Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 147 
somewhat scanty; but we have availed ourselves of the full and careful descrip- 
tion of the authors. Galpin’s specimens are small plants of one year’s growth 
and look more luxuriant than the others, but they differ little in floral 
oer They exhibit a few whorls of 4-nate leaves above those which are 
-nate. : 
188. E. trichoclada (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, dwarf, the whole 
plant viscidulous ; branches decumbent, divaricate, roughly hispid, 
rusty-brown ; branchlets set at nearly a right angle from the stem ; 
leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, elliptical or lanceolate, acute, 
sparingly hispid above or glabrescent, glabrous below, margins 
recurved, open-backed, ciliate with gland-tipped hairs, 1-14 lin. 
long ; flowers axillary, 1-2-3 in the whorls of the uppermost leaves ; 
pedicels slender, hispid, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous ; 
sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, ciliate with long gland-tipped 
hairs, 2 lin. long; corolla funnel-shaped, abruptly widening above 
the middle, glabrous, dry, “pink,” 124 lin. long; segments erect, 
broad-oblong, obtuse, from 3 the tube to equal to it in length ; 
anthers subincluded (shorter than the whole corolla but manifest), 
lateral, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, pale brown, } lin. long, 
aristate; pore about 1 the length of the cell, awns rough, about 
1 the length of the cell; style slender, included, a little shorter 
than the stamens; stigma subsimple, very small; ovary subglobose, 
glabrous. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; in a ravine at Liddesdale, 4000 ft., Wood, 
3933 ! 
A species singularly interesting as being an outlier from the great central 
home of heaths; and as curiously resembling EZ. leptoclada, from the station of 
which it is separated by some 800 miles, while both appear to be rare. It is 
distinguishable from that species by its broader leaves, its approximate (not 
basal) bracts, and its apparently stouter and stronger habit; yet the shape of 
the corolla, and the shape and size of the anthers are almost exactly the 
Same, 
189. E. Marlothii (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 237); diffuse, 
under 1 ft. high ; branches sometimes rather stout, divaricate, rigid, 
pilose ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, close-set, ovate, open- 
backed, margins reflexed, pubescent, sparsely ciliate, 1 lin. or less 
long; flowers terminal, solitary ; pedicels about 1 lin. long ; bracts 
remote, small ; sepals broad-ovate, thick, viscid, villous, $ lin. long ; 
corolla ovoid in bud, becoming oblate-urceolate-depressed ; upper 
part of the tube falling in; segments about 7 the length of the 
tube, connivent with upturned apices closely surrounding the 
exserted filaments and style, with 4 depressions at the base as in 
E. baccans, mouth much contracted ; after the swelling of the 
ovary, the eorolla assumes the ordinary urceolate shape, pubes- 
cent, 2 lin. long, about the same in width ; filaments rather broad, 
equal, bent inwards over the ovary, about 2 lin. long, far exserted ; 
anthers terminal or subterminal, oblong, or (from the pore being 
nearly the length of the cell) somewhat earshaped ; cells deeply 
partite, about 2 lin. long, muticous; style far exserted, hooked 
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