136 ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hriea. 
166. E. setosa (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 646); a somewhat strag- 
gling small shrub; branches pubescent and setose with long white 
hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, broad-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 
acute, very open-backed, the margin only recurved, puberulous, 
paler beneath, margin ciliate with distant rather long white hairs, 
and apex similarly tipped, about 2 lin. long, less than 1 lin. wide ; 
flowers 4-nate or umbellate; pedicels over 1 lin. long; bracts 
approximate or one subremote, linear, ciliate ; sepals subulate, acute, 
adpressed, flat, not keeled, ciliate with long coarse hairs, 1 lin. long; 
corolla urceolate-campanulate, mouth wide, scarcely contracted at 
the throat, puberulous, 18 lin. long; segments wide, rounded and 
frequently reflexed, 3 as long as the tube ; filaments slightly eurved ; 
anthers included, manifest, oblong, widened and rounded at the 
apex, over 3 lin. long, crested ; pore wide, over 3 the length of the 
cell; crests lanceolate, acuminate, toothed on the outer margin, not 
spreading, about 2 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma 
capitellate ; ovary pubescent. Benth. in DC. Prod. vii. 671. 
Coast Rxeion: Stellenbosch Div. ; near Somerset West, Ecklon § Zeyher, 
167! in Herb, Berlin ; Hottentots Holland, Ecklon (ex Bartling). 
Closely allied to the preceding, differing chiefly by its more slender habit, 
umbellate or 4-nate flowers, much smaller sepals, and less hairy ovary. The 
habit is that of § Ceramia; the corolla somewhat that of § Eurystoma. Eckjou 
& Zeyher’s specimens are mixed (at least as to one sheet, which seems to be E. 
barbata), but we take that numbered 167 to be the type. 
167. E. straminea (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 27, 19); erect, 1-2 ft. 
high; branches brown, silky; leaves 3-nate, spreading, ovate or 
elliptical, flat, the margin only revolute, silky, ciliate, dark green 
above, pale green below, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate ; pedicels 
2;—8 lin. long ; bracts subremote (about median), like the sepals but 
narrower and smaller; sepals ovoid, almost exactly like the leaves, 
but smaller, about 2 lin. long; corolla between globose-ureeolate and 
urceolate, throat moderately contracted, pubescent with rather long 
fine silky hairs, straw-coloured, about 2 lin. long; segments 
slightly spreading, rounded, less than + the length of the tube; 
anthers included, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong-cuneate, cells 
deeply parted, scaberulous, about 3 lin. long, subcristate; crests 
narrow, ciliate, about 3 the length of the cell ; ovary silky. 
SourH AFrica: without locality, ex Wendland. 
Not having seen any specimen, we have drawn up the description from the 
excellent one of Wendland, modified or supplemented by his good figure. 
The species has been entirely overlooked by all other writers so far as we 
know. 
168. E. Lerouxie (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiy. 182) ; erect, 
stout, branched, 2-3 ft. high; branches puberulous and sparsely 
pilose; leaves 3-nate, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, open- 
backed, puberulous above, velvety or nearly glabrous, and often paler, 
beneath, long ciliate or naked, 3-4 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate, sub- 
