Erica. | ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 253 
near Storms Vlei, Zeyher, 3265! mountains near Swellendam, Shand in Herb. 
Bolus, 6253! Schlechter, 5682! Riversdale Div.; summit of Kampsche Berg, 
Burchell, 7114! 
Allied to £. Nabea, of which it has somewhat the appearance in miniature ; 
but the sepals are much smaller, and the corolla larger and differently 
shaped. 4 
380. E. borboniefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vi. 386) ; stout, 
erect, entirely glabrous; branches numerous, somewhat erowded, 
ascending, virgate or flexuous, and subdiffuse ; leaves opposite, erect, 
mostly adpressed, linear, acute, keeled, 2—3 lin. long, the floral often 
subpetaloid ; flowers mostly 2-nate, crowded or clustered, often in 
dense masses; pedicels 2 lin. long; bracts 2, median, ovate or 
spathulate (Bentham), acute, coloured, 3 lin. long; sepals like the 
bracts, or subobovate, petaloid, 4—5 lin. long ;_ corolla tubular- 
inflated, slightly contracted at the throat, 5-6 lin. long by about 
1 lin. in the widest diam.; segments ovate, acuminate, 13 the 
length of the tube; anthers oblong, tapering above the middle, 
truncate at the base, about 1 lin. long; crested high above the base ; 
pore nearly 4 the length of the cell; crests ovate-acuminate, more 
than 4.the length of the cell, reaching very little below its base; 
style included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary cylindrical, elongate, 
8-lobed. . togata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1626. E. aperta, Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. ii. 200. 
Coast Rearon, from 1200 to 4700 ft: Caledon Div.; Zwartberg Range, 
near Caledon, Pappe in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 20b! tops of the mountains of 
Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Masson, 24! Burchell, 7762! Bolus, Herb. 
Norm. Austr,-Afr., 354! Schlechter, 9872! Roser! 
The relative length of the sepals and corolla is apparently variable; partly 
due to different stages of maturity, and partly to the degree of spread of the 
sepals, 
381. E. lutea (Berg. Desc. Pl. Cap. 115); about 1-12 ft. high, 
entirely glabrous; branches numerous, ascending, subvirgate or 
flexuous, slender ; leaves opposite, imbricate, slightly spreading or 
adpressed, linear, acute, keeled, 1-3 lin. long; flowers 2~3-4-nate, 
often clustered; pedicels 1-114 lin. long; bracts 2, submedian, more 
rarely a third subbasal, 1 lin. or less long ; sepals broad-oblanceolate 
or more commonly broad-ovate or obovate, keeled-tipped, shortly 
acuminate, 14-13 lin. long, from 1—2 the length of the corolla ; corolla 
conical-tubular, somewhat inflated at the base, tapering to a more or 
less narrow mouth, white or yellow, 31-4 lin. long; segments 
spreading, ovate, obtuse, 1—2 the length of the tube; anthers oblong, 
very obtuse, pallid, about 2 lin. long, shortly crested; pore under 
+ the length of the cell ; crests affixed near the base of the corolla, 
and (in the flowers examined) spreading somewhat horizontally, 
lanceolate, subentire, curved, less than 1 the length of tbe eell; 
stigma capitellate ; ovary cylindrical, lobed. Linn. Mant. Alt, 234; 
Thunb. Fl. Cap, ed. Schult. 359; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 1, 13; 
Andr. Heathery, t. 29, and Col. Heaths, t. 32; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t. 64; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 651. E. imbellis, Salisb. Prodr. 
