234 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
corolla campanulate-urceolate, wide-mouthed or ovoid-urceolate, well- 
contracted at the throat, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous, 2-23 lin. 
long; anther-cells deeply partite and spreading, oblong, obtuse, 
brown, about * lin. long, muticous; pore 4 the length of the cell; 
stigma capitate ; ovary silky-villous, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
616. EE. congesta, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1748, not of Wendl. 
ede AFRICA: without locality, cultivated specimen, Herb. MacNab, 
The specimen quoted is in Herb. Kew. From this, from Bentham’s descrip- 
tion and from Loddiges’ figure, we have compiled the above description. There 
is little doubt the species belongs to the Cape, and by its leaves and bracts is 
quite distinct. 
343. E. turmalis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 842); erect; 
branches villous, 12 in. or more long; leaves spreading, squarrose or 
decurved, ovate or lanceolate, acute, open-backed, margins thick, 
revolute, hispid on the upper surface with tubercle-based hairs, 
becoming glabrous and glossy, white-tomentose beneath, ciliate, 11-22 
lin. long; heads suboval, 4 lin. in diam., 8-flowered, erect or 
cernuous ; flowers corolline; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts 
median, minute, triangular, densely hispid ; sepals linear-subulate, 
acute, pubescent, gland-ciliolate, under % lin. long; corolla sub- 
ureeolate or ovoid, not (or only slightly) contracted at the throat, 
subglabrous or minutely rough, about 23 lin. long; segments-sub- 
spreading, about + the length of the tube; anthers subexserted, 
oblong, obtuse or subacute, ineurved, about * lin. long, muticous; 
pore } the length of the cell; stigma capitellate; ovary densely 
woolly with rather long hairs. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 616. 
Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mulder (ex Salisb.). 
**Cape,” Mund ! in Herb. Kew. 
Salisbury describes this species as having 4-5 stamens; but we have found 
8 in Mund’s specimens, The plant has much external resemblance to Bleria 
ericoides, 
Section XXVI. CHROMOSTEGIA. (Sp. 344-346.) 
344, E. eriophoros (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect or possibly decum- 
bent ; branches stout, dark-coloured, naked and glabrescent towards 
the base, the ultimate flowering branchlets 1-3 in. long, densely 
leafy; leaves erect, incurved, closely imbrieate, narrow-oblong, 
obtuse, pilose except on the upper surface and ciliate with long 
curled white hairs, the floral leaves very slightly enlarged, 12 lin. 
long; heads 4-flowered, about 23 lin. in diam. ; flowers subsessile ; 
braets approximate, leaf-like, tomentose and ciliate, 11—2 lin. long; 
sepals narrow-linear, slightly wider at the apex, glabrous on the 
lower, tomentose on the upper half, 14 lin. long; corolla ovoid- 
eyathiform, minutely puberulous, 1 lin. long; segments rounded, 
erect, more than } the length of the tube ; filaments rather wide, 
1} times longer than the anther; anthers well-exserted, lateral, 
linear, acute, widened towards the base; cells deeply parted and at 
