Erica. ] ERICACED (Guthrie & Bolus). 217 
lous, 6—8 in. or more long ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or subsquarrose, 
straight, linear, blunt, flat above, deeply sulcate below, glabrous, 
3-31 lin. long ; flowers solitary, somewhat scanty and lax; pedicels 
rather slender, 2 lin. long or more; bracts remote, minute, between 
the middle and ‘base ; sepals ovate, acute, keeled, scarious, concaye, 
glabrous, about 2 lin. long ; corolla broad-cyathiform or subobconic, 
mouth slightly widened, glabrous, dry, about 1 lin, long ; segments 
oblong, rounded, 3-4 times the length -of the very short tube; 
anthers included to subincluded, manifest, lateral, dorsifixed near the 
base, narrow-obovate, smooth, 2 lin. long, muticous; pore 2 the 
length of the cell; style exserted, slender; stigma broad-capitate to 
subpeltate ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Reeion: George Div.; near George, Alexander ! in Herb. Kew. 
Of this we have only seen the single specimen above-cited. It resembles, and 
is clearly allied to E. fucata (§ Gypsocallis) ; but is quite distinct by its leaves 
not being fasciculate as in that, and more deeply sulcate ; by its different sepals ; 
corolla-segments much longer; and by its subincluded quite lateral and some- 
what differently shaped anthers. We have named this after the late Dr. R. C. 
Alexander, who subsequently assumed the name of Prior, and who, during a 
long journey through the colony in 1847, made many interesting discoveries. He 
died in 1903. 
313. E. leptostachya (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect; branches 5-6 in., 
or more, long; branchlets subsimple, erect, delicately slender, almost 
capillary, striate, subglabrous; leaves 3-nate, erect to spreading- 
incurved, somewhat distant (except the uppermost), narrow-linear, 
subacute, deeply suleate, glabrous, about 2 lin. long; flowers few, 
solitary or binate; pedicels about 4 lin. long; bracts remote, sub- 
median, minute ; sepals equal or subunequal, lanceolate, subscarious, 
about 1 lin. long; corolla obconic, mouth widened, — lin. long; 
segments variable from a little shorter to a little longer than the 
tube ; anthers subincluded to included, lateral, dorsifixed close to 
the base, oblong, very obtuse, ineurved, smooth, a little over 1 lin. 
long, muticous; pore 2 lin. long; style shortly exserted ; stigma 
large, peltate or subcyathiform ; ovary glabrous or thinly hirtulous 
near the apex. 
Sourn Arrica?: without note of origin; specimen marked “ew Herb. 
MacNab, 405a, 109,” in Herb, Kew! ‘i : 
With the aspect of several species of Salaris this séems a true Erica. Though 
its origin is somewhat uncertain, it is most probably South African, and 
appears to be a quite distinct species, which may yet be refound: The anthers 
occasionally exhibit clearly four complete cells, and such are of a different 
form. 
314. E. alticola (Guthrie & Bolus); dwarf, under a span high; 
branches spreading, then ascending, flexuous, puberulous, with 
prominent lunate leaf-cushions ; leaves 4-nate, spreading, straight or 
subrecurved, not crowded, slender, linear, subobtuse, flat above, 
rounded and sulcate beneath, glabrous, 3-4 lin. long ; inflorescence 
a leafy, oblong, pseudo-spike at the ends of the branchlets, about 
3 in. long by 3 in. wide ; flowers solitary ; pedicels pubescent, about 
