108 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica, 
latter, while the sepals (oblong-linear, slightly wider above the middle and lacerate) 
and the corolla approach our var. y of the former, 
Section XI. PLATYSPORA. (Sp. 112-117.) 
112. E. astroites (Guthrie & Bolus) ; entirely glabrous; branches 
pallid, longitudinally wrinkled (in the specimen before us 8-9 in. 
long); leaves 4-nate, spreading or reflexed, irregularly curved and 
bent round the branches, linear, acute, sulcate, glaucous ; younger 
petioles ciliate, 6~7 lin. long, much exceeding the internodes; in- 
floreseence axillary, flowers spreading at the ends of the branches, 
corolline ; pedicels slender, 4-51 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceo- 
late-linear, acuminate, 1-2 lin. long ; sepals broad-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, scarious, pallid, with a darker keel on the upper half, 3 lin. 
long ; corolla somewhat salver-shaped ; tube narrow-ovoid, dry, rosy, 
_4} lin. long; segments large, stellate-spreading, elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse or subacute (like those of § Hwryloma), paler than the tube, 
33-4 lin. long, 12 lin. wide; filaments capillary, 43 lin. long ; 
anthers broad-oblong, very obtuse, smooth, a little over 4 lin. long, 
minutely aristulate; pore $ the length of the cell; awns situated 
above the middle of the cell, linear or tooth-like; style included, 
slender, thickened at the apex; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous ; 
ovules obovate, with a white papery wing or margin. 
Var. 8, minor (Guthrie & Bolus) ; smaller in all parts; leaves 3- or 4-nate, 4-5 
lin, long ; pedicels 1} lin. long ; corolla-tube 4 lin. long ; segments more acute, 
14 lin. long ; anthers just as in the type, but % of the size. H. albens, var. 
longijlora, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 649. 
Coast ReGion : Oudtshoorn Div. ; Meirings Poort, on the right side of the 
road to Oudtshoorn, near the Waterfall, Stoney! (in the Cape Gov. Herb.) 
Var. 8: George Div.; on mountains at Barbiers Kraal, Niven, 136! mountains 
near George, Alewander, 18, and without collector's name or number in the 
Cape Gov. Herb. ! 
The larger-flowered form is very distinct in this section; there is, however, 
a certain resemblance in the flower to E. Vallis-Gratie and E. Alfredii, but the 
sepals and bracts in each of these are much wider and longer, besides other 
differences. Our var. 8 most resembles E. heliophila, but has a larger corolla 
and the anther is somewhat different in shape, and has the peculiarly high and 
small appendages of the type (which seem to indicate a close relationship), 
while that of the species last named is muticous, Possibly, however, that also 
may prove to be another form of the present species, 
113. E. albens (Linn. Mant. Alt. 231) ; erect, glabrous, 1-12 ft. 
high; branches virgate, somewhat slender, the younger subangular, 
but not deeply channelled by the leaf-cushions, closely leafy above, 
naked below ; leaves 3-nate, nearly erect, imbricate, internodes 
elongating, linear-trigonous, acute, sulcate, finely ciliolate, 5-7 lin. 
long; inflorescence axillary, in sub-3-nate tufts, forming a lax, 
mostly subsecund, false raceme, 2—4 in. long ; flowers subealycine, 
from erect to nodding ; pedicels about 2 lin, long ; bracts remote, 
lanceolate, scarious, small; sepals obovate or ovate, acute, distinctly 
imbricate, concave, keeled, searious, pallid, about 2 lin. long, reaching 
from }—{ the length of the corolla-tube ; corolla ovoid-urceolate, 
