Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 137 
calycine ; pedicels pubescent, 2 lin. long; braets subapproximate ; 
sepals lanceolate, acute, pubescent, coloured, 2 lin. long; eorolla 
broadish-ovoid-suburceolate, mouth moderately contracted, pubescent, 
white, about 21 lin. long; segments suberect, obtuse, about $ the 
length of the tube; filaments broad-sigmoid below the anther, 
sparsely pilose and ciliate ; anthers included, oblong, not tapering to 
the base ; cells bipartite, dark-coloured, 3 lin. long ; crests spreading, 
ovate in outline, acute, deeply incised, about + the length of the cell; 
style exserted; stigma bluntly conical, rather large; ovary silky- 
pubescent. 
Coast Rr@ion: Paarl Div.; mountains near Beukenhout Kloof, French 
Hoek, 1000-1200 ft., Miss FE. Le Roux in Herb, Huguenot Seminary, 303! Bolus, 
6986! and in Herb. Norm. Aust,-Afr., 605 ! 
The species differs from the three preceding by its more robust habit, larger, 
coloured, and finely pubescent sepals, ciliate filaments, and somewhat larger 
anthers which do not at all taper towards the filament. The large size of the 
sepals, although they are coloured like the corolla, give the flower a somewhat 
more calycine aspect than is usual in the section. 
169. E. caffra (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 353, not of Salisb. nor of 
others) ; erect, 4-12 ft. high, greyish in all parts; branches virgate 
or spreading, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, subereet to squarrose, usually 
spreading, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, open-backed, greyish- 
pubescent, occasionally subglabrous, commonly 4—6 (sometimes 7) lin. 
long ; flowers 3-nate or umbellate; pedicels tomentose, about 2 lin. 
long; braets remote, minute, adpressed ; sepals lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, margin reflexed at the apex, pubescent, 1-2} lin. long ; 
corolla long-persistent, ovoid-tubular-urceolate, throat contracted, 
laxly villous, or rarely finely pubescent, most usually white or 
yellowish-white, 23-3 lin. long; segments very small, spreading ; 
filaments broader at the base, tapering upwards; anthers included, 
oblong, somewhat wider at the base, pallid, under > lin. long, 
aristate; awns subulate, about 3} as long as the cell ; style just 
exserted ; ovary shortly villous or strigose. 4. urceolaris, Berg. 
Deser. Pl. Cap..107; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 16; Salish. Prodr. 292 : 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 9, 11; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1894; Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 671. E. pentaphylla, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,506, £. 
lamellaris, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 327. 
Var. 8, auricularis (Bolus) ; leaves shorter ; corolla smaller, more glabrous ; 
awns of Ate anther Hiee E. auricularis, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 327. 
E. urceolaris, var. auricularis, Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 671. 
Coast REGION, on mountains, usually near streams, 1000-6000 ft. : Clan- 
william Div., Leipoldt, 215! Tulbagh Div. ; near streams below Winterhoek, 
Thunberg ; Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 2614! Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountain, Drége, 
7727a! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Marloth in Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 
401! Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, Drége! Swellendam Div. ; near Puspas River, 
Thunberg. George Div. ; between Malgat River and Great Brak River, Burchell, 
6140! Aibany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3560! 3605! Zeyher, 3204! 
MacOwan, 802, 1230! Stutterheim Div.; near Klaklazele River, Cooper, 72! 
Queenstown Div. ; Andries Berg, near Bailey, Galpin, 2165! oo. 
CENTRAL REGION: Molteno Div. ; Broughton, Flanagan, 1611! Aliwal North 
