110 ERIcACcEx (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
the ends of excurrent branches; flowers corolline, spreading hori- 
zontally ; pedicels slender, 3-1 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, 
sepal-like, about 1 lin. long; sepals linear from a short ovate 
scarious ciliate base, leaf-like, keeled, acuminate, about 22 lin. long, 
reaching to 3 the length of the corolla-tube ; corolla tubular-inflated 
below; tube about 3 lin. long, red or rosy; segments spreading, 
ovate, acute, from a narrow minutely unguiculate imbricating base, 
about 14 lin. long; anthers as in EH. georgica, but slightly smaller ; 
stigma minutely capitellate ; ovules membranous-margined. 
Coast Reeron: Swellendam Div. ; moist places on the Lange Bergen, near 
Zuurbraak, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 2043! 
The corolla is almost exactly that of H. steinbergiana, but the leaves, in- 
florescence and sepals differ, the latter being, in this, narrower and more 
foliaceous. 
116. E. tetragona (Linn. f. Suppl. 223); erect, glabrous ; 
branches virgate, slender, somewhat channelled by the decurrent 
leaf-eushions, 6 in. or more long ; leaves erect or spreading, imbri- 
cate, slender, linear, acute, keeled, 4-6 lin. long; inflorescence 
axillary, in a somewhat lax pseudo-raceme, 1-2 in. long, situated 
shortly beneath the ends of excurrent branches; flowers corolline, 
spreading in every direction ; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts approxi- 
mate, linear, subfoliaceous, 1-2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, the lower part scarious, foliaceous 
upwards, 21 lin. long; corolla narrow-ovoid or tubular-inflated, 
more or less contracted at the throat, tetragonous, pale yellow, 
3-4 lin. long; segments spreading-recurved, ovate, obtuse or sub- 
acute, 3-1 lin. long; anthers oblong, obtuse at either extremity, 
pallid, 2 lin. long, muticous; pore + the length of the cell; stigma 
capitellate, sometimes minute; ovary substipitate, or at least con- 
tracted at the base; seeds oblong, with a narrow wing. Thunb. 
Diss. Erica, 14, t. 4; Andr. Heathery, t.95, and Col. Heaths, t. 
212; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 23, 163, t. 61; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
1239; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 649. E. pugiontfolia, Salish. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 387. 
. Soura Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Masson! Herb. Lamarck! and 
culivated specimens ! = 
Coast Racion: Swellendam Div.; Tradouw, Mund § Maire! Riet Kuil, 
Niven, 185! Humansdorp Div.; mountains near Kromme River, Drége ! 
117. E. heliophila (Guthrie & Bolus); branches slender, virgate, 
white-pubescent, not prominently channelled between the leaf- 
cushions, 9 in. or more long ; leaves 3-nate, the upper crowded, 
imbricate, erect, the lower more distant and subspreading, linear- _ 
trigonous, acuminate, ciliate on the blade and on the petiole, about 
3 lin. long; inflorescence axillary, laxly pseudo-racemose below the 
ends of excurrent branches, flowers corolline; pedicels pubes- 
cent, 13 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, 1 lin. long or less; sepals 
somewhat spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, concave, scarious, — 
ciliate, about 2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate; tube not angled, — 
