Blzria. | ERICACEHX (Brown). 327 
glabrous, with about 4 pendulous ovules in each cell; style 12-18 
lin. long, exserted, equalling the stamens; stigma simple. Klotzsch 
in Flora, 1844, 824; Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Cap. und Natal. 117. 
Coast ReGion: Caledon Div.; at the foot of Babylons Tower, near Hemel- 
en-Aarde, 600 -800 ft., Krauss, 973 ! 
According to the type specimens in Thunberg’s Herbarium, Bleria caduca 
(Thunb. Diss. Bleoria, 10) is Erica caduca, Thunb., whilst B. nudiflora (Thunb. 
lc. 6), and B. pusilla (Thunb. |.c. 9, as to sheet a of his Herbarium), both 
belong to Erica nudijlora, Linn, Sheets 6 and y of B. pusilla may be a variety 
of Erica nudijlora, but they differ in being more hairy and have smaller 
flowers than is usval in that species. The specimens on all 3 sheets of E, 
pusilla have 8 stamens, not 4 as stated in Thunberg, Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 
348. 
V. COILOSTIGMA, Klotzsch. 
_ Bracts none. Calyx unequally 4-partite, 1 segment much larger 
than the rest. Corolla ovoid or cylindric, 4-toothed. Stamens 4; 
filaments linear, glabrous, free ; anthers free, divided nearly to the 
base, with parallel contiguous cells. Ovary 2-4-celled, with 1 
pendulous ovule in each eell; style filiform, exserted, terminal, 
sometimes becoming lateral in fruit by the abortion of a cell; stigma 
tather large, peltate or crater-like. — 
Heath-like shrublets; leaves grooved down the convex back; flowers in small 
clusters. 
Distris. Species 4, endemic. 
Corolla puberulous 
Corolla glabrous : 
Branchlets glabrous; calyx § as long as the 
corolla... ... (2) glabrum. 
Branchlets puberulous 3 calyx 4-7? as long as the 
... (1) tenuifolium, 
corolla: A 
Branchlets slender, subflexuose bes ... (3) zeyherianum. 
Branchlets rather stout, straight... ... (4) dregeanum. 
1. C. tenuifolium (Klotzsch in Linnwa, xii. 234); branches sub- 
flexuose, erect, puberulous, greyish; leaves 3-nate, $-2 lin. long 
with the petiole, erect, linear, subobtuse, glabrous, margins obscurely 
denticulate or slightly scabrid; flowers axillary and terminal, 
usually forming small clusters ; pedicels not more than 4 lin. 
long; calyx-segments ciliate, the larger }—{ lin. long, varying 
from lanceolate, acute and submembranous, to linear, obtuse and 
thick and leaf-like, the rest lin. long, lanceolate, subacute ; corolla 
£ lin. long, ovoid, with 4 short incurved subacute teeth, puberulous 
outside ; anthers exserted, oblong, with parallel sides and a short 
broad notch at the apex, subtruncate and spurless at the base ; ovary 
2-celled and compressed, broader than long or 3-celled and trigonous, 
glabrous ; style exserted, glabrous; stigma peltate, 4-angled, with 
2 central points. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 708. 
Coast Region: Uitenhage Div. ; between Vanstadens Mountains and Kra- 
kakamma, Ecklon § Zeyher (ex Klotasch), and without precise locality, Zeyher, 
