Erica.] ERIcACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 221 
VaR. y, ephebioides (Bolus) ; indumentum of branches and leaves as in either 
of i preceding ; corolla puberulous. ZH. galioides, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c., 
partly. ; ar 
Coast Reaion: Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Ecklon § Zeyher! (in Herb. 
Berlin; the type of EH. wnibracteata, Kl.) Var. 8: King Williamstown Div. ; 
summit of Perie Mountain, 3000 ft., Flanagan, 2163! Buffalo River Mountains, 
Murray in Herb. MacOwan, 1045! Var. y: Caledon Div.; mountains near 
Hemel-en-Aarde, Aug., Zeyher, 3337! Albany Div.; mountains near Grahams- 
town, Zeyher, 882! 
EASTERN RuGION: Var. 8: ‘Tembuland; Entwanazana, near Gat Berg, 
4000 ft., Baur, 517 ! 
The type of Tausch (a cultivated specimen in the Herb. of the Royal Univ. of 
Prague) and of EF. unibracteata, Klotasch, agree well. Both have distinctly 
three bracts, though two are usually very minute. Our other specimens chiefly 
differ in the indumentum of the branches, leaves and corolla, The bracts are 
somewhat variable in size and position, but are of one general type. The flowers 
much resemble those of E. mesta (§ Chlorocodon). 
319. E. maritima (Guthrie & Bolus); stem stout, much and 
intricately branched; branches divaricate, rigid, cinereo-puberulous, 
soon glabrescent; leaves erect, subadpressed, only a little longer 
than the internodes, oblong, subacute, slightly curved from the 
middle outwards, sulcate, thickish, glabrous, 1-11 lin. long ; flowers 
in few-flowered clusters at the ends of lateral branchlets; pedicels 
about 1 lin. long; bracts basal or nearly so, small, subscarious, 
shining; sepals lanceolate, subacute, subscarious, ‘concave, rigid, 
keel-tipped, glabrous, 1 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, widened 
to the mouth, veined, glabrous, about { lin. long; segments erect, 
semi-ovate, narrowed to the apex but scarcely acute, about % the 
length of the tube ; filaments linear, rather broad, veined, in length 
equalling the anther ; anthers subexserted, ovate, obtuse, smooth, pale 
brown, membranous, from 1—1 lin. long, muticous; pore broad- 
elliptical, large for the section, about 2 the length of the cell; style 
- exserted ; stigma peltate; ovary minutely hispidulous. 
Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Zeekoe Vley, 100 ft., Schlechter, 
10544! . 
This has‘a distinct appearance, but its somewhat stunted habit (our specimens 
are not above 6 in. high) may be due to bush-fires. ‘he bracts, sepals, and 
anthers with their large pores and broad filaments are, however, different from any 
other of this section. : 
320. E. salax (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 336); branches 
numerous, fastigiate, pubescent; leaves subspreading, lanceolate, 
acute, suleate, thick, shining, minutely serrulate, glabrous, 1-1; lin. 
long ; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels pubescent, } lin. or more long; bracts 
subapproximate, small; sepals ovate, acute, very concave, keeled, 
scarious, Ciliolate, 2 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, broader 
than its length, barely 1 lin. long; segments broad-ovate, obtuse, 
erect; in length equalling or twice that of the tube; filaments rather, 
broad, about as long as the anther ; anthers narrow-ovate, subacute, 
minutely ciliolate on the front margin, about % lin. long, aristate ; 
pore over 3 the length of the cell; awns setiform, roughly ciliolate, 
