332 -ERICACER (Brown). [Thoracosperma. 
inflorescence on each main branch; pedicels very minute; bracts 3 
or 1, the 2 lateral bracts being always very minute, sometimes 
absent, middle bract minute, 3 lin. long, puberulous; calyx equally 
4-partite; lobes 1 in. long, lanceolate, obtuse or acute, puberu- 
lous; corolla 3-2 lin. long, ovoid, with ceonnivent or erect . 
deltoid-ovoid obtuse lobes, varying from exceedingly minutely 
puberulous to distinctly pubescent with spreading hairs, purple ; 
stamens included; filaments 1 lin. long, doubled upon themselves, 
glabrous; anthers nearly 3 lin. long, oblong, with acute tips to the 
cells, membranous, smooth, pale brown; ovary tetragonous-ellipsoid 
or -subglobose, obtuse, 4-celled, or by abortion in fruit 1—3-celled, 
minutely and sparsely puberulous at the top; style 2 lin. long, much 
exserted, glabrous; stigma subpeltate. Thamnium puberulum, 
Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 223.  Coitlostigma puberulum, Benth. im 
DC, Prodr. vii. 708. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Thom ! 
Coast Rzr@ron : Caledon Div.; mountains near the Zondereinde River and at 
Knoblauch (Knofflochs Kraal) on the Bot River, Ecklon §; Zeyher! mountains 
between Caledon and Elim, 700 ft., Bolus, 6763! Bredasdorp Div.; hills near 
Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6764! 
This differs from the other species of Thoracosperma in its puberulous corolla, 
and the very different texture of its included anthers, but these characters 
scarcely warrant its generic separation. The pubescence on the corollas of 
Dr. Thom’s specimens is very different, and might almost be described as hairy, 
but I find no structural distinction. 
VII. EREMIA, D. Don. 
Bracts 3. Calyx 4-partite, rather large proportionately to the 
corolla, campanulate ; segments equal or in one species with 1 rather 
broader than the rest, ciliate or hairy but not woolly. Corolla 
urceolate, campanulate or cup-shaped, shortly 4-lobed, not more than 
twice as long as broad. Stamens 8, included, equalling or very 
slightly exceeding the corolla-lobes; filaments and the bipartite 
anthers free. Ovary seated on a short or thin disk, 2—4-celled ; 
ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous ; style usually shortly exserted ; 
stigma simple or minutely 4-lobed. uit not seen. 
Small heath-like shrubs or shrublets; leaves grooved down the convex 
' back, spreading, not woolly ; flowers small in terminal clusters on short lateral 
branchlets. 
Distris. Species 4, endemic. 
Leaves 3-nate : 
Calyx shorter than the 14-1 lin. long corolla : 
Leaves 1-3 lin. long, hairy or subechinate 
on the back; corolla urceolate .,. bee 
Leaves }3-% lin. long, at first ciliate, but 
without hairs on the back; corolla cam- 
panulate ... eee oe 
Calyx subequalling the minute corolla ; 
Leaves 4-nate, 4-1 lin. long; corolla cup-shaped, 
% lin. long Yai vee si see bee .. (4) brevifolia. 
(1) totta. 
(2) recurvata 
(3) parvifiora, 
