Hrica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 55 
what crowded, rarely subterminal ; pedicels decurved, 2-5} lin. long ; 
bracts subremote, ovate, scarious, 2-22 lin. long ; sepals rhomboid- 
oval, acute, keeled, scarious, 3 lin. long, greenish ; corolla tubular, 
slightly asymmetrically inflated, mouth somewhat contracted, more 
or less deeply 4-foveolate at the base, glabrous, dry, 6-12 lin. long, 
white or greenish-white ; limb a somewhat darker green ; anthers 
nearly as in EH. bowieana, but somewhat wider; ovary sessile, gla- 
brous. Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 13, 13; var. angustata, Rach in 
Linnea, xxvi. 773. EH. alveiflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
vi. 366. E. gelida, Andr. Heathery, t. 24, and Col. Heaths, t. 96. 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div. ; on the Devils Peak and Table Mountain, 2000- 
3000 ft., Niven, 204! Bolus, 4567! Guthrie, 1520! Treleaven in MacOwan, 
Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1761! Wilms, 3435! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
16. E. sessiliflora (Linn. f. Suppl. 222); erect, 1-11 ft. high; 
branches ascending, densely leafy ; leaves 6-nate or scattered, erect- 
spreading or incurved, imbricate, linear or subulate, acute or acumi- 
nate, often mucronate, glabrous or pubescent, ciliate or naked, 2-7 lin. 
long ; inflorescence generally a dense congested spike, thickening and 
persisting long after the fall of the corolla; pedicels always very 
short and stout; bracts and sepals closely adpressed, usually similar 
in shape and texture, from rhomboid, orbicular-spathulate, or broad- 
obovate to unguieulate-spathulate (the lamina small, ovate, acute), 
oblanceolate, and narrow-oblanceolate, ciliate or naked, rarely lacerate, 
scarious, nerved, pale coloured or at length deep red, from 13~3 lin. 
long ; corolla tubular trumpet-shaped, mostly narrow at the base and 
widening upwards, rarely more equal, glabrous, dry, green to greenish- 
white or yellowish-green, 8-15 (usually 10-12) lin. long; limb 
small, erect; anthers usually included, sometimes just visible, sub- 
ceuneate-oblong, prognathous at the base, with a more or less sharp 
deflexed point, 3-1 lin. long, aristate ; awns variable, usually shorter 
than the cell; ovary sessile, glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 
625. . cephalotes, Willd. ex Steud. Nomen. ed. 2, i. 570, not of 
Thunb. E. spicata, Thunb. Diss. 48, t. 4; Andr. Heathery, t. 
45, and Col. Heaths, t. 61; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 2, 27 ; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1203. E. favosa, Salish. Prodr. 298, and in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vi. 365. 
Var. 8, claveflora (Bolus) ; sepals broadly rhomboid, orbicular-spathulate or 
obvi margin are, 3-34 lin. long, 23—3$ lin. wide. _&E. sessiliftora, Andr, t. 
86, and Col. Heaths, t. 180, E. claveflora, Salish. in Trans, Linn, Soc. vi. 
365. 
Var. y, oblanceolata (Bolus) ; sepals oblanceolate, ciliate or naked, about 
23 lin. long. : oe e 
- Var. 3, sceptriformis (Bolus); sepals broadly spathulate, margins lacerate. 
BE. peared ys Salish oa? E. enneaphylla, Rowb. ew Salisb. in Trans. 
Linn. Soe. vi. 365. E. spicata, Thunb., var. ciliata, Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii. 
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