240 ertcacEm (Guthrie & Bolus). | Brica. 
late ; ovary villous, chiefly on the summit. <Andr. Heathery, t. 56, . 
and Col. Heaths, t. 10; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 3, 3; Lodd. 
Bot. Cub. t. 1519. HE. byssina, Salish. in Trans. Linn, Soe. vi. 
333. 
Sovurn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg, and cultivated specimens! 
Coast Reeion: Cape Div. ; sandy downs near Cape Town and elsewhere on 
the Cape Peninsula; generally below 100 ft., Ecklon, 283! Zeyher, 1115! Mac- 
Gillivray, 440! Wright! Bolus, 3287! 8027! and in Herb, Norm. Aust.-Afr., 
2! Guthrie, 19! 
Section XXIX. AMPHODEA. (Sp. 354-356.) 
354. E. sexfaria (Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 11); erect, 8-15 in. high; 
branches ascending, flexuous, rigid, brittle, the younger pubescent, 
the older covered with scars of leaf-cushions, blackish; leaves 
spreading or suberect, sometimes densely imbricate and, owing to 
the shortness of the internodes, standing in six close ranks, broad 
linear-trigonous, thick, glabrous, 1} lin. long; heads. subglobose ; 
bracts broad-ovate ; sepals obovate, keeled, 1}—2 lin. long, reaching 
nearly or quite to the top of thé corolla; corolla narrow-ovoid or 
suburceolate, not (or but slightly) contracted at the throat, white, 
2 lin, long; segments suberect, ovate, 3—§ of the tube in length ; 
anthers narrow-elliptic, bifid to the middle, tapering acutely to 
either end, about # lin. long, decurrent-aristate ; pore over } the 
length of the cell, nearly black; free portion of the awns very 
variable in length, always much shorter than the adnate portion, 
sometimes reduced to a mere point, and the anther then (exeept for 
the widened filament) appearing muticous. Andr. Heathery, t. 88, 
and Col. Heaths, t. 131; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 618. £. 
spumosa, Thunb, Diss. Erica, 17, not of Linn. 
SourH AFRiIca: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Reeten : Clanwilliam Div.; Wupperthal, Wurmb, ex Drége. Cape 
Div. ; top of Table Mountain, Thunberg, Burchell, 587! Bowie ! Drege, 7747 ! 
McGillivray, 445! Cooper, 2682! Milne, 122! Bolus, 2950! Guthrie, 1539! 
Schlechter, 548! Culedon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, 3200 ft., Bolus, 5468! 
Schlechter, 5459! summit of Genadendal Mountain, Galpin, 3540! Swel- 
lendam Div.; on mountains, Bowie! Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, 2300 ft., 
Galpin, 3541! 
This species varies in the setting of the leaves, which are sometimes spreading 
and less closely-set, a8 in Bauer’s fine figure of the type, sometimes densely 
imbricate, 3 times longer than the internodes, and more erect ; the latter form 
gave rise to the term “sexfarious,” for while all the heaths with 3-nate leaves 
are strictly so, they do not equally distinctly show it. Galpin’s 8540 and 3541 are 
in almost exact agreement with the type; while plants from the rocky, barren 
summit of Table Mountain have leaves commonly more erect and close-set. It 
also varies in the length of the free portion of the awns of the anther, as may be 
seen by comparing Bauer’s with Andrews’ figures, 
355. E. spumosa (Linn. P]. Afr. Rar. 11 and Ameen. Acad. viii. 
56, n. 35, not of Thunb., nor of Wendl.); erect, 1-1} ft. high ; — 
branches more spreading and slender than in the preceding, pubes- 
cent; leaves erect-spreading, more rarely erect and adpressed, some- 
