Erica.] ERICACE (Guthrie & Bolus). 233 
lower bract larger, lanceolate or linear and only a little longer; sepals linear, 
slightly dilated at the apex; anthers muticous; stigma apparently simple (may 
be undeveloped in our specimens). E. barbigera, Klotasch ex Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 616. 
Var. «, subglabra (Bolus) ; entirely glabrous, except the branches ; leaves, 
bracts and sepals naked; leaves drying pallid; lower bract large, lanceolate, 
concave, 3-34 lin, long ; sepals subulate-linear, acute or acuminate, shorter than 
the corolla-tube ; corolla tubular-urceolate ; anthers muticous, decurrent-denticu- 
late, or decurrent-aristate, with minute free spreading points; stigma obconic, 
larger than in the other varieties. 
South Arrica: without locality, Rowburgh! Var. 8: cultivated speci- 
mens ! 
Coast ReGion: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland (ex Salisbury), 
Masson! Var, y: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ezelsbank, Cederberg Range, 83000-4000 ft., 
Drége, 7728! Var. 8: Bredasdorp Diy. ; limestone hills between Potte Berg 
and Cape Agulhas, under 500 ft., Drége, 3553! Caledon Div. ; near the Palmiet 
River at Grabouw, Guthrie, 3877 ! Houw Hoek Mountains, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 
9428! Var. «: Bredasdorp Div. ; hills near Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6727! 
Of the foregoing Bentham admitted four species, but observes of three, that 
they are probably varieties of one. Of E. setifera we have seen no specimens, 
none existing either in the Kew or Berlin Herb. ; and, the figure of Loddiges 
having no analyses, there are no types excepting of EF. barbigera and L. 
bruniefolia; that of the latter being at Kew. The materials of all, except 
that of the few recent collectors cited, is scanty and poor. Our var. sub. 
glabra is the most distinct, but, in our view, does not merit specific rank. 
341. E. ustulescens (Guthrie & Bolus); 6-12 in. high; branches 
ascending, virgulate or flexuous, closely leafy, puberulous, soon 
glabrescent ; leaves scattered, suberect, imbricate, linear, obtuse, 
apex subinflexed, minutely and shortly viscous-pubescent, at length 
glabrous, gland-ciliolate, 14-24 lin. long ; flowers subcapitate-umbel- 
late, 4—9, corolline ; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, rarely 
subremote, linear, one slightly larger, foliaceous ; sepals linear, 
foliaceous ; 4—8 lin. long; corolla at first tubular, then urceolate, 
finally subovoid, viscid, white, ustulescent, 13-2 lin. long; limb 
erect, short, 1-1 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, clavate, 
subacute, smooth, pallid, about 3 lin. long, muticous or decurrent- 
denticulate for a length about + that of the cell ; pore 2—} the length 
of the cell; teeth very small; stigma capitate, lobed; ovary 
glabrous, 
Coast REGION; Caledon Div.; near the mouth of Bot River, Zeyher, 3191! 
hills near the Bot River Bridge, 400 ft., Bolus, 5456! Guthrie, 4111! and in 
MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1734! hills near Houw Hoek, 1300 ft., Bolus, 
8084! 
342. E. stylaris (Spreng. Syst. ii. 198) ; dwarf; branches spread- 
ing, hirsute, 6 in. or more long; leaves 4- (rarely 5-) nate, much 
spreading, ineurved, oblong or subterete, obtuse, thick, sulcate, 
hispid with tubercle-based hairs, viseidulous, scarcely 2 lin. long ; 
flowers in hemispherical, densely many-flowered heads, about 6 lin. 
in diam., subcalycine ; pedicels § lin. long; bracts approximate, 
lanceolate, gland-ciliate, larger and longer than the sepals, reaching 
with them to the top of the corolla-tube ; sepals linear-lanceolate or 
broad-linear, acute, gland-ciliate, viscidulous, about 2 lin. long; 
