594 -BRICACEZ (Brown). [ Sympreza. 
lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous or slightly puberulous on the 
back, ciliate on the acute edges, the cilia often intermingled with 
minutely stalked glands; flower-heads numerous, subglobose, 2—2} 
lin. in diam.; calyx of the lower flowers 2-3 lin. long, }—% lin. 
broad, obovate, ciliate on the obtuse or rounded lobes, otherwise 
glabrous; corolla 1 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad across the 2 widely 
gaping lobes, compressed funnel-shaped, gradually narrowing to the 
base, red or pink; anthers partly exserted, 4 lin. long, oblong ; 
stigma simple. : 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Simons Berg, Wolley Dod, 315! 
3. S. vestita (N. EH. Br.) ; apparently about 6-8 in. high, rather 
loosely branched ; branchlets divergent or ascending, usually much 
recurved at the tips, puberulous, pale brown; leaves 3-nate, imbri- 
cate or shorter than the internodes, erect or ascending, 2—1} lin. 
long, ovate or lanceolate, acute, glabrous, ciliate with hai:s and 
minute glands on the acute cartilaginous margins, usually with or 
sometimes without a tuft of 3-6 longer and stouter hairs at the apex 
of the younger leaves, the internal cavity in transverse section rather 
large, without a lining of hairs; flower-heads numerous, very nod- 
ding, subglobose, about 1 in. in diam. ; calyx of the lower or of all 
the flowers 2 lin. long, 2 to nearly 1 lin. broad, orbicular, somewhat 
rhomboid-vrbicular or broadly obovate, concave on the side next the 
axis, ciliate with rather long hairs on the broadly rounded lobes, 
otherwise glabrous or obseurely and minutely puberulous; corolla 
11-18 lin. long, 2-1 lin. broad across the very gaping lobes, narrowly 
to broadly funnel-shaped at the upper half, rapidly or suddenly 
narrowed into a slender tube at the lower half, red or pink; lobes 
broadly rounded ; anthers 2 lin. long, glabrous or minutely scabrid 
along the back of the cells ; stigma simple. 
Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Div. ; mountains between Fairfield and Elim, 
Bolus, 8515! hills near Elim, Bolus, 8516! Napier, Schlechter, 9654! | 
In all the allied species with which this can be confused, the internal cavity of 
the leaves as seen in transverse section is smaller than in S. ves'ita and more or 
less densely lined with very minute hairs, 
4. S. pallescens (N. E. Br.) ; apparently about 6 in. high, rather 
loosely branched; branches and branchlets somewhat tortuose, 
puberulous to minutely subtomentose; leaves 3-nate, imbricate, 
3_]1 lin. long, ovate, acute, minutely puberulous or glabrous on the 
back, minutely ciliate ; flowcr-heads numerous, subglobose, 2-2} lin. 
in diam. ; calyx of the lower flowers 2 lin. long, usually rather 
more than } lin. broad; tube cuneately oblong or subquadrate, 
glabrous, sometimes minutely ciliate on the edges ; lobes very obtuse 
or almost rounded, densely ciliate with rather woolly hairs and 
puberulous on the back ; corolla 14-12 lin. long, tubular, of nearly 
equal diameter (1-1 lin.) from apex to base, viewed dorsally, 
apparently pale pink ; anthers 4 lin. long; stigma simple. 
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