130 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
A somewhat variable species, yet well-marked in its chief characters. It is 
quite confined to the higher mountains. 
154. E. modesta (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 352) ; erect, 
dwarf ; stem stout and woody, probably under 1 ft. high; branches 
numerous, flexuous, sometimes intricate, covered with persistent 
leaf-cushions, the younger (also the pedicels) floccose with small 
subplumose or minutely barbellate hairs, younger leaves, bracts and 
sepals similarly ciliate ; leaves 3-nate (also 4-nate, according to 
Bentham), erect-spreading, closely imbricate, sexfarious, oblong, sub- 
obtuse, thick, round-backed, sulcate, the younger ciliate and incano- 
pulverulent, glabrescent, 1-12 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels 
floccose, 14-2 lin. long; bracts closely approximate, ovate, keel- 
tipped, cartilaginous, pubescent, ciliate, very concave, pale rosy, 
about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but somewhat larger, 
11-2 lin. long, about 3 the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid- 
urceolate, tapering somewhat gradually to the contracted throat, 
or tubular-urceolate, and then only very slightly contracted at the 
throat, pubescent, pale rosy, 3-4 lin. long ; segments spreading, 
rounded, about 11 lin. long; filaments slender, sigmoid below the 
anther; anthers included, lateral, dorsifixed well above the base, 
cuneate-oblong, subobtuse, dark-coloured, scaberulous, a little over 
1 Jin. long, aristate; pore 2 the length of the cell ; awns narrow- 
subulate, ciliolate, about 1 the cells in length ; style included, or at 
length manifest; stigma capitate; ovary very pale, glabrous. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 655. Raspalia angulata, E. Meyer in 
Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 215; and see Harv. § Sond. 
Fl, Cap. ii. 320. 
Coast Reeton: Caledon Div.; tops of the mountains of Baviaans Kloof, 
near Genadendal, 2200-5000 ft., Niven, 58! 212e! Masson, 14! Burchell, 7711! 
Drege, Bolus, 5425! Bodkin in Herb. Guthrie, 3620! and in Herb. Bolus, 
6957! Schlechter, 9859 ! 
Bentham quotes E. leucophylla, Klotzsch, with a sign of doubt, as a synonym 
for this species. We have not seen it (nor had Bentham), but from the 
description it seems to be nearer to EH. oresigena, and may possibly be our 
var. B of that species, yet there are differences which prevent identification. 
155. E. Flanagani (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 2388); erect, 
stout, rigid, branched, 2—3 ft. high ; stem 3 lin. in diam.; branches 
subflexuous, pubescent, densely leafy ; leaves 4-nate, erect, crowded, 
linear, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, 4-5 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, 
subcernuous ; pedicels thick, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, broad- 
linear, thinly pubescent, coriaceous, thick, pallid, 3-34 lin. long; 
sepals like the bracts, 3 lin. long; corolla urceolate or ovoid-ureeo- 
late, mouth contracted, densely white-pubescent, white, about 4 lin. 
long; segments erect, rounded with imbricate margin, scarcely } the 
length of the tube; filaments rather broad, bent at the apex ; anthers 
ineluded, affixed above the base, narrow-oblong, slightly curved, pale 
brown, over 1 lin. long, cristate-aristate; awns from an oblong 
denticulate base, suddenly contracted to subulate-acuminate, 3 or } 
