Brica.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 89 
ing to squarrose-recurved, linear, acute or obtuse, slender, sub- 
terete, sulcate, ciliate and tipped with long glandular hairs, 4-7 lin. 
long; flowers umbellate ; pedicels slender, striate, viscid, 5-8 lin. 
long; bracts remote, lanceolate, 1 lin. long ; sepals linear to lanceo- 
late, subaeute, tipped with a glandular seta, margins involute, gland- 
ciliate, viscid, polished, 2-3 lin. long; corolla tubular below, in- 
flated above, constricted at the throat, puberulous, rather viseid, 
red, about 1 in. long; segments short, broad, recurved-spreading ; 
anthers exserted, cohering into a conical tube round the style, 
dorsifixed, linear, slender, 13-3 lin. long, aristate; awns very 
slender, of variable length; style exserted beyond the anthers; 
ovary cylindrical, glabrous. E. Nivenia, Audr. Heathery, t. 76, and 
Col. Heaths, t. 112. E. Niveni, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 635, 
Var. B, longiflora (Bolus) ; corolla-tube longer and more slender in the lower 
portion, 10-12 lin, long ; anthers 3 lin. long. E. Nivenia, var. longiflora, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 227, and Col. Heaths, t. 189. 
Var. y, subequalis (Bolus); corolla with a less inflated subequal tube, 
slightly widening from the base upwards, 7-8 lin, long, 2 lin. wide; awns of 
the anther very short; ovary pilose near the top. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. B: Cape Gov. 
Herb. ! 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div. ; mountain tops near Genadendal and Baviaans 
Kloof, Niven, 154 partly! Masson, 39! Burchell, 7749! Bolus, 5399! and in 
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 348! Schlechter, 10304! Galpin, 3592! near Appels 
Kraal, Zeyher, 3173! Var. 8: mountains of Zoetemelks Valley, Masson, 38! 
Niven, 154 partly! Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3300 ! 
Section VII. BACTRIDIUM. (Sp. 79-80.) 
"9, E. fascicularis (Linn. f. Suppl. 219); 2-6 ft. high; 
branches long, virgate, slender, terminating in a conspicuous rosette 
of large pinkish green-tipped flowers ; leaves G-nate or scattered, 
erect-spreading ; petioles capillary, 1) lin. long; blade linear, sub- 
terete, blunt, glabrous, the whole }—3 in. long ; flowers 10-25 in 
the umbel, sometimes pseudo-lateral owing to new growth ; pedicels 
3-4 lin. long; bracts foliaceous, linear, remote or subremote ; 
sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, glabrous, rather viscid, 
about 8 lin. long; corolla tubular, equal, viscid, glossy, Ly in. 
long, rosy below, paler upwards ; segments subdeltoid, incurved, 
greenish; anthers oblong; awns straight, shorter than the cells. 
Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 6; Wendl. Eric. Te. fase. 14,29; Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 637. -E. octophylla, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 44, t. 3. E. 
coronata, Andr. Heathery, t. 109, and Col. Heaths, t. 15. £. 
radiiflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. V1. 360. 
imperialis (Bolus) ; corolla inflated about the middle; segments a 
vieste: Soma ae pee eos "RB. imperialis, Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 289, and 
Heathery, t. 266. : 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! ; i 
Coast ReGion, ascending to 3 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; in and near 
Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8219! 8272! MacOwan Sf Bolus, Herd. Norm. Aust.- 
Afr., 15! Hottentots Holland, Thunberg. Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, 
Burcheli, 7670! near Hemel-en-Aarde, Zeyher, 3195! Houw Hoek, Scott- 
Elliot ! Genadendal Mountains, Galpin, 3596! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Hagel 
