166 ERIcACEEy (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
221. E. drakensbergensis (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, usually 
1-2 ft., sometimes 3 ft. high ; branches erect or spreading, pallid, 
puberulous; leaves 3—4-nate, often varying on the same plant, mostly 
erect and imbricate, or sometimes shorter than the internodes, more 
rarely spreading, linear, semiterete, glabrous, pallid, 1-2 lin. long ; 
flowers 3-4—6-nate; pedicels straight or decurved, puberulous, 
1-2 lin. long; bracts linear, remote, small ; sepals ovate to lanceo- 
late, keel-tipped, acute or obtuse, ciliate, subscarious or subfoliaceous, 
mostly glabrous, sometimes pubescent, 1—% lin. long; eorolla sub- 
urceolate-eyathiform, not (or very slightly) constricted at the throat, 
glabrous, white, 11-2 lin. long, 3—1 lin. wide ; segments broad, ereet, 
sometimes erosulate, about + the length of the tube; filaments 
straight; anthers subexserted, rarely exserted, sublateral, dorsitixed 
very close to, but above, the base, obliquely oblong or narrow- 
elliptical, sparsely ciliate on the front margins, 2-1 lin. long; 
aristate ; pore about 3 the length of the cell; awns curved, subulate, 
acuminate, ciliate, 1—2 the length of the cell; style exserted, some- 
times decurved ; stigma peltate-capitate ; ovary glabrous. 
Katauari REGIonN: Transvaal; widely distributed in the eastern part of 
the colony, Bolus, 7677! Roe in Herb. Bolus, 2643! 3136! Schlechter, 4115! 
Wilms, 902! 905! 910! 911! 912! Nelson, 362! Rehmann, 6573! 6621! 
Wood, 1639! Galpin, 453! Thode, 66! 
Eastern ReGion, from 2000 to 6000 ft.: Griqualand Hast; Pumagwan 
Mountain, 3000 ft., Tyson, 2976! Natal; near Richmond, Wood, 1857! 
Little Noods Berg, Wood, 4125! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
1777! 
This species is perhaps best placed in this section (as first suggested to us by 
Mr. N. K, Brown of Kew), as an ally of both the preceding species and of E. 
decipiens, Spreng., while quite distinct from either. The number of leaves in 
the whorl is very variable, some plants exhibiting only 3-nate, others ouly 4-nate 
leaves, others with both forms. 
222. E. decipiens (Spreng. fil. Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 13); 
erect, 1-1} ft. high; branches straggling or virgate, cano-pubescent ; 
leaves 3-nate, erect to spreading, linear, blunt, suleate, glabrous, 
glossy, 2—3 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels 3—1 lin. long; sepals 
narrow-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, subscarious, 2-1 lin. 
long; corolla at first narrow-cyatbiform, ultimately ovoid-subureeo- 
late, mouth slightly contracted, glabrous, white (or rarely pale rosy) 
13-1} lin. long ; segments erect, 4-1 the length of the tube ; anthers 
exserted or subexserted, lateral, narrow-oblong, acute, % lin. long, 
muticous, scaberulous, mostly muticous; pore about 1 the length of 
the cell; style exserted, slender; stigma clavate-capitate, lobed, 
large ; ovary cano-pubescent. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 666. 
Var. 8, trivialis (Bolus); corolla suburceolate-cyathiform or cyathiform- 
campanulate ; anthers broad-oblong or elliptical, very obtuse, generally muti- 
cous, 4~4 lin. long. E. trivialis and E. atroviridis, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 666, ( : 
Var. y, tetragona (Bolus); corolla cyathiform, tetragonous, 14 lin. long; 
anthers subexserted (? whether mature), oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. Ket aikabess ; 
awns about 4 the length of the cell, ns 
