Brica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 223 
Coast RxeGion: Var. 8: Piquetberg Div. ; summit of Piquet Berg, 2200 ft., 
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6964! Var. y: Clanwilliam Div. ; summit of Sneeuw 
Kop, 6800 ft., Leipoldt, 615! Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, 5700 ft., 
Bolus, 6365 ! 
We have had only a frustule of Drége’s type specimen; but good material of 
the others cited. 
323. E. minutissima (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 691) ; 
*‘dwarf, much branched”; branches up to 9 in. long, very slender, 
puberulous; leaves erect-spreading, nearly straight, linear, obtuse, 
faintly sulcate, rather thick, glabrous, 3-1} lin. long; pedicels 
slender, glabrous, 8 lin. long; bracts median, nearly verticillate, sub- 
scarious, coloured, small; sepals ovate, acute, scarious except the green 
keel, ciliolate, glabrous, about 4 lin. long, ora little over > the length 
of the corolla ; corolla cyathiform or broad-cyathiform, more or less 
widened at the mouth, }—2 lin. long, pallid; segments ovate, 2-3 
times as long as the tube; anthers “ muticous ?” (Bentham—in our 
specimens of the type all appear to have fallen off); style exserted, 
dilated towards the apex; stigma truncate and lobulate, rather large ; 
capsule globose, glabrous. 
Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div.; around Somerset West, Ecklon ¥ 
Zeyher (locality no. 83) in Herb. Berlin. 
324. E. tenuis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 329); glabrous, 
erect or diffuse, from 1-5 ft. high ; leaves erect or spreading, slender, 
linear and acute or rather thick and obtuse, suleate, 1-2 (rarely 23) 
lin. long ; flowers terminal and lateral; pedicels decurved, glabrous, 
about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, occasionally subapproximate, small ; 
sepals lanceolate, acute, 3-3 lin. long; corolla campanulate or 
cyathiform, mouth widened, white, about 1 lin. long; segments 
slightly spreading, rounded and obtuse, or narrower and subacute, 
about equal to the tube; filaments broader at the base or subequal, 
flexuous, about 4 lin. long; anthers broad-ovate or subtriangular, 
nearly as wide at the base as their length, subacute, pallid, mem- 
branous, }—1 lin. long, aristate ; pore 2—% the length of the cell ; awns 
setiform, rough, about equal to the cell; style included, rarely just 
exserted; stigma clavate-capitellate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 680. E. divaricata, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 
8. LE. longifissa, Klotzsch, and E. capillaris, Drége ex Benth. l.c. 
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South Argica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated spect- 
mens ! : 
Coast ReaGion, from 500-3300 ft. : Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, Drége, 
Tulbagh Div.; Winterhoek Mountain, Bolus, 5181! near Tulbagh Waterfall, 
Bolus, 5462! and Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1303! Schlechter, 9004! Cape 
Div.; Devils Peak, Bolus, 4873! Constantia Berg, Wolley Dod, 1959! Caledon 
Div.; Genadendal, Drége; Zwart Berg, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 9227! Rivers- 
dale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6945! Galpin, 3677! Humansdorp Div. ; 
Elands River, Galpin, 3713! - 
: Centrat Raion: Ceres Div.; Skurfdeberg Range, 5600 ft., Schlechter, 
0174! 
