Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 241 
what lax, rarely crowded, linear-trigonous, subobtuse, sulcate, thick, 
1-1} lin. long, the floral sometimes wider, coloured, sepaloid; 
heads subglobose; bracts and sepals as in LZ. sexfaria, but a little 
smaller, more wrinkled, and more rosy, and the latter sometimes only 
1_2 the length of the corolla; corolla as in #. sexfaria, but about 
13 lin, long; segments lanceolate, more acute ; anthers broad-linear, 
subobtuse ; cells deeply partite, black, about 1 lin. long, aristate ; 
awns decurrent for a short distance, then free, about 1 the length of 
the cells. Mant. 375; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 618; Lodd. Bot, 
Cab, t. 566. E. scariosa, Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 102; Wendl. 
ede Ie. fasc. 21, 137, ¢.52. EH. turbinata, Andr. Heathery, t. 
97. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated speci- 
mens ! 
Coast Rreron, between 1700 and 4000 ft.: Paarl Div.; French Hoek 
Mountains, Bolus, 9812! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Bolus, 4482! near 
Simons Town, Bolus, 8049! Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Guthrie in Herb. 
Bolus, 6010! Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, Drége; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 
Zeyher, 3296! and without exact locality, Bolus, 9813! 
356. E. amphigena (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, about 1 ft. high ; 
branches straight or spreading; branchlets mostly decurved at the 
apex, pubescent; leaves imbricate and erect, or sometimes more 
lax and spreading, linear, keeled, subobtuse, 2-3 lin. long, a few 
floral scarious and bract-like; flowers subcapitate or clustered, at 
length mostly cernuous; bracts oblong, keel-tipped, a little shorter 
than the sepals; sepals obovate-oblong, subobtuse, keeled or keel- 
tipped, about 2 lin. long, reaching to a little below the apex of the 
corolla-limb ; corolla narrow-ovoid, white, 2} lin. long; segments 
subulate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, nearly equal in length 
to the tube; anthers subterminal or sublateral; cells deeply partite, 
narrow-oblong, obtusely rounded, about $ lin. long, decurrent 
aristate ; awns decurrent for less than } their length, then divari- 
cately spreading, the whole from }—} the length of the cells. 
Sovru Arrica : without locality, Stanger ! in Herb. Kew. 
Coast Rrcion, between 1800 and 3500 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; mountains 
near Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 2047! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, 
Schlechter, 5449! Galpin, 3542! (a more spreading form). 
This species connects this section with Onyloma, approaching to E. ewmuli- 
flora, which it much resembles, but differing by its 3-nate flowers in fewer- 
flowered heads, and its appendiculate, less distinctly lateral, anthers. 
Section XXX. GEISSOSTEGIA. (Sp. 357-371.) 
357. E. desmantha (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 620); branches 
spreading; leaves spreading to squarrose, long-petiolate, linear, 
- thick, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, 
scarious, small; sepals ovate, acute, rigid, scarious, 1-1} lin. long ; 
corolla obconic-tubular, subtetragonous, glabrous (viscid, acc. to 
Bentham), 2% lin. long, or (owing to the spreading of the sepals at 
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