226 ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica. 
almost every other character. Most of them are marked by a general roughness 
to the touch. 
328. E. onusta (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, about 1 ft. high ; stem 
rather stout ; branches ascending, slender, subflexuous, white-pubes- 
cent; leaves erect-spreading, narrow-lanceolate and sulcate, or the 
older occasionally lanceolate and open-backed, rather thick, hirtulous, 
glabrescent, drying pallid, mostly 1—% (a few older rarely 1) lin. 
long ; flowers so densely covering the whole plant that but few 
leaves are visible, 3-nate or solitary on very short branchlets ; 
pedicels % lin. long; bracts remote, small, the lowest larger and 
leaf-like ; ‘sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, sulcate, mostly coloured, 
puberulous, 2 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, glabrous, red, mostly 
& (rarely +) lin. long; segments erect, or only very slightly spread- 
ing, broad and rounded, about 2 the length of the tube; filaments 
capillary, 14-2 times as long as the anthers ; anthers subexserted, 
narrow-elliptic, obtuse at the base and ares smooth, minutely 
ciliolate on the anterior margin, a little over + lin. long, aristate ; 
pore about 2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, spreading, more 
than + the length of the cell ; style exserted, slender; stigma 
clavate-capitellate, small; ovary glabrous. 
Coast ReGion: Knysna Div.; near Forest Hall, Miss ahtct Seger 60! in 
Cape Govt. Herb. and Herb. Bolus. 
Near to H. copiosa, Wendl., var. parvisepala, but the whole appearance of the 
good specimens before us is so diverse that we hesitate to regard it as a variety of 
that species. 
329. E. microcodon (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, probably 1-12 ft. 
high; branches usually slender, ascending, hirsute; leaves erect- 
spreading, mostly narrow-lanceolate, acute, thick and sulcate, varying 
more rarely to broad-lanceolate and open-backed, commonly glabrous, 
smooth and shining, sometimes puberulous but glabrescent, 1—1+ lin. 
long, more rarely 2 lin. long ; flowers mostly dense on short branch- 
lets ; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, small, cartilaginous, 
pallid ; sepals lanceolate, tapering much to the apex but scareely 
acute, glabrous and often shining, thick, cartilaginous, rosy, about 
2 lin. long, reaching to 2 the length of the eorolla-tube or higher ; 
corolla from broad-suburceolate to sceaeecges anor rae not (or only 
slightly) constricted at the throat, glabrous, 3-12 lin. long; segments 
rounded, more or less spreading, about + the length ot the tube; 
filaments slender, at full maturity 13-13 times the length of the 
anthers; anthers subexserted, euneate- oblong, acute or subacute, 
smooth, about } lin. long, muticous ; pore about 1 the length of the 
cell ; style exserted ; stigma small, elavate-capitellate ; ovary hispidu- 
lous, chiefly on the summit. 
Coast Reaion, from 900-2000 ft.: Swellendam Div.; woods, Voormans 
Bosch (Ecklon § Zeyher ?) in Cape Govt. Herb. ! mountains near Swellendam, 
a 3697! 3714! Schlechter, 5660! Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, Galpin, 
3700 
