Erica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 159 
we have examined, being more ovate and shorter; but we can find no other 
differences, nor can we in any way separate E. equalis by definite characters. 
The habit of the plant varies according to the locality,—specimens from drier 
open places being more erect, those from moist grassy spots more diffuse, and 
there are intermediate forms, such as Ecklon & Zeyher’s 3247 and Galpin’s 
3434, from mountains near Swellendam. Thunberg’s EL. cadwca, above cited, 
must remain, a very doubtful species: it was collected on Table Mountain, 
near Cape Town. His specimen is without flowers and his: description is quite 
inadequate. It may be either this, or possibly E. obtusata, Klotzsch. 
210. E. obtusata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 615); 
erect ; branches many, divaricately spreading, puberulous or glan- 
dular-scaberulous; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, linear or 
subterete, rarely flattish, obtuse, thick, sulcate, subviscidulous, 
shining, minutely gland-scabrous, 3-5 lin. long, leaf-cushions short 
and crescent-shaped, not decurrent; flowers subcorolline, 3-6 in 
short umbels or subcapitate; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; bracts sub- 
remote, small, scarious, like the pedice's, sepals and corolla viscidu- 
lous ; sepals lanceolate, acute, subscarious, nerved, margins reflexed 
and minutely gland-ciliolate, 1-1} lin. long; reaching to the height 
of the eorolla-tube or less; corolla globose-urceolate, viscid, white, 
about 12 lin. long; segments spreading, about ¢ the length of the 
tube; filaments broad, eurved; anthers exserted or subexserted, 
broadly elliptical, very obtuse, light brown, smooth, about # lin. long ; 
pore very wide and large, occupying nearly the whole of the cell; 
style shortly exserted ; stigma capitate, large. 
een 2000 and 5000 ft.: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 
ones Pesci a 1 of Waai Vley, 3000 ft., Wolley Dod, 3257 ! Caledon 
Div. ; mountains near Genadendal, Drége, Galpin, 3533! Houw Hoek, 
Schlechter, 5467! Klein River, Niven, 238 ! 
Niven marks his ticket “ glutinous plant, 2-3 ft. high.” 
Section XVI. GYPSOCALLIS. (Sp. 211-218.) 
211. E. racemosa (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 31, t. 5); erect, 6-12 in. 
high; branches somewhat slender, pubescent, and hirsute with 
longer often gland-tipped hairs; leaves 4-nate, the upper erect- 
spreading, the lower often subsquarrose, crowded, linear, sulcate, 
rarely narrow-lanceolate and subopen-backed, pubescent and ciliate 
with gland-tipped hairs, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 3-4 in each whorl 
of the leaves at the ends of the branches, generally forming a more 
or less dense pseudo-raceme (not truly racemose) ; pedicels puberu- 
lous, 13-91 lin. long; bracts remote, small ; corolla urceolate, mouth 
ewhat ¢ i (when young subtubular or cyathiform, mouth 
somewhat contracted ‘a 
not or scarcely contracted), glabrous, 1}-1} lin. long ; segments 
1-1 as long as the tube; filaments very slender, equal ; esl 
commonly subexserted, occasionally exserted, lateral, suboblong, 
distinctly ineurved at the back, scabrid, a little more than $ lin. 
long, muticous; pore about 4 as long as the cell; style exserted 
beyond the anthers, straight; stigma capitellate; ovary hispid. 
