Brica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 227 
330. E. setacea (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 59); erect, 1-12 ft. 
high ; branches often flexuous, tomentose and also usually more or 
less floccose with minute plumose hairs; leaves incurved-erect, 
oblong, blunt, thick, rigid, deeply sulcate or rarely subopen-backed, 
mostly roughly setose-hispid, and also pubescent or floecose- 
tomentose, 1-11 lin. long; flowers sometimes lateral by arrest of the 
branchlets ; pedicels tomentose, 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small ; 
sepals somewhat lax, slightly coherent at the base, foliaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, keeled, puberulous and setose-ciliate, 
1-8 lin. long; corolla cyathiform or subcampanulate-cyathiform, 
mouth scarcely widened, usually glabrous, more rarely minutely 
puberulous or velutinous, whitish, pale yellow or pink, *—1} lin. 
long ; segments erect, rounded, }—2 the length of the tube; anthers 
ineluded, often just manifest, oblong, obtuse, oblique at the base, 
smooth, pale brown, + lin. long, aristate at the base; pore about 
2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, ciliate, mostly 1} the 
length of the cell, sometimes more minute and caducous; style 
shortly exserted; stigma capitate, 4-lobed, rather large; ovary 
hispidulous or glabrous. Heathery, t. 87; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
690. EH. asperifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 324 (who 
quotes Andr. name). FE. holocalycina and E. cumulata, Klotesch ex 
Benth. l.c. 690. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! 
Coast Recion: frequent on mountains from Paarl Div. eastwards to Oudts- 
hoorn Div., from 500-4500 ft., Mund, Niven, Zeyher, 3256! 3257! Guthrie, 
2504! 2507! 3908! 4587! Bolus, 6388! 6498! 6988! Herb. Huguenot 
Seminary, 293! Galpin, 3702! 3703! Marloth, 2405! 
The difficulty felt by Bentham in upholding E. variabilis as a separate species, 
has increased with the acquisition of fresh material, and the species is there- 
fore abandoned. The larger flowered forms have, as a rule, the more copious 
indumentum, and these have been generally named £. setacea; the smaller 
flowered and less bairy forms going by the name of E. variabilis. But there is 
no constant character to separate them even as varieties. 
~ Section XXIV. PSEUDEREMIA. (Sp. 331-339.) ‘ 
331. E. cernua (Montin in Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Upsal., ii, 292, 
t. 9, fig. 3, 1775); about 1 ft. high or less; branches numerous, 
widely spreading, subcorymbose, the ultimate flexuous and cernuous, 
finely puberulous, glabrescent, with occasionally tufts of short 
subplumose hairs beneath the leaf-cushions; leaves 4-nate, mostly 
erect, sometimes adpressed, straight or slightly curved, linear, acute 
or subacute, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate with subplumose 
hairs, at length naked, 2-3 lin. long ; heads 4-8-flowered, cernuous ; 
pedicels puberulous, 1 lin. long; bracts subulate to lanceolate, 
acuminate, subscarious, ciliate with long soft subplumose hairs, 
22-3 lin. long; sepals like the narrower bracts, or linear, 2} lin. 
long ; corolla broad-urceolate or ovoid, only slightly constricted at 
the throat, glabrous, rosy, 23 lin. long; segments erect, or perhaps 
_ spreading in the living state, ovate, rounded, about } the length of 
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