380 ERicacEm (Brown). [Syudesmanthus, 
axillary and terminal heads about + in. in diam. ; bracts 0, except 
the floral leaves; calyx 2-% lin. long, obconic-tubular, sharply 
4-angled, thin, hairy on the tube and ciliate on the teeth with long 
white spreading hairs ; teeth opposite the angles, erect, 4+-} as long 
as the tube, deltoid-ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute ; 
corolla 14—2 lin. long, oblong-tubular to somewhat funnel-shaped in 
the upper part, rapidly narrowed into a slender tube below the 
middle, curved or almost straight, glabrous, the exserted part varying 
from shorter to much longer than the calyx ; lobes 4, erect, broadly 
ovate, rounded; anthers exserted, 4—} lin. long, basifixed, linear- 
oblong or sometimes by divergence of the cells narrowed to the base, 
spurless ; ovary glabrous; stigma simple. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vil. 706 (incl. var. hirtus). S. glaucus, Klotzsch, lc. 242; Benth. 
le. 707. Bleria artieulata, Linn. Mant. ii. 198; Lam. Encycl. i. 
429, Suppl. i. 640, and Illust. i. 315, t. 78; Wendl. Collect. ii. 19, 
t. 44; Roem. § Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 169; Dietr. Synop. Pl. i. 
444; Klotzsch in Linnea, viii. 666; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 804, 
exel. the synonym Erica articulata, Thunb. from all. B. eriantha, 
Willd. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2,-i. 208. Erica eriocephala, Lam. 
Eneyel. i. 489, and Suppl. i. 640, under Bleria. Erica paleacea, 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 341. 
VaR. 8, fasciculata (N. E. Br.) ; leaves puberulous or glabrous and more or 
less shining on the rugulose back; calyx-tube glabrous or with here and there 
2 hair on the angles ; teeth deltoid, subacute, ciliate with long hairs and having 
a small minutely puberulous patch on the back; otherwise as in the type. 
S. fasciculatus, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 240; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 707. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality; Herb. Linneus ! Herb. Salisbury ! Drege! 
Mund! Var, 8: Mund §& Maire! 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Burchell, 705 partly ! 828! 8380! 
Prior! Bolus, 2949! Wolley Dod, 903! Table Mountain, Prior ! Red Hill, near 
Simonstown, Mrs. Jameson! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, 
MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 38! Var. 8: Worcester Div. ; 
Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4009 ft., Drége, 7788 ! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Burchell, 
705 partly! Burke! Wolley Dod, 905! Lions Rump, Schlechter, 47! 
Var. hirtus, Benth. 1.c. founded upon Erica paleacea, Salisb., has rather more 
hairy leaves than usual, but is otherwise indistinguishable from the typical form. 
The type specimen of 8. fasciculatus (which by the courtesy of the Berlin 
authorities I have been able to examine) is labelled ‘* 7788 Drége,’’ although 
the number is not quoted by Klotzsch or Bentham. 
11. S. similis (N. E. Br.) ; about 4-6 in. high; branehlets ereet, 
rather crowded, puberulous ; leaves 4-nate, erectly imbricate, 1-1} 
lin. long, linear, subacute, quite glabrous or the younger tipped with 
1-5 erect white hairs; flowers in terminal heads about 3 lin. in 
diam., subsessile, braetless except for the floral leaves; calyx § lin. 
long, obconic-oblong, sharply 4-angled, villous on the tube and 
ciliate on the teeth with long white spreading hairs; teeth opposite 
the angles, erect, half as long as the tube, deltoid-oblong, obtuse ; 
corolla 13-14 lin. long, slender, 4-lobed, gradually tapering down- 
wards from the }-—% lin. broad mouth to the base, more or less 
curved, glabrous, the exserted part 12 to nearly twice as long as the 
