878 ERICACER (Brown), [ Syndesmanthus. 
short hairs, brown; leaves 3-nate, ascending, equalling or shorter 
than the internodes, {-1} lin. long, }—1 lin. broad, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, somewhat flattened, thinly pilose with 2 or more irregular 
rows of long white spreading hairs on the back; flowers pedicellate, 
few or many in. subglobose clusters 2-23 lin. in diam., terminal or 
on short axillary branchlets; bracts solitary at the base of the 
pedicels, linear-subspathulate, gland-ciliate and tipped with 2-3 long 
hairs, usually not coming away with the flowers; calyx 2 lin. long, 
obconic, sharply 4-angled, thin, 4-nerved, covered on the tube with 
very long very spreading hairs and ciliate on the teeth with similar 
hairs. and minute sessile glands; teeth opposite the angles, erect, 
3 a8 long as the tube or rather more, deltoid-ovate, subacute or 
obtuse ; corolla nearly 1 lin. long, narrow, gradually tapering from 
apex to base, 4-angled, glabrous, apparently purple; lobes 4, rather 
broader than long, erect, rounded ; anthers far exserted, basifixed or 
dorsifixed close to the base, 3-2 lin. long, linear-oblong, slightly 
narrowed to the base, spurless; ovary glabrous; stigma peltate, 
disk-like, produced into a short terete or clavate point usually 
towards the margin, rarely quite central. Codonostigma Erinus, 
Klotasch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 709. 
Var. validus (N. E. Br.) ; ultimate branchlets much stouter than in the 
type, 4~} lin. thick, more or less villous-pubescent ; leaves 3-4-nate, mostly 
shorter than the internodes, 1-2} lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad, ovate to linear, vary- 
ing from smooth and glabrous to tuberculate and more or less thinly pilose on 
the back or at least ciliate with long spreading hairs; flower-heads globose, 
1-2 lin. in diam., more compact than in the type ; flowers subsessile ; calyx-tube 
varying from ciliate on the angles only to densely villous all over; anthers 
4-2 lin. long; style rather stouter than in the type. 
Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, Ecklon § Zeyher ! 
mountains between Caledon and Elim, Bolus, 6765! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; 
Papies Vlei, 700 ft., Schlechter, 10439 ! Bredasdorp Div. ; mountains near Koude 
River, 500 ft., Schlechter, 9728 ! 
By the courtesy of the Berlin authorities I have been enabled to examine 
Klotzsch’s type of Codonostigma Erinus, and find it identical with the other 
specimen quoted. Var. 8, although scarcely differing in its flowers from the 
type, is so very distinct in appearance as to be readily distinguishable at a 
glance, and, when both can be compared alive, may prove to be a distinct species. 
8. 8. elimensis (N. E. Br.); 4-6 in. high, very much branched ; 
branches and branchlets straggling, flexuose, puberulous, inter- 
mingled with a longer pubescence, becoming glabrous; leaves 4- 
nate, ascending or spreading, equalling or 1—} the length of the 
internodes, 5-1} lin. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, thinly covered with 
long spreading hairs on the minutely tuberculate back, or merely 
ciliate or quite glabrous and smooth on the back; flowers shortly 
pedicellate, 9-12 in terminal globose heads about 2 lin. in diam. ; 
bract solitary, sometimes persistent on the axis, sometimes on 
the pedicel and coming away with the flower ; calyx about 4 lin. 
long, tubular-oblong or obconic, sharply 4-angled, thin; tube 
varying from glabrous to thickly beset on the angles with long 
