184 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus), [| Hrica. 
stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous. Z. aristifolia, Niven ea Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 676. 
Sovrn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7766! 
Coast Rreion : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Wind Hoek Berg, Niven, 19! 
253. E. velitaris (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 357) ; branches 
13 in. long or more ; leaves erect or spreading, linear-trigonous, thin, 
acute, subglabrous, 21 lin. long; pedicels 1-11 lin. long; bracts 
subremote, the lower long and leaf-like; sepals linear from an 
ovate subscarious base, acuminate, upper part foliaceous; corolla 
subcyathiform, mouth about equal, ‘‘ pubescent, 21-3 lin. long” 
(Salisbury), glabrescent, 2 lin. long; segments about 1 as long as 
the tube ; anthers included, oblong, smooth, glabrous, a little over 
$ lin. long, with slender rough awns about as long as the cell ; style 
ineluded ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 678. 
Var. 8, hemispherica (Bolus); branches and leaves somewhat stouter and 
more rigid ; upper bracts approximate, lower equal to the pedicel ; sepals narrow- 
lanceolate, acuminate, strongly keeled, about 14 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, 
slightly contracted at the throat, glabrous, 24 lin. long ; anther-cells cuneate, 
obtuse, about 3 lin. long. LE. velitaris, var. B, Benth. in DOC. Prodr. vii. 678. 
E. hemispherica, Klotsch e« Benth. l.c. 
Sourn ArFrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! 
Coast Rea@ion: Var. 8: Caledon Div.; about Bot River, 500-2000 ft., 
Zeyher! in Herb. Trin. Coll. Dubl.; near Palmiet River, Zeyher, in Herb. 
Berlin (ex Bentham). 
A somewhat uncertain species. We have not seen Salisbury’s type, and his 
description is too brief to avail, but he cites in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 357, “E. 
glabra, Roxb. MS.” If the corolla be usually pubescent, the species would be 
better in § Hphebus. But, though we have examined a few flowers from 
Roxburgh’s plant, we have only found a microseopic down on one corolla; and 
the corolla of the var. B is perfectly glabrous. We leave it in this section where 
Bentham placed it. 
254. E. gracilis (Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 47) ; a slender branched 
erect shrub, under 1 ft. high; branches ascending or spreading, 
pubescent ; leaves erect or sometimes incurved or spreading, imbri- 
cate, linear, keeled or round-backed, slender, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; 
flowers 4-nate, on rather short branchlets; pedicels 1-21 lin. long ; 
bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, ciliolate 
or naked, about 3 lin. long ; corolla urceolate, mouth usually slightly — 
(rarely much) contracted, rosy, 11-2 (mostly 12) lin. long ; segments 
small, erect or spreading (probably always spreading at full maturity); 
anthers included, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, margins naked, little more 
than 4 lin. long, broad-aristate or subcristate; pore about 21 as long 
as the cell; awns deflexed close to the cells, broadish-subulate, 
entire or minutely lacerate, from } as long to nearly as long as the 
cells; style included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary sessile on a broad 
disk, glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 677; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 
865; Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 375; Andr. Heathery, t. 68 ? 
and Col, Heaths, t. 98%; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 8, 9. E. tenuis- 
