Erica.) ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 115 
Coast Rre@ron: Caledon Div.; mountain ridges along the lower part of 
Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3210! Var. 8: Caledon Div. ; near Zoetmelks Vlei, 
Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3284! 
126. E. tomentosa (Salisb. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 327) ; erect, 
about 1 ft. high; branches numerous, paniculate, tomentose-pubes- 
cent, densely many-flowered ; leaves 3-nate, suberect, linear, obtuse, 
sulcate, puberulous, glabrescent, 1-1} lin. long ; flowers sub-3-nate ; 
pedicels pubescent, 1-1} lin. long; bracts small, remote; sepals 
narrow-lanceolate to ovate, pubescent, coloured, about + lin. long ; 
corolla urceolate or narrow-urceolate, mouth slightly contracted, 
densely and shortly pubescent, almost velvety, dull red to lilac, 
19 lin. long; limb very short ; segments spreading; filaments 
capillary, bent at the apex; anthers included, dorsifixed near the 
base, broad oblong, very obtuse, about } lin. long, aristate; awns 
short, subulate, sometimes recurved upwards, the apices touching 
the back of the anther ; style subexserted, stigma capitate; ovary 
from pubescent to subglabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 673. 
E. velutina, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 645. 
Coast Raion, between 1000-2000 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots 
Holland, Mulder, ex Salisbury! Caledon Div.; mountains of Baviaans Kloof 
and near Genadendal, Burchell, 7611! Drége, 7770a! Galpin, 3659! moun- 
tains near Zoetmelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3295! at the foot 
of Babylons Tewer, Ecklon (ex Bartling). Also cultivated specimens, Herb. 
Salisbury ! 
127. E. pubigera (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 372) ; ereet, 
6-10 in. high ; branches slender, erect, tomentose ; leaves 3-nate (or 
4-nate, Bentham) ; erect-spreading, or squarrose below, narrow semi- 
terete, sulcate, obtuse, glabrous, under 2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; 
pedicels bent, 1 lin. long ; bracts 3, remote, median, one foliaceous, 
the others shorter, coloured ; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 
sulcate, glabrous or pubescent, foliaceous, 1 lin. long; corolla urceo- 
late, mouth contracted, densely hispid, subviscid, white, about 2 lin. 
long ; segments ovate, recurved, dark purple, short ; filaments capil- 
lary, curved at the apex ; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, 
broad-oblong, very obtuse, about 4 lin. long, aristate; pore half the 
length of the cell ; awns subulate, about the length of the cell; 
style included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary pilose-pubescent. Benth. 
in DG. Prodr. vii. 673. E. preusta, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 645, 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; Voormans Bosch, Ludwig ¥ Beil (ex 
n, near Swellendam, Niven, 224! Borcherds in 
Bartling); on the Lange Berge | 
Herb. Bolus, 63261 Schlechter, 5678! Galpin, 3664! Ecklon & Zeyher. 
128. E. Constantia (Nois. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 672) ; 
branches erect, rigid, the younger tomentose; leaves 3-nate, erect- 
spreading, incurved, oblong, sulcate, obtuse, naked above, below 
furnished with 2 rows of rigid tuberculate-setose hairs, 2-2} lin. 
long ; flowers subumbellate ; pedicels stout, pubescent, about 1 lin. 
long ; bracts approximate, one large almost exactly like the leaves, 
the two smaller like the sepals ; goes small, narrow-ovate, acute, 
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