144 ERIcACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
scarious, coloured, viscid, $—1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform or short- 
and wide-suburceolate, mouth neither contracted nor widened, dia- 
phanous, viscid, glabrous, lilac, about 1} lin. long; segments recurved, 
subdeltoid, obtuse, about + the length of the tube ; filaments slender, 
equal, pallid; anthers included or just manifest, dorsifixed just 
above the base, oblong or dorsally curved and semiovate, 2 lin, long, 
muticous; pore + as long as the cell; style exserted, compressed ; 
stigma capitellate; ovary pubescent, chiefly at the apex. 
Coast Recion: Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, 2500 ft., 
Schlechter, 10601 ! 
Recognizable by its pallid branches, oblong leaves, long pedicels and muticous 
anthers. 
182. E. physophylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682); procum- 
bent or prostrate, probably growing on rocks; branches sometimes 
ceespitose and intricately matted, sometimes more straggling, shortly 
gland-hispid, reddish ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, ovate, 
appearing inflated or bladder-like on account of the recurved margin, 
glabrous, ciliate with many long spreading white hairs longer than 
the leaf itself, 14-2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate ; pedicels 
about 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, one spathulate, about 1 lin. 
long, 2 smaller; sepals lanceolate, subscarious, viscid, sulcate-keeled, 
shortly gland-ciliate, coloured, about 1 lin. long; corolla broad- 
eyathiform, mouth widened, glabrous, scarcely 14 lin. long; limb 
erect, a little shorter than the tube; anthers included, lateral, dorsi- 
fixed close to the base, cuneate-ovate, pale brown, diaphanous, 
2 lin. long, aristate ; pore + the length of the cell; awns slender, 
upeurved, about } the length of the cell; style included, short; 
stigma simple; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Reaion: Caledon Div. ; tops of the mountains of Baviaans Kloof at 
Genadendal, Burchell, 7745! Bolus, 5414! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 610! 
Schlechter, 9827 ! 
The peculiar leaves, which are apparently inflated, distinguish this species from 
any other. 
183. E. oxycoccifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 324) ; 
dwarf, straggling, procumbent or decumbent in clefts of wet rocks ; 
branches numerous, spreading, glandular-hispid, 8 or 10 in. long ; 
leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, elliptical, orbicular or subovate, 
very obtuse, thin, flat, with reflexed margins, ciliate, otherwise 
nearly glabrous, 1-1} lin. long ; flowers usually axillary ; pedicels 
slender, hispid, 2-3} lin. long ; bracts remote, minute; sepals ovate, 
ciliate, pubescent, }—$ lin. long; corolla obconic-cyathiform, mouth 
widened, puberulous, 1} lin. long; segments erect, broad, rounded, 
more than } the length of the tube; anthers included, lateral, 
dorsifixed close to the base, very nearly semiorbicular, about + lin. 
long, muticous (or minutely aristate, Bentham); style included ; 
stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. 
