232 ericacra# (Guthrie & Bolus). | Erica. 
the internodes, erect, incurved or the lower spreading, linear to 
ovate, blunt, thick, roughly hispidulous, viscid, ciliate with long 
gland-tipped hairs, suleate to slightly open-backed, 1-1} lin. long ; 
heads mostly 6-fiowered, 3-31 lin. long, often clustered ; pedicels 
1-8 lin. long; bracts leaf-like, longer and wider than the sepals; 
sepals filiform from the base, gradually widened and thickened 
upwards, clavate obtuse at the apex, viscid and gland-hairy, 1 lin. 
long; corolla urceolate, only slightly constricted at the throat, 
viscidulous, glabrous, dull red, 11 lin. long; segments subereet, 
rounded, about 1 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, straight, 
1 lin. long; anthers included, broad-oblong, very obtuse, truneate 
at the base, smooth, + lin. long, crested; pore 2—% the length of 
the cell; crests ovate and incised at the base, with a terminal subulate 
lobe, the whole about as long as the cell; style included ; stigma 
capitate ; ovary subovoid on a wide disk, glabrous. 
Coast RE@ion: Cape Div.; near the western shore of the Cape Peninsula, 
about due west from Simons Town, 50 ft., Guthrie, 1804! 
Section XXV. POLYDESMIA. (Sp. 340-343.) 
340. E. incurva (Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 47, not of Thunb. nor 
of Andr.) ; erect, 3-14 ft. high; branches ascending, straight or 
subflexuous, densely leafy, pallid, pubescent or glabrescent ; leaves 
3-4-6-nate or scattered, generally erect, imbricate and strongly 
ineurved, sometimes spreading, linear, subobtuse, glabrous, ciliate, 
2-2} lin. long; heads subglobose, cernuous, 4-7 lin. in diam., 
densely many-flowered ; flowers corolline ; pedicels 1-1 lin. long ; 
bracts approximate, lower spathulate, larger than the others and 
exceeding the sepals, sepaloid, pallid, 13-2 lin. long ; sepals narrow- 
linear or subspathulate, more or less hispid, ciliate, sometimes 
viscidulous, 11 lin, or more long, as long as the corolla-tube or 
longer ; corolla urceolate-cyathiform, glabrous, about 2 lin. long; 
segments broadly-rounded, suberect, about + the length of the tube ; 
anthers subincluded or subexserted, spathulate-linear or oblong, 
obtuse, smooth, pale-brown, $—Z lin. long, muticous or decurrent- 
denticulate ; pore 3-3 the length of the cell; stigma simple or 
capitate; ovary glabrous. Eric. Ic. fase. 22, 151, t.57; Willd. Sp. 
Plant. ii. 407; Waitz, Beschreib. Heid. 242: Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 616. EH. hemispherica, Soland. ex Salish. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vi. 341. EF. bruniefolia, Salisd. lc. 341. 
Var. 8, solandroides (Bolus); leaves rather straight; bracts and sepals all 
linear; anthers decurrent-aristate, with free points; stigma capitellate. 2. 
solandroides, Andr. Heathery, t. 290, and Col, Heaths, t, 274. 
Var. y, stellata (Bolus); leaves more pubescent, straight or incurved; 
bracts P; sepals linear-subulate; anthers decurrent-aristate, with short’ free 
points ; stigma capitellate. EH. stellata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 893. E. stellaris, 
Nois. ew G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 827. HE. setifera, Klotzsch ew Benth. in DO. 
Prodr, vii. 616. 
Var. 6, barbigera (Bolus) ; leaves hirsute on the underside, long-ciliate ; 
