Syndesmanthus. | ERICACEA (Brown). 383 
in diam., globose, mostly erect ; bracts 0, except the floral leaves ; 
calyx lin. long, }—$ lin. broad, elliptic to narrowly rhomboid- 
obovate in dorsal outline, 3-angled, 3-toothed, ciliate with rather 
long hairs on the angles and on the deltoid acute teeth, which 
alternate with the angles and are nearly as long as the tube, other- 
wise glabrous, reddish with a central white stripe down each face of 
the tube; corolla 1-11 lin. long, the exserted. part equalling or 
shorter than the calyx, funnel-shaped to cup-shaped, trigonous, 
3-lobed, abruptly contracted into a slender tube at the top of the 
calyx ; lobes nearly or quite as long as broad, deltoid-ovate, acute or 
suhacute, compressed-concave ; stamens 3; anthers about } lin. long, 
partly or completely exserted beyond the lobes, the cells very much 
narrowed at the base and sometimes distinctly stalked, spurless ; 
ovary l-celled ; stigma simple. 
Coast ReGion: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6766! 
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6769! mountains near Koude River, 1000 ft,, Schlechter, 
9613! ' 
17. §. gracilis (N. E. Br.) ; apparently about 4~9 in, high, 
laxly or compactly branched ; branchlets puberulous to softly pubes- 
cent, reddish-brown ; leaves usually 4-nate, but sometimes 3-nate on 
the same plant, ereet to slightly spreading, imbricate to } as long as 
the internodes, 2-11 lin. long, linear or lanceolate, obtuse to acute, 
pubescent with spreading hairs to nearly glabrous, usually ciliate, 
and often with a tuft of 2-8 long hairs at the apex when young, 
often rugulose ; flowers subsessile or minutely pedicellate, in globose 
terminal heads 2-21 lin. in diam.; bracts 0; calyx }—§ lin. long, 
narrowly obconie-oblong to obovoid-obconic, acutely 3-4-angled, 
3-4-toothed, thin, ciliate with long white spreading hairs on the 
teeth and angles of the tube or the tube glabrous; teeth alternating 
with the angles, erect, }-3 as long as the tube, deltoid or deltoid- 
ovate to sublanceolate, acute or subobtuse ; corolla 1-1 lin. long, 
the exserted part as long as or rather longer than the calyx, funnel- 
shaped at the upper 3—3, then abruptly narrowed into a very slender 
(filiform) tube; lobes erect, broader than long, rounded when 
flattened out, but often with incurved margins and appearing deltoid- 
ovate and subacute; anthers exserted, basifixed, 4—-} lin. long, 
narrowly oblong or slightly narrowed downwards, spurless ; ovary 
glabrous; stigma simple. S. scaber, var. gracilis, Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 707. 
Coast Reaion: Caledon Div. ; mountains near Genadendal, Burchell, 
7797! Schlechter, 10312! 10316! on the Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 2600 ft., 
Bolus, 5415! and in Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 1200! and near Sandfontein, 
1000 ft., Schlechter, 10354! hill near Ganze Kraal, Burchell, 7558! 
18. S. sympiezoides (N. E. Br.) ; apparently less than 1 ft. high, 
loosely branched; branches ascending or somewhat divergent, 
puberulous, brown; leaves 4-nate, erect, incurved, equalling or 
shorter than the internodes, 2-1} lin. long, }—} lin. broad, ovate ta 
