256 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hriea. 
Range, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 1911! Var. 8: Riversdale Div. ; on the Kampsche 
Berg, Burchell, 7086 ! 
386. E. taxifolia (Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 19); erect, rigid, generally 
under a foot high; branches numerous, short, nearly straight, stout, 
pallid, the younger channelled by the prominent decurrent leaf- 
cushions, pubescent or glabrous; léaves 3-nate, erect, spreading 
or the older squarrose, crowded, imbricate, linear-trigonous, acute or 
acuminate, sulcate, glabrous, 4-6 lin. long; flowers umbellate, or 
subumbellately-clustered, with occasionally a few axillary ; pedicels 
3-4 lin. long, pubescent or glabrous; bracts remote, oblanceolate, 
coloured, 2—4 lin. long; sepals ovate or obovate, acute, keel-tipped, 
mucronate, coloured, 21—41 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate 3-41 
lin. long, 13-2 lin. wide; segments ovate, subacute, darker-coloured 
or brownish, a little less than 4 the length of the tube; anthers 
narrow-elliptical, rounded at the base and apex, smooth, 4—2 lin. long, 
subaristate ; pore less than } the length of the cell; awns subulate, 
about 1 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitate ; 
ovary turbinate, or depressed-globose, glabrous. Wendl. Bot. 
Beobacht. 44, and Eric. Ic. fasc. 2, 19; Salish. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. vi. 3887; Andr. Heathery, t. 93, and Col. Heaths, t. 63, also 
var. major, l.c. t. 243, and I.c. t, 279; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
651. LE. corifolia, & Herb. Thunb. ex Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 779. 
E. turgida, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 365, not of Salish, £. 
juniperifolia, Salish, Prodr. 296. EH. lawxifolia, Steud. Nom. ed. 
a ay & 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Niven, 64! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Rraion, from 1000 to 3000 ft.: Tulbagh Div. ; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 
8664! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Bolus, 5175! Paarl Div. ; near 
Wellingtov, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 20! French Hoek, Bolus, 
6966! Schlechter, 10266! Stellenbosch Div.; Gordons Bay, Miss Guthrie! 
Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8233! Caledon Div., Roser! Knysna Div., Buchanan 
in Herb. Bolus, 5837 ! 
Bentham, following Andrews, made @ variety of the larger-flowered forms, 
but we find the size of the flowers variable by small gradations; as a 
rule, the specimens from the higher altitudes appear to have the larger 
flowers. 
387. E. pyenantha (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 653); entirely 
glabrous; fluriferous branchlets densely fastigiate-corymbose, 1—2 in. 
long ; leaves 3-nate, ereet, adpressed, imbricate, ovate (Bentham) or 
lanceolate, very acute, sulcate, concave, the upper 2 lin. long; 
flowers 3-nate, pseudo-corymbose in our specimens, erect; pedicels 
2-21 lin. long; bracts narrow-lanceolate, remote, 2 lin. long; 
sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, apiculate, keeled, margins hyaline, 
3 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated, 4-41 lin. long; 
segments cordate-ovate, acute, } the length of the tube; anthers 
broad-oblong, very obtuse, } lin. long, narrow-crested ; pore 3 the 
length of the cell; crests minute, 4 the length of the cell, and 
not reaching below its base; style included ; stigma capitate. 
Coast Rereion : Caledon Div. ; near the Klein River, Masson, 21 ! 
