399, peicacem (Brown). [Bleeria. 
exserted ; anthers } lin. long, linear-oblong, with nearly parallel sides 
down to the spurs, minutely seabrid ; spurs about 4 as long as the 
cells; ovary obovoid, 4-angled, puberulous; cells few-ovuled ; style 
12-21 lin. long, much exserted; stigma simple, slightly dilated. 
Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 697. Blairia coccinea, Dietr. Syn. Pl. 
i. 443, 
* Sourn AFRICA: without precise locality, Masson, 4! Mund § Maire! 
Coast REGION: Swellendam Div.; on the Lange Bergen, 2000 ft., 
Schlechter, 2055! mountains near Swellendam, Marloth, 3527 ! 
5. B. pusilla (Klotzsch in Linnea, viii. 659, not of Linn.) ; a 
bush 6-12 in. high, densely much branched ; branchlets minutely 
greyish-tomentose ; leaves 3-nate, erect, straight or slightly in- 
curved, }—1 lin. long, with short adpressed petioles, linear, subacute, 
keeled down the upper surface, ciliate, otherwise glabrous; umbels 
2-3-flowered, terminating extremely short (1~1 lin. long) axillary 
branchlets, arranged in interrupted spike-like racemes ; pedicels }—} 
lin. long, bracteate below the middle, glabrous ; bracts 3, sometimes 
verticillate, 1-1 lin. long, adpressed to the pedicel, linear, obtuse, 
ciliate, submembranous ; calyx } lin. long, 4- (rarely 5-) lobed to % 
of the way down, glabrous, ciliate on the ovate-lanceolate acute lobes ; 
corolla & lin. long, campanulate, 4- (rarely 5-) angled, shortly 4- 
(rarely 5-) lobed, glabrous, purple; lobes about as long as broad, 
erect, obtusely rounded, often very minutely denticulate; stamens 4 
or rarely 5, exserted ; anthers 2 lin. long, obtusely rounded at the 
base, without spurs; ovary broadly obovoid, 4-angled, minutely 
pubescent at the top; ovules several in each cell; style 1-1} 
lin. long; stigma peltate or funnel-shaped. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 698, not of Linn. nor Thunb. 
South AFRICA: without locality, Lichtenslein ! : 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 3331! 
ner epate Div.; hills near Elim, 300-500 ft., Bolus, 8461! 8462! Guthrie, 
6. B. flava (Bolus in Journ. Bot, 1894, 239); a shrublet, 6-9 in. 
high, much branched, glabrous in all parts; leaves 3-nate, more or 
less imbricate, very shortly petiolate, 3-11 lin. long, 1-3 lin. broad, 
oblong, subacute ; umbels 3—6-flowered ; pedicels 3-1 lin. long, with 
2-3 linear bracts about 4 lin. long below the middle; calyx 4% lin. 
long, rigidly coriaceous, campanulate, 4-lobed to half-way down; 
lobes oblong, subacute, keeled and slightly grooved down the back ; 
corolla 14 lin, long, campanulate, 4-angled, pale yellow, drying dark 
brown ; lobes broadly rounded, broader than long, ereet ; stamens 4; 
anthers about half exserted, 2 lin. long, distinctly narrowed at the 
base above the very short spurs, minutely scabrid; ovary obovoid, 
4-angled, crowned by the abruptly dilated cushion-like base of the 
style, which forms a sort of cap in fruit, glabrous; ovules 2, pendu- 
lous in each cell; style much exserted, 14 lin. long, very slightly 
thickened at the apex ; stigma simple. 
