208 ERtcAcExX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica. 
8233! on the Langeberg Range, Schlechter, 5663! Zuurbraak Mountain, 
Galpin, 3644! 3645! Riversdale Div.; on the Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 
7090 ! 
Generally distinguishable by the virgate habit, and the closely-set inflorescence. 
E. regerminans, var. grandiflora, Benth. l.c., founded upon Masson’s 18, is noted 
as having broader leaves and a larger corolla (24-3 lin, long). 
298. E. pulchella (Houttuyn, Handl. iv. 504, t. 23, fig. 1, not of 
Thunb.) ; erect, mostly 1 (rarely 11-2) ft. high; branches many, 
erect, subvirgate or flexuous, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect 
and adpressed, about equalling the internodes or subimbricate, 
broadish-linear or ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, thick, nerved above, 
sulcate below, glabrous, mostly 1-2 lin. long, rarely longer; in- 
florescenee closely pseudo-racemose at the ends of the branches; 
flowers 1—3-nate in the axils of the leaves ; racemes mostly 1-12 in. 
long, rarely longer ; pedicels pubescent, about 2 lin. long; bracts 
remote, small; sepals oblong, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 
keeled, very concave, scarious on the margin, ciliate, about 1 lin, long ; 
corolla urceolate-campanulate, mouth slightly contracted, sub- 
tetragonous, glabrous, rosy or dark red, 11-2 lin. long ; limb slightly 
spreading, {—; the length of the tube; anthers included, sublateral, 
dorsifixed at or just above the base, narrew-ovate or suboblong ; 
cells partite to or below the base, about +4 lin. long, decurrent- 
aristate ; pore over } the length of the cell; awns nearly equal to the 
cell, the free portion of variable length; style included; stigma 
capitate ; ovary glabrous or thinly and minutely puberulous. Andr. 
Heathery, t. 40, and Col. Heaths, t. 49; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 307; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 662. E. articularis, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 
37, not of Linn., nor Curt. EH. caduceifera, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. vi. 370. H. retroflewa, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 8,7. E. phyli- 
coides, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 361? EE. fureeflora, Salisb. Prodr. 
294. 
_ Sours Arrioa: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Reeion: Cape Div.; on the flats and lower mountains near Cape 
Town, common, Masson, 94! Burchell, 826! Ecklon, 86! Zeyher, 1102! Sieber, 
197! Harvey, 162! Guthrie, 379! Wolley Dod, 279! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
between Stellenbosch and Cape Flats, Burchell, 8353/2! Hottentots Holland, 
MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 26! Caledon Div. ; between Palmiet River 
and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8171! Guthrie, 2285! Bolus, 2124! 
Thunberg appears to have been the earliest to note that in this genus the 
appendages (sometimes at least) belong to the filament. He observes ( Diss. 
Erica, 37): ‘‘ The anthers in this species are singular, since they seem to be 
connate with the filament, so that the latter, rather than the anthers, should be 
called aristate.” (Salisbury repeats the remark as if it were original.) 
299. E. longiaristata (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 663); characters 
of EH. pulchella, except: habit usually more spreading, branches 
more slender; corolla from obconic to subcampanulate, mostly con- 
siderably widened to the mouth at full maturity, usually rosy, more 
