Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 43 
Bracts remote; sepals lanceolate-acumi- 
nate, naked; anthers crested ... we. (419) leucodesmia. 
Ovary glabrous : 
Anthers crested; crests broad-lanceolate 
to suborbicular : 
Leaves, bracts and sepals setaceo- 
acuminate ... see di ... (425) acuta. 
Leaves, bracts and sepals not so: 
Auther-cells more or less dis- 
tinctly stalked upon the basal 
connective... sss wee (420) triflora. 
Anther-cells not stalked: 
Sepals with a deep depres- 
sion at the base; pedicels 
24-3 lin. long; corolla 
13-2 lin. long... ... (423) selaginifolia. 
Sepals not foveolate ; pedi- 
cels 14-2 lin. long ; corolla — 
2-24 lin, long : 
Inflorescence terminal ; 
bracts approximate, 
2-24 lin. long ... (418) tegulefolia. 
Inflorescence terminal 
and_pseudo-axillary ; 
bracts remote, ? lin. ? 
long ... seu ... (416) irregularis. 
Anthers narrow-crested or broad-aristate : 
Anther-cells more or less distinctly 
stalked on the basal connective : 
Leaves spreading, 3-5 lin. long; ; 
corolla 24 lin, long ... ... (420) triflora. 
Leaves erect, closely imbricate, 
14-2 lin. long; corolla 1} lin. 
long owt ave as af 
Anther-cells not stalked on the con- 
nective : a) ens Tt 
Style exse: 3 Sepals in. 
pie ibs aia io ... (421) depressa. 
Style included; sepals 13-1} lin. ‘ 
ct ee ses wat ... (430) Thodei. 
Antbers decurrent-aristate; ceils very Ss 
obtuse, stalked... we wes ... (426) brevifolia. 
II. Anthers exserted. 
Flowers pseudo-axillary ... 0 «6 0s) + 
_-V. PLATYSTOMA. 
§ 87. Potycopon. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers 8-nate, corolline or sub- 
calycine, rarely calycine. Bracts small, approximate or remote. Sepals lanceo- 
late to orbicular, mostly wide, glabrous, prominent, coloured. Corolla obconic 
or broad-cyathiform, glabrous, dry, small, $i lin. long ; segments equalling or 
somewhat longer than the tube, rarely a little shorter. _Anthers included or 
exserted, lateral, more usually muticous, or (in two species) aristate or occa- 
sionally so. Style mostly exserted. Ovary glabrous or hairy, Leaves 3-nate. 
Small sh with the aspect of $$ Pyronium and Arsace ; distinguishable 
Piooge the rie by its ard sto eesuthen corolla; from the latter by its 
broader, more prominent, and always coloured sepals. 
Exceptions: flowers sometimes calycine in E. leucanthera, subcalycine in a 
few other species. 
(428) Lycopodiastrum. 
... (424) gracilipes. 
