Brica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 205 
or sometimes scantily pilose on the tube, pale rose, 3-32 lin. long 
(dried and pressed specimens 23—3 lin. wide at the apex) ; segments 
widened but not curved, oblong or ovate, acute or obtuse “nearly 
2 lin. long, or somewhat exceeding the tube, a gibbous thick callus 
at the base of each sinus; filaments broadish, equal, only a little 
longer than the anther; anthers ineluded, dorsifixed just above the 
base, broad-linear, subincurved, smooth, glabrous, $-1 lin. long 
cristate ; pore about 2 the length of the cell; crests sublanceolate, 
lacerate, with a sharp terminal lobe, more than } the length of the 
cell; style manifest, about equalling the corolla; stigma capitate ; 
ovary glabrous, somewhat constricted at the base, but scarcely 
stipitate. 
Coast Rearon: Clanwilliam Div. ; near Clanwilliam, Letpoldt in MacOwan 
Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1631! Caledon Div.; Great Houw Hoek Mountains, Masson, 
78! mountains near Lowrys Puss, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3028! mountains 
near Palmiet River, Guthrie in MacOwan, Herb, Aust-4fr., 1916! 
Section XXI. HERMES. (Sp. 293-307.) 
293. E. empetrifolia (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 507) ; erect, 6-12 in. 
high ; branches erect or spreading, rough with the scars of prominent 
leaf-cushions, puberulous or glabrous; leaves 6-nate, ascending, 
imbricate, the lower squarrose-incurved, linear, blunt, sulcate, thick, 
hispid, the younger ciliate, 2—4 lin. long; inflorescence a dense 
pseudo-spike towards the ends of the branches, mostly 1 in. or less 
(rarely 2 in.) long, + in. or less wide; pedicels glabrous, straight, 
1 lin. or less long; bracts remote, linear, long-ciliate; sepals 
narrow-lanceolate, pilose near the apex, long-ciliate, 14 lin. long ; 
corolla suburceolate, only slightly constricted at the throat with a 
somewhat tapering neck, sparsely pilose or glabrous, red, about 
21 lin. long; segments spreading, rounded, }—} the length of the 
tube; anthers lateral, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous, about } lin. long, narrow-crested ; pore } the length of the 
cell; crests small, lanceolate-acuminate, lacerate or lobed below, 
about 2 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate ; 
ovary hispidulous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 663; Bot. Mag. t. 
447; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 5, 18; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1875. L£. 
malleolaris, Salish. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 370. EH. empetrina, 
Linn. Syst. ed. x. 1003. . mollearis, Pers. Syn. i. 422. 
’ Sourn ArRrica: without locality, Herb, Salisbury ! 
Coast Rreton: Cape Divy.; mountains between Cape Town and False Bay, 
Thunberg ; near Simons Bay, Milne, 121! Table Mountain, Burchell, 533! 
Bolus, 4613! Wolley Dod, 3335! 
294. E. pyxidiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 371) ; erect, 
1-2 ft. high; branches virgate, glabrous, rough, scarred; leaves 
6-nate, densely crowded, erect, imbricate, linear-oblong, blunt, 
sulcate, hispidulous, ciliate, about 23-3 lin. long ; inflorescence as in 
E. empetrifolia but the spikes longer, up to 3} in.; pedicels 3 lin, 
