Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 229 
few- to (in finer specimens) 28-flowered, 4-6} lin. in diam. ; 
pedicels 3—% lin. long; bracts, the lower larger and more or less 
leaf-like, the upper smaller and membranous; sepals narrow- 
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, ciliate and terminated by a long 
setiform awn, membranous, coloured, 1—% lin. long; corolla urceolate, 
those of the outer flowers obliquely inflated, glabrous, pale to deep 
rosy, 2-3 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, 1? the length of 
the tube ; filaments capillary, sometimes fiexuous; anthers included, 
cuneate-oblong or oblong and incurved, obtuse, smooth, glabrous, 
2 lin. long, crested or crested-aristate ; pore about } the length of 
the cell; crests narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, notched at the base, 
about 2 the length of the cell; style included, or just manifest ; 
stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Reaion: Ceres Div.; Skurfdeberg Range, Zeyher, 1096! near Ceres, 
Guthrie, 2177! Bolus, 7342! 7448! Marloth, 1687! Prince Alfred, Schlechter, 
9981! Cape Div.; Constantia Berg, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 784! 
334. E. Solandra (Andr. Col. Heaths, ii. 132); usually weak, 
straggling, diffuse; branches slender, pubescent or setulose-hispid, 
‘6-9 in. long; leaves 4-nate, erect or spreading, usually incurved, 
linear, obtuse, sulcate, occasionally subopen-backed, glabrous on the 
upper surface, more or less densely setulose-hispid with rigid 
tubercle-based hairs below, 1-2 lin. long; heads subglobose, 3-4} 
lin. in diam., several-flowered ; pedicels 1 lin. long or less; bracts 
like the sepals but shorter; sepals linear, acuminate, beset with 
numerous long spreading setulose white hairs, foliaceous or sub- 
membranous, 13-2 lin. long ; corolla oyoid-ureeolate to urceolate, not 
much constricted at the throat, puberulous, subscabrid or glabrous, 
1}-2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, 3—} the length of the 
tube ; filaments capillary, flexuous ; anthers almost exactly those of 
FE. Maderi, but a little smaller; style mostly included, rarely 
exserted ; stigma capitellate; ovary villous or hispidulous. Andr. 
Heathery, t. 89. EH. solandriana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 658. 
Soutu Arica: without locality, cultivated specimens! 
Coast Region: George Div.; Montagu Pass, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 5814! 
rocky elevated places at Barbiers Kraal, near Devils Kop, Niven ! 
Hastern ReGion: Natul; Van Reenens Pass, 7000 ft., Schlechter, 6938! 
_ The occurrence of this species so far eastward as Natal is unexpected and 
interesting. 
335. E. Cooperi (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxiv. 179) ; stout, 
rigid, much branched, rough to the touch, 2-3 ft. high ; branches 
spreading or subdivaricate, roughly hispid with spreading simple 
or more or less compound hairs ; leaves 4-nate, mostly spreading, 
linear to linear-lanceolate, sulcate to open-backed, ciliate with rough 
simple or forked or subplumose hairs, the under surface paler or 
livid and subglabrous, 2-23 lin. long; flowers subcorolline or sub- 
calycine; heads mostly 4-flowered, cernuous, semiglobose, about 
41 lin. in diam.; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 
acute, coloured, densely ciliate with long soft plumose hairs, about 
