Coccosperma. | ERICACEH (Brown). 401 
Coast ReGcion: Bredasdorp Div. ; Mier Kraal, 150 ft., Schlechter, 10517 ! 
Zeyher’s specimen at Kew (named by Klotzsch) is not localized, but on the 
label Klotzsch has written the locality-number 84 of Zeyher, which according to 
Linnwa, xx. 258, refers to the locality ‘mountains near Cape Town.” But I 
suspect some error, as no recent collector has found it there, and Schlechter’s 
specimens, which seem to be identical with Zeyher’s, are from quite a different 
locality. 
XVII. SALAXIS, Salisb. 
Bracts 0. Calyx more or less unequally 4-lobed, the larger lobe 
variably connate with the others or free nearly or quite to the base. 
Corolla small, hypogynous, campanulate or cup-shaped, 4-lobed, 
persistent ; lobes about half as long as the tube, incurved, broadly 
deltoid or deltoid-ovate, very obtuse to slightly emarginate at the 
subtruncate apex. Hypogynous disk none. Stamens usually 8, 
rarely 6, hypogynous, included or in fruit shortly pushed out by the 
enlarged ovary; filaments variably connate, sometimes up to, but 
not with the base of the anthers, becoming more or less separated 
with the enlargement of the ovary and then (exeept in S. pumila) 
always narrower at the apex than the base of the anthers, glabrous ; 
anthers connate to the middle or beyond, sometimes beeoming free 
in fruit, oblong or cuneately subquadrate, notched at the apex, 
opening by lateral pores, spurless. Ovary superior, generally 
angular at the middle viewed sideways, and the upper part often 
3—4-angled, 2—4-celled ; style distinct to almost none; stigma large, 
funnel-shaped, with the sides of the upper part of the cup erect or 
inflexed, Ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous. Fruit apparently 
indehiscent, compressed to subglobose, often more or less distinctly 
3—4-angled on the upper half, 2—4-celled; periearp not very thick, 
with a crustaceous or hardened endocarp.. Seeds solitary in each 
cell, with a hard or somewhat bony testa. 
Small Heath-like shrubs or shrublets; leaves 3-nate, grooved down the con- 
vex back, usually thinly ciliate with very minute hairs or points; flowers very 
small and inconspicuous, axillary and terminal, apparently greenish. 
Distris. Species 7, endemic. 
The species of Salawis so closely resemble others belonging to the genera 
Philippia, Scyphogyne, Coccosperma and Lagenocarpus, that they can only be 
distinguished by a careful examination of the ovary. 
Calyx and corolla puberulous; stamens8 ... . ... (1) puberula. 
Calyx and corolla glabrous: 
Plant (excluding the root) 3-5 in. high; bark of 
each internode quickly breaking up into 3 small : 
oblong or rectangular flakes; stamens 6 . (2) pumila, 
Plant rarely less than 9 in. high; bark of each 
internode not breaking up into 3 flakes : 
Calyx (excluding the larger lobe) ? lin. long, 
longer than broad, about equalling the tube 
of tbe 1 lin. long corolla; stamens 8, 
rarely 6 oes lie oer ee ae 
Calyx (excluding the larger lobe) 4-4 lin. 
VOL, IV.—SECT. I, pd 
(3) major. 
