Hrica.| — ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 243 
4 in. or more long ; leaves erect, incurved, imbricate, linear, obtuse, 
glabrous, 13-2 lin. long; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts approximate, 
but somewhat lax, sepal-like, but smaller ; sepals broad-ovate, sub- 
obtuse, thick, rigid, cartilaginous, subviscid, slightly longer than the 
corolla ; corolla broad-eyathiform, viscid, 13 lin. long; anthers 
terminal, ovate, very obtuse, tapering at the base, smooth, $—7 lin, 
long ; pore broadly elliptical, + the length of the cell; stigma sub- 
simple ; ovary glabrous. 
SovutH Arrica: without locality, Niven! in Herb. Kew. 
Very near to E. suffulta, and we retain the species with some doubt; but the 
sepals are broader, especially at the base, anthers much more obtuse; and the 
flowers larger. 
361. E. chartacea (Guthrie & Bolus); branches ascending, 
pubescent, 12 in. or more long; leaves erect-spreading, linear, obtuse, 
1}-3 lin. long; pedicels 23-3 lin. long; bracts approximate, some- 
what lax, sepal-like but smaller; sepals somewhat lax, broad-ovate, 
keel-tipped, puberulous, papery, ciliate-lacerate, 11 lin. long ; corolla’ 
subureeolate or subcampanulate-cyathiform, glabrous or puberulous, 
1{-1} lin. long, and about as wide; segments ciliate-lacerate ; 
filaments slender below, dilated upwards; anthers subterminal, 
obliquely lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous, or hispidulous 
near the apex, naked or ciliolate, 8-2 lin. long; pore about 2 the 
length of the cell; stigma clavate ; ovary glabrous, 
Coast Rraion: Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Borcherds in Herb. 
Bolus, 5959! Tradouw Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin, 3555! 
362. E. suffulta (Wendl. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 619) ; erect, 
1-11 ft. high; branches and leaves somewhat hoary-puberulous, at 
length glabrescent, pallid; leaves ereet and ineurved, or spreading, 
linear to oblong, obtuse, thick, keeled, suleate, 13-2 lin. long; 
pedicels 1-12 lin. long; bracts approximate, somewhat lax, sepal- 
like ; sepals obovate-oblong, keel-tipped, rather thick, ciliolate, about 
as long as the corolla; corolla suburceolate-eyathiform, scarcely con- 
tracted at the throat, minutely puberulous, white, 1-1} lin. long, the 
width somewhat exceeding the length ; anthers subterminal, obliquely 
lanceolate, acute, about * lin. long, minutely ciliolate; pore 1-2 the 
length of the cell; stigma clavate ; ovary glabrous. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Masson! 
Coast Rreeion: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, 1500 ft., Bolus, 
5450! Scott-Elliot, 1136! 
363. E. pogonanthera (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 634) ; small shrub, 
1-1} ft. high ; branches pubescent; leaves spreading or squarrose, 
mostly reeurved, linear or oblong, obtuse, thick, glabrous, the 
younger ciliolate, 1-11 lin. long; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; bracts 
approximate, ovate, white; sepals ovate-orbicular, acute, narrowed 
at the base, white, 1} lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, puberu- 
lous or glabrous, white, 1-12 lin. long, a little wider than its length, 
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