Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). | 255 
ineluded ; stigma capitate; capsule globose, glabrous; seeds sub- 
globose, scorbiculate, muricate on the margins of the pits. 
Coast Reeton: Caledon Div.; mountains near the Yondereinde River, 
5400 ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4574 ! 
384. E. bracteolaris (Lam. Encycl. i. 481); stout, 12 ft. or 
more high, entirely glabrous; branches ascending, often virgate, 
fastigiate ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, imbricate, or the lower as long 
as the internodes, linear or narrow-lanceolate, acute, suleate, 2-3 lin. 
long ; floral leaves sometimes dilated or even subsepaloid ; flowers 
3-nate, pseudo-capitate by close packing in very short or arrested 
terminal branchlets ; pedicels 1 lin. long ; bracts, two approximate, 
oblanceolate, acuminate, the third basal, longer and broader ; sepals 
spathulate, unguiculate, keel-tipped, subobtuse, apiculate, with a 
rather broad diaphanous margin, about 4 lin. long, scarcely reaching 
to the top of the corolla-tube ; corolla subtubular, almost equal or a 
little inflated above the base, 31-5 lin. long; segments ovate, acute, 
scarcely { the length of the tube ; anthers broad-oblong, very obtuse, 
the length 1% times the width, muticous or very minutely subdenticu- 
late at the base ; pore about } the length of the cell; appendages 
not reaching nearly to the base of the cell; stigma capitate ; ovary 
cylindrical, lobed. . glomerata, Andr. Heathery, t. 264, and Col. 
Heaths, t, 237, not of Salish. nor of Sinclair; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vil. 650. 2. rubella, Bot. Mag. t. 2165; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 658. 
LE. calycinades, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 4. 
Coast Reaion: Swellendam Div. ; Riet Kuil, Niven, 74! mountain peak 
near Swellendam, Burchell, 7300! 7333! Borcherds in Herb. Bolus, 5958 !- 
mountains near Zuurbraak, Schlechter, 2102! Galpin, 3608! Also cultivated 
specimens | 
We have seen and dissected Lamarck’s type in Paris Herbarium ; it agrees ‘well 
with Andrews’ figures. 
385. E. steinbergiana (Wendl. f. ex Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 
531); 1-11 ft. high, entirely glabrous ; branches few, virgate ; leaves 
3-nate, adpressed, imbricate, or the lower sometimes scarcely longer 
than the internodes, lanceolate, 1}—21 lin. long, acute or acuminate, 
thick, round-backed, suleate ; flowers 3-nate, subsessile, somewhat 
clustered; bracts 2, approximate, linear-oblanceolate, acute, 2—21 
lin. long; sepals oblanceolate or lanceolate, keel-tipped, sharply 
acuminate, the margins somewhat involute, 2}~—3 lin. long, about as 
long as the corolla-tube ; corolla subtubular, more or less inflated at 
the base, subtetragonous, 4—5 lin. long; segments ovate, acuminate, 
about 4 the length of the tube ; anthers broad-oblong, very obtuse, 
pallid, smooth, a little over 4 lin. long, muticous ; pore about } the 
length of the cell; stigma capitellate ; ovary short-cylindrical, 
truneate, prominently 8-lobed. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 650. 
Var. 8, abbreviata (Bolus); leaves broad-lanceolate, 14 lin. long ; sepals broad- 
oblanceolate, mostly $-% the length of the corolla-tube. 
Souta AFrRica: without locality, Hesse. 
Coast ReGion: Riversdale Div.; Kafferkuils River, Niven, 73! Langeberg 
