170 gRIcace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
slightly incurved, $ lin. long, aristate ; pore varying from nearly 
orbieular 1—1 the length of the cell, to elliptical }—} the length of 
5 4 
the cell; awns about 3 the length of the cell, recurved ; style 
exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 667. Microtrema opulentum, Klotzsch, l.c. 499. 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Hesse. 
Coast Reeion: George Div.; between Touw River and Kaymans River, 
Burchell, 5774! near George, Alexander, 1! 
There is a little uncertainty about this species which was made the type of a 
new genus by Klotzsch, as having a l-celled, l-ovuled ovary, 6 stamens and 
anthers with a minute pore. Bentham noted on Hesse’s ticket in the Berlin 
Herb.: ‘‘I have examined 2 flowers,—in one I found 7 stamina and in the other 
8; in both 4 cells and 2 ovules in each.” With it he identified Burchell’s 5774. 
Possibly Hesse’s plant was variable; we have been able only to see a single 
flower of it, in which the ovary was imperfect; it had 7 stamens and though 
the anther-pore was unusually small, it was closely connected as regards size with 
some of Burchell’s specimens, which are also variable. The species is probably 
a true Erica, with somewhat the habit of E. paniculata. 
928. E. harveiana (Guthrie & Bolus) ; apparently a small shrub ; 
branches slender, densely covered with rather long, straight, squar- 
rose simple hairs; leaves 8-nate, very crowded, suberect, imbricate, 
slender, linear, subobtuse, flat above, convex and sulcate below, 
glabrous, ciliate, shortly aristate-apiculate, 1 lin. long ; flowers 
3-nate; pedicels about 4 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous, 
minute ; sepals foliaceous, lanceolate, united a little above the base, 
glabrous, about 3} lin. long ; corolla broadish cyathiform when young, 
mouth neither widened nor contracted, when older becoming some- 
what broadly-ovoid with the mouth slightly contracted, glabrous, 
about % lin. long; segments broadly deltoid, slightly spreading, 
1-1 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, lateral, longitudinally 
semilanceolate, subacute, slightly curved at the back, straightish in 
front, glabrous, smooth, 2 lin. long, aristate ; pore about 4 as long as 
the cell; awns less than 3 as long as the cell, incurved (? always) ; 
style exserted, slender, decurved ; stigma capitate, lobed or punctate 
above, somewhat large; ovary white-pubescent, 4-celled, cells several- 
ovuled. 
; oy ren Recon : Uitenhage Div.; on the Van Stadens Mountains, Zeyher, 
999. E. parvula (Guthrie & Bolus) ; dwarf, decumbent, 6-12 in. 
high ; stem stout and woody, 21-31 lin, in diam. at the base; 
branches many, much-spreading, glabrous, red when young ; leaves 
3-nate, erect, adpressed, about equalling the internodes, oblong or 
elliptical, blunt, sulcate, ciliate, glabrous, glossy, thick, 3—3 lin, long; 
flowers 3-nate, not numerous ; pedicels at length deflexed, slender, 
under 1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals from ovate to 
lanceolate, connate at the base, foliaceous, keeled, about lin. long ; 
corolla tubular-campanulate, distinctly widened at the mouth, 1} lin, 
long, glabrous, white; segments spreading, rounded, about } the 
length of the tube ; anthers subexserted (possibly at length exserted), 
