160 ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 668; Wendl. Fric. Ie. fasc. 10, 3. #. 
flexilis, Salisb. Prodr. 296, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 342. £. 
hispida, Andr. Heathery, t. 69, and Col. Heaths, t. 100, not of 
Burm. f. ?, nor of Thunb.; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1982. 
Soutn ArFrtca: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and eulti- 
vated specimens ! 
Coast Rreion, between 300 and 1500 ft.: Caledon Div.; mountains of 
Baviaans Kloof near Genadendal, Burchell, 7808! Niven! Drége, 7755! Zoete- 
melks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3542! near Villiersdorp, Bolus, 5177! 
near the Zondereinde River, Schlechter, 9890! Swellendam Div. ; near Swel- 
lendam, Mund, 46! near Grootvaders Bosch, Burchell, 7215! mountains near 
Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 3235! near Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3654! Langeberg 
Range, Schlechter, 5668! Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7049! near 
Riversdale, Schlechter, 1777 ! 
Bentham remarks that in cultivation the leaves become more open-backed, 
showing an affinity with § Ceramia. Following our predecessors we cite 
Thunberg as the author, though it is most probably the H. hispida, Burm. f. 
Prodr, Fl, Cap. 11 (1768). It is, however, unlikely that any certainty is 
attainable, and Burmann’s brief description of seven words is almost as useless as 
a bare name, . 
212. E. aghillana (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, apparently 6-8 in. 
high; branches subglabrous, channelled, pale brown; leaves 4-nate, 
the upper erect and adpressed, the lower spreading or squarrose, 
linear, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate, 2-3 lin. 
long; flowers 1-2 in each whorl of leaves towards the ends of the 
branches, forming a pseudo-raceme; pedicels about 1+ lin. long; 
bracts remote, minute, hairy; sepals narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, 
pubescent, foliaceous, reddish, about 8% lin. long; corolla broad- 
urceolate-campanulate, mouth slightly, or not at all, contracted, 
the younger tetragonous, the older becoming round, glabrous, red, 
13-1} lin. long; segments erect, obtuse, rounded, 1—1 the length of 
the tube; anthers exserted, lateral, oblong, slightly incurved, seabrid, 
nearly 2 lin. long; pore 1 the length of the cell, muticous; style 
well exserted, stoutish ; stigma eapitate; ovary glabrous, lobed, 
pale. 
Var. 8, latifolia (Guthrie & Bolus); leaves oblong, obtuse, 1} lin. long, 
3 lin. wide, thick, closely adpressed to the branches (at least the upper ones) ; 
pedicels longer, 4-54 lin. long. 
Fett Arrica: without locality, Var. 8: Mund! in the Cape Govt. 
ero, 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; Rhenoster Kop, near Cape Agulhas, 
400 ft., Schlechter, 10571! 
213. E. petrea (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 668); erect, 1 ft. or 
more high; branches ascending but somewhat spreading or straggling, 
stoutish, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbri- 
cate, obovate-oblong, subacute, the upper face concave with a thick 
nerve, the lower sulcate, thick, glabrous, smooth and shining, margin 
cartilaginous, 2-2} lin. long ; flowers terminal and axillary towards 
_the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, pubescent, 14 lin. long ; 
bracts 2, closely approximate, small, foliaceous; sepals lanceolate, 
