Erica.) ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 265 
crests suborbicular, deeply incised, a little over 1 the cell in length; 
style included, short; ovary ovoid, with a conical apex, nearly as 
in L, palliifolia, very pallid, almost glabrous. 
Coast Reeion: Bredasdorp Div. ; hills near Elim, 300 ft., Schlechter, 9637 | 
Bolus, 8506! 
Closely allied to, and greatly resembling E. palliifora. It presents the 
following differences : the leaves are smaller and blunter, the younger pubescent, 
and also (as are the bracts and sepals) softly ciliate; bracts larger, tipped with a 
green keel and (together with the sepals and corolla) more or less viscidulous ; 
sepals incurved, and more adpressed (so that the outline of the flower is more 
ovate) much more obtuse, their apex always dark-coloured ; corolla more inflated 
below, limb smaller, more spreading and dark-coloured; anthers and crests 
somewhat different. This species is notable as affording the nearest transition 
to the § Trigemma. 
Section XXXIV. EORYSTEGIA. (Sp. 399-408.) 
399. E. lanuginosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 122); erect, about 1 ft. 
high; branches subflexuous, glabrous; leaves 3-nate, spreading, 
incurverl, or at length recurved, linear, acute, the younger ciliate, 
10-12 lin, long ; flowers 3-nate or often solitary, cernuous ; pedicels 
puberulous, 2-3 lin. long ; bracts approximate, ovate, acute, scarious, 
keeled, minutely velvety as are the sepals and corolla, 3—4 lin. long ; 
sepals imbricate, erect, ovate, acute, scarious, keeled near the apex, 
ciliate or naked, 6 lin. long; corolla ovoid-inflated at the base, 
4-parted nearly to the base, dull red-brown, 7-9 lin. long; segnients 
erect, ovate-acuminate, much tapering to the apex, acute, alternating 
at the base with short triangular, acute, reflexed teeth, situated in the 
sinuses, convex on the upper, concave on the lower surface ; fila- 
ments much curved, about 4 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed 
above the attenuated base, but appearing as if somewhat terminal, 
broad-linear, subobtuse, smooth, 11-11 lin. long, aristate; pore 
about 3 the length of the cell; awns setiform, decurrent for a 
short distance along the filament, thence free and spreading, nearly 
as long as the cells; style elongate, a little shorter than the corolla- 
segments; stigma subsimple,.small; ovary glabrous. Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 623; Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 180. E. fuscata, 
F. G. Dietr. ex Steud. Nom. ed. I, 305; acc. to Ind. Kew. 
Coast Rxgion: Caledon Div.; mountains near the mouth of the Klein 
River, Masson, 110! Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 3240! 
The teeth between the sinuses of the corolla are very peculiar when full- 
grown, but are not easily distinguishable in young or badly-dried specimens ; 
we have not seen a corolla in any other species similarly furnished, and the 
character is not well portrayed in Andrews’ figure. 
400. E. Bodkinii (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1-2 ft. high; 
branches ascending, the younger puberulous, glabrescent; leaves 
3-nate, erect and imbricate or somewhat spreading-incurved, linear- 
subulate, acute, mucronate, sulcate, thinly pilose and softly ciliate, 
