146 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
186. E. brachycentra (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 688); diffuse, 
dwarf ; branches intricate, rather rigid, and, together with the leaves, 
pedicels, bracts and sepals glandular-pilose ; leaves 3-nate, recurved- 
squarrose, usually shorter than the internodes, oblong to ovate, acute, 
subopen-backed with broad thick margins, rigid, rather thick, gland- 
ciliate, glabrous on the upper, velvety on the lower surface, —% lin. 
long ; flowers terminal, 3-nate ; pedicels slender, about 1 lin. long ; 
bracts closely approximate, elliptical, thick ; sepals ovate, foliaceous, 
less than 3 lin. long; corolla subcampanulate-cyathiform or broad sub- 
ureeolate, mouth scarcely widened, glabrous, viscidulous, about 1 lin. 
long; segments very short, almost truncate ; filaments slender, equal ; 
anthers exserted, dorsifixed half-way between the base and the 
middle, very shortly ciliolate on the front margin, 2 lin. long, 
aristate ; pore about 4 the length of the cell; awns very short 
scarcely reaching to the base of the eell ; style long-exserted, slender ; 
stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast ReGion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 56! and Niven, 
84! in Herb. Kew. 
This obscure species, quite distinct from any other, does not fit very well into 
any of the sections. Bentham placed it, with doubt, in § Polycodon, and it 
might almost equally well go into § Pyronium. Its spreading open-backed 
leaves, its straggling habit, and general viscidity, induce us to place it 
here. 
187. E. leptoclada (Van Heurck & Muell. Arg., Obs. Bot. et 
Deser. Pl. Nov. 34) ; diffuse, proecumbent, 3-10 in. high; branehes 
glandular-hispid, slender ; leaves 3-nate (rarely some 4-nate on the 
same branch), spreading, linear, linear-lanceolate or broad-lanceolate, 
acute, sulcate, hispid and ciliate with glandular hairs, 11 lin. long, 
margins revolute; flowers 3-nate, axillary towards the ends of the 
branches ; pedicels very slender, about as long as the leaves ; bracts 
remote, basal, foliaceous, hispid ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, folia- 
ceous, hispid, gland-ciliate, distinctly cohering at the base, sometimes 
with obtuse sinuses, about 8 lin. long; corolla broadly funnel- 
shaped, expanded from a point below the middle, minutely puberu- 
lous, 13-2 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, broad and rounded, 
from 4 to } the length of the rest of the corolla; anthers included, 
dorsifixed Just above the base, semiovate, dark-coloured, 1 lin. long, 
muticous; pore about 4 the length of the cell; style slender, 
exserted, often bent below the stigma; stigma capitellate; ovary 
glabrous. — 
Var. 8, aristata (Bolus) ; leaves broader than in the type, commonly open- 
backed ; sepals linear or subulate, aristate; corolla-limb mostly spreading or 
reflexed ; anthers aristulate; awns 4 the length of the cell or less. 
Coast Recton: Piquetberg Div. ; on the Oliphants River ( Kardouw) Moun- 
tains, Zeyher, 1108! Var. 8: Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, 
2700 ft., Bolus, 9996! Guthrie, 4701! Caledon Div.; mountains near Gena- 
dendal, 2000 ft., Pappe! Galpin, 3655 ! 
This species, like the next, is well-marked by its very distinctly funnel-shaped 
corolla, with a rather large limb, It appears to be rare and our material is 
