Sympieza. | ERICACEH (Brown). 395 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 7328 ! 
This is distinguished from those specimens of S. articulata which have a some- 
what woolly-ciliate calyx by the more pallid colour of the flowers when dried, 
the tendency of the leaves to be puberulous and particularly by the corolla being 
nearly as broad around the ovary as it is across the lobes. 
5. §. brachyphylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 706); much 
branched ; branchlets minutely puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, imbrieate, 
straight or incurved, 2-13 lin. long, usually ovate, sometimes linear- 
oblong, glabrous, sometimes with a minute denticulation on the 
acute edges, usually smooth and often shining; flower-heads 2-2} 
lin. in diam. ; calyx of the lower flowers }-% lin. long, 3—{ lin. 
broad, coriaceous ; tube subquadrate, glabrous ; lobes broadly deltvid, 
obtuse or subacute, usually distinctly ciliate, rarely nearly without 
cilia; cvrolla 13-1$ lin. long, the exserted part not more than 
11 times as long as the calyx, } to nearly 1 lin. broad at the tips of 
the lobes when flattened, and of nearly equal diameter nearly or 
quite down to the calyx, then narrowed to the base within the calyx ; 
anthers 4 lin. long, linear-oblong; stigma very slightly thickened. 
Rach in Linnzwa, xxvi. 791. Erica labialis, Salisb. in Trans. 
Tinn. Soc. vi. 340. EH. eapitella, Thunb. Herb. ex Rach in Linnea, 
le. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Masson! Forbes! Mund! 
Coast RxeGion: Cape Div.; mountains near Muizenberg, Burke! Smit- 
winkle Vley, Wolley Dod, 3039! mountain near Simonstown, Bolus, 7005! 
MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 39! 
Thunberg’s specimen, named E, capitella in his herbarium, is identical with 
Masson’s specimens on which Salisbury founded his Erica labialis / 
6. S. articulata (N. FE. Br); 3-1 ft. high, much branched ; 
branchlets erect or ascending, puberulous or minutely tomentose ; 
leaves 3-nate, imbricate or as long as the internodes, erect or ascend- 
ing, 1-2 lin. long, linear to ovate, acute, often incurved, glabrous or 
those under the flower-heads sometimes very minutely puberulous, 
sometimes minutely ciliate with hairs and sessile glands when 
young ; flower-heads copious, subglobose, 1-1 in. in diam.; calyx of 
the lower flowers about 4 lin. long, 1—% lin. broad, elliptic, sub- 
orbicular or rhomboid-obovate ; tube glabrous to pubescent; lobes 
broadly deltoid and subacute or broadly rounded, usually con- 
spicuously and sometimes very densely ciliate with white hairs; 
corolla 13—22 lin. long, tubular, the exserted part nearly, or quite 
twice as long as the calyx, subeylindric or gradually tapering down- 
wards from the apex, where it is usually }—} (rarely 3) lin, in diam. ; 
anthers 3—2 lin. long; stigma simple. S. capitellata, Rach in 
Linnea, xxvi. 721, not of Lichtensiein. rica artiewlata, Thunb. 
Prodr. 71, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 357, not of Linn. Bleria 
articulata, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 629; Thunb. Diss. Bleria, 7. B. 
bracteata, Wendl. Collect. ii. 3, t. 37. 
Var. 8, hians (N. E. Br.); corolla moze funnel-shaped at the upper part, 
8-1 lin. in diam, at the tips of the lobes. 
