218 ertcace& (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica. 
8 lin. long; braets variable, mostly (in our specimens) entirely 
absent, occasionally 2, subapproximate, foliaceous, sometimes one 
only, long and reaching nearly to the top of the corolla ; sepals some- 
times somewhat unequal, slightly united at the base, lanceolate, 
acute, keeled, often reduced to three, about } lin. long; corolla 
urceolate-cyathiform, scarcely constricted at the throat or widened at 
the mouth, red, about 8 lin. long; segments rounded, suberect, about 
1 the length of the tube ; filaments slender, equal, a little shorter 
than the anther; anthers sublateral, obovate-oblong, obtuse, smooth, 
over 1 lin. long, muticous; pore about } the length of the cell ; 
ovary subglobose, glabrous. 
EastERN Reeion: Transvaal; in rocky places on the Drakensberg Range, 
near the Devils Kantoor, about 5500 ft., Bolus, 7678! 
In floral structure this is near to #. mesta, but it is separated by its much 
longer and 4-nate leaves, and different habit; also to EH. coarctata. 
Section XXIII. ARSACE. (Sp. 315-330.) 
315. E. hispidula (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1672); strong-growing, 
much-branched, of various aspect, commonly 2-3 ft. high, less in dry 
places, or reaching 5-6 ft. in favourable situations; branches pubes- 
cent or hirsute, usually rigid; leaves more or less spreading, from 
linear and sulcate, to ovate or oblong and then open-backed, often 
incurved, usually scabrid and hirsute, rarely glabrescent, 1-22 lin. 
long ; flowers on short more or less distinguishable branchlets, not in 
dense crowded masses ; pedicels }—} (very rarely 1) lin. long; braets 
3, variable, mostly subremote or remote, occasionally subbasal ; 
sepals linear to lanceolate, foliaceous or cartilaginous, usually reach- 
ing as high as the corolla-tube, more rarely equalling the corolla, 
often viseid ; corolla mostly broad-urceolate, sometimes narrower, or 
_ occasionally globose-urceolate, at maturity almost always more or less 
contracted at the throat, generally pale rosy, rarely red, 3-1 lin. 
long ; segments more or less spreading, rounded, about 1—! the 
length of the tube ; filaments capillary, mostly about as long as the 
anthers ; anthers included, mostly lateral, rarely sublateral, oblong 
and obtuse, or longitudinally semiovate, tapering at the base, sub- 
acute, smooth, pallid, submembranous, }—} lin. long, muticous; pore 
about } the length of the cell; style shortly exserted ; stigma peltate 
or eyathiform; ovary more or less hispidulous, rarely glabrous. 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 21, 133, t. 50; Benth. in DC. Prodr. ‘vii. 
691. E. hispida, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 19; Wendl. Eric. Ic, fase. 
27, 13. E. virgata, Thunb. lec. 18; var. hirta, Wendl. l.e. 
fase. 15, 35, t. 13. E. absinthoides, Linn. Mant. 66, fide Benth. 
E. virgularis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 324. E. Colleter, 
Spreng. Syst. ii. 192. H. approximata, Schlecht. ex Spreng. Syst. 
ii. 196. #. serrata, Thunb, Fl. Cap, ed. S-hult. 346% E. minuta, 
Klotzsch ex Benth, l.e. 
