Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 171 
subterminal, longitudinally semiobovate, nearly } lin. long, dark- 
coloured, decurrent-aristate at the base; pore 4 the length of the 
cell; awns rough, with only a short free tooth-like point; style 
exserted, slender, straight ; stigma small, capitellate or subsimple ; 
ovary glabrous. 
Coast Recion: Stellenbosch Div. ; on a rock near the mouth of the Steen- 
brass River, 20-30 ft. above the sea, Guthrie, 3710! 
230. E. unilateralis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 667) ; 
erect, 6-12 in. high; branches puberulous, slender, straight or 
flexuous; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear, keeled, suleate, 
glabrous, 2-22 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate (rarely 4-nate?) ; pedicels 
puberulous, about 2 lin. long; bracts approximate or sometimes 
subremote, subscarious, small ; sepals obovate or ovate, acute, keeled, 
glabrous, scarious, 3—{ lin. long; corolla variable, subtubular, 
tubular-campanulate and not contracted or widened at the mouth, 
suburceolate and slightly contracted in the throat, or subovoid and 
more contracted at the mouth, glabrous, dry, 1-2 lin. long; 
segments erect, }—} the length of the tube; anthers subexserted, 
subterminal or sometimes sublateral, linear-clavate, obtuse, about 
2 lin. long, decurrent-aristate ; pore about 1 the length of the cell; 
awns very narrow, dark-coloured, connate with the filament for a 
length somewhat greater than that of the cells and terminating in 
short spreading free points; style exserted, slender; stigma sub- 
simple ; ovary puberulous. 
Coast Region: Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Mountains, Zeyher, 791! 
8192! Albany Div.; on the rocks in Zwartwater Poort, north of the Zuurberg 
Range, Burchell, 3376! 3422! 
There has been some confusion in herbaria between this species and Z. 
inconspicua, Bartl., of which we have not seen a type specimen, and place 
amongst the imperfectly known species. 
231. E. brachysepala (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, of stunted ap- 
pearanee, 6-8 in. high ; branchlets flexuous, rigid, roughly pubescent, 
or glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect, often adpressed, subimbricate or 
sometimes not exceeding the internodes, from linear to oblong or 
elliptical, blunt, sulcate, glabrous, distantly gland-ciliate, thick, 
$—]1 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, or in clusters of 5-6 ; pedicels viscous- 
pubescent, }—1 lin. long; bracts from subapproximate to subremote, 
small; sepals like the bracts and leaves, oblong, thick, obtuse, 
glandular, subviscid, 3-5 lin. long ; corolla cyathiform or broad- 
cyathiform-campanulate, mouth widened or not contracted, glabrous, 
subviseid, dull-yellow or rosy, 1-14 lin. long; segments erect or 
slightly spreading, broadly rounded, about 3 the length of the tube ; 
anthers well-exserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, 
obtuse, from a little over 5 to nearly } lin. long, muticous ; pore 
2 the length of the eell, style exserted, slender, unusually straight 
(in this group); stigma subpeltate-capitate ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Recon: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 7789! 
Hemel-en-Aarde, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 16377 ! 
