er 
Syndesmanthus. | ERICACEa (Brown). 377 
649; Dietr. Synop. Pl.i.444; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 804 ( pauciflora) ; 
Klotzsch in Linnea, viii. 664. B. hirsuta, Lichtenstein ex Roem. ¢ 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 170; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iu. 804. Blairia 
paucifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 432. LHucl. Hrica hirsuta from all the 
synonymy. Erica flosculosa, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 340, ex 
Bentham, Blzxria flosculosa, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 805; Klotzsch 
in Linnea, xii. 246. 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div. ; at the foot of the mountains near Hermanus, 
200 ft., Bolus, 9847! hills near Houw Hoek, 1300-2500 ft., Bolus, 6960! 
Schlechter, 5518! 
I have not seen an anthentic specimen of this plant. Bolus, 9847, and 
Schlechter, 5518, however, agree well with Wendland’s figure except as to the 
calyx, which, as described by Bentham, has a very small tube in proportion to 
the lobes, whilst Wendland figures the lobes smaller than the tube, but as they 
are much concealed by the hairs, this may have been an error on the part of the 
artist. Bolus, 6960, has flowers agreeing with the smaller dimensions given, 
but otherwise does not differ from the type. Possibly this species may have been 
confused with S. squarrosus by Klotzsch. 
6. S. Niveni (N. E. Br.) ; 8 in. or more high; branches some- 
what divergent-erect, flexuose, rather stout, }—2 lin. thick, bearing 
at intervals groups of 1-8 branchlets 2-6 lin. long scattered along 
them ; leaves 3-nate, spreading to erect, elosely placed on the branch- 
lets, distant on the branches, 2—1 lin. long, linear-oblong to oblong- 
ovate, obtuse, thick, ciliate and pilose on the back with 2 few long 
hairs when young, soon becoming glabrous and shining; petiole 
ciliate ; flowers subsessile, about 3-6 together, in small terminal 
heads on the short lateral branchlets ; bracts unequal, densely ciliate 
with long and rather stiff hairs, the middle one about 4 lin. long ; 
calyx 2 lin. long; tube obconic-campanulate, with a tuft of adpressed 
stiff hairs around its base, otherwise glabrous and smooth, at least 
on the lower part, slightly or very obseurely 4-angled, coriaceous, 
opaque and quite nerveless; teeth opposite the angles, erectly- 
connivent, nearly as long as the tube, deltoid or deltoid-ovate, acute, 
thickly villous with ascending-spreading hairs longer than the teeth 
themselves, and ciliate with minute sessile glands under the hairs ; 
corolla 1 lin. long, clavate, the exserted part shorter than the calyx 
and not exceeding the cilia on its teeth, campanulately or broadly 
funnel-shaped, abruptly narrowed into the slender tubular included 
part, glabrous ; lobes or teeth 4, short, broadly triangular, acute, 
erect ; anthers exserted, dorsifixed to the broad filaments just above 
the base, 2 lin. long, oblong, with the cells slightly and somewhat 
orbicularly dilated at the apex, spurless; ovary glabrous; stigma 
simple. 
Sourn AFRicA: without locality, Niven, 95! 
7. S. Erinus (N. LE. Br.) ; apparently about 10-12 in. high, much 
branched ; branchlets slender, the ultimate scarcely more than } lin. 
thick, divergent-ascending, with a mingled pubescence of long and 
