the hairs on its teeth), rapidly tapering into a slender 
tube at the lower half, glabrous, pink; lobes 4, connivent, often 
with erect or recurved tips, broadly ovate, obtuse or acute ; anthers 
exserted, dorsifixed just above the base or basifixed, 1 Jin. long, 
linear-oblong, spurless, minutely ciliate-seabrid; ovary with a thick 
disk at its base, glabrous; stigma simple. Bleria paucifolia, 
Wendl. Collect. ii. 17, t.48; Roem. § Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 170 
as B. pauciflora, corrected in Mantissa, 107; Bartl. in Linnwa, vii. 
