Sympieza.] ERICACEX (Brown). } 397 
fontein, 1500 ft., Galpin, 3721! Var. y: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near 
Caledon, 2500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6767 ! 
8. S. tenuiflora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 706) ; much, but not 
densely branched ; branchlets tomentose-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, 
imbricate or erect, 2-11 lin, long, linear to ovate, acute, incurved, 
glabrous, sometimes when young with some very minute glands on 
the edges ; flower-heads rather copious, about } in. in diam, ; calyx 
of the lower flowers * lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, coriaceous; tube 
cuneate-oblong, glabrous; lobes half as long as the tube, or rather 
more, broadly deltoid, acute, very minutely and inconspicuously 
ciliate ; corolla about 21 lin. long, red; tube cylindric, } lin. in 
diam., the exserted part nearly 8 times as long as the calyx ; lobes 
gaping, 1—2 lin. across their tips ; anthers partly exserted, { lin. long, 
linear ; stigma simple. 
Sour AFrica: without locality, Forbes ! Mund! 
This may be only a long-flowered form of 8. capitellata, but Burchell’s 
specimen, referred to this species by Bentham, belongs to S. articulata, and has 
a long-ciliate differently shaped calyx. 
XVI. LEPTERICA, N. EF. Br. 
Bracts 0. Calyx more or less unequally 4-lobed. Corolla very 
small, hypogynous, obconic, 4-lobed. Stamens 8, hypogynous, in- 
eluded; filaments connate at the base; anthers connate. Ovary 
l-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule; style stout, soon enlarging and 
forming a hollow conical top to the young fruit; stigma large, soon 
appearing sessile, peltate.  Frwit ovoid, apparently indehiscent ; 
pericarp thin, with resin or latex canals in its substance. 
A shrub with very copious slender subparallel branchlets ; leaves small, 
adpressed ; flowers minute, 1-3 together, axillary or terminal. ; 
‘Distrin. Species 1, endemic. : 
1. L. tenuis (N. E. Br.); 3 ft. high, densely much branched ; 
branchlets very numerous, long and very slender, straight or slightly 
curved, subparallel, very minutely puberulous or almost glabrous ; 
leaves 3-nate, usually shorter than the internodes, erect and ad- 
pressed or sometimes imbricate, 3-1; lin. long, narrowly linear, acute, 
straight or very slightly spreading at the tips, which are sometimes 
paler in colour, as if slightly indurated, glabrous ; flowers 1-3 to- 
gether, axillary or on exceedingly short axillary branchlets and 
terminal, subsessile ; bracts 0, except the floral leaves; ealyx }—% lin. 
long, obconie, 4-angled, unequally 4-toothed, glabrous ; teeth erect, 
broadly ovate, acute, keeled, very minutely subciliate, one of them 
much larger than the rest, the smaller more than half as long as the 
tube; corolla obconic, glabrous ; lobes broader than long, rounded, 
abruptly inflexed over the margin of the stigma, rigid; stamens 8, 
included; filaments connate into a tube at the base, free above; 
