Erice.] ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 235 
length spreading and horn-like, smooth, light brown, £ lin. long, 
aristulate; pore + the length of the cell; awns very small, not 
reaching below the base of the cell and about 1—1 of its length; 
style exserted, longer than the stamens; stigma subsimple; ovary 
cylindrical, minutely pilose. 
Centrat ReGion: Ceres Div.; Gydouw Mountain in the Cold Bokkeveld, 
6000 ft., Schlechter, 10240! 
345. E. senilis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 617) ; 
procumbent or erect, 6-8 in. high; branches some ascending, some 
spreading with many ascending branchlets, 2-3 in. long, pubescent ; 
leaves very uniformly erect-incurved, adpressed, scarcely longer than 
the internodes, oblong-lanceolate, deeply sulcate, flat and glabrous 
above, finely downy and hispid with tuberele-based hairs below, at 
length subglabreseent, 1-14 lin. long, a few of the upper leaves under 
the heads enlarged, bract-like and discoloured ; heads hemispherical, 
cernuous, 4—45 lin. wide at the top, about 4-flowered ; pedicels % lin. 
long ; braets lanceolate, like the sepals thickly beset in the upper 
part with bristly straight hairs, 21 lin. long; sepals narrow-linear, 
25 lin. long; corolla broad-ovoid or subglobose, puberulous, pale 
yellow, 13 lin. Jong; segments large, rounded, ciliolate, about equal 
to the tube; filaments broad ; anthers subexserted, lateral, narrow- 
elliptic or longitudinally semiovate, smooth, membranous, about 
4 lin. long, crested ; pore 2 the length of the cell; crests suborbicular, 
incised, scabrid, dark coloured, } the length of the cell; style far 
exserted, straight, tapering upwards, 3 lin. long; stigma capitellate ; 
ovary pubescent. 
Coast Rraion: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, on the Cederberg Range, 
2600-4000 ft., Drége, 2966! Shaw in Herb. Bolus, 5661! Marloth, 2686! near 
Sneeuw Kop, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8627! 
CENTRAL REGION: Ceres Div.; mountains near Tweefontein, in the Cold 
Bokkeveld, 5800 ft., Schlechter, 10129! 
Our specimens all agree well with Drage’s type, and with each other, and in all 
we find the anthers distinctly lateral. 
346. E. involucrata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 617) ; 
procumbent, or younger plants erect; branches spreading, roughly 
hispid ; leaves, the younger erect, the older spreading, oldest often 
reflexed, incurved, broad-linear to lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, sulcate, 
rather flat, glabrous above, ciliate on the margins and on the edges 
of the fold with stiff bristly hairs, 2-3 lin. long, the floral longer, 
broader and discoloured, enwrapping the flower-heads; heads 
cernuous, eyathiform, 4-flowered, 5-6 lin. in diam.; pedicels 1 lin. 
long ; bracts lanceolate, ciliate, coloured, 3 lin. long ; sepals obovate- 
linear, ciliate, coloured, 2 lin. long; corolla urceolate-campanulate, 
puberulous, 13-2 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, about as long 
as the tube; filaments linear, narrow, dilated and thickened under 
the anther; anthers subexserted, terminal, longitudinally semiovate, 
tapering at the base into the thickened filament, scabrid, ¢ lin. long, 
