152 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
the base, cuneate-oblong, 4} lin. long or slightly less, muticous ; 
pore } the length of the cell; style shortly exserted, stout, curved; 
stigma capitate, somewhat large ; ovary subturbinate, glabrous below, 
thinly and shortly hairy above, or entirely glabrous. 
Sourn ArRica: without locality, Kennedy in Herb. MacOwan, 1714! 
Coast REcIon : Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 
8258! Voormans Bosch, Mund, 36! in Cape Govt. Herb. 
The different aspect of the broad. or narrow-leaved forms is sometimes 
puzzling; but the characters of the flowers are fairly constant. In general 
appearance the broad-leaved forms resemble EZ. planifolia, but are structurally 
different and easily distinguishable. The narrow-leaved forms are probably the 
result of a drier season. 
197. E. strigosa (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 17, not of 
Wendl.); erect, stout, 2-3 ft. high, by far the largest in this section ; 
branches thickish, erect or divarieate, puberulous and also pilose with 
glandular hairs; leaves 4-nate, mostly squarrose or spreading, 
generally longer than the internodes, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, puberulous above, velvety and paler beneath, narrowly 
open-backed with thick revolute margins, minutely puberulous, 
ciliate with setose gland-tipped hairs, 2-3 lin. long ; flowers axillary 
and terminal, appearing subracemose on the ends of the branches, 
sometimes lax and interrupted, sometimes congested into a short 
pseudo-spike ; pedicels from 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote, minute, 
or some oceasionally wanting; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, foliaceous, tipped with a glandular hair, about 1 lin. long ; 
corolla short-cyathiform or suburceolate-cyathiform, scarcely con- 
tracted or widened to the mouth, glabrous, dry, about 1} lin. long, 
rather less in width; segments short, erect; anthers from sub- 
included to subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, about 2 lin. 
long or less, aristate; pore about 4 the length of the cell ; awns 
straight, } the length of the cell or less; style exserted, straight ; 
stigma capitate; ovary turbinate, glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 678. £. arborea, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 40, not of Linn. nor of 
others, fide Salish. and Rach, LE. axillaris, Salish. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. vi. 325, not of Thunb. EE. precox, Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 1413. 
HE. pilulifera, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 19, 107, t. 41? not of Linn. 
E. Chametetraliz, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 616? E. lasiophylla, 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii, 195, fide Benth. E. scabriuscula, Drege ex 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678. 
Sovrn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Drége! Herb. Salisbury ! 
Coast ReaGion, between 1000 and 2000 ft. : Cape Div.; Devils Peak, Burchell, 
8465! Guthrie, 1167! Wolley Dod, 1740! Table Mountain, Masson! Bolus, 
47521! Kassner, 162! Orange Kloof, Wolley Dod, 3416! Div.? Wilde River, 
Niven! 
This species is well-marked in the section by its robust habit ; and in this 
respect it is certainly exceptional. Bentham placed it in the § Orophanes ; 
but by its usually axillary (as well as terminal) flowers, its Spreading and open- 
backed leaves, it seems to us more conveniently arranged here. 
~ 198. E. flexicaulis (Dry. in Ait, Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 395); 
