174 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
linear-oblong, obtuse, thick, sulcate or subopen-backed, hispid with 
eoarse shortish tubercle-based, frequently gland-tipped hairs, 1-1} 
lin. long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels glabrous, 1 lin. long; bracts 2 
approximate, 1 remote, small; sepals ovate or subovate, acute, keel- 
tipped, lacerate, subscarious, } lin. Jong; corolla subcyathiform 
(when young) to urceolate, mouth equal or slightly widened when 
young, contracted after flowering, 1-13 lin. long ; segments erect or 
spreading, short ; filaments much bent below the anthers; anthers 
included or just manifest, obtusely-cuneate, minutely papillose, 
ciliolate, a little over 1 lin. long, aristate; pore 3—% as long as the 
cell; awns setaceous, ciliolate, about + the length of the cell; 
style exserted ; stigma capitate; ovary hispidulous, chiefly at the 
apex. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Mund! Drége, 7785a ! 
Coast Recion : Oudtshoorn Div.; between Oudtshoorn and Zwartberg Pass, 
Kolbe in Herb. Bolus! George Div. ; near the west end of Lange Vlei, Burchel/, 
5698! near George, 600 ft., Schlechter, 5861! Knysna Div.; between Knysna 
River Ford and Goukamma River, Burchell, 5560! near Forest Hall, Miss 
ee 68! Humansdorp Div.; near Storms River, 600 ft., Galpin, 
237. E. bergiana (Linn. Diss. de Erica, n. 6); erect, 1-3 ft. 
high; branches mostly virgate, hirsute ; leaves generally spreading, 
linear, obtuse, sulcate, or subopen-backed, rough with tubercle- 
based hairs, or sometimes smooth and subglabrous, ciliate, 14-3 
lin. long; flowers 4-nate ; pedicels pubescent, red, 13-3 lin. long; 
bracts remote, small; sepals from a broad ovate scarious lacerate ciliate 
base, tapering into a shorter or longer foliaceous green cusp, 3-14 lin. 
long ; corolla urceolate-globose, or in smaller specimens subovoid, red, 
13-31 lin. long ; segments erect or slightly spreading, ovate to semi- 
orbicular, imbricate at the base, 1-1 as long as the tube; anthers 
included, dorsifixed mostly rather high above the base, subovate, very 
obtusely rounded at the top, smoothish, ciliate or naked, 1 to nearly 
1 lin. long, cristate or subaristate, the appendage broad-lanceolate, 
lacerate or subulate and fringed ; pore 2—1 as long as the cell; style 
included or slightly exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovary on a broad disk, 
glabrous. Amen, Acad. viii. 55; Mant. Alt. 235; Wendl. Eric. Ic. 
fase. 2, 29; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 9389 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 662 ; 
var. glabra, Wendl. l.c. fase. 24, 189, t. 72. E. lacuneflora, Salish. 
Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 377. E. quadriflvra, 
Andr. Heathery, t. 41, and Col. Heaths, t. 125. E. florida, 
Thunb. Diss. Erica, 40. E. campylophylla, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 
190? LE. turrigera, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 377. E. 
cupressina, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 7. E. incurva, Andr. 
Col. Heaths, ili. t. 175, and Heathery, t. 169. EH. quadrifolia, 
Pritz. Ic. Ind. i. 421. . nitens, Lee ex Steud. Nomenel: ed. 2, i. 
576? 
Soutu Argica: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated 
specimens ! : 
Coast Reeion, 1000-4000 ft.: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, Drége, 7769! 
