Thoracosperma. | ERICACER (Brown). 329 
Corolla very small, ovoid, ovoid-oblong, or subcampanulate, with 
4 short connivent or ereet lobes. Stamens 4; filaments linear or 
linear-filiform, free ; anthers more or less exserted (except in 7. 
puberulum), bipartite, with or without basal spurs; cells opening by 
short slits. Ovary 2-4-celled, by abortion 1-3-celled in fruit ; 
cells 1-ovuled ; style exserted ; stigma simple or slightly obconically 
thickened or subpeltate, always small. Fruit globose, erustaceous, 
usually 1—2-seeded, perhaps indehiscent, but not seen mature. 
Small shrubs or shrublets with the habit of Erica; leaves flat or convex above, 
convex and grooved on the back; flowers small, in small axillary clusters along 
the branches, on minute branchlets shorter than the leaves subtending them, or 
terminal on short lateral branchlets. 
DistRis. Species 6, all endemic. 
Corolla puberulous or pubescent. it pig ... (6) puberulum,. 
Corolla glabrous: i 
Leaves 4-nate, incurved-erect, thinly and minutely 
scabrid-pubescent me wea wih ... (4) interruptum. 
Leaves 3-nate, glabrous : 
Leaves convex on both sides, 3-1 lin. long, 
spreading or incurved-erect; corolla not 
quite llin.long... iis Kye ; 
Leaves flat above, convex and grooved down 
the back, imbricate or adpressed ; corolla 
14-14 lin. long : 
Leaves narrowly-linear, 2-44 lin. long ; 
anther-spurs at the base of the cells, 
free from the filament ade ... (1) paniculatum. 
Leaves _linear-lanceolate or oblong- 
linear, 1-2} lin. long; anther-spurs 
spreading from the filament below the 
cells: 
Calyx lobed 3-9 of the way down ; 
anthers cuneate-obovate, with 
horizontal or upcurved spurs, 
sometimes obsolete ses ... (2) Marlothii, 
Calyx lobed nearly to the base; 
anthers with nearly parallel sides 
and descending-divergent spurs.. (3) Galpini. 
(5) nanum. 
1. T. paniculatum (Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 350, not of xii. 229) ; 
a small shrublet, 1-2 ft. high; branchlets minutely whitish-tomen- 
tose; leaves 3-nate, adpressed or erect, 2-4} lin. long with the 
petiole, linear, obtuse, flat above, convex on the back, glabrous, not 
ciliate; flowers 1-3 together on minute peduncle-like axillary 
branchlets 0-2 lin. long or terminal, forming small elongated 
clusters at the ends of the branches; pedicels minute, } lin. long ; 
bracts 8, adpressed to the calyx, equal or unequal, linear, obtuse, 
ciliate with exeeedingly minute glands; calyx nearly } lin. long, 
4-lobed to 2 of the way down, glabrous; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, obtusely pointed, very minutely ciliate like the bracts ; corolla 
11 lin. long, ovoid-oblong, slightly narrowed at the mouth, glabrous, 
pinkish-white (Zhunberg); lobes very small, quadrate, truncate, 
erect; anthers partly (or wholly ?) exserted, rather more than 3 lin. 
long, linear-oblong, spurred at the base, scabrid; spurs free, awn- 
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