Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 139 
foliaceous, linear or narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent and 
setulose, 11—2 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, not much contracted 
at the throat, pubescent, 21-3 lin. long; segments spreading, about 
1 the length of the tube ; filaments narrow-linear; anthers included, 
lateral, oblong, tapering slightly to the apex, subobtuse (but in front 
view acuminate), smooth and submembranous, about } lin. long, 
aristate ; pore 3 the length of the cell; awns ciliolate about % the 
length of the cell; style included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary hispid. 
Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii.672. E. urceolaris, Salish. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. vi. 326, not of Berg. EH. dura, Soland. ex Salisb. in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. vi. 326. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Niven! Roxburgh! 
We have seen Thunberg’s type, and the specimens of Niven and Roxburgh 
agree in floral characters. We suspect that the two neighbouring and more 
recent species (EZ. globosa and E. aggregata) are nothing more than forms of 
this. But all, with the exception of E.globosa, are poorly represented in the 
herbaria to which we have had access, and we are compelled therefore to follow 
the older authors. 
172. E. aggregata (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 13, 11); erect, 2 ft. 
high ; pubescence soft and short, not rough or glandular ; branches 
spreading-erect, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate (or “* 3-4-nate,” Wendland) 
like those of E. urceolaris, but greener and about 3 lin. long ; flowers 
umbellate, or the terminal umbellate, the lower axillary, more or less 
densely clustered or crowded at the ends of the branches ;_ pedicels 
2 lin. long; bracts rernote, foliaceous, at the base of the pedicel ; 
sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, pubescent and ciliate, less than 
$ lin. long; corolla urceolate, puberulous, rosy red, 15-2 lin. long ; 
segments spreading, very small; filaments narrow, widened at the — 
apex; anthers included, dorsifixed, oblong, narrowed to the apex, 
dark-coloured, about 2 lin. long, minutely aristulate ; style exserted ; 
stigma capitate ; ovary hirsute. Lodd. Bot. Cub. t. 1678; Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 671. 
Sour Arica: according to Wendland and Loddiges ; but only known from 
garden specimens and the figures above cited. 
Bentham compares this with E. urceolaris (E. caffra, Linn. ), and suggests 
that it may be a garden hybrid. This may be; but it seems distinct from the 
last named by its corolla, which is smaller and much broader in proportion 
to its length. It appears to be much more closely allied to E. hirta and E. 
globosa. 
173. E. globosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 116); erect, strong-growing, 
1-12 ft. high; branches rather long, glandular-setose, or closely 
pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, mostly squarrose or spreading, longer than 
the internodes, oblong or lanceolate and open-backed with reflexed 
margins, puberulous or glabrous, 3-5} lin. long ; flowers terminal, and 
axillary towards the ends of the branches ; pedicels slender, puberu- 
lous or glandular-pubescent, 23-4 lin. long ; bracts subapproximate 
to remote, rather long or short, slender ; sepals narrow-lanceolate, 
pubescent, viseid, gland-ciliate, foliaceous, §~1} lin. long ; corolla 
