Erica.) ERICACcEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 83 
2-3 lin. long ; inflorescenee sub-3-nate 3 flowers erect ; pedicels 2 lin. 
tong ; bracts remote, linear, puberulous ; sepals leaf-like, lanceolate- 
linear, shortly pilose, 12 lin, long; corolla clavate, puberulous, 
subcostate, subdilated at the apex, brick-red, 8-9 lin. long; limb 
short, recurved, concolorous ; filaments (and style) pilose ; anthers 
far-exserted, aristate ; awns straight ; ovary “glabrous, capitate, the 
capitulum pilose ” (Klotzsch). (Bentham says «“ Ovary capitate- 
dilated at the apex, minutely puberulous”). Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 629, : 
bee Re@ion: Tulbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh, Mund ¥ Maire! in Herb, 
ew. p 
We have only seen one poor specimen, which could not be examined, and 
have been obliged to confine ourselves to copying the author’s original de- 
scription. Bentham saw a specimen in the Berlin Herbarium. It appears to be 
allied to E. cruenta. 
68, E. hematosiphon (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, somewhat 
straggling, 1-11 ft. hieh ; branches spreading, pubescent ; leaves 
4-nate, erect, incurved, imbricate, linear or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, 
1-2} lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate ; pedicels slender, coloured, 2~22 
lin, long; braets remote, small; sepals broad ovate or ovate-laneeo- 
late, subfoliaceous with scarious margins, leathery, keeled, glabrous 
or pubescent, 1-11 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, slightly and 
obliquely curved or nearly straight, glabrous, dry, blood-red, 1~1 
in. long; limb short, rounded, erect; filaments capillary ; anthers 
included, ovate to subcuneate, about 2 lin. long, muticous; style 
included, nearly straight ; ovary substipitate, glabrous, 
Coast Reetoy, from 1700-5500 ft.: Clanwilliam Div.; without precise 
locality, Leipoldt, 622! Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Guthrie, 3182! Gydouw 
Mountain, Schlechter, 10045! Worcester Div.; Matroos Berg, Bolus in Herb. 
Guthrie, 3946! _ : 
A well-marked species, somewhat resembling E. chloroloma and EB. cruenta, 
but easily distinguished from either. Schlechter’s specimens from a_ higher 
altitude, but scarcely more than 10 or 12 miles distant, have shorter leaves, 
corollas and anthers than Guthrie’s 3182, but otherwise agree. Guthrie's 3946 
might be regarded as a distinct variety with laxer, weaker habit, pedicels up to 
4 lin. long, broader sepals, and corolla 11 lin. long. 
69. E. chloroloma (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 17); ereet, 2 ft. 
high ; branches ascending, stout, pubescent, furrowed with ridges 
below the somewhat prominent leaf-cushions ; leaves 4—6-nate, erect- 
spreading, imbricate, linear, minutely seabrid-pubescent, 3-42 lin, 
long ; flowers mostly 3-nate, occasionally 4-nate, or solitary ; pedicels 
13-2 lin. long; bracts subremote, minute; sepals linear from an 
ovate scarious-edged ciliate base, acute, keeled, 11 lin. long; corolla 
clavate-tubular, very slightly constricted at the throat, little curved, 
glabrous, dry, red, 7-8 lin. long; limb very short, green; anthers 
ineluded, linear, 14 lin. long, aristate; awns less than half the 
length of the cell; style at length exserted; ovary glabrous. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 629. E. dregeana, Klotzsch in Linnea, 
xii, 50], , 
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