Erica.]| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 39 
pressed ; mature seeds unknown. Leaves 4-nate, small. Small woody shrubs of 
various habit. 
Flowers 2-24 lin. long; anther-crests ample, sub- 
orbicular, incised wii ve “we vhs ... (377) Brownleee. 
Flowers 1-14 lin. long ; anthers subcrested or aristate, 
appendages narrow and small, or very minute ... (878) Caffrorum. 
§ 33. LamproTis. Inflorescence terminal, rarely also pseudo-lateral ; flowers 
usually 3-nate, often clustered, sometimes pseudo-capitate or pseudo-spicate, 
calycine. ‘T'wo upper bracts approximate or remote, the lower basal, wanting or 
represented by a floral leaf not adherent to the pedicels. Sepals prominent, 
scarious, glabrous, smooth, coloured, from half the corolla to a little exceeding 
it in length. Ccrolla mostly suburceolate or conical, more rarely subtabular or 
cyathiform, glabrous, usually dry, from 14-10 lin, long; limb spreading 
horizontally, or nearly erect or recurved, frequently discoloured or brownish. 
Anthers included, lateral, mostly appendiculate, rarely muticous. Style mostly 
included; stigma capitete, rarely 4-fid. Ovary glabrous. Leaves 3-nate or 
opposite, generally adpressed or erect. All parts of the plant most usually 
glabrous, smooth and glossy.—Closely allied to the § Trigemma, and being 
separated from it chiefly by secondary characters, is often difficult of distinction. 
The ‘stellate-patent” character of the corolla-limb, attributed by former 
authors, is not constant, or at least is often obscure, disappearing by the con- 
pivance of the segments immediately after maturity, or after gathering, and 
therefore generally lost in dried specimens, and, besides, occurs more or less 
distinctly in species of other sections, outside of Bentham’s subgenus Stellanthe. 
Exceptions: leaves spreading or even squarrose in E. tawifolia; leaves, 
bracts and sepals, ciliate in HE. melanacme; inflorescence pseudo -axillary 
(apparently always) in E. chlorosepala, sometimes so in E. taxifolia, E. levigata, 
and E. nodiflora; flowers somewhat viscidulous in E. nigrimontana and FE, 
melanacme ; corolla viscidulous in E. ehlamydijlora ; style exserted in EL. nigrt- 
montana. One or two other species have @ slight pubescence on the younger 
branches. 
A species with the habit of this section (405, EF. lanipes) will be found in 
§ Eurystegia. 
1. Leaves opposite (sometimes also 3-nate in 382, 394, and 395). 
Limb of the corolla concolorous; leaves constantly 
opposite : : So 
Pedicels pubescent with minutely plumose hairs ... (379) dianthifolia. 
Pedicels without plumose hairs : 
Corolla-tube inflated ; corolla 5-6 lin. long, 
Corolla-tube conical, slightly inflated, slender ; 
corolla 3-84 lin. long, white or pallid ... (381) lutea, 
Corolla ovoid-urceolate or subconical, 24-3 lin. ae 
long, rosy eos ee wisi isd ... (382) tenuifolia. 
Limb of the corolla discoloured or brownish; leaves 
3-nate or opposite : 
Corolla urceolate-tubular or narrow-urceolate, 
scarcely inflated below or contracted upwards 
14-5 lin. long svt eee es ee ’ 
Corolla urceolate-subconical, very wide below and j 
much contracted upwards, 14-2 lin. long ... (395) nodiflora. 
2. Leaves 3-nate (sometimes also opposite in 382, 394, and 395). 
Inflorescence psendo-axillary ; flowers solitary below 
the ends of excurrent branches; habit prostrate or 
decumbent (flowers golden-yellow) «ever oe 
(380) borbonizfolia. 
(394) corifolia. 
(392) chlorosepala. 
