250 eRIcACEm (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica. 
truncate apex of the style. H. leucosepala, Klotzsch, and E. setula, 
Klotzsch ? ex Benth. in DC. Prod. vii. 689. 
Soutn AFrica: without locality, Krebs, 224! Wallich! Bowker in Herb. 
Huguenot Seminary, 224! 
Coast Region: Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Burchell, 5511! 5656! Uiten- 
hage Div.;*Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 3282! Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port 
Elizabeth, Sim! Albany Div.; near Riebeek, Burchell, 3466! near Grahams- 
town, Burchell, 3537! MacOwan, 300! Galpin, 3086! East London Div. ; 
near Amalinda, Miss Arnold in Herb. Flanagan, 2352! Stutterheim Div. ; 
Fort Cunynghame, 3000 ft., Sim, 1895! 
Burchell’s specimens 5656 and 5511 and Flanagan’s 2352, appear to be quite 
distinct ; yet they are connected so closely by numerous intermediate forms 
that it is impossible to define satisfactory varieties. 
375. E. lepidota (Rach in Linnza, xxvi. 786); robust, erect, 
1 ft. or more high; branches ‘ascending, straight, densely clothed 
with short, thick, glandular, plumose, dirty-yellow hairs; leaves 
adpressed, imbricate, mnarrow-linear-trigonous, glabrous, smooth, 
shining, the younger ciliolate, suleate-keeled, leaden-olive-green (in 
the dried state), 2 lin. long; pedicels whitish-silky, very short ; 
bracts adpressed, oblong, glabrous, very obtuse, ciliate, + the length 
of the sepals; sepals ovate, obtuse, glabrous, membrane-ciliate, a 
little shorter than the corolla; corolla urceolate-cylindrical, scarcely 
1 lin. long, 3 lin. wide; segments ovate, very obtuse, } the length 
of the corolla; anthers subincluded, oblong, very obtuse at either 
end, saccate at the base, hirtillous, muticous ; pore 4 the length of 
the cell; style subexserted, thick ; stigma cyathiform-peltate, quad- 
rangular ; ovary glabrous. 
Soutu Arrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
We have seen the type specimen in Thunberg’s herbarium, named by Rach. 
The leaves are clearly not scurfy, but smooth. The plant is nearest to EL. 
accommodata. 
376. E. diosmefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 350) ; erect, 
4-8 in. high; branches many, stout, rigid, corymbose, tomentulose ; 
leaves erect-spreading, crowded, closely and neatly imbricate, broad- 
linear-trigonous, sulcate, rigid, glabrous, glossy, ciliate-serrulate, 
2-3 lin. long; flowers usually scanty at the ends of the longer 
branches, subcorolline ; pedicels stout, tomentulose, 1-13 lin. long; 
bracts approximate, adpressed, narrow-ovate, acute, keel-tipped, 
ciliolate or naked, concave, paleaceous; sepals like the bracts, but 
longer, pallid, about 14 lin. long, reaching to a little lower than the 
top of the corolla-tube ; corolla cyathiform, slightly widened upwards 
from the throat, white, 11-14 lin. long; segments ovate, very little 
spreading, about as long as the tube; filaments capillary ; anthers 
lateral, included, shorter than the corolla-segments, but just manifest 
(or acc. to Bentham, sometimes exserted); cells deeply partite, 
oblong, obtuse, slightly narrowed to the base, subscaberulous, dark 
red,2 lin. long, subulate-aristate ; pore about + the length of the cell ; 
awns curved, acuminate, serrulate or ciliolate, about 4 the length of 
