246 ERICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). | Brica. 
what turnip-shaped or depressed-globose ; limb closely contracted 
round the stamens, or sometimes suburceolate and scarcely depressed, 
glabrous, 1 lin. long, about 11 lin. wide; anthers subterminal or 
sublateral, longitudinally semiovate or obliquely lanceolate, acute or 
subobtuse, smooth, ciliolate or naked, 3-1 lin, long; pore about 2 
the length of the cell; style exserted, rather short and stout ; stigma 
capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 620. E. tiare- 
flora, Andr. Heathery, t. 196, and Col. Heaths, t. 213. E. lepto- 
phylla, Klotzsch ex Benth. le. 
SoutH AFRIcA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! : 
Coast Reeion: Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Niven, 124! Witsen 
Berg, Zeyher, 1112? Bolus in Herb. Norm., Austr.-Afr., 4! Winterhoek Moun- 
tain, 2500 ft., Bolws, 5112! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 800 ft., Schlechter, 
932! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 5491! Onrust River, Schlechter, 
9493 ! Hermanus, Galpin, 3549! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Mund, 
2! Zeyher, 3299! Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3554! 
A variable species as to habit: and corolla, and having forms which run into 
each other. Some specimens which we cite above have been referred to E. 
imbricata, with some forms of which there is considerable affinity and we find it 
difficult to distinguish them. 
369. E. imbricata (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 503) ; ereet, 1-3 ft. high ; 
branches virgate or diffuse, variably pubescent, most usually with 
abundant flowers ; leaves erect or spreading, linear, 13-21 lin. long ; 
pedicels 1} lin. long; bracts approximate, more rarely subremote, 
sepal-like but smaller; sepals ovate, keel-tipped, subcartilaginous, 
rigid, glabrous, white, brown, or red, mostly about 14 lin. long, a 
little longer or shorter than the corolla ; corolla cyathiform, ovoid, 
urceolate or globose-urceolate, white, foxy or reddish, 1—12 lin. long ; 
anthers varying from terminal to nearly lateral, linear, oblong, lanceo- 
late, semiovate or narrow-ovate, mostly acute or acuminate, more 
rarely obtuse, glabrous, smooth, light to dark-brown, mostly about 
2 (rarely 2) lin. long; pore from 3-% the length of the cell; stigma 
clavate-capitellate ; ovary usually glabrous, rarely puberulous. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 620; Andr. Heathery, t. 119, and Col. 
Heaths, t. 27; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 21,135, t. 51; Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 1243. FE. quinquangularis, Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 117, and 
E. laricifolia, Lam, Eneycl. i. 487, acc. to Ind. Kew. E. flexuosa, 
Andr. Heathery, t. 65, and Col. Heaths, t. 23; Lodd. l.c. t. 1495. 
LE. divaricata, Wendl. l.c. fase. 7,5. E. cesia, Wendl. l.c. fase. 24, 
179, 4.67. E. pyramidalis, E. squameflora, E. cesia, E. jlexuosa, 
E. siylosa, Salisb., E. imbricata, Roxb., and E. bracteata, Roxb. ex 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 349, 350. LE. ramulosa, EH. densi- 
flora, E. brunneo-alba, E. myriantha, E. porrigens, Bartl. in 
Linnea, vii. 632, 633. E. Actea, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob.1. E. 
violacea, E. leptocephala, H. trifaria, E. sparsa, E. paleacea, and 
E. glauetfolia, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DG. Prodr. vii. 620. E. 
unbricata, var, elongata, Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 771, 
A most variable species, difficult of distinction into varieties. We have merely 
thrown the very large suite of specimens before us into four groups, which, in 
