Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 131 
the length of the cell ; style stout, included ; stigma simple; ovary 
deeply lobed, pubescent. 
Karanart ReGion: Orange River Colony; on the landward slopes of the 
Mont-aux-Sources, above Elands River Valley, 8000 ft., Flanagan, 2031! 
A very distinct species, somewhat resembling E. ¢riflora in external appear- 
ance, and unlike any other in this section. 
156. E. hirtiflora (Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 481); erect, 1-2 ft. high; 
branches stout, hirsute; leaves 4-nate, ineurvo-patent to squarrose, 
linear, obtuse, sulcate, hirsute and rough with minute whitish 
tubercles at the base of the hairs, 1-2 lin. long; petiole somewhat 
long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels hirsute, 13-21 lin, long; bracts 
remote, small; sepals lanceolate, hirsute, foliaceous, 3-1 lin. long; 
corolla ovoid-ureeolate, or more rarely broad-urceolate, throat con- 
tracted, roughly tuberculate-hirsute (as the leaves), pale purple, 
usually darker at the apex, 13-2 lin. long; segments spreading, 
about 1 or more rarely 1 the length of the tube ; filaments slender ; 
anthers included, dorsifixed, ovate-cuneate, subacute or obtuse, 
sparsely hispidulous below, + lin. long, aristate or subcristate ; pore 
narrow-elliptical, less than } the length of the cell; awns broad- 
linear, pale brown, ciliate with long thiekish hairs, as long as or 
longer than the cell; style ineluded, slender; stigma capitate ; 
ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 674. E. pubescens, 
Andr. Heathery, t.37, and Col. Heaths t.48 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 167, 
not of Linn. E. pubescens, var. pilosa, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 15, 
41,¢.16. E. pubescens, var. hispida, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 39, and of 
his Herb. (according to Rach). E. mitreformis, Salish. in Trans, 
Linn. Soc. vi. 372. E. tardiflora, Salisb. Herb., but scarcely of his 
descr. l.c. 378 (according to Benth.). E. puberula, Baril. in Linnea, 
vii. 644, not of Klotzsch. E. grisea, Klotzsch, ex Benth. l.c. 674. E. 
minima, Pritz, Ic. Bot. Ind.i. 417. HE. ovata, Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 
417. . 
: esbury Div.; Saldanha Bay, Niven, 24! Cape Div. ; 
babel gone beg er Weonbery, Ecklon, 291! Burchell, 627 t 8407 t 
Bolus, 3298 ! 3718! and in Herb. Norm. Aust-Afr., 33! Guthrie, 1450! 1177! 
Wolley Dod, 588! 824! Simons Bay, Milne, 110! MacGillivray, 447! age 
Div. ; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8142! Swellendam Div. ; 
near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 1098 ! : ba Svneil 
F is. This is the cnly heath known to us which, by its sud- 
an Gronipeivel = some favourable vens0ni a colouring to the eastern ie 
of Table Mountain which may be seen at a considerable distance, like that of the 
similar E. cinerea, L., on the Scottish mountains. Bentham makes two varieties, 
dependent on the size of the flower; but we find intermediate sizes. The 
synonymy, as Bentham observes, is very confused. We have done our best to 
unravel it, but have been obliged, in great part, to follow him. 
157. E. mollis (Andr. Heathery, t. 272) ; erect, 1-1} ft. high, all 
parts more or less hirsute with rather long hairs; leaves 4-nate, 
from suberect to squarrose, linear, subterete, obtuse, obscurely sulcate, 
somewhat rough from the tubercles at the base of the hairs, about 
23 lin, long; flowers 4-nate, ig nl pedicels scarcely 1 lin. long ; 
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