484 LXXVI. ERICACEZ (OLIVER). [ Ericinella. 
3. ERICINELLA, Klotzsch ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 591. 
Calyx deeply 4-fid or 4-partite, one segment (or two) larger than 
the rest. Corolla marcescent campanulate, 4-lobed. Stamens 4-6, 
included or shortly exserted; anthers bifid, dehiscing by elongate 
oblique pores, unappendaged (or aristate). Ovary 3—4-celled; stigma 
broadly peltate with 3-4 radiate tubercles on the disk; ovules several 
or numerous. Capsule globose, loculicidally 3-4-valved; valves 
separating from the axis.—Shrubs or small trees, with narrow verti- 
cillate heath-like leaves. Flowers as in Frica, ebracteolate. 
A small genus chiefly of South Africa and Madagascar. 
1. B. Mannii, Hook. fil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 16. A shrab of 
3-12 ft. with erect fastigiate branches; extremities puberulous and 
with spreading short barbellate hairs. Leaves erect in whorls of 3, 
glabrous. Flowers small, chiefly clustered at the extremities of short 
lateral branchlets. Stamens 5-6; anthers somewhat cuneately nar- 
rowed at the base, unappendaged, equalling the corolla. Style shortly 
exserted.—Bot. Mag. t. 5569. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons Mountains, 4-12,000 ft., and Clarence Peak, Fer- 
nando Po, 10,000 ft., Mann ! 
Dr. Kirk sends from Mafia Island (about 9 miles from the mainland of Zanguebar) 
what is probably another species of this genus, but the flowers are not well developed. 
It ‘ grows in masses, about 10 ft. in height.’ Rev. C. New also collected in Kiliman- 
jaro barren specimens of an Ericaceous shrub probably referable to this genus, as 
also of a second, with flowers too young for satisfactory analysis, which may prove to 
be a Philippia. 
4. BLZAERIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 592. 
Flowers 4-merous (rarely 5-merous) ; calyx 4-partite ; segments 
equal. Corolla tubular dilated above, campanulate or globose, 4-lobed. 
Stamens 4; anthers 2-lobed or 2-fid, with basal aristee or unappendaged. 
Ovary 4-celled ; ovules indefinite ; stigma small (or large and discoid). 
‘Capsule loculicidally 4-valved.’—Low heath-like shrubs, with alternate 
or verticillate leaves and flowers in terminal racemes (or capitate or 
umbellate). 
A genus of about 15 species, except the following South African. 
1. B. spicata, Hochst. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii.13, Six inches to one 
foot or more from a wiry decumbent base ; extremities more or less 
glandular hirsute-pubescent. Leaves in whorls of 3 or occasionally 
alternate, linear, or linear-lanceolate, with revolute margins sparsely 
hirsute or glandular-ciliate. Flowers 14 to nearly 3 lines long, from 
the upper axils, forming leafy often congested racemes. Calyx- 
segments linear-lanceolate, 4-2 as long as corolla, ciliate. Anthers 
2-lobed, each ceil with a short dorsal subulate appendix at the base ; 
pore about half the length of the anther. Stigma small, capitate.— 
B. condensata, Hochst. 1. ec. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons Mountains, 7-10,000 ft., and summit of Clarence 
Peak, Fernando Po, Mann / 
