384 ERICACE® (Brown). | Syndesmanthus. 
lanceolate, acute or subacute, puberulous, becoming glabrous and 
minutely tuberculate-scabrid; flower-heads numerous, subglobose, 
; in. in diam. ; bracts 0, except the floral leaves; ealyx 2—* lin. 
long, }—% lin. broad, of the lower flowers 3-angled and 3-toothed, 
broadly or orbicular-obovate, of the upper or central flowers 3-—4- 
angled and toothed, cuneate-obovate, ciliate on the angles and teeth, 
otherwise glabrous; teeth alternating with the angles, about half as 
long as the tube, as broad as or broader than long, the dorsal broader, 
less deltoid and more obtuse than the other 2 ; corolla about 14 lin. 
_ long, 3-lobed, or of the central flowers sometimes 4-lobed, narrowly 
funnel-shaped above, narrowed at the middle into a slender tube, 
the exserted part about as long as the ealyx; lobes about as long as 
broad, ovate, truncate or subemarginate at the apex; stamens 3; 
anthers exserted, basifixed, } lin. long, spurless ; stigma simple. 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 250 ft., Schlechter, 7704! 
19, 8. pulchellus (N. E. Br.); about 3-4 in. high or with 
straggling or decumbent branches 5-6 in. long; branchlets diver- — 
gent-ascending or erect, glabrous ; leaves 3-nate, imbricate to shorter 
than the internodes, erect, slightly incurved, * lin. long or less, 
broadly ovate, subacute, thick, very convex on the back, flat on the 
upper side, scabrous on the acute cartilaginous margins, glabrous, 
shining ; flowers subsessile, 9-15 in terminal heads about 2 lin. in 
diam. ; bracts 0 except the floral leaves ; calyx } lin. long, tubular- 
oblong or slightly obconic, sharply 4-angled, thin, almost nerveless 
between the angles ; tube glabrous; teeth alternating with the 
angles, erect, very short and broad, scarcely 1 as long as the tube, 
subaeute, ciliate with rather long fine bairs; corolla rather more 
than 1 lin. long, the exserted part longer than the calyx, broadly 
funnel- or cup-shaped, 4-lobed, abruptly narrowed above the middle 
into a slender tube, which is partly exserted from the calyx, glabrous, 
pink ; lobes erect, broader than long, rounded; anthers exserted, 
basifixed, divided quite to the base, with very narrow linear slightly 
divergent cells, spurless ; ovary narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous; stigma 
simple. 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; mountains of Elands Kloof, 1000 ft., 
Schlechter, 9744. | 
Erica Bleria, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 85. Bleria ericoides, var. pallida, G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. iii. 804, may be a species of Syndesinanthus or Simocheilus, it seems 
scarcely to belong to Bleria. 
XIII. ANOMALANTHUS, Klotzsch. 
Bracts 3. Calyx small, shortly 4-toothed ; tube shortly campanu- 
late, rarely oblong, usually without angles, rarely 4-angled, fleshy, 
becoming much enlarged, eylindric-oblong, ellipsoid, obovoid or sub- 
globose and very thick in fruit, with a contracted mouth. Corolla 
