Erica. ] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 257 
388. E. chlamydiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 338) ; 
slender, erect, 1-13 ft. or more high; branehes subvirgate, pallid, 
pubescent, glabrous or glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, erect, often 
adpressed, linear-lanceolate or oblong, subobtuse, sulcate, glandular- 
hirsute or glabrous, ciliate or at length naked, imbricate in the upper- 
most, or equalling or shorter than the internodes in the lower parts 
of the branches, 2-2} lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate, clustered or 
more often lax; pedicels 2~3 lin. long; bracts, 2 upper sub- 
approximate, lowest median, lanceolate, ciliate, 1} lin. long; sepals 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, not or scarcely imbricating at the 
base, spreading or sometimes somewhat recurved towards the apex, 
keeled or the keel sometimes obsolete, mostly faintly wrinkled aeross 
the keel near the base, 13—2 lin. long, pale purple or lilac, reaching 
a little below or above the corolla; corolla urceolate-tubular, very 
little inflated below or contracted at the throat, subtetragonous, 
prominently 4-nerved, viscidulous, 13-14 lin. long; segments 
rounded, stellate-patent or subrecurved, concolorous, about 4 the 
length of the tube; anthers longitudinally semilanceolate, 5} times 
as long as their greatest width, tapering to the apex but scarcely 
acute, smooth; cells deeply partite, between 2 and } lin. long, 
appendiculate ; pore more than } the length of the cell ; appendages 
lanceolate, acute, incurved, incised, + the length of the cell; style 
included, or just manifest above the corolla-tube ; stigma capitate ; 
ovary glabrous. Benth, in DC. Prodr, vii. 656. E. viscaria; Roxb. 
ex Salisb. l.c. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; eastern slopes of Table Mountain, above Con- 
stantia, in the Cape Govt. Herb., without collector’s name, but with the locality 
number 85 of Ecklon § Zeyher on the label! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentois 
Holland Mountains, Masson in Herb. Salisbury ! Caledon Div. ; mountains near 
the Zondereinde River, Grisbrook in Herb, Guthrie, 4975 | 
We have seen and examined Salisbury’s type. The species is allied to BE. 
gnaphaloides. The slenderness of the whole flower, the sepals more spreading 
and less imbricate at the base than is usual, and their almost lilac colour, 
serve generally to distinguish this species, which is by no means common. 
389. E. gnaphaloides (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 356) ; erect, 1-1} ft. 
high; branches mostly erect and fastigiate, slender, puberulous, 
glabrescent, the younger angular by prominent leaf-cushions ; leaves 
3-nate, erect and mostly adpressed, not crowded, equalling or longer 
than the internodes, linear, blunt, suleate, glabrous, 1-1} lin, long ; 
flowers 3-nate, often clustered ; pedicels 3-1} lin. long; bracts, 2 
subapproximate, 1 remote, narrow-lanceolate; sepals obovate, ellip- 
tical or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keeled, concave, more or less 
imbricate at the base, incurved but often somewhat spreading at the 
apex, about 11 lin. long, pallid or rosy ; corolla somewhat variable, 
campanulate-tubular to obconic, sometimes subtetragonous, 1}—1} lin. 
long, rarely in fully-matured and well-grown plants (Schlechter, 
5397) 15 or nearly 2 lin. long; segments at maturity recurved, 
rounded, from 2—} the length of the tube, concolorous or nearly so ; 
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