382 ERICACER (Brown), | Syndesmanthus. 
4-5-nate, usually less than 1 lin. long, incurved-erect, shorter than 
or slightly exceeding the internodes, often giving a somewhat beaded 
appearance to the branches, ovate, acute, varying from smooth and 
glabrous to minutely scabrid and shortly pubescent on the back, 
usually ciliate ; flowers in terminal heads 3-4 lin. in diam,, sub- 
sessile ; bracts 0, except the floral leaves ; calyx 3 lin. long, cuneate, 
acutely 3-angled, 3-toothed, somewhat rigidly coriaceous, but not 
thick, reddish-brown with a whitish stripe between the angles; 
tube glabrous or with a few hairs in the grooves between the angles ; 
teeth half as long as the tube, alternating with the angles, erect, 
broadly deltoid, acute, ciliate to entirely without cilia; corolla 
3-lobed, 13-2 lin. long, tubular, gradually tapering from or below 
the middle to the slender base, the exserted part more than twice as 
long as the calyx, glabrous, pink (Bolus) ; lobes much broader than 
long, rounded, erect ; stamens 3; anthers much exserted, basifixed, 
2-3 lin. long, cuneate, bipartite, spurless ; ovary glabrous; stigma 
simple. 
Coast Reraion; Caledon Div.; mountains of Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 
3315! hills between Caledon and Elim, 600 ft., Bolus, 8464! Bredasdorp Div. ; 
hills near Bredasdorp, Bolws, 8465 ! 
15, S. pumilus (N. E. Br.) ; plant (excluding the root) 21-5 in. 
high, divided into 2-6 main branches at or near the base; branches 
erect or ascending, simple or with 1—4 branchlets, and including the 
leaves, which teretely cover them to their base, 2-1 lin. in diam. ; 
leaves 3-nate, erectly imbricate, 2-1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
glabrous or the upper minutely puberulous and usually finely ciliate, 
those at the centre of the flower-spikes minutely glandular at the 
tips; flower-spikes 5-20 to a plant, erect, ovoid or oblong; bracts 
0, except the floral leaves ; calyx }-2 lin, long, 1-1 lin. broad, 
3-toothed ; tube cuneate, dorsally flattened, acutely 2-angled, with 
1 keel on the dorsal side and 3 subequal keels (one of them being 
the 3rd angle) on the side next the axis, glabrous ; teeth alternating 
with the angles, deltoid, acute, densely ciliate with long and some- 
what woolly hairs; corolla 12-21 lin. long, the exserted part 2-3 
times as long as the calyx, tubular, gradually tapering from below 
the middle to the very slender base, 3-lobed, red ; lobes about as 
long as broad, very obtuse ; anthers exserted, basifixed, 1 lin. long, 
with a row of hairs down the back of each cell, spurless ; stigma 
simple. 
Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, Schlechter, 7651! 
A very distinct species, having the appearance of an annual, but woody. 
16. S. globiceps (N. E. Br.) ; much branched; branchlets some- 
what puberulous, perhaps slightly viscid; leaves 4-nate, erect or 
spreading, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, 2—1+ lin. long, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or puberulous, sometimes tipped 
with a few hairs when young ; flower-heads rather copious, 2-3 lin. 
