392 ERICACEX (Brown). [ Aniserica. 
7037! Mozimbique Kop, Galpin, 3723! summit of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 
7130! George Div.; Cradock Berg, near George, Burchell, 5911! 
The corolla often appears to be pink when in bud, but usually dries white. In 
some specimens, as in the type, the corolla-lobes seem always to be more or less 
closed together, in others as wide apart as the diameter of the tube; but whether 
this is a condition of age or a varietal character must be determined from the 
living plants. The name gracilis is very inappropriate to this plant, but as it is 
the oldest, I retain it. Burchell, 7301, on which Bentham founded his var. 
brachyphylla, is only a stunted form of var. hispida. 
XV. SYMPIEZA, Lichtenstein. 
Bracts (besides the floral-leaves) 0 or rarely 2. Calyx of the 
lowest or of all the flowers dorsally flattened, 2-edged and 2-lobed, 
of the central or upper flowers sometimes 3-4-angled, 3—4-lobed. 
Corolla hypogynous, tubular to funnel-shaped (dorsally compressed 2), 
2-lobed ; lobes rounded, gaping. Stamens 4, hypogynous ; filaments 
free, filiform, glabrous ; anthers free, more or less exserted, basifixed, 
bipartite, with parallel cells, spurless, often scabrid, opening by 
oblique pores. Ovary seated on a disk, dorsally compressed, oblong, 
obtuse or emarginate at the apex, 2-celled; style slender, filiform, 
exserted, glabrous ; stigma simple or slightly thickened or minutely 
capitate; ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous. Fruit not seen 
fully ripe, dorsally much flattened, apparently usually 2-celled, with — 
a very thin pericarp. 
Small shrubs or shrublets resembling Erica ; leaves grooved down the convex 
back ; flower-heads terminal, subglobose, erect or nodding ; flowers subsessile, 
nea in the axils of the bracts (floral-leaves), the lower of which are leaf- 
like. 
Distris. Species 8, endemic. 
In the following descriptions the measurements of the leaves always include 
the petiole, which is sometimes half as long as the blade; and the descriptions 
of the calyx only apply to the dorsally flattened 2-edged and 2-lobed calyces 
characteristic of the genus; the 3-4-angled and lobed calyces often found in the 
upper or central part of the head are not taken into consideration, All the 
species of this genus require to be carefully studied from life in their natural 
habitats. Scarcely any two specimens I have examined have flowers that are 
identical, and although it is not difficult to sort them into the species here 
retained, it is doubtful whether §. articulata, S. capitellata, and S. tenuiflora 
should be considered as distinct varieties of one species or be further subdivided. 
Probably the species hybridize freely and thus produce a considerable range of 
variation. 
Corolla white, the exserted part not tapering down- 
wards ... sa oy be ths oe ... (1) eckloniana, 
Corolla red or pink, never white when dried : ' 
Corolla not more than 1 lin. long, funnel-shaped, 
the exserted part shorter than the calyx ... (2) breviflora. 
Corolla 14-2} lin. long, the exserted part at least 
He and usually 14-3 times as long as the 
calyx: — 
* Calyx-lobes distinctly ciliate as seen under 
