Thoracosperma. | ERICACEH (Brown). 331 
globose, very minutely puberulous; style 14 lin. long, glabrous; 
stigma simple, not thiekened. 
Coast REGion: Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, 200 ft., Galpin, 3732! 
4. T. interruptum (N. E. Br.); a shrublet, 15 in. or more high ; 
branchlets pubescent, light fulvous-brown ; leaves 4-nate, incurved- 
erect, in distant whorls, 1-21 lin. long with the petiole, linear, sub- 
acute, convex on both sides, scabrid-pubescent on the back ; flowers 
in terminal clusters ‘of 2-8 on short lateral branchlets; pedicels 
4-4 lin. long, bearing 1 large leaf-like bract 1—2 lin. long at its apex ; 
calyx 4 lin. long, equally 4-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes erect, 
ovate, acute, grooved down the back, ciliate; corolla nearly 14 lin. 
long, ovoid, glabrous; lobes about + as long as the tube, obtuse, 
connivent-erect ; stamens exserted ; filaments 1—1+ lin. long, glabrous; 
anthers 3 lin. long, linear-oblong, with parallel sides; spurs very 
short, basal, directed inwards, smooth; ovary compressed-ellipsoid, 
2-celled, glabrous; style 2 lin. long, exserted for half its length, 
filiform, glabrous ; stigma simple. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Bowie! Ward! both in Herb. Kew. 
5. T. nanum (N. E. Br.); a dwarf shrublet, about 6-8 in. high ; 
branchlets very minutely greyish-tomentose; leaves 3-nate, }—1 lin. 
long with the petiole, imbrieate or rather spreading, linear, sub- 
acute, slightly ineurved, convex above, glabrous, not ciliate ; flowers 
1-3 together, terminal on the short lateral branchlets; pedicels 
about 1 lin. long; bracts 3, adpressed to the calyx, }-} lin. long, 
linear or slightly spathulate, thickened and grooved down the back 
at the apex, obtuse, glabrous, minutely ciliate ; calyx } lin. long, 
equally 4-lobed to * of the way down ; lobes erect, linear, obtuse, 
grooved down the back, glabrous, minutely ciliate ; corolla not quite 
1 lin. long, subcampanulate or ovoid-eampanulate, glabrous ; lobes 
erect, broader than long, obtuse; stamens much exserted ; filaments 
1j-11 lin. long, glabrous; anthers } lin. long, cuneate-obovate, 
divided nearly to the spurless base, very minutely scabrid, falling 
away with about 3 of the filament attached to them ; ovary obovoid, 
glabrous, 2-celled ; style 11-15 lin, leng, glabrous; stigma simple, 
scarcely thicker than the style. 
Coast Region: Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens River Mountains, Bolus, 
1580! 
6. T. puberulum (N. E. Br.); branchlets erect, crowded, densely 
puberulous or minutely tomentose, greyish ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed 
or subimbricate, rarely slightly spreading, 3-1 lin. long with the 
petiole, linear, obtuse, convex on both sides, glabrous or very 
minutely subseabrid-puberulous; flowers in axillary clusters of 3-5 
on minute branchlets shorter than the leaves, crowded together along 
the short erect crowded lateral branchlets, in a dense paniculate 
