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graciles glabrescentes subangulati ; folia 8na linearia glabra erecto- 

 appressa, internodiis subbreviora, 3 mill, longa; flores terminales 

 vel lateralis, sub-3ni cernui, pedicellis gracillimis, 1-5 mill, longis, 

 bracteae minutae remotae ; sepala parva ovato-lanceolata obtusa 

 glabra, corolla 4plo breviora; corolla ovata glabra sicca, 4-4-5 mill, 

 longa ; limbo parvo erecto (vel interdum patente ?) ; stamina 8 in- 

 clusa, filamentis filiformibus, antheris subovatis aristatis ; ovarium 

 stipitatum globosum, 4-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis, stylo basi crasso 

 sursum attenuato, stigmate tenui. 



Hab: Cape Colony, South-western Region, Houw Hoek Mi, 

 Febr., Pappe? (No. 36 & 128); same locality at about 280 meters 

 alt., April, F. Guthrie (No. 2210). 



The flowers are light rosy red. Belongs to Bentham's section 

 Poderemia, and approaches E. tubercularis, Benth., differing by its 

 larger smooth and dry (not viscid) corolla and its aristate anthers. 

 From description it must also be very like Erica (Euryloma) tri- 

 chroma, Benth. of which the author remarks, " Tarn habitu quam 

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euiarem] media et genera nimis artificialia jungit." The cells of 

 the ovary, however, appear to be constantly 1 ovuled, the corolla is 

 always smooth and dry, and there can be no doubt that it is at least 

 specifically distinct. 



Simoehilus viscosus, n. sp. — Fruticulus humilis spithamseus, 

 ramulis pubescentibus ; folia 3na, anguste ovata obtusissima, dorso 

 sulcata, subcartilagineo-ciliata glabra nitida erecto-patentia, 1-5 

 mill, longa ; flores terminales in capitulis multifloris viscosissimis 

 7 mill, diametientibus conferti ; bracteae 3 approximate, inferiore 

 late ovata folns duplo majore ; calyx campanulatus 4 fidus, laciniis 

 subaequahbus, corolla 3plo brevior; corolla tubulosa, medio sub- 

 mflata, apice contracta 4-fida, glabra viscosissima, 4 mill, longa ; 

 filamenta complanata, antheris terminalibus exsertis scabris ; 

 ovarium pubescens 1-loculare 1-ovulatum, ovulo sub apice late- 

 rahter mserto pendulo, stylo longo exserto, stigmate parvo capitato. 



Hab: Cape Colony, South-western Region, in sandy places, 

 Droogevlakte near Riversdale, alt. 125 meters, fi. Jan., R. ScMeehter 

 (No. 2142). 



Distinct by its flowers closely agglutinated in dense heads 

 (separable by soaking in kerosene). The large lower bract is also 



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VARIETIES OF SHERARDIA ARVENSIS L. 

 By G. Claridge Deuce, M.A., F.L.S. 

 Early last year, while looking through the expensive and un- 

 satisfactory Flora Batava, I noticed in the seventeenth volume a 

 plate numbered 1352, lettered Sherardia arvensis var. Walravenii 

 Wirtg., which appeared to differ from the type only in having tbe 

 length of the calyx-limb much reduced. It was discovered, ac- 

 cording to Kops and Van Eeden, in 1883 by Walraven ; the figure, 



