Hrica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 109 
much narrowed to the mouth, white or pink-tinged, about 3 lin. 
long; segments spreading (at least slightly), connivent in age, 
oblong and obtuse, or lanceolate and acute, about 1 of the tube in 
length ; filaments capillary; anthers longitudinally broad-semiovate, 
obtuse, smooth, brown, $ lin. long, minutely aristate ; pore about 4 
the length of the cell ; awns subulate, spreading, not reaching below 
the base of the cell; style slender, clavate at the apex; stigma 
minute, capitellate or subconical ; ovules flat, winged. Wendl. Eric. 
Ie. fase. 6,3; Andr, Heathery, t. 2, and Col. Heaths, t. 2; Bot. 
Mag. t. 440; Lodd. Bot. Cab. ¢. 95. E. viminalis, Salish. Prodr. 
298, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 387. 
Coast Region: Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Niven, 133! Swellendam 
Div.; Riet Kuil, Niven, 134! mountains near Swellendam, Borcherds in Mac- 
Owan & Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1310! Burchell, 7845! Zeyher, Tradouw Pass, 
near Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3604! Riversdale Div. ; summit of Kampsche Berg, 
0 7121! George Div. ; Cradock Berg, near George, Burchell, 5912! 
Usually recognizable in the section by its exceptionally elongate inflorescence, 
and more calycine flowers, the sepals being longer in proportion to the corolla 
than in the other species. 
114. E. georgica (Guthrie & Bolus) ; 1 ft. or more high, entirely 
‘glabrous; branches virgate below, sometimes spreading near the 
apex, the younger deeply channelled by the decurrent leaf-cushions ; 
leaves 3-nate or sometimes scattered, erect to spreading, linear, 
acuminate, incurved, concave above, suleate below, somewhat glau- 
cous, 4-6 lin. long ; inflorescence axillary ; flowers corolline, verti- 
cillate in elose ovoid or oblong heads or false spikes, }~2 in. long, 
2 in. in diam., spreading in every direction ; pedicels slender, 12 lin. 
long ; bracts remote, small, pallid ; sepals broad-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, concave, keeled towards the apex, cartilaginous, pallid, only 
slightly imbricate at the base, about 2 lin. long; corolla-tube ovoid, 
3-4 lin. long, throat contracted, rosy ; segments stellate-spreading 
or reflexed, narrow-ovate, acute, somewhat paler than the tube, 1} by 
1 lin.; anthers exactly elliptical, broadly rounded at either extremity, 
about + lin. long, muticous; pore 4 the length of the cell; stigma 
eapitate, just manifest in the throat; seeds with a wide suborbiecular 
membranous margin. 
Coast Reeion: George Div.; mountain slopes, Montagu Pass, 4500 ft., 
Schlechter, 5852 ! 
115. E. macilenta (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1-1} ft. high; 
branches virgate, slender, few, sometimes quite simplé, not promi- 
nently channelled between the leaf-cushions, naked below, leafy 
above, white-pubescent, glabrescent; leaves 4-nate, the lower erect 
and more distant, sometimes only slightly exceeding the internodes, 
the upper more spreading and more closely imbricate, linear, acute, 
suleate, ciliate, 3-43 lin. long ; inflorescence axillary (or sometimes 
terminal, on very short arrested branchlets?) forming a dense ovoid 
pseudo-raceme, about 9 lin. long and wide, situated shortly beneath 
