400 ERICACER (Brown). [ Coccosperma. 
puberulous; the lower part nearly smooth or slightly rugulose ; 
seeds 2, 
Coast Rearon: Clanwilliam Div.; Koude Berg, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 8757 ! 
8772! Tulbagh Div. ; on the Witsen Berg, near Tulbagh, Burchell, 8710! 
 $, C. subcapitatum (N. E. Br.); compactly branched ; branchlets 
at first sprinkled with minute very shortly stalked glands, soon 
becoming glabrous and pale greyish; leaves 3-nate, erectly imbri- 
cate or rarely shorter than the internodes, 1-13 lin. long, linear, 
acute, glabrous, ciliate with sessile glands; flowers 3-6 together 
in small terminal heads, subsessile ; calyx broad and shallow, glabrous, 
about 3 lin. long to the tips of the short lobes, which are shorter 
than the corolla-tube and united for nearly half their length, 
the long lobe free to the base or united as high up as the 
others, all edged with minute hairs and sessile glands; corolla 
about 2 lin. long and as much or more in breadth, cup-shaped, 
_ glabrous ; stamens 8; filaments from rather more than half to nearly 
as long as the anthers, connate up to and with the base of them; 
anthers } lin. long, broadly-oblong to subquadrate ; ovary compressed, 
broader than long, glabrous, whitish, with a minutely rugulose 
surface, 2-celled; stigma flattened funnel-shaped, with a narrow 
erect or inflexed rim above and a slightly prominent margin beneath, 
_ glabrous, abruptly tapering to a very short style which is sometimes 
almost wanting. 
Coast Rucion: Cape Div.; on the Steenberg Plateau, near Muizen Berg, 
Wolley Dod, 2723! 
4. C. rugosum (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 215); apparently 1 ft. 
ormore high, rather thinly branched ;_ branchlets, erect or ascending, 
slender, more or less flexuose, at first very minutely and incon- 
spicuously puberulous or nearly or quite glabrous, whitish or pale 
grey ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed and shorter than the internodes or 
erectly imbricate, 11-21 lin. long, narrowly linear, acute, glabrous ; 
flowers 1-3 together, axillary and terminal, very shortly pedicellate 
or subsessile ; calyx (excluding the larger lobe) about } lin. long, 
shorter than the eorolla-tube, broad and shallow, unequally 4-lobed, 
glabrous ; lobes broadly ovate, subobtuse or the larger one acute or 
acuminate, very minutely subdenticulate-ciliate or entire ; corolla 
about 1 lin. long, campanulate, glabrous ; stamens 8; filaments 
connate up to and with the base of the anthers, becoming more or 
less separated by the enlargement of the ovary, }—2 as long as the 
1-2 Jin. long anthers; ovary with several longitudinal ridges on 
the upper part, very obtuse at the apex, glabrous, 2-3-celled ; style 
very short ; stigma broadly funnel-shaped with erectly inflexed sides 
to the cup; fruit (not seen ripe) subglobose, wrinkled on the lower 
pe Salaxis rugosa, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 711; Dietr. Synop. 
l. ii. 1261. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Zeyher ! 
