222 ERICACEEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica, 
about + the length of the cell; style subincluded ; stigma peltate, 
just manifest; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 691. 
E. ramosissima, Roxb. ex Salish. L.c. 
Sours Argica: without locality, Niven, 2!’ Roxburgh! Herb. Salisbury! in 
Herb. Kew. 
Coast ReGion: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, 
Masson. ’ 
321. E. carinata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680, not 
of Lodd.); dwarf, glabrous; branches ascending; leaves mostly 
erect, the lower spreading, slender, linear, subacute, keeled, 1-2 lin. 
long ; flowers on short lateral branchlets, 3—4-nate or subumbellate, 
sometimes crowded and copious ; pedicels slender, glabrous, 12 lin. 
long ; bracts remote, small; sepals elliptic, acute, keeled, scarious, 
very concave and rigid, 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, well 
constricted at the throat, including the substellate-spreading limb, 
1} lin, long; segments broad, ovate, subacute, about + lin. long; 
filaments slender, 2 lin. long; anthers obliquely ovate, subacute, 
scaberulous on the front margin, about + lin. long, crested; crests 
affixed somewhat high and on the margin of the cells, subulate, 
curved, roughly ciliolate, about 2 the length of the cells; style 
included, short ; stigma clavate-capitate ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Reerion : Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 
3231! 
322. E. leptopus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680); erect, 1 ft. 
high or less; branches ascending, slender, puberulous or nearly 
glabrous; leaves mostly erect, generally subdistant on the flowering 
branches, linear, suleate, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; umbels 4-6- 
flowered ; pedicels at length decurved, slender, 1-23 lin. long; bracts 
variable, small, either all subremote or subapproximate, or the lowest 
larger and median, the upper minute ; sepals linear-subulate, acute, 
rather thick, $ lin. long, reaching about + the length of the corolla; 
corolla broad-cyathiform, about 1 lin. long, when dry and compressed 
wider at the mouth than its length; segments continuous with and 
about 2 the length of the tube ; filaments very narrow, equal, nearly 
straight; anthers obliquely ovate, 1 lin. long; awns subulate, 
coarsely serrulate, nearly % the length of the cell; style included ; 
stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary glabrous. E. patula, E. 
Meyer ex Benth. l.c. 
Var. f, piquetbergensis (Bolus) ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, about 4 lin. long ; 
corolla broad-cyathiform ; segments ovate, about equal to the tube; anthers 
longitudinally semilanceolate, 2 lin. long; pore 4 the length of the cell; awns 
setiform, minutely ciliolate, about 4 the length of the cell; style exserted. 
Var. y, breviloba (Bolus); sepals as in var. 8 but narrower; corolla very 
broad-cyathiform ; segments broader and shorter than in the preceding, about 
% or 7 the length of the tube; anthers subtriangular with rounded angles, 
4 lin. long ; awns about 4 the length of the cell ; style included. 
_Sourn Arrica: without locality, distributed as “‘E. patula, E. M.,” 
Drege ! , 
