Anomalanthus. | | ERICACEE (Brown). 385 
hypogynous, tubular, tubular-campanulate, obconic-campanulate or 
the upper part inflated-oblong or subglobose and much contracted 
below, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, hypogynous, much exserted; filaments 
and anthers free. Ovary narrowly ovoid, l-celled, with 1 pendulous 
ovule; style much exserted ; stigma simple, thickened or capitate. 
Fruit small, apparently indehiscent ; pericarp thin. 
Small shrubs resembling Erica; leaves often with small leafy tufts in their 
axils forming distant whorls on the elongated branchlets ; flowers solitary or 2 
to several in small clusters, axillary or at the ends of short axillary branchlets ; 
bracts coming away with the calyx; fruit probably falling off enclosed in the 
fleshy calyx. 
DistriB. Species 10, endemic. 
This genus is readily distinguished from Syndesmanthus by its relatively small 
(4-2 lin. long) fleshy calyx becoming much enlarged and thickened in fruit, as 
well as by the usually very different and somewhat peculiar habit, From Simo- 
cheilus it is distinguished by its 1-celled ovary, and, with the exception of those 
species of that genus which form the genus Pachycalyx of Klotzsch, also by 
habit. The corolla, although glabrous, apparently often has a velvet-like surface 
something like that of a Pelargonium petal. The length of the petiole is always 
included in the measurements given for the leaves. 
* Flowering-calyx campanulate or cup-shaped, either 
without anglesor ribs or obscurely or obtusely 4-angled: _ 
+ Leaves minutely puberulous to finely pubescent, 
at least when young : 
Calyx-tube puberulous or pubescent : 
‘ Corolla 14-14 lin. long: 
Corolla tubular, narrowed at the 
base; stigma minutely capitate ... (1) Marlothii. 
Corolla globose or globose-ovoid, con- 
tracted into a very narrow tube 
below; stigma simple 5) 
Corolla nearly 1 lin. long, obconic-cam- 
panulate; stigma capitate ide i 
Calyx-tube glabrous; corolla 1 lin. long, 
tubular-campanulate ; stigma simple © 
{+ Leaves glabrous (or on the back only in A. 
collinus), rarely with gland-tipped hairs on the 
margins; calyx-tube glabrous : 
Corolla 13-14 lin. long : 
Corolla straight, inflated-oblong, much 
contracted at the basal third ; anthers 
spurless,.. as = 8 iy a 
Corolla curved, tubular, subglobose- 
clavate at the apex; anthers very 
shortly spurred dis ste - 
Corolla 3-1 lin. long : 
Dried corolla with a dark band around 
the middle; anther-spurs arising from 
the filaments below the cells ... ... (5) discolor, 
Dried corolla without a dark band around 
the middle; anther-spurs at the base 
of the cells, sometimes subobsolete : 
Fruiting-calyx cylindric or cylin- 
dric-ovoid ... ons wi “i 
Fruiting-calyx obovoid or subglobose 
** Flowering-calyx tubular-campanulate or tubular- 
oblong, sharply 4-angled ‘eek ss. wee (10) anguliger, 
ce 
(4) Galpini. 
(6) parviflorus. 
(7) puberulus. 
(2) collinus. 
(3) curviflorus. 
8) scoparius. 
9) turbinatus, 
