330 ERICACEE (Brown). [| Thoracosperma. 
like, 1 as long as the anther; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous ; style 14 lin. 
long, glabrous; stigma obconieally thickened, truncate. Rach in 
Linnea, xxvi. 790. Erica paniculata, Thunb. Prodr. 72, and Fl. 
Cap. ed. Schultes, 360. Bleria paniculata, Thunb. Diss. Blerwa, 10. 
Simocheilus quadrifidus, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 703. 
SoutH AFRIcA: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Recion: George Div.; Brak River Heights, between Great Brak 
River and Malgaten River, Burchell, 6126! 
This is the type of the genus and must be very rare, as I have only seen the 
above two specimens. 
2. T. Marlothii (N. E. Br.); about 1 ft. high; branches erect, 
minutely puberulous on the younger parts, brown or greyish ; leaves 
3-nate, imbrieate or adpressed, 1-12 lin. long with the petiole, linear- 
lanceolate or oblong-linear, obtuse, flat above, convex on the back, 
glabrous, not ciliate, flowers 1-6 together on minute axillary 
branchlets and terminal, forming short unilateral clusters at the ends 
of the branches; pedicels 1—} lin. long, minutely puberulous ; 
bracts 3, unequal, shorter than and adpressed to the calyx or 1 lower 
than the rest, linear, obtuse ; calyx 4—1 lin. long, 4-lobed to 3 or } of 
the way down; lobes ovate, acute, glabrous, ciliate, pink ; corolla 
11-12 lin. long, oblong or ovoid-oblong, glabrous, pink or red; lobes 
broader than long, rounded or broadly deltoid, obtuse, erect ; anthers 
ultimately exserted much beyond the corolla, 12 lin. long, cuneate- 
oblong, scabrid, usually with minute awn-like spurs arising from 
the filament a short but variable distance below the anther-cells, 
horizontally spreading or slightly upcurved, sometimes nearly or 
quite obsolete ; ovary subglobose, more or less 4-angled, glabrous ; 
style 21 lin. long, glabrous; stigma simple, not thickened. 
Centra ReGion, between 4500 and 4900 ft.: Worcester Div. ; Witteberg 
Range, near Matjesfontein, Marloth, 2955! 2956! Prince Albert Div. ; Zwart- 
berg Range, near Sevenweeks Poort, Marloth, 2976! 
3. T. Galpini (N. E. Br.); a small shrublet; branchlets erect, 
minutely puberulous, brown or partly greyish; leaves 3-nate, 
adpressed, 11-21 lin. long with the petiole, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 
flat above, convex on the back, glabrous noi ciliate; flowers 1-3 
together on minute axillary branchlets 4-2 lin, long, also terminal, 
forming short unilateral clusters at the ends of the branchlets ; 
pedicels 1—1 lin. long, minutely puberulous ; bracts 3, adpressed to 
the calyx, equal or unequal, minutely ciliate; calyx } lin. long, 
4-lobed almost to the base; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or. 
subacuminate, glabrous, distinctly ciliate; corolla 14 lin. long, 
ovoid-oblong, slightly narrowed at the mouth, glabrous, white or pale 
pink (Galpin); lobes very small, deltoid-ovate, obtuse; anthers 
half-exserted, not quite 4 lin. long, linear-oblong, spurred at the base, 
scabrid ; spurs awn-like, adnate to the filament for about % of their 
length then diverging (not horizontally spreading) ; ovary ellipsoid or 
