Erica.] ERIcACEa (Guthrie & Bolus). 125 
leaves 4-nate, suberect or spreading-incurved, stout, semiterete, 
sulcate, hirsute, glabrescent or glabrous, 21—31 lin. long; flowers 
terminal and lateral, congested in clusters at the ends of the branches; 
pedicels usually hirsute, 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote and small; 
sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, keel-tipped, ciliate, hirsute, under 
1 lin. long; corolla oblong-tubular, or clavate-tubular, mouth not 
(or very slightly) contracted, subtetragonous, ribbed, roughly hirsute 
with tuberculate hairs like those of H. hirtiflora, white or pale rose, 
21 lin, long; segments generally spreading, short, rounded; fila- 
ments eapillary, bent below the anther ; anthers included, dorsifixed 
shortly above the base, broadly oblong or subelliptical, very obtuse, 
1 lin. long, subcristate ; pore very wide, more than } the length of 
the cell; appendages from a broader denticulate base suddenly 
narrowed to subulate-acuminate, about 2 the length of the cell ; 
style included, slender ; stigma small, capitellate; ovary glabrous. 
Benth. in DQ. Prodr. vii. 673. E. caterveefolia, Pers. Syn. i. 421. 
E. pubescens, var. villosa, Thunb. Diss. Lirica, 39," t. OF 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 5,11. E. compacta, Bartl. in Linnea, Vii. 
644. 
Var. B, glabrata (Benth. l.c. 673); all parts, including the corolla, glabrous. 
E. corymbosa, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 648. E. sieberiana, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 
673. E. corymbosa, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 618. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Masson! Hesse! Mund! Lehmann! 
Var. B: Sieber, 167! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Clanwilliam Div., Letpoldt! hills below Table 
Mountain, Thunberg, by the Hout Bay stream, 2000 ft., Marloth in MacOwan 
& Bolus, Herb. Norm., 848! Swellendam Div. ; locality and collector unknown, 
Cape Herb. ! 
A very distinct species and generally recognizable at once by its clustered 
flowers and rather large, coarse leaves. The anther-crests are almost exactly 
those of E. pubescens, L., and HE. distorta, Bartl. It appears to be somewhat 
rare. 
147. E. parviflora (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 506); erect, 1-3 ft. 
high ; branches ascending or slender and diffuse, usually with long 
and short hairs intermixed ; leaves 4-nate, spreading to squarrose, 
linear, sulcate, closely or sparsely hairy, 1-21 lin. long; flowers 
3-nate; pedicels 3-1} lin. long ; bracts remote and small; sepals 
base, oblong, obtuse, aristate, rarely muticous; pore about > the 
length of the cell; cell from } to over 4 lin. long; awns linear, 
rough-edged, from 3 the length of the cell to about as long as it, 
