386 ERICACEE (Brown). | Anomalanthus. 
1. A. Marlothii (N. E. Br.); about a foot high, rather rigidly 
branched, only leafy on the short young branchlets, which are 
puberulous, greyish ; leaves 3- or occasionally 4-nate, suberect, more 
or less imbricate, 2-12 lin. long, linear, obtuse, minutely puberulous, 
becoming glabrous; flowers in small axillary clusters congested 
towards the ends of the short branchlets, subsessile; bracts sub- 
equal, + lin. long, puberulous; calyx + lin. long, cup-shaped, with 
short triangular acute teeth, not at all ribbed, puberulous; corolla 
1} lin. long, tubular, narrowed at the base; glabrous ; lobes short, 
erect, obtuse ; staminal filaments 11 lin. long, glabrous; anthers 
exserted, basifixed, nearly } lin. long, slightly cuneate-oblong, with 
2 minute teeth or angles at the base ; ovary puberulous all over; 
style about 1% lin. long; stigma minute, capitate, 
Centrat Reaion: Worcester Div.; hills near Touws River, 2500 ft., 
Marloth, 2996! 
2. A. collinus (N. E. Br.); about 1 ft. high, main branches very 
stout, branchlets crowded, erect, puberulous, whitish ; leaves 3-nate, 
ascending, subimbricate, 3—1 lin. long, linear-subterete with acute 
margins, obtuse, slightly incurved, minutely puberulous on the 
upper side, glabrous on the back ; flowers 3 in a cluster, axillary or 
on very short axillary branchlets, subsessile or minutely pedicellate ; 
bracts subequal and about half as long as the calyx-tube or one 
longer than the rest, puberulous; calyx 3 lin. long, campanulate, not 
angular nor ribbed, shortly 4-toothed, fleshy, glabrous, minutely 
ciliate on the teeth; corolla 14-12 lin. long, straight, somewhat 
inflated-oblong, much contracted at the basal third, glabrous; lobes 
broader than long, emarginate or subtruncate at the apex, incurved ; 
anthers much exserted, 4. lin. long, cuneately narrowed to the spur- 
less base; ovary pubescent; stigma slightly thickened. 
CentTRAL Reaion: Worcester Div.; Touws River, 2500 ft., Marloth, 2995! 
3. A. curviflorus (N. E. Br.) ; branchlets puberulous, greyish ; 
leaves 3-nate, 1-3 lin. long, linear, semiterete, subacute, glabrous; 
whorls distant on the main branches, crowded on the short or tuft- 
like axillary branchlets; flowers 3-15 in small clusters on the 
axillary branchlets, subsessile ; braets very unequal, the larger often 
as long as the calyx-tube, leaf-like, glabrous, ciliate, at least at the 
base ; calyx nearly } lin. long, campanulate, 4—5-toothed, glabrous, 
not angular, fleshy; teeth } as long as the tube, deltoid, acute, 
minutely eiliate ; corolla.1} lin. long, much curved, tubular, sub- 
globose-clavate at the apex, glabrous, rather thick, apparently 
purple ; teeth as broad as long, obtuse, erect; anthers exserted, 
basifixed, 3 lin. long, cuneately narrowed at the very shortly spurred 
base ; spurs awn-like, partly adnate. to the filament, pendent ; ovary 
puberulous ; style much exserted ; stigma thickened or subcapitate, 
Coast Reaion ;: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 3174! 
