328 ERICACE® (Brown). [ Coilostigma. 
719! Port Elizabeth Div.; near Emerald Hill, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6693! 
Alexandria Div. ; Olipbants Hoek, Ecklon S Zeyher (ex Klotzsch). Albany 
Div.; Slay Kraal, Zeyher! 
2. C. glabrum (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 708); branchlets very 
erect, straight, glabrous, whitish; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, 3-14 lin. 
long with the petiole, linear, obtuse, flat above, glabrous; flowers in 
axillary clusters of 2—4, subsessile on minute bracteolate peduncle- 
like branchlets which are much shorter than the leaves; calyx 
unequally 4-partite ; lobes oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 
very minutely ciliate, the longest about 4 lin. long; corolla nearly 
1 lin. long, 2 lin. in diam., cylindric, 4-lobed, glabrous; lobes 
erect, broader than long, rounded; anthers ‘exserted, 1—% lin. long, 
linear-oblong, notched at the apex, obtuse and spurless at the base ; 
ovary subglobose, obtusely 4-angled, 4-celled, glabrous; style exserted, 
glabrous; stigma crater-like. 
Coast Reeion: Riversdale Div. ; between Little Vet River and Garcias Pass, 
Burchell, 6875 ! 
3. C. zeyherianum (Klotzsch in Linnwa, xii. 234); branchlets 
slender, subflexuose, erect, puberulous, greyish; leaves 3-nate, 
adpressed or imbricate, 3-13 lin. long with the short petiole, linear, 
subtrigonous, subacute, glabrous; flowers axillary and terminal, 
usually forming small clusters; pedicels 2 lin. long; one sepal 
3—% lin. long, linear or spathulate and leaf-like, from a thin dilated 
base, the others 1 lin. long, linear, obtuse, glabrous, minutely ciliate; 
corolla nearly 1 lin. long, ovoid, with 4 short rounded somewhat 
incurved teeth, glabrous; anthers exserted, oblong, with parallel 
sides and a short ,broad apical notch, spurless at the base; ovary 
compressed, broader than long, somewhat transversely rhomboid, 
glabrous ; style exserted, glabrous; stigma peltate, 4-angled. Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 708. 
Coast ReGion: Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstadens Mountains, Ecklon Y Zeyher ! 
Zeyher ! 
4, C. dregeanum (Klotzsch in Linnwa, xii. 235); about a foot 
high; branchlets rather stout, straight, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, 
linear, acute, rather thick, glabrous ; flowers axillary and terminal, 
subsessile; sepals unequal, the larger sometimes leaf-like and about 
equalling the corolla, the others lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; corolla 
ovoid, glabrous; anthers exserted, spuriess. Benth in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 708. 
Souru AFRica: without locality, Drége, 7753. 
According to Bentham this only differs from C. zeyherianum in its somewhat 
larger leaves and more rigid habit. I have not seen it. 
VI. THORACOSPERMA, Klotzsch. 
Bracts 1-3, adpressed to the calyx. Calyx minute, equally 4- 
lobed or 4-partite ; tube very short or none, rather thin, not angular. 
