186 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
1-2 lin. long; limb spreading or erect, about 2 as long as the tube, 
the interstices between the segments acute, closed ; anthers included, 
longitudinally semi-ovate, cuneate or oblong-cuneate, smooth, glab- 
rous, a little over + lin. long, aristate ; pore about 2 the length of 
the cell; awns curved, slightly rough on the inner edge, mostly 
somewhat shorter than the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate ; 
ovary glabrous or thinly puberulous. J. persoluta, Linn. Mant. Alt. 
230; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678. E. prolifera, Salish. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vi. 376. £. assurgens, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 372. 
E. congesta, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 17, 75, t. 29, not of Lodd. E. 
strigosa, Wendl. l.c. fasc. 2, 25, not of Soland. LE. caffra, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 7, and Col. Heaths, t. 7, not of Linn, E. exserrens 
and EH. pallidiflora, Klotzsch ex Benth l.c. 679. HE. regerminans, 
Hort. ex Benth. l.c. 
Coast Reeion: frequent near Cape Town, and extending eastward to 
Knysna Div. ; ascending to 2500 ft., many collectors, Thunberg, Niven, 93! 
Burchell, 699! 702! 737! 766! 6542! 7048! 7581! 8376! 8588! Zeyher, 
3245! Sieber, 1741! Drége, 7761! Bolus, 2947! Schlechter, 2041! 7687! 
Guthrie, 44! 2281! Wolley Dod, 2269! Knysna Div.; Buchanan! And 
without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Somewhat variable in habit and in the size of the flowers, and especially so as to 
indumentum. E. persoluta, L. var. levis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 679, seems 
to be identical with E. cyathiformis and E. persoluta, var. y subcarnea, Benth. 
l.c. may be a form of E. curvirostris. The species is closely allied to E. viridi« 
purpurea, but is generally at once distinguishable by the acute interstices between 
the segments of the corolla-limb ; the flowering season is also quite different. 
257. E. margaritacea (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 
20) ; erect, glabrous, 1-1} ft. high; branches slender, mostly straight 
and fastigiate; leaves usually erect and closely imbricate, linear, 
keeled, slender, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate or sometimes umbel- 
lately clustered ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long ; bracts remote, linear, about 
1 lin. long; sepals linear-acuminate or lanceolate from an ovate 
denticulate-edged base, sometimes laxly set, 3-1 lin. long; corolla 
cyathiform or subureeolate-campanulate, equal at the throat or nearly 
so, white, sometimes faint pink, about 2 lin. long; limb short, erect 
or very slightly spreading; anthers included, oblong, very obtuse, 
glabrous, smooth, nearly } lin. long; pore about # as long as the 
cell; crests oblong or ovate, acute, variously lacerate, papery, whitish, 
from 3-3 the length of the cell; style subexserted; stigma capi- 
tate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 677; Andr. 
Heathery, t. 126, and Col. Heaths, t. 35; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 
8, 11 (all good figures). EE. obesa, Salisb. Prodr. 294, and in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vi. 375, not of Tausch. 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Burchell, 173! 412! 703! 821! 
Ecklon, 72! Mund, 37! Bolus, 2957! 3774! Guthrie, 380! Wolley Dod, 906! 
Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Thunberg, Niven, 18! Also without 
locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens ! 
_. 258. E. curvirostris (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vi. 875); ereet, 
stout and rigid, 9-12 in. or more high; branches ascending, pubes- 
