Erica. | ERIcCACEm (Guthrie & Bolus). 161 
acute, keel-tipped, ciliolate, rigid, thick, $ lin. long; corolla ovoid, 
glabrous, 11-12 lin. long ; segments erect, short, rounded ; anthers 
exserted, lateral, oblong, slightly incurved, bifid, minutely scaberu- 
lous, pale brown, nearly % lin. long, very shortly aristulate ; pore 
over 1 as long as the cell; style straight, exserted beyond the 
anthers; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Rraion: George or Uniondale Div. ; dry stony places, Kamanassie 
Mountains, Masson, 66! 
214. E. dumosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 213, not of Salisb.) ; erect, 
6-12 in. high; branehes slender but rigid, mostly spreading and 
flexuous, the younger glandular-pubescent; leaves 3-nate, erect- 
spreading, imbricate, more rarely distant, linear, narrow-oblong or 
linear-lanceolate, generally tipped with a rigid white callosity, thiek 
and deeply sulcate, with strong revolute margins, or more rarely 
subopen-backed, somewhat bullate, tomentose- pubescent, occasionally 
with gland-tipped hairs towards the apex, at length somewhat glab- 
rescent, 11-21 lin, long; flowers 1-2 in each leaf-whorl towards 
the ends of the branches, mostly somewhat lax and distant; pedicels 
capillary or slender, ascending, straight or curved, persistent, elon- 
gating after flowering, 2}-6 (sometimes even 9) lin. long; bracts 3, 
basal, foliaceous; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, folia- 
ceous, with revolute margins, dark-coloured, gland-pubescent, 1-1} 
lin. long, generally about } the length of the corolla; corolla 
varying from ovoid to tubular-ovoid, with contracted mouth, 
glabrous, rosy to darker red, 3-34 lin. long ; filaments slightly 
dilated at the base and tapering upwards, ciliate or naked; anthers 
exserted, lateral, oblong or linear, nearly straight, 1-1} lin. long, 
muticous; pore }—} as long as the cell; style exserted ; stigma 
capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 230; Benth. in 
DG. Prodr. vii. 668. E. longipedunculata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t. 103. 
Var. 8, intermedia (Bolus) ; leaves with an apical callosity only; corolla 
urceolate-campanulate or campanulate-cyathiform, mouth slightly widened, or 
rarely a few ores ovoid or tabular-ovoid, with contracted mouth, as in the 
type, glabrous, 14-2 lin. long; filaments wider at the base than o the type, 
sometimes distinctly ovate at the base and more abruptly narrowed Upwards ; 
anthers exserted or subincluded, but manifest, carved, smaller, 4-g lin. long; 
ovary pubescent. i é . : 
Van y, setifera (Bolus); leaves tipped with an apical white callosity produced 
into a longish white bristle, tapering to a fine point; sepals bristle-tipped i 
pedicels somewhat shorter and capillary ; corolla like the campanulate forms o 
var. 8, but smaller, 14 lin. long, pubescent or sometimes glabrous; filaments 
ovate-lanceolate at the base, ciliate ; anthers exserted or subincluded, curved, 
about 3 lin. long ; ovary pubescent or villous with longish hairs. 
. * s 4 
Sovran ArRica : without locality, cultivated specemens ° 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. 5 ecg near Wupperthal, Schlechter, 
iv. 3 res, Bolus, 8480: 
eos He Neca a0bo-5500 ft. : Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 
8920! Var B- Cores Div. ; Gydouw Mountain, Schlechter, 10224! pees Klein 
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