Erica.] ERIcacEa (Guthrie & Bolus). 199 
sepal-like, sometimes equalling or even exceeding the sepals in length ; 
sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thick, coria- 
ceous, adpressed or subsquarrose, glabrous, viscid, coloured, {—1} lin. 
long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, sometimes slightly narrowed above, 
at others into a distinct and somewhat narrow neck, viscid, white or 
red, 23-3 lin. long; segments spreading or nearly erect; anthers 
included, dorsifixed near the base, narrow-oblong, subacute, 3-3} 
times longer than the width at the middle, smooth, ciliate at the 
base, 3-2 lin. long, aristate at the base; pore about % the length of 
the cell; awns broad-linear, densely ciliate, partially deeurrent 
along the filament or connective, which projects at an angle from the 
cell, thence free and bent downwards, in total length about equal to 
the cells; style included; stigma small, subclavate-capitellate ; 
ovary densely hirsute. E. reflewa, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 371; 
Andr. Heathery, t. 283, and Col. Heaths, t. 263; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
1787; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 659. HE. vesicaria, Soland, ex 
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 330. 
Van. 8, canthareformis (Bolus) ; corolla 4 lin. long, with a longer neck than 
in the type. E. cantharxformis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1961. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens! Var. 8: Masson (in 
Herb. Trinity College, Dublin) ! 
Coast ReGion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 79! Niven, 48! 
George Div.; Devils Kop, near George, Masson, 89! Outeniqua Mountains, 
Herb. Bolus, 6305! Oudtshoorn Div.; Zwartberg Pass, 4200 ft., Marloth, 
2410! Kolbe! Atherstone, 266! Uniondale Div.; near Haarlem, in Long Kloof, 
Galpin, 3642! 
282. E. physodes (Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. 1002) ; erect, 11-21 ft. 
high; branchlets and pedicels puberulous, otherwise glabrous ; 
branches strong, rigid, erect, straightish, and, like the branchlets, 
densely leafy; leaves 4- (more rarely 3-) nate, ereet-spreading, 
imbricate, linear, obtuse, more or less triquetrous, keeled, not sulcate, 
shining, about 3 lin. long ; flowers terminal (sometimes sublateral, 
Bentham), 3—4-nate, mostly cernuous ; pedicels 4-3 lin. long; bracts 
remote or sometimes subapproximate, like the sepals but narrower 
and smaller; sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, green-keel-tipped, thick, 
coriaceous, viscid, whitish, 1}—2 lin. long ; corolla globose-urceolate 
or suburceolate-ovoid, much constricted at the throat, very viscid, 
white, 3-4 lin. long ; segments erect or slightly spreading, at length 
connivent and almost closing the mouth, }-+ the length of the tube ; 
anthers included, dorsifixed at the base, oblong, subacute, glabrous, 
smooth, a little over } lin. long ; pore about + the length of the cell ; 
crests semiorbicular and crenulate at the base with a long terminal 
linear spreading lobe, glabrous, about 7 the length of the cell ; style 
included or slightly exserted, equal; stigma capitellate ; ovary 
turbinate, on a very short contracted foot, glabrous. Andr. Heathery, 
t. 34, and Col. Heaths, t. 45; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 7, 13; Bot. 
Mag. t. 443; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 228; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
659. E. sequax, Salish. Prodr. 293, and in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 
378. . 
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