A406 ERICACE® (Brown). [ Salaxis. 
Coast Ruaton: Tulbagh Div. ; collected either in New Kloof, near Tulbagh, 
on Winterhoek Mountain, on the Witsenberg Range or near Vogel Valley, Ecklon 
§ Zeyher; and Ecklon § Zeyher, 308 partly! Var. B: Cape Div.; foot of 
Muizen Berg, near Fish Hoek, 100 ft., Bolus, 4478! mountains near Simons 
‘Town, 1700 ft., Bolus, 4684! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 1500 ft.,. Schlechter, 
7327! Hermanus, Guthrie, 3420! Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, 150-800 ft., 
Bolus, 6771! Schlechter, 7643 ! 
The description of S. flewuosa is made from the type in the Berlin Herbarium, 
which may be only a weak laxly branched specimen of the form I have considered 
as a variety of it; if so, the latter is evidently the more typical state of the 
plant, although in general appearance very different. A specimen from the 
Cape Flats (Bolus, 4010) seems to belong to var. 8, but the style is long and 
the stigma is glabrous on the underside. 
XVIII. SCYPHOGYNE, Brongn. 
Flowers ebraeteate. Calyx obconic or campanulate, often angular, 
unequally or rarely equally 3-4-toothed or 3—4-lobed, not fleshy. 
Corolla minute, hypogynous, globose, obeonie, campanulate or urceo- 
late, 3-4-lobed or toothed. Stamens 3-4, rarely 5, hypogynous ; 
filaments free or connate; anthers included or partly exserted, 
notched at the apex, free or connate. Ovary superior, 1-celled, with 
a solitary pendulous ovule ; style equalling the anthers or exserted 
beyond them ; stigma large peltate or crater-like. 
Shrubs or shrublets, with the habit and foliage of Erica; flowers minute, 
axillary and terminal, 1-3 together, or several in small globose heads, sessile or 
minutely pedicellate, the corolla always less than 1 lin. long. 
Distris. Species 17, endemic. 
I. Stamens 4, or varying in S. glandulifera and 8. 
remota up to 6, and in 8. micrantha up to 8; calyx 
and corolla 4-lobed : 
* Filaments of the stamens slender, free at 
maturity; anthers free or connate; stigma 
just exceeding the anthers : 
Back of the leaves beset with short gland- 
tipped hairs ... a tee ee ies 
Back of the leaves without gland-tipped 
hairs : 
Flowers axillary and terminal, more or 
less mixed with the leaves, not in 
distinct globose heads : 
Corolla usually much longer than 
the calyx; leaves linear : 
Corolla hyaline, drying white 
and usually very conspicu- 
ovs; stamens4 ... ... (1) imconspicua 
Corolla not hyaline nor dryin 
white, usually inconspicuous ; 
stamens 4-8... we ... (18) micrantha. 
Corolla scarcely longer than the 
calyx, drying brown, not con- 
spicuous (occasionally also in 8. 
inconspicua) ; leaves very small, 
oyate, oblong or lanceolate ; 
(2) Schlechteri. 
