Erica.) ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 195 
278. E. spectabilis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 659) ; 
stout, erect; branches straight -or flexuous, cano-puberulous, glab- 
rescent ; leaves 3-nate, usually erect-incurved, imbricate, oblong or 
obovate-oblong, obtuse, sulcate, thick, glossy or minutely ‘puberu- 
lous, gland-ciliolate, 1-23 lin. long; flowers terminal, _ 3-nate; 
pedicels spreading, gland-pubescent, 23-3} lin. long; bracts sub- 
remote or remote, sepal-like, whitish ; sepals ovate or subobovate, 
obtuse, keel-tipped, gland-ciliolate, glabrous, white, reaching to 
about 1 the height of the corolla, 1-14 lin. long; corolla globose- 
urceolate, moderately contracted at the throat, glabrous, viscidulous 
or nearly dry, 14-21 lin. long; segments short, erect, rounded; 
anthers included, dorsifixed at the base, subtriangular-cuneate or. 
oblong, obtuse, ciliolate or naked, 2 lin. long, decurrent-aristate ; 
pore 2 the length of the cell; awns decurrent along the produced. 
widened deflexed dark-coloured connective, free for about 3 their 
length, ciliate or scaberulous, nearly as long as or somewhat exceed- 
ing the cells; style included; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary 
glabrous, pallid on a dark disk. 
Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Div.; on the chalk hills between Cape Agulhas 
and Potte Berg, below 500 {t., Drége ! Mareus Bay, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 4968 |! 
Riversdale Div.; on a ridge overlooking Stil Buy at Milkwood Fontein, 600 ft., 
Galpin, 3625! ‘ 
- Galpin’s 4968 closely resembles the type which was distributed by: Drége 
at E. lachneifolia’”’; his 3625 has larger leaves, but otherwise ; differs 
1 . 
274. E. flocciflora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660); branches 
long and somewhat virgate, the younger cano-pubescent ; leaves 
4-nate, erect (at least the younger), oblong-linear, obtuse, keeled, 
sulcate, the younger tomentose-lanate, the older glabrous and glossy, 
about 2 lin. long; flowers mostly terminal, 3-nate (or “ occasionally 
lateral?” Bentham); pedicels tomentose, stout, 4 lin. long; bracts 
subapproximate, floceose-lanate ; sepals ovate-oblong, subobtuse, 
keel-tipped, densely floccose-lanate, subscarious, 2 lin. long; corolla 
urceolate, mouth at maturity much contracted, tomentose, viscid, 
thick, 23-3 lin. long; limb short, erect ; anthers “ broadly-crested ”” 
(Bentham) ; style exserted ; stigma ‘clavate ; capsule nearly as large 
as the corolla, with a conical top, smooth, glossy, glabrous. 
Coast REcion: Uniondale Div.; rocky hill ‘near Groot River in the Long 
Kloof, near the village of Haarlem, Burchell, 4992! 
~ Very different from any other species in this section by the peculiar indu- 
mentum on its sepals. Unfortunately, Burchell’s specimens are fructiferous, 
and we have been unable to find an anther. 
975. E. Alexandri (Guthrie & Bolus) ; subdecumbent, 10-13 in. 
high ; branches numerous, ascending, weak and somewhat straggling, 
leafy, dark red, pubescent and also hispid with long gland-tipped 
hairs; leaves 4-nate, spreading or squarrose, linear to broad-elliptical, 
blunt, pubescent or glabrescent, ciliate with long glandular hairs, 
about 1 lin, long; flowers terminal, sub-4-nate or um bellate ; 
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