194 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Hrica. 
Var. 8, crenata (Benth. I.c. 659); leaves elliptical, minutely glandular- 
serrulate. E. crenata, E. Meyer ew Benth, l.c. 659. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality; Herd. Salisbury! and cultivated speci- 
mens of the type and var. B! 
Coast Rreion: Cape Div.; occasional on the Cape Flats and mountains up 
to 1100 ft., Niven, 41! Burchell, 698! 8352! 8353! Mund, 41! Drége, 77581 
Zeyher, 1100! Sieber, 173! Bolus, 4519! Schlechter, 575! 7301! and in 
Herb.: Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1801! Guthrie, 292! Wolley Dod, 463! Var. B: 
Cape Div.; sandy plains near Cape Town, Niven, 40! 
- 271. E. macra (Guthrie & Bolus) ; dwarf, erect, 6-8 in. high ; 
branches ascending, dark-coloured, naked below, leafy above, the 
younger cano-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, suberect or spreading, 
elliptical, blunt, thick and rounded, sulcate, glabrous, 1-1} lin. 
long;-flowers terminal, 3-nate ; pedicels slender, viscid, red, 23-3 
lin. long; bracts remote, 2 median, 1 basal, scarious, 1 lin. long ; 
sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute, scarious, viscid, glabrous, 1} lin. 
long; corolla narrow-ovoid-urceolate, glabrous, viscid, purple, 
21 lin. long; limb short, spreading; anthers ineluded, dorsifixed 
shortly above the base, cuneate, subacute, 3 lin. long or about 
twice the width at the base, glabrous, smooth, subaristate or narrow- 
crested ; pore about } the length of the cell; awns lanceolate at the 
base, tapering to a long fine point, with (sometimes at least) a single 
median: saw-like tooth, the whole about as long as the eell; 
style included; stigma capitellate; ovary minutely puberulous or 
glabrous. . 
Coast Region: Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, 7000 ft., Bolus 
in Herb. Guthrie, 3948! rocky places on Dutoits Peak, 6200 ft., Marloth, 2418! 
272. E. Schlechteri (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 235) ; erect, 
2-3 ft. high ; branches ascending, flexuous, puberulous, glabrescent ; 
leaves 4-nate, erect or subspreading, imbricate, linear, bluntish, 
suleate, glabrous, dry or the younger subviscid, 13-2 lin. long; 
flowers terminal, 3-4-nate; pedicels viscid-pubescent, 1-2 lin. 
long ; bracts approximate or remote, linear, viscid-pubescent, 1 lin. 
long; sepals lanceolate, glabrous, viscid, coloured, 1-12 lin. long; 
corolla urceolate-campanulate, only slightly or not contracted at the 
throat, viscidulous, pale rosy, 21-38 lin. long ; segments somewhat 
large and well-spreading, rounded, from 1—2 the length of the tube ; 
anthers included, dorsifixed at the base, longitudinally subsemi- 
ovate, obtuse, glabrous, over 1 lin. long, crested; pore about % the 
length of the cell; crests lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, nearly 
equal to the cell; style included; stigma capitate; ovary densely 
hirsute. 
Coast ReGion: Queenstown Div.; Hangklip Mountain, 6000-6300 ft., 
Galpin, 1611! he 
EasTERgN REGIoN, from 2500 to 6000 ft.: Natal; by the Umzimkulu River 
at Handcocks Drift, Tyson, 3066! by the Mooi River, near Weston, Wood, 
5476! 5326! Rehmann, 7357! Schlechter, 3341! 
“ono Recion: Orange River Colony; Mont-aux-Sources, 6000 ft., 
us! 
Mr, Schlechter describes it as overhanging the streams in Natal. 
