188 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus), [Hrica. 
and subfastigiate, glabrous or puberulous; leaves 3-nate, or 
occasionally 4-nate on the same plant, crowded, erect or spreading- 
ineurved, narrow-linear, keeled, glabrous, 11-2 lin. long; flowers on 
short branchlets along the branches, with a subracemose appearance, 
corolline; pedicels $ lin. long; bracts remote, subbasal, minute ; 
sepals broad-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, ciliate, coloured, * lin, 
long ; corolla ovoid or suburceolate-ovoid, mouth contracted, slighily 
oblique, “deep rosy red” (Klotzsch), about 21 lin. or rarely 15 lin. 
long; segments slightly spreading, or erect and at length connivent, 
about 4 as long as the tube; filaments very slender, sigmoid near 
the apex and thickened above the curve, about 2 lin. long ; anthers 
oblong, obtuse, scaberulous; cells partite to the base, 2 lin. long, 
muticous ; pore 2 the length of the cell; style included, often just 
manifest ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vil. 681. 
Coast Reaion: Swellendam Div.; mountains along the lower part of the 
Zondereinde River, near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3234! 209! (the latter a form 
with 4-nate leaves). Bedford Div.; near Bedford, Weale, 1! (in Herb. Albany 
Museum, Grahamstown, a specimen with smaller flowers 13 lin. long, not fully 
or poorly grown). 
261. E. condensata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 681); branches 
stoutish, erect, puberulous, 10 in. or more long; leaves 3-nate, 
erect or subincurved-spreading, crowded, linear, subobtuse, suleate, 
glabrous, about 2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate, corolline : pedicels 
about 1 lin. long; braets approximate, all sepal-like, or the lower 
sometimes longer and equalling the sepals; sepals broad-ovate or 
ovate-rhomboid, acute, cuspidate-keeled, thick, subcoriaceous, some- 
what viscid (Bentham), 3-1 lin. long ; corolla subcampanulate-cyathi- 
form (or “ovate,” Bentham), equal or slightly widened at the mouth, 
or (in Burchell’s type specimens, apparently over mature) con- 
tracted towards the apex, 4-foveolate at the base, about 2 lin. long ; 
segments variable in length, about 1 the length of the tube ; fila- 
ments nearly straight; anthers oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, muti- 
cous; cells deeply parted, about 3 lin. long; pore about 1 the 
length of the cell; style included ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. 
Var. 8, quadrifida (Bolus) ; corolla-limb more deeply cleft ; segments from 
4-} the length of the tube. 
Coast ReGion: Swellendam Div,; on a lofty craggy peak near Swellendam, 
Burchell, 7391! Riversdale Div.; summit of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7112! 
Var. 8, Swellendam Div.; on the Langeberg Range, near Zuurbraak, 2500 ft., 
Schlechter, 2146 ! 
262. E. mira (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680); 
apparently erect, 8 in. or more high; branches straggling, slender, 
reddish, white-puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, suberect, mostly scanty 
with longish internodes, linear-oblong, blunt, suleate, glabrous, 
pallid, under 2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, scanty, corolline ; pedicels 
puberulous, 1; lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals subulate- 
