252 _ BRIcAcE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
the tube in length ; anthers included, subovate or oblong, mem- 
branous, smooth, scabrid on the margins only, 4-3 lin. long, very 
shortly aristate; awns more or less hairy ; pore about 5 the length of 
the cell; style exserted (probably always so at full maturity, but 
often included, in our specimens) ; stigma clavate, capitellate or 
simple, sometimes distinctly 4-toothed or lobulate; ovules com- 
pressed ; seeds unknown. 
Var. 8, glomerata (Bolus); branches more spreading ; flowers mostly 
clustered ; corolla broader, cyathiform ; limb shorter than the tube ; anthers as 
in the type. 
Var. y, luxurians (Bolus) ; branches long, erect, subflexuous ; leaves more 
crowded, more erect and imbricate, more distinctly ciliate; pedicels woolly ; 
bracts larger, sometimes subapproximate ; corolla more tubular; limb shorter 
than the tube; anthers minutely crested; crests lanceolate ; stigma more 
distinctly 4-lobed. 
Var. 8, aristulata (Bolus); branches and leaves as in y; pedicels pubescent ; 
corolla of the type but limb shorter ; anthers very minutely aristulate ; awns not 
reaching to the base of the cell. 
Coast REGIoNn: Queenstown Div., Cooper, 211! 
EAsteRN ReGion: Tembuland; Bazeia, Bawr,507! Pondoland ; Insiswa Moun- 
tain, 6800 ft., Schlechter, 6495! Var. 8: Tembuland; near the Gat Berg, Bolus, 
8731! Griqualand Hast ; Mount Currie, 7500 ft., T'yson, 1194! Var. y: Natal ; 
foot of the Drakensberg Range, Wood, 3519! Mahwaqua Peak, Polela, Wood, 
4281! Var. 8: Drakensberg Range, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4976! 
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Section XXXII LAMPROTIS. (Sp. 379-398.) 
379. E. dianthifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 338) ; 
erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches numerous, subvirgate, the younger 
pubescent with short subplumose or barbellate hairs, glabrescent ; 
leaves opposite, erect, linear, acuminate, keeled, glabrous, 4—7 lin. 
long ; inflorescence terminal; flowers solitary, or 2-nate, calycine ; 
pedicels tomentose, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, concave, rigid, glumaceous, whitish, shorter than the 
sepals ; sepals like the bracts, but larger and somewhat spreading, 
the keel produced into a stout cuspidate point, the whole 23-8 lin. 
long, reaching to below the apex of the corolla-segments ; corolla 
ovoid-urceolate, white, 34-4 lin. long; segments spreading, ovate- 
cordate, nearly as long as the tube; anthers lateral, affixed well 
above the base of the cells, oblong, subobtuse, 2 lin. long, crested ; 
pore under } the length of the cell; crests ovate, acute, serrulate, 
nearly 4 the length of the cell; ovary glabrous ; ovules subovate, 
membrane-margined. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 649. H. oppositi- 
folia, var. major, Andr. Heathery, t. 179. E. biflora, Link, Enum. 
Hort. Berol. i. 367 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 683. 
South AFRICA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated speci- 
mens ! 
Coast Rxreion: Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Niven, 
19! 70a! mountains near Hartebeest River, Grisbrook! Swellendam_ Div. ; 
