198 ErtcacEx (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Erica. 
long; sepals. like the. bracts, but larger and more distinctly, but 
shortly, ciliolate, about 1 lin. long and nearly as wide, not reaching 
half the height of the corolla; corolla subglobose, subtetragonous, 
shortly tapering to. the apex, scarcely constricted at the throat, 
about 12 lin. long; segments (in the dried state) connivent, incurved, 
broad, 1-1 the length of the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed 
considerably above the base, oblong, obtuse, nearly } lin. long, 
muticous; pore about 4 the length of the cell; style well-exserted, 
slender ; stigma capitellate; ovary depressed, much wider than its 
length, glabrous. 
Coast ReGion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Musson, 61! Humans- 
dorp Div. ; dry sandy eminences near Gamtoos River, Masson, 60! 
CrentRAL Reaion: Prince Albert Div.; on the Great Zwartberg Range, 
near Vrolykheid, 4000-5000 ft., Drége, 7757 ! 
280. E. tragulifera (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 374); some- 
what slender, with the habit, general appearance and the leaves of 
the preceding; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 1-2 lin. long; 
bracts approximate, scarious, viscid; sepals spreading or erect, 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, subscarious, viscid, glabrous, about 
1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-ureeolate, tapering gradually to the con- 
stricted throat, viscid, glabrous, sometimes with 8 longitudinal 
channels, white, 2-21 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spread- 
ing, short; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base upon the 
thickened projecting connective, oblong, smooth, ciliate below, 
aristate ; cells deeply partite and at length separating down to the 
connective at the base, nearly 1 lin. long; pore 2—% the length of 
the cell ; awns broad-linear, densely ciliate, partially decurrent along 
the projecting connective, spreading, as long as in the preceding 
species; style included, straight, equal to the apex; stigma small, 
subsimple or capitellate ; ovary densely hirsute. EH. nitida, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 181, and Col. Heaths, t. 188; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
1131; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 659. E. Gordonia, Forbes, 
Hort. Woburn. 81. 
Sourn ArRica: without locality, cultiwated specimens ! 
Coast Reeion: George Div.; near George, Alexander, 13 ; Montagu Pass, 
1200 ft., Young in Herb. Bolus, 5523!. Schlechter, 5783! Uniondale Div. ;— 
Keurbooms River, in the Long Kloof, Masson, 81! Long Kloof, Mund ! 
CENTRAL ReGIon: Prince Albert Div.; near Klaarstrom, 8000-4000 ft., 
Drege, 7765. 
We have carefully examined only the specimens of Young and Schlechter, 
and cannot be certain of the others, though they are probably correctly named. 
281. E. glomiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 330) ; erect, 
1-12 ft. high ; branches suberect or spreading, floccose with very 
short subplumosé ‘hairs, beset with. many short flowering branches ; 
leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, crowded, subulate-linear, obtuse, 
glabrous and glossy, or puberulous, the younger ecartilagineo-ciliolate, 
1-3 lin. long ; flowers terminal, 3-nate; pedicels slender, pubescent. 
13-3» lin. long; bracts approximate, coriaceous, coloured, rigid, 
