132 ERIcACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica. 
bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, hirsute, long-ciliate, coloured, 
under 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, contracted at the throat, 
coarsely hirsute, dull red, 13 lin. long ; segments spreading, rounded, 
less than 2 the length of the tube; filaments slightly bent at the 
apex; anthers ineluded, laterally basifixed, trigonous, sparsely 
hispidulous, about + lin. long, aristate ; pore orbicular, about } the 
length of the cell ; awns straight, linear, closely serrulate, as long as 
the cell ; style mostly included, rarely subexserted ; stigma large, 
subpeltate ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 247; Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 674. EH. ramosissima, Wendl. Hric. Ic. fase. 18, 93, 
t. 36. E. modesta, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 15, not of Salisb. 
E. albiflora, Klotzsch in Herb. Berlin. E. pubescens, Sieber ex Benth. 
l.c., not of Linn. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thwnberg, Sieber, 171! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Reeton: Cape Div.; Devils Peak, Niven, 30! Table Mountain, 
3000 ft., Bolus, 4618! Constantia Mountain, Wolley Dod, 3427 ! 
A species very easily recognized by its stigma being unusually large for the 
section, and its rather wide flowers, which, in drying, commonly lie flattened 
from above, so that the mouth is exhibited open, 
158. E. ribisaria (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, about 11 ft. high ; 
branches many, weak-growing and slender, sparsely hirsute, glabres- 
eent, reddish; leaves 4-nate, spreading, narrow-linear, subterete, 
blunt, sulcate, hispidulous, 1-2 lin. long; internodes usually becom- 
ing much longer than the leaves; flowers 4-nate; pedicels very 
slender, 2-2} lin. long; bracts remote, infra-median, very small ; 
sepals linear from a broader base, foliaceous at least in the upper 
portion, pubescent, }— lin. long ; corolla ovoid to globose-urceolate, 
contraeted at the mouth, thinly puberulous, dry, 11—2 lin. long, 
bright crimson; segments erect, connivent, broad and rounded, 
very short, darker than the tube; filaments slender; anthers in- 
cluded, dorsifixed, ovate-cuneate, very obtuse, about as broad at the 
base as their length, sparsely hispidulous, about + lin. long, aristate ; 
pore wide, about } the length of the cell; awns linear, straight, 
somewhat long ciliate, about as long as the cells (the anther much 
resembling that of E. mollis, but slightly larger and with longer 
hairs on the awns) ; style included, straight; stigma small, capitel- 
late ; ovary hispidulous. 
Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3227! in 
Herb. Berlin, Guthrie, 2283! Schlechter, 7360! 
This species occurs in a well-searched locality, and has probably only escaped 
_ examination on account of the resemblance of its flowers to those of E. ramentacea, 
from which in some other respects (especially its habit) it is very different. It 
appears to be very local. 
_ 169. E. oophylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 672); 3-5 in. high; 
branches puberulous ; leaves 4-nate, spreading, ovoid or subterete, 
