Frica.]} ERICACES (Guthrie & Bolus). 263 
flowers 3-nate, or occasionally (by arrest of lateral branchlets) pseudo- 
axillary ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; bracts 2, rarely 3, remote, usually 
small and often very small; sepals spreading, obovate or sub- 
orbicular, obtuse, with a keel-like discoloured apiculate tip, 1-14 lin. 
long, reaching from 3—2 the height of the corolla; corolla conical- 
urceolate, or in over-mature specimens (as Zeyher’s 3287) ovoid- 
ureeolate, very broad at the base, and more or less (often much) 
contracted at the throat, of thin and hyaline texture, rosy or pale red, 
14-1 lin. long ; segments in the living state spreading, not stellate- 
patent, at length connivent, ovate, acute, short, more or less dis- 
coloured, about + the length of the tube ; anthers oblong, or oblong- 
cuneate, obtuse, from less than 1 to nearly + lin. long, erested ; 
pore 3-2 the length of the cell ; crests variable, ovate, acute, serrulate 
or incised, 4-1 the length of the cell; style included; stigma 
capitate ; ovary subturbinate. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 652. 
Var. B, delapsa (Bolus) ; leaves somewhat longer, up to 24 lin. long; bracts 
- a little larger and more coloured; corolla 14-2 lin. long, the upper part 
of the tube at length falling down, making a fold or wrinkle just above the 
middle. 
Coast Rrcion: Caledon Div.; sandy places near Onrust River, under 
500 ft., Zeyher, 3287! Schlechter, 10388! Bredasdorp Div. ; hills near Elim, 
Bolus, 8457! Ratel River Valley, Guthrie, 3792! Swellendam Div. ; Potte 
Berg, Mund, 25! Var. 8: Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, about 5000 ft., 
Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3952 ! 
396. E. palliiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 351); erect, 
1-14 ft. high; branches ascending or spreading, the upper angular ; 
leaves 3-nate, erect or adpressed, imbricate or shorter than the 
internodes, linear or linear-lanceolate, keeled, 13-3 lin. long; flowers 
3-nate, mostly clustered ; pedicels mostly glandular or puberulous, 
1-21 lin. long ; bracts subremote, lax, linear to lanceolate, 1-2 lin. 
long; sepals erect or slightly incurved, not spreading, ovate, acumi- 
nate, the alternate pair a little narrower, keeled, in the dried state 
more or less transversely wrinkled across the keel, about 2 lin. long, 
usually about as long as the corolla; corolla campanulate-tubular, 
sometimes marked with 12 more or less prominent parallel veins, 
rosy or white, 2-21 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded, 
concolorous, about } the length of the tube; anthers longitudinally 
subsemiovate, subacute; cells deeply parted, smooth, } lin. long, 
crested ; pore 2 the length of the cell; crests sublanceolate, inciseg, 
2 the length of the cell ; style included ; ovary ovoid, with a conical 
projection at the apex, depressed in the centre. Benth. in DU. 
Prodr. vii. 651. E. pallida, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 25, 11, t. 9, 
not of Salish. E. candida, Soland. ex Salisb. l.c. 
Coast Re@ion: Cape Div.; mountains near and south of Cape Town, at 
300-1500 ft., Masson, 70! Bolus, 4654! 7002! 7918! Guthrie, 649 ! Schlechter ! 
Guthrie, 646! Wolley Dod, 1874! 2877! Caledon Div.; mountains between 
Caledon and Blim, 400 ft., Bolus, 6743! Riversdale Div.; on the Langeberg 
Range, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 1771! George Div.; Montagu Pass, 4200 ft., 
Schlechter, 5847 ! 
