196 -ERIcACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
pedicels slender, red, thinly pilose, 14 lin. long; bracts approximate, 
foliaceous, spreading, gland-hairy; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
searious, keeled, glandular-pilose on the keel only, ciliolate with 
short sessile- brown glands, 1 lin. long; corolla urceolate, well con- 
tracted at the mouth, viscid, glabrous, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. wide ; 
limb spreading, about + the length of the tube; filaments broad, 
subequal ; anthers subexserted, dorsifixed considerably above the 
base, oblong, obtuse, smooth, glabrous, about 2 lin. long, crested ; 
pore 1—2 the length of the cell; crests semiorbicular, lacerate, very 
little longer or wider than the base and sides of the cells; style 
slender, long exserted ; stigma capitate; ovary hispid, chiefly on the 
apex. 
dee REGION : Paarl Div. ; sandy flats below Paarl Mountain, Alexander, 
276. E. frigida (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 235); suberect, 
decumbent or sometimes at higher elevations densely matted and 
procumbent ; branches straggling, slender, the younger thinly pilose, 
up to 12 in. long; leaves 4-nate, subrecurved, spreading or squarrose, 
elliptical or oblong, thick, sulcate, margins rough with tubercle- 
based glandular hairs, rarely subnaked and glossy, 3-1 lin. long; 
flowers terminal, sub-4-nate or umbellate (4—5-flowered) ; pedicels 
viscid, about 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, glandular-ciliate, 
small; sepals broad- to narrow-lanceolate, acute, searious, coloured, 
viscid, keel-tipped and gland-ciliate near the apex, about +* lin. 
long; corolla urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, gradually contracted 
towards. the month and well-constricted at the throat, viscid, glabrous 
or rarely very minutely puberulous, 11—1% lin. long, deep red to rosy 
and whitish ; segments spreading, short, about + the length of the 
tube; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, subcuneate, 
obtuse, or subnarrow-ovate, smooth, glabrous, over 3 lin. long, 
aristate ; pore nearly } the length of the cell; awns rough, spreading, 
about 2 the length of the cell; style included ; stigma subsimple ; 
ovary densely villous. 
EASTERN ReEGIon, between 6000 and 7000 ft.: Griqualand East; summit of 
Mount Currie, Tyson, 1255! 1771! Insiswa Mountain, Schlechter, 6451! 
Natal; summit of Amawahqua Mountain, Evans, 675! Wood, 4580! ee 
KALAHARI ReGion: Orange River Colony ; summit of the Mont-aux-Sources, 
9500 ft., Flanagan, 2029! Thode, 32! 65! Bolus! 
277. E. nubigena (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 236); erect, 6-12 
in. high; branches usually much-spreading and numerous, stout, 
glabrous, brittle ; leaves mostly 3-nate, more rarely 3—4-nate on the 
same plant, suberect to squarrose, linear-oblong or narrow-elliptical, 
subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, thick, viscid, glossy, sparsely gland- 
eiliolate or naked, the younger black-apiculate, rather long-petiolate, 
13-22 lin. long ; flowers terminal, 3—4-nate; pedicels slender, viscid, 
-eoloured, 4-6 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 median, 1 subbasal, viscid, 
adpressed ; sepals lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, viscid, minutely 
keel-tipped, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, 1}-2 lin. long; corolla ovoid- 
