Syndesmanthus. | ERICACE® (Brown). 379 
spreading rather stiff hairs; teeth opposite the angles, half as long 
as the tube, erect, ovate, obtuse, always ciliate with long stiff hairs ; 
corolla about * lin. long, upper part more or less funnel-shaped, 
abruptly narrowed into a slender tube below, glabrous; lobes 4, 
broader than long, rounded, erect; anthers exserted, basifixed, 
1 Jin, long, oblong, sputless; ovary glabrous ; stigma simple. 
Var. 8, incertus (N. E. Br.); leaves rather narrower, linear, subacute, 
rugulose and sometimes with a scanty minute pubescence on the back ; calyx 
obconic, with finer, rather shorter and less spreading hairs than in the type ; 
corolla sometimes gradually tapering from top to bottom, sometimes as in the 
type on the same specimen ; anthers dorsifixed just above the base. 
Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Elim, 200-900 ft., Bolus, 
8517! Schlechter, 7641! Var. 8: Paarl Div.; mountains near French Hoek, 
Schlechter, 10281 ! 
9. S. scaber (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 241, excl. all synonyms) ; 
4-12 in. high, laxly branched or straggling; branches varying from 
widely divergent to ascending, puberulous, somewhat villous-pubes- 
cent or subtomentose, often crooked ; leaves usually 4- (occasionally 
3-) nate, 1 to nearly 2 lin. long, very spreading or erect, linear, 
obtuse, varying from thinly villous to nearly glabrous, more or less 
rugulose ; flowers in globose terminal heads about 3 lin. in diam., 
shortly pedicellate or subsessile; bracts 0, except the floral-leaves 
which sometimes come away attached to the base of the pedicel ; 
calyx 2-8 lin. long, slightly obconic-oblong, sharply 4-angled, thin, 
villous on the tube and ciliate on the teeth with long white spread- 
ing hairs; teeth opposite the angles, half as long as the tube, erect, 
deltoid-ovate to lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, usually with a small whitish 
minutely puberulous patch on the back; corolla 1}-2 lin. long, 
tubular, gradually tapering from apex to base, curved, glabrous ; 
the exserted part from slightly longer than to nearly twice as long as 
the calyx; lobes 4, erect, ovate, rounded ; anthers exserted, basi- 
fixed, 1—} lin. long, oblong-linear, spurless ; ovary glabrous ; stigma 
simple. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 706, excl, all synonyms. 
Coast Reaion: Swellendam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, 1000- 
3000 ft., Mund, 53! Riversdale Div.; Langeberg Range, near Riversdale, 
Schlechter, 2192! George Div.; near the Great Brak River, 100 ft., Guthrie, — 
4348 ! 
A specimen collected between Donker Hoek and Houw Hoek Mountains in 
Caledon Div, (Burchell, 8106), has the exserted part of the corolla much shorter 
than the calyx and more funnel-shaped than in the other specimens, but does not 
otherwise differ, and is badly infested by insect galls, which may have arrested 
development. 
10. S. articulatus (Klotzsch in Linnza, xii. 241); 6-10 in. high, 
compactly branched; branchlets puberulous or pubescent ; leaves 
4-nate, 1-14 lin. long, straight or incurved, erect, imbricate or 
shorter than the internodes, linear or lanceolate, subacute, more or 
less rugulose and puberulous, pubescent or minutely scabrid on the 
back ; flowers numerous, subsessile or very shortly pedicellate, in 
