124 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Erica. 
about 1 lin. long; limb ample, slightly spreading or erect, from 
equal to the tube to about 2 its length; filaments capillary, bent 
below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, 
oblong, about + lin. long, about 21 times as long as broad, aristate; 
awns slender, rough-edged, straight or divaricate, nearly as long as 
or a little longer than the cells ; style included or rarely just visible, 
slender; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DO. Prodr. 
vii. 675. H. villosiuseula, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1844. E. canescens, 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 23, 171, t. 65% 
Var. 8, micranthera (Bolus); anther-cells somewhat divaricate, broad-oblong, 
narrower towards the apex but very obtuse, truncate at the base, 4, lin. long, 
about twice longer than broad; pore 2 the length of the cell; awns spreading 
outwards and backwards, longer than the cell; in all other respects like the type, 
or the corolla a little narrower than is commonly the case in that. 
Coast Recion, ascending from 20 to 5000 ft.: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits 
Kloof, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4669! Cape Div.; mountains and flats around 
Cape Town, Burke! Bolus, 4749! 4011! Guthrie, 127! Pappe! Ecklon, 93! 
Stellenbosch Div. ; Bottelary Hill, Burchell, 8364! south-west cascade, Niven, 2 ! 
Caledon Div.; near Caledon, Bolus, 9153! Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 
3226! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Ratel River, Schlechter, 9713! Var. 6, Caledon 
Div.; near Papies Vley, Schlechter, 10705 ! 
145. E. distorta (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 644); mostly dwarf, 
diffuse, under 1 ft. high; branches numerous, ascending or divaricate, 
hirsute ; leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved or spreading, linear, sulcate, 
thick, hirsute, 13-2} lin. long; flowers clustered, subcapitate ; 
pedicels 3—1 lin. long or less; bracts remote, small ; sepals linear to 
cuneate, acute, foliaceous, hirsute, under } lin. long; corolla urceo- 
late-broad-cyathiform, pubescent, sometimes prominently veined, 
not widened to the mouth in the living state (when dried and com- 
pressed appearing widened), white turning brown, pale rose or 
crimson, 1-17 lin. long, and about as broad ; limb usually spreading 
at maturity, broad and rounded, rarely subacute; anthers included, 
dorsifixed above the base, oblong, subobtuse, about lin. long, sub- 
cristate; pore 3 the length of the cell; appendages from a broader 
ciliolate base narrowed to subulate-acuminate, about 4 the length of 
the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. EH. 
murina, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 679. E. setacea, E. 
Meyer ex Benth. l.c. 679. . persoluta, var. hispidula, Benth. l.c. 
679, partly. 
Coast Reeron, at 1500-2500 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drage. 
Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon ! Bolus, 4924! Constantia Berg, Bodkin in 
Herb. Bolus, 8061! Marloth! Paarl Div.; Drakensteen Mountains near Bains 
Kloof, Bolus, 4052! French Hoek, Guthrie, 3739 ! 
The shape of the corolla is nearly that of E. pusilla; but the habit (usually 
more divaricately-spreading), inflorescence, size of the anthers, and the shape of 
their appendages, are different. The latter closely resemble those of E. pubescens 
and HE. hirtijlora. The species does not seem to occur frequently. 
: 146. E. caterveflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. S72) 
arborescent, 8-12 ft. high; branches hirsute, the older glabrescent ; — 
