Erica.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 97 
rosy and purple, 3-4 lin. long ; segments erect, scarcely (in the dried 
state) stellate-spreading ; filaments, for the greater part of their 
length, adherent to the corolla-tube ; anthers dorsifixed, semiovate, 
straight, not prognathous and scarcely bilobed at the base, pallid, 
3-3 lin. long, subdecurrent-aristate, or free aristate; awns much 
shorter than the cell, spreading; style ineluded; ovary on a stipe 
of variable length, glabrous, cells 2-4-ovuled. , tricolor, Niven ex 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642. 
Var. 8, imbricata (Bolus); leaves more constantly imbricate and adpressed, 
not spreading at the apex, and wider ; corolla somewhat more inflated. 
SoutH AFrica: without locality, Masson ! 
Coast REGIon: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, 2000 ft., Niven, 147! Schlechter, 
10278! Var, 8: Tulbagh Div. ; New Kloof, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 7580 ! 
Bentham describes the cells of the ovary as 2-ovuled. This is not constant. 
An examination of Niven’s type 147, showed 12 ovules in the 4 cells, of Masson’s 
17 ovules; of Schlechter’s 10278, 17 ovules, and in his 7530, 6 and 7. In 
Schlechter, 10278, the corolla frequently has one or more short shred-like 
blunt processes, which have not been seen upon the other specimens, This is 
possibly insect-work. 
94. E. tubercularis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vi. 330); 
apparently a dwarf shrub, glabrous; branches slender, subflexuous, 
spreading; leaves 3-nate, imbricate, adpressed, linear-oblong, acute, 
glabrous, thick, concave above, cartilagineo-serrulate, 1 lin. long; 
flowers 2—3-nate, or more rarely subumbellate ; pedicels 3 lin. long, 
downy ; bracts 3, minute ; sepals Janceolate-linear, about 2 lin. long ; 
corolla ovoid, subacute at the diseoloured apex, more or less covered 
with minute wart-like tubercles, rosy, about 2 lin. long; segments 
erect and connivent (in the dried state), very short; anthers dorsi- 
fixed, ovate, muticous, about + lin. long; ovary on a slender stipe 
exceeding it in length ; ovules 2 (or sometimes by abortion 1) in each 
cell. H. notabilis, Wendl. in Spreng. Syst. ii. 184.  Eremia 
tubercularis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 700. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Rowhurgh! 
Coast Rre@ton: Stellenbosch Div., Zeyher ! 
Like the preceding and the next species, this appears to be irregular in the 
number of the ovules in each cell. Bentham apparently found flowers with one 
only, and placed it in Hremia. But besides the fact of there being undoubtedly 
two ovules present, it has very little resemblance to the other plants of that 
genus, while it is very similar to the preceding species, than which it is generally 
smaller in all parts. 
95. E. rhodopis (Bolus); much branehed, 4-8 in. high; branches 
ascending, flexuous, slender, glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, 
broadly linear, glabrous, somewhat shorter than the internodes, 
14 lin. long; flowers usually terminal, or sometimes by the abortion 
ot lateral branchlets pseudo-lateral, 2—3-nate; pedicels very slender, 
& lin, long; bracts remote, minute ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, ubtuse, 
glabrous, about } the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid, glabrous, 
dry, rosy, 2-22 lin. long; segments deltoid, connivent in the dried 
state, about 1 the length of the tube; anthers ovate-oblong, about 
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