204 ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). { Erica. 
angle of about 45° with the cell, oblong, smooth, glabrous, under? lin. 
long, aristate ; pore about 2 the length of the cell; awns decurrent 
for a short distance along the connective, with longer free spreading 
points, the whole about equal to, or shorter than, the cell; style 
included; stigma subsimple or clavate, small ; ovary glabrous. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660. E. aprica, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 
660. 
Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; high on the Baviaans Kloof Mountains, near 
Genadendal, Niven, 21! summit of Genadendal Mountain, Galpin, 3636! 
Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Bodkin in Herb, Bolus, 6731! Galpin, 3635! 
Swellendam Div, ; mountains near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3214 ! 
291. E. obliqua (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 44, t. 1) ; erect, entirely 
glabrous, 1-12 ft. high ; branches few, subsimple, virgate, densely 
leafy ; leaves scattered, spreading, crowded, long-petiolate, narrow- 
linear, obtuse, slender, sulcate, glabrous, 3-5 lin. long; flowers 
terminal and sublateral at the ends of the branches, umbellate ; 
pedicels spreading, slender, viscid glandular, 4-8 lin. long; bracts 
remote, linear; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, somewhat laxly set, 
thick, concave, viscid, 1—% lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, con- 
stricted at the throat, thick, viscid, glabrous or often minutely 
hispidulous on the, upper part, 31—4 lin. long ; segments erect or 
subspreading, large, 1-1 the length of the tube ; filaments dilated at 
the apex ; anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the base, linear- 
cuneate or semiovate, aeute, smooth, glabrous, 2-1 lin. long, cristate ; 
pore 3-5 the length of the cell; crests semiorbicular, coarsely 
dentate, about 3 the length of the cell; style included; stigma 
capitellate; ovary stipitate, glabrous. Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 3; 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 17, 17, t. 830; Andr. Heathery, t. 33, and 
Col. Heaths, t. 42; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 14; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 661. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! ites 
Coast ReGion: Cape Divy.; Muizenberg Mountain, 1400 ft., Bolus, 4518! 
Guthrie, 321! MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 25! Table Mountain, Wolley 
Dod, 814! near Simons Town, Wolley Dod, 812! Steilenbosch Diy. 3; Hottentots 
Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 3211! Thunberg. Caledon Div.; between Palmiet 
River and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8184!:Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 
8032! 8101! Galpin, 3641! Guthrie, 2288! 
In structure, and especially by the stipitate ovary, this and the following species 
are near to E. inflata, Thunb., and form a link with the § Ceramus, 
292. E. macroloma (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 661) ; erect, 12 in. 
or more high; branches long, straightish, leafy, minutely gland- 
pubescent; leaves 8-nate, rather long-petiolate, imbricate, erect- 
spreading, linear-oblong or linear-obcuneate, obtuse, viscidulous, 
margins neatly, prominently and shortly gland-ciliolate, 2-3 lin. 
long; flowers as in the preceding species; pedicels very slender, 
viscid, 3-9 lin. long; bracts remote, small, foliaceous ; sepals folia- 
ceous, lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, adpressed to the corolla, viscid, 
gland-ciliolate, 14 lin. or more long ; corolla obconie, viscid, glabrous, 
