120 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica. 
4-2 lin. long ; corolla broad-cyathiform, mouth wide, pubescent, sub- 
viscidulous, about 2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, dark purple ; limb short, 
rounded ; segments ciliolate, about + the length of the tube ; anthers 
included, oblong, about + lin. long, aristate; awns subulate from 
i—2 the length of the cell; style exserted ; ovary glabous. Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 672. EH. pygmea, Andr. Heathery, t. 279, and 
Col. Heaths, t. 259. HE. sanguinolenta, Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 468; 
Bot. Mag. t. 2263. 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; mountain tops of Baviaans Kloof, near 
Genadendal, Masson, 9! Burchell, 7746! Bolus, 5404! and in Herb. Norm. 
Aust.-Afr., 353! Also cultivated specimens ! 
Andrews’ figure does not well represent the wild plant; the others are 
better. 
187. E. podophylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 681); ‘‘a small 
alpine plant about 6 in. high” (Niven); branches rigid, pubescent ; 
leaves 3-nate, erowded on short branchlets as if fascicled, spreading, 
long-petioled ; petioles ciliate, 1 lin. or more long; blade broadly 
linear, thick, rigid, hispid, shining, obtuse, callous and recurved at 
the apex, the whole 2}~31 lin. long ; flowers terminal (or “ irregu- 
larly axillary and terminal, subracemose,” Bentham), subcalycine, 
solitary, on short branchlets; pedicels pilose with spreading or 
reversed hairs, 13-2 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, linear, 
ciliate, scarious; sepals ovate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thick and 
leathery, glabrous, smooth, shining, coloured, ciliate, 1 lin. long; 
corolla rather broad urceolate-campanulate, mouth only slightly con- 
tracted, 4-gonous, texture thick, densely puberulous, about 2 lin. 
long ; limb subpatent, more than } the length of the tube ; segments 
ovate, rounded; filaments bent at a right angle at their apex; 
anthers included, suboblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, cristate ; pore 2 the 
length of the cell; crests ovate in outline deeply incised at the 
apex, with linear lobes, in length % of the cell ; ovary hispidulous. 
Coast Reaion : Swellendam Div. ; Grootvaders Bosch, Masson! moist rocky 
places at Riet Kuil and near Swellendam, Niven, 30a! 297! summit of the great 
meuntain near Swellendam, Burchell, 7328! ; 
_ A very distinct and well-marked species. Bentham placed it in § Leptoden- 
dron ; but it seems to fit better here. Like £. setosa and HL, fausta, the species 
has escaped all recent collectors. 
138. E. Atherstonei (Diels MSS.) ; a small, probably procumbent, 
creeping, branched shrub, a few inches high; branches flexuose, 
rather stout, the younger (as also the pedicels and margins of the 
sepals) densely covered with short white floccose hairs; leaves 
3-nate, erect-spreading, crowded, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, concave, 
with a prominent mid-nerve above, convex and sulcate below, ciliate 
en the margin and on the dorsal reflexed edge, becoming glabrous 
and glossy, 13-2 lin. long; flowers both terminal and _ axillary,” 
solitary at or near the ends of the branches; pedicels decurved, 
23-4 lin, long ; bracts remote, thick, very small ; sepals narrow- 
