Aniserica. | ERICACEs® (Brown). 391 
XLV. ANISERICA, N. E. Br. 
Bracts 0, except the minute floral leaves. Calyx tubular-cam- 
panulate or campanulate, coriaceous, equally 4-toothed or 4-lobed. 
Corolla hypogynous, much longer than the calyx, tubular, 2-lobed. 
Stamens 4, hypogynous, exserted at maturity; filaments free, fili- 
form, glabrous ; anthers free, basifixed, divided almost to the base, 
spurless, opening by short oblique pores. Ovary seated on a small 
disk, 2-celled; style exserted, filiform, glabrous; stigma minute, 
simple. Ovules solitary in each eell, pendulous. Frwit not seen. 
A small shrub or shrublet resembling an Erica ; leaves grooved down the 
convex back; flowers small, numerous in terminal clusters, mostly on short 
lateral branchlets which are often crowded at the ends of longer branchlets, 
DistRiB. Species 1, endemic. 
1, A. gracilis (N. E. Br.) ; much branched ; branchlets erect, 
densely and minutely pubescent as well as pilose; leaves 3-nate, 
imbricate or about as long as the internodes, ascending or erect, 
2_91 lin, long with the petiole, linear, oblong-linear or rarely some- 
what ovate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, ciliate (at least when 
young) with a few long spreading hairs and also on the petiole; 
flowers in dense head-like globose or ovoid terminal clusters 2—4 lin. 
in diam.; clusters compound, leafy, the flowers solitary or 2-3 
together on very short peduncles in the axils of the leaves, very 
shortly pedicellate ; bracts 0 ; calyx }—3 lin. long, tubular-campanu- 
late or campanulate, coriaceous, nerveless, glabrous, apparently red ; 
tube variable in length; teeth }-} as long as the tube, erect, ovate, 
obtuse or subacute, not ciliate; corolla 1-11 lin. long, tubular or 
oblong-tubular, narrowed at the base, glabrous, the 2 lobes con- 
nivent and almost closed together and rounded on the back, or 
gaping and straight at the back, red (Galpin) ; anthers basifixed, less 
than 1 lin. long, linear-oblong, more or less cuneate at the spurless 
base ; ovary compressed-oblong, glabrous ; stigma simple. Bleria 
gracilis, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 650. Sympieza Kunthii, Klotzsch 
in Linnea, Viii. 656 and xii. 230; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 705. 
Var. B, hispida (N. E. Br.) ; leaves (at least when young) thinly beset with 
long spreading hairs on the back and sometimes on the upper side, often tubereu- 
late ; corolla 1-1} lin. long, white (Burchell), pale pink (Galpin) ; otherwise as in 
the type. Sympteza Kunthii, Klotzsch, vars. hispida and trachyphylla, Benth, 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 705. Bleria depressa, Drége, and B. ericoides, Drege ex 
Benth. l.c. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Zeyher! Var. 8, Rowburgh! Drege! 
Coast Region : Caledon Div. ; Genadendal Mountain, 3200-5000 ft., Galpin, 
3725! 3726! Bredasdorp Div.; near Potteberg, Mund, 49! Swellendam Div. ; 
mountains near Voormansbosch, Ludawig §*° Beil! mountains near the Zonder- 
einde River, Zeyher, 3318! Var. B: Tulbagh Div.; mountains near Saron, 
2400 ft., Schlechter, 1C688! Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch, Prior! Lowrys 
Pass, Schlechter, 1162! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 5462! moun- 
tains near Caledon, 00 ft., Drége! Swellendam Div. ; mountain peak 
near Swellendam, Burchell, 7301! Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 
