Hriea. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 65 
This is in many respects intermediate between the preceding and the next 
species, The leaves, sepals, anthers and ovary are closely similar, The shape of 
the corolla is, however, different, being so far as our specimens go, always 
narrowed (instead of widened) towards the apex. : 
33. E. filamentosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 22); slender, erect, 
1-1: ft. high; branches subvirgate, puberulous, channelled between 
the long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 6-nate or irregular and 
somewhat scattered, erect-incurved, crowded, tremulous, slender- 
linear, acute, round-backed or keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 5-7 lin. 
long, about 1 lin. wide; petioles pallid, about 1 lin. long, +}; lin. 
wide; inflorescence axillary, crowded towards the ends of the 
branches; pedicels slender, 4-6 lin. long; braets remote, small ; 
sepals linear from a short ovate or lanceolate base, acuminate, 
coloured, 2 lin. long; corolla obconic- or subobconic-tubular, much 
wider at the mouth than at the base, glabrous or minutely puberu- 
lous, dry, rosy, 4-4} lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed just 
above the base, oblong, obtuse, 2—* lin. long, muticous; pore a little 
under or over 3 the length of the cell; style at length exserted ; stigma 
capitellate ; ovary exactly that of the two preceding species. Andr. 
Col. Heaths, t. 91; Bot. Reg. t. 6; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 395; Benth. 
in DC. Prodr, vii. 664. 
Var. f, longiflora (Bolus) ; branches, leaves and pedicels stouter than in the 
type ; corolla obconic-tubular, 6-63 lin. long. 
Coast Rraion: Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Swellendam, 400-1500 ft., 
Niven, 183! Mund, 12! MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1494! also. cultivated 
specimens! Var. B: Swellendam Div.; mountain ridges along the lower part of 
the River Zondereinde, Zeyher, 3171! Caledon Div.: without collector’s name 
or number, Cape Govt. Herb. ! 
Closely allied to the two preceding species ; and not improbably, when more 
ample material of the two latter is available, it will be thought better to unite all 
three as forms of one variable species. Here as elsewhere in this section we 
have a distinct link with the § Hermes, in which indeed the present species was 
ineluded by Bentham. 
34. E. longifolia (Ait. in Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 4); erect, 1-3 ft. 
high ; branches virgate or spreading ; leaves 6-nate, mostly erect and 
imbrieate, sometimes spreading, rarely squarrose, linear, acute, 
mostly glabrous, rigid, 4-10 lin. long, from 4 to over 2 lin. wide ; 
pedicels 1-3 lin. long ;_ bracts linear, approximate or subapproximate, 
from 2 to 3 the length of the sepals ; sepals linear or linear-subulate, 
foliaceous, dry or viseid, glabrous or pubescent, 3-5 lin. long; 
corolla tubular or clavate-tubular, asymmetrically inflated, more 
rarely subequal, contracted or widened at the mouth, pubescent or 
villous, usually more or less viscid, variously coloured, 6-11 lin. long ; 
anthers included, lateral, oblong, blunt, rarely semiovate and acute, 
muticous, }—1 lin. long; ovary ovoid or turbinate, villous with long 
hairs, mostly glabrous towards the base. Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 
i. 42; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 625. E. pulchella, Thunb. Diss. 
Erica, 22, not of others, fide Rach. E. pityophylla, Spreng. Syst. 
qi.181. E. Leea, Andr. ew Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 400 ; also Heathery, t. 74 
and Col. Heaths, t. 31. 2. leeana, [Dryand. in] Ait. Hort. Kew, 
: F 
-yvOL, 1V.-—SECT. I. 
