Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 197 
urceolate, very viscid, glabrous, red or purple, 3-31 lin. long; limb 
short, spreading, about ; the length of the tube; filaments rather 
narrow ; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, oblong-cuneate, 
obtuse, smooth, glabrous, 2 lin. long, aristate; pore nearly 1 the 
length of the cell; awns subulate-acuminate from a broadish base, 
curved, about 3 the length of the cell; style included; stigma 
capitate; ovary deeply 8-lobed, velvety, hispidulous at the apex. 
Coast Region: Tulbagh Div.; rocks on the Great Winterhoek Berg, 
6100 ft., Marloth, 1630! Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4171! Worcester Div.; on 
the Matroos Berg, 5500 ft., Marloth, 2209 ! 
CENTRAL Reeion: Ceres Div.; on the Tafelberg in the Cold Bokkeveld, 
6200 ft., Schlechter, 10092! ; 
278. E. formosa (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 49, t. 8); erect, 1-2 ft. 
high; branches erect or spreading, hispid or pubescent, somewhat 
slender ; leaves 3-nate, the younger suberect, the older spreading or 
squarrose, elliptical or oblong, obtuse, thiek, sulcate, glabrous, glossy, 
the younger ciliolate, 1-14 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels 
slender, pubescent, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, like the sepals 
but smaller; sepals spreading or reflexed, ovate or broad-lanceolate, 
acute, coriaceous, coloured, subviscid, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; 
corolla globose-urceolate, distinctly or suddenly contracted at the 
throat, with 8 longitudinal channels, viscid, glabrous, white, about 
2 lin. long; segments spreading or recurved, about } the length of 
the tube ; filaments bent round the ovary and again contracted round 
the stigma; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base upon the 
thickened projecting connective, oblong, smooth, ciliate at the base, 
nearly + lin. long, aristate or subcrested ; pore nearly as long as the 
cell; awns broad linear, densely ciliate, partially decurrent along the 
connective which stands out at a wide angle from the cells, with long 
free spreading points, the whole about 3 of the cell in length ; style 
included, much thickened towards the truncate apex ; stigma sub- 
simple ; ovary densely hirsute. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 659. H. 
grandinosa, Andr. Heathery, t. 265, and Col. Heaths, t. 238; 
Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 627. E. quadrata, Lodd. L.c. t, 1943. 
Sour AFRica: without locality, Thunberg, and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast ReGion : Swellendam Div.; Voormansbosch, Ecklon Sy Zeyher, 136! 
George Div. ; Outeniqualand, Masson, 82! Cradock Berg, Mund! Kaymaus 
Gat, Drége, 7756! Malgaten River, 400 ft., Young in Herb. Bolus, 5521! Knysna 
Div.; near Knysna, Buachell, 5453! 5500! Tyson in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. 
Norm, Aust.-Afr., 994 ! 
279. E. umbelliflora (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 659) ; 
branches cano-pubescent with minutely plumose hairs; leaves 3-nate, 
erect or spreading, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, glossy, thick, coriaceous, 
mostly 1-14 (occasionally 2-3, Bentham) lin. long; flowers in few- 
flowered umbels, more or less viseid ; pedicels floccose with minutely 
plumose hairs, 1-1} lin. long; bracts approximate, somewhat spread- 
ing, broad-ovate or suborbicular, shortly acute, keeled in the upper 
half, coriaceous, matging scarious, concave, horn-coloured, }—$ lin. 
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