398 ERICACEZ (Brown). | Lepterica. 
anthers connate, acutely bifid and minutely ciliate at the apex; ovary 
at first small, shortly obconic, 8-ribbed, truncately contracted into a 
stout style longer than itself, glabrous, becoming much enlarged and 
rhomboid-obovate, from the style increasing and forming a broadly 
conical hollow top to the obconic lower part ; stigma large, peltate 
with upturned margins, slightly 4-angled, becoming convex and 
smooth at the central part, with a narrow incurved rim, and, upon 
the enlargement of the ovary, appearing to be subsessile; fruit ellip- 
soid, with a rather thin scarcely crustaceous pericarp. Lagenocarpus 
tenuis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 710. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Mund! 
Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div. ; summit of the Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 
7126! Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7034! 
The corolla is probably pink, as Burchell states on his label that the flowers are 
** roseo-herbacei.” 
XVIA, COCCOSPERMA, Klotzsch. 
Braets 0. Calyx small, unequally 4-lobed, one lobe usually 
longer than the rest, often nearly free. Corolla small, campanulate, 
globose-campanulate or somewhat obovoid, longer than the calyx, 
shortly 4-lobed ; lobes about half as long as the tube, broadly 
deltoid, obtuse or subtruncate, erect or slightly incurved. Stamens 
4-6, not exceeding the corolla, except when pushed out by the 
fruit ; filaments at first connate up to and with the base of the 
anthers, becoming more or less separated by the enlargement of the 
ovary, and then as broad as the anthers, which are connate at the 
basal half, opening by lateral pores. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 large 
collateral ovules on one side of the eavity, or 2-8-celled with 2 
collateral ovules in each eell on the axile placenta; style short ; 
stigma large, slightly exserted, flat or shallowly funnel-shaped at the 
bottom, with a narrow or deep and eup-like erect margin. Fruit 
2-seeded ; pericarp thin, closely investing the seeds, subcoriaceous or 
perhaps slightly fleshy in the living state. Seeds flat on one side by 
mutual pressure, very convex on the other; testa thick, hard, 
erustaceous, with rather large cells. 
Erect much branched shrubs or shrublets, much resembling Salawis in general 
appearance ; leaves 3-nate, linear, grooved on the vonvex back; flowers axillary 
and terminal, sessile or very shortly pedicellate, on an extremely short minutely 
bracteolate branchlet, which, together with the flowers, is very much shorter 
than the leaf from whose axil it arises. Existing descriptions of the ovary of 
this genus are inaccurate. The collateral ovules always have their contiguous 
sides closely applied to each other and often cling together so completely that 
they appear like a single ovule, but may be readily separated with needles in 
water, The seeds of Coccosperma are unlike those of any other South African 
genus of Evicacee. 
DistriB. Species 4, endemic, 
