148 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). | Erica. 
and thinly pubescent near the apex; stigma capitate; ovary 
pubescent. 
Soutn AFRIca: without locality, Marloth, 2244! 
Coast Reeion: Worcester Div. ; shady places between stones on the Matroos 
Berg, 5200 ft., Marloth, 1956! 
A very distinct species, its nearest ally being apparently Z. oligantha. The 
peculiar corolla in which the apex falls in occurs also in some species of §§ Lam- 
protis and Geissostegia, but is very rare in the genus. 
190. E. oligantha (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, twining amongst 
low shrubs, under 1 ft. high ; branches slender, straggling, pubescent ; 
leaves usually 3-nate (occasionally 4-nate on the main stem), spread- 
ing, not crowded, ovate to oblong in apparent outline according to 
the degree to which the margins are reflexed or revolute, open- 
backed or suleate, pubescent and ciliate with long white hairs, some 
as long as the leaves, 1-14 lin. long; flowers usually terminal and 
solitary, occasionally 2—3-nate, very rarely axillary ; pedicels }—1 
lin. long; bracts remote, small ; sepals broad-ovate, viscid, pubes- 
cent, coloured, about % lin. long, margins reflexed ; corolla oblate- 
spheroidal, pubescent, viscid, the summit slightly falling inwards, 
red, about $ lin. long and wide; segments in full flower horizontally 
connivent, becoming more erect; filaments straight, dilating up- 
wards; anthers exserted, sublateral, dorsifixed close to the base, 
oblong, but curved on the dorsal edge, minutely ciliolate, over 
2 lin. long, muticous ; pore 2 the length of the cell; style exserted, 
slender ; stigma subsimple ; ovary pallid, pubescent. 
Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Div.; mountain slopes near Elim Mission Station, 
1400 ft., Bodkin, in Herb. Bolus, 6735 ! 
191. E. debilis (Guthrie & Bolus); apparently a low growing 
diffuse shrub, with slender, scareely puberulous branches; leaves 
3-nate, spreading, broadly ovate, obtuse, glabrous above, pallid and 
concave below, 1 lin. long and wide; flowers terminal, 3-nate ; 
* pedicels, bracts, sepals and the white corolla minutely glandular- 
puberulous ” (Bentham) ; pedicels 2 lin. long; bracts remote, small ; 
sepals 2 ovate, 2 narrower oblanceolate, subacute, membranous, 
coloured, 14 lin. long; corolla subconical oblate-urceolate, mouth 
somewhat contracted, 1} lin. long; limb very short, slightly spread- 
ing; filaments straight, equal, nearly as broad as the anther ; anthers 
exserted, lateral, dorsifixed close to the base, suboblong, subacute, 
about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore as long as the cell; style exserted, 
generally bent; stigma capitellate; ovary coarsely villous. JZ. 
lycopodioides, Lodd. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 619, not of Horne- 
mann. -E. suaveolens, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 24% 
SoutH AFRICA: cultivated specimen ! 
In Herb. Kew are two branches marked “ 209-a Hort. Bot. Edinb, 18 June 
788” and below ‘‘ Graham, 1839,’’ which are those described by Bentham. 
From those and from the description, we have drawn up the above. Nothing 
more seems to be known of the species, which is chiefly distinguished by the shape __ 
of its corolla. We are compelled to give it a new name because it is impossible © 
