Hrica.] Ericace® (Guthrie & Bolus). 1738 
rigidly curved, linear, acuminate, subpungent, sulcate, pallid, 
glabrous, 4—7 lin. long; flowers usually 4-nate, sometimes clustered 
on short branchlets in heads 3 in. in diam.; pedicels about 1} lin. 
long; bracts approximate, linear, tapering into a long bristle, 
nearly 14 lin. long; sepals linear from a broad scarious somewhat 
toothed base, and tapering upwards into a longer and finer bristle 
than that of the bracts, 13—2 lin. long; eorolla tubular-suburceolate, 
slightly asymmetrical, nearly equal at the mouth, more orless pale rosy, 
2-21 lin. long; limb short, ereet or very little spreading; filaments 
bent below the anther; anthers included, oblong, obtuse, scabrid on 
the margins, 3-31 times longer than the width at the middle, about 
2 lin. long, aristate; pore 2 the length of the cell ; awns setaceous, 
smooth, about 1 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma 
capitate; ovary elongate, glabrous, Benth. in DOC, Prodr. vii. 
675. 
Coast Reeron, at 1300-3250 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; on the Witsen Berg, near 
Tulbagh, Burchell, 8666! Ceres Div. ; rocky places at the foot of the mountains 
near Ceres, Bolus, 67261! Guthrie, 3177! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége ! 
Marloth, 603! Puarl Div. ; hills near the Berg River, Drége. 
235. E. scabriuscula (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 517); erect, virgate, 
with many ascending, densely glandular-hispid branches, 2-3 ft. 
high; leaves spreading or squarrose, crowded, linear, margins 
revolute, just touching, or oblong or narrow-linear and more or less 
open-backed, obtuse, somewhat thickly glandular-hispid, dark green, 
1-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, sometimes clustered ; pedicels 
sparsely hairy, 2-2} lin. long; bracts subremote to remote, small ; 
sepals oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, tipped with a greenish-keel, 
subsearious, coloured, pubescent, about 1 lin. long; corolla ovoid- 
urceolate, throat more or less (but not much) constricted, pale rosy, 
about 2 lin. long; segments short, erect or very slightly spreading ; 
filaments bent below the anther; anthers ineluded, rarely just 
manifest, subcuneate or longitudinally subsemiovate, rounded or 
somewhat narrowed at the apex, cells minutely papillose, ciliate on 
the front margin, 2 lin. long, aristate ; pore 2 the length of the eell ; 
awns straightish, deflexed or spreading, ciliolate, about equal to the 
cell; style exserted; stigma capitate ; ovary hispid, chiefly at or 
towards the apex. Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 372? not of 
Drége’s Exsicc.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678. 
Sourn ArFrica: without locality, Mund! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast REGION, between 200 and 1200 ft.: George Div. ; between Touw 
River and Kaymans River, Burchell, 5773! Barbiers Kraal, Niven, 46! near 
George, Burchell, 5995 ! Schlechter, 2242! 5772! Bolus, 8670! Montagu Pass, 
Y in. Herb. Bolus, 5525! Knysna Div. ; near Knysna, Tyson in MacOwan 
y Bolus, Herb. ‘Norm. keke 995! Humansdorp Div.; Storms River, 
Schlechter, 5960! 
236. E. gibbosa (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678) ; 
ereet, reaching 5 ft. high; branches puberulous and also beset with 
glandular-setulose squarrose hairs ; leaves spreading to squarrose, 
