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calyx; anthers exserted, basifixed, linear-oblong, spurless; ovary 
glabrous ; stigma simple. 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, 800 ft. 
Bolus, 8098! 
This much resembles 8. articulatus, Linn., in general appearance, but the 
glabrous or hair-tipped leaves and more slender and more tapering corolla readily 
distinguish it. 
12. S. breviflorus (N. E. Br.); apparently about 6 in. high, 
loosely branched; branchlets more or less flexuose, puberulous ; 
leaves 4-nate, imbricate or as long as the internodes, erect, about 
4 lin, long, ovate or elliptie-ovate, acute, glabrous or with a few 
scattered hairs on the back and often ciliate with hairs or minute 
sessile glands when young, those under the flower-heads often tipped 
with a few hairs; flower-heads many, 11—2 lin. in diam., shortly 
ovoid or ellipsoid; bracts 0 except the floral leaves; calyx of the 
lowest flowers 2 lin. long, } lin. broad, 5-angledand -lobed or of the 
upper flowers often 4-angled and lobed, dorsally flattened and 
cuneate-obovate, oecasionally with an angle or keel down the dorsal 
face; teeth alternating with the angles, the dorsal-tooth broad, 
obtuse or rounded or oceasionally bifid, the others more deltoid, 
subacute, all ciliate, as are sometimes the angles; corolla scareely 
1 lin. long, funnel-shaped or gradually tapering to the base, 3—4- 
angled and lobed, the exserted part shorter than or equalling the 
calyx; lobes rounded ; anthers exserted, } lin, long, euneate-oblong, 
spurless ; ovary glabrous; stigma capitate. 
Coast Reeion: Bredasdorp Div ; hills near Elim, 200 ft., Sehlechter, 
9727! 
13. S. venustus (N. E. Br.); about 6 in. high; branchlets com- 
pact, erect, glabrous or nearly so, whitish, becoming brown; leaves 
3-nate, 2-1 lin. long, imbricate, linear-oblong to elliptic, flat on the 
upper side, obtuse, entire or very minutely denticulate, glabrous ; 
flowers 6-15 in a cluster, terminal, sessile in the axils of the leaves 
of the head, otherwise bractless ; calyx * lin. long, slightly obconic- 
tubular, thin, semitransparent, obtusely 3-angled and 3-toothed, with 
slight ribs alternating with the angles, glabrous; teeth alternating 
with the angles, half as long as the tube, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, ciliate, with some longer hairs at the tips ; corolla 1}-1¥ lin. 
long; slender, tubular, slightly tapering downwards, much narrowed 
and very slender within the calyx, 3-lobed, glabrous, the exserted 
part longer than the calyx ; lobes erect, broader than long, rounded ; 
stamens 3; anthers exserted, basifixed, } lin. long, narrowing to the 
base, spurless ; ovary glabrous ; stigma dilated or subcapitate. 
Coast Reoion: Caledon or Bredasdorp Div.; hills between Caledon and 
Elim, 400 ft., Bolus, 8466! — " 
14. §. Zeyheri (Bolus); about 8-12 in. high, compactly much 
branched ; branchlets erect, finely pubescent or puberulous ; leaves 
