Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 143 
3-nate, spreading or squarrose, as long as or often shorter than the 
internodes, from lanceolate and acute to broadly elliptical and obtuse, 
or suborbicular, thinly hispid and hispid-ciliate, or nearly glabrous, 
1-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels slender, 14 lin. long ; bracts 
remote or subapproximate, setaceous to spathulate, glandular, hairy ; 
sepals linear to oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, long gland-ciliate, 
2-1 lin. long; corolla urceolate-campanulate to subeyathiform, mouth 
scarcely contracted or widened, puberulous, 14-1} lin. long; limb 
12 the length of the tube; segments spreading or recurved ; fila- 
ments equal; anthers subexserted, nearly as long as, or slightly 
exceeding the corolla-limb, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, 
incurved, about 2 lin. long, cristate-aristate ; pore $ the length of 
the cell; awns sublinear, curved outwards, and deeply toothed on 
the outer side only, about } the cell in length; style exserted ; 
stigma capitellate ; ovary hirsute. 
Coast Rector: Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Puspas Vlei Grootvaders- 
bosch, &c., Zeyher, 165! in Cape Govt. Herb. 
180. E. cryptanthera (Guthrie & Bolus) ; somewhat diffuse, drying 
a pale yellowish hue, 4-6 in. high; branches very slender, sparsely 
pubescent, the ultimate subcapillary; leaves 3-nate, spreading, 
shorter than the internodes, lanceolate, acute, open-backed, strongly 
revolute-edged, ciliate and awned at the apex, $14 lin. long ; flowers 
axillary, solitary or binate ; pedicels slender, bent, 13~2 lin. long ; 
bracts 2, remote, basal, foliaceous, small ; sepals lanceolate or oblong, 
acute, 1—§ lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, not widened at the 
mouth, puberulous, ochraceous yellow, about 1; lin. long; segments 
semiorbicular, erect, about 4 as long as the tube ; filaments slender, 
equal; anthers ineluded, oblong, dorsifixed a little above the base, 
under + lin. long, aristate ; awns slender, upeurved, less than $ the 
length of cell; style included ; stigma subsimple upon the slightly 
dilated and truncate apex of the style; ovary hispidulous. 
Coast Rearon: Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, 1800 ft., 
Schlechter, 9357! Caledon Div. ; mountains by the Zondereinde River, near 
Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 2297 ! 
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In general appearance, and in the flowers, resembling E. myriocodon, bu 
distinct by its constantly 3-nate and broader leaves, and its larger oblong anthers. 
Also very near to E. planifolia. 
181. E. tenuipes (Guthrie & Bolus) ; laxly straggling, suberect, 
or perhaps twining; stouter branches up to 2 lin. in diam., glandular- 
pubeseent, subviscid, very pallid ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, shorter 
than the internodes, oblong or more rarely lancevlate, obtuse, thin 
or submembranous, thinly puberulous on both sides, gland-ciliate, 
margin only slightly recurved, midrib prominent but not large, 
2-3 lin. long, up to about 1 lin. wide; flowers terminal, 3-nate! or 
umbellate? (most flowers dropped from the specimens) ; pedicels 
very slender, pubescent, viscidulous, persistent and elongating, 6-9 
lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, minute; sepals lanceolate, 
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