272 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Prica. 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the inner pair more oblong and more 
obtuse, concave, 7-8 lin. long, much exceeding the corolla; corolla 
subovate, 4-fid (or at length, being ruptured by the swelling ovary, 
4-partite), 11-14 lin. long; segments erect, ovate, obtuse, about as 
long as the tube; stamens 5-6 lin. long, shorter than the sepals, 
much exceeding the corolla; anthers terminal, longitudinally semi- 
lanceolate, acute, smooth, submembranous; cells deeply partite, 
about * lin. long; pore nearly as long as the cell; style subexserted, 
hooked ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous; seeds broadly* margined. 
Nabea montana, Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1831, 5, name 
only; Klotzsch in Linnea, viii, 667. Maenabia montana, Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 612. : 
Coast Region: George Div.; Montagu Pass, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 5820! 
Devils Kop, near George, Mund, ex Klotzsch. Uniondale Div.; mountains 
between Avontuur and Vlugt, Bolus, 2381! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens 
Berg, Zeyher, 3308 ! ; 
There seems no sufficient reason for retaining the genus Nabea, It has no 
characters which are not found in a greater or lesser degree in several species 
of Erica; and the only one for which it is remarkable is the great length 
of the sepals compared with the corolla.. But the range of variation in the 
relative size and length of these organs in the genus (as generally admitted) 
is very great, and it does not seem well to uphold the separation on that 
ground. The much compressed and wide-margined seeds connect the. species 
with the § Platyspora, but from that it is separated both by its calycine flowers, 
and the very different shape of its corolla. In some respects it approaches to 
the § Eurystegia. The name E. montana, having been pre-occupied, it is 
necessary to give the plant a new specific name, and it seems better to revert to 
the generic name of Lehmann, 
Section XXXVI. TRIGEMMA. (Sp. 410-431.) 
410. E. plumigera (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 636); 12 ft. or more 
high ; stem erect, not much branched; branches subflexuous, finely 
floccose with minutely plumose or barbellate hairs ; lateral branchlets 
1] in. long, numerous, cernuous, floriferous ; leaves 3-nate, erect or 
subspreading, imbricate, linear to oblong, subtrigonous, keeled, 
ciliolate or naked, 1-13 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, numerous at the 
ends of short decurved branches; pedicels cernuous, floceose, about 
1 lin. long; bracts 3, approximate, elliptic, apiculate, about 1-12 
lin. long; sepals elliptic, acute, keeled, subcomplicate, approximate 
or imbricate, 13—2 lin. long, at full maturity a little lower than the 
top of the corolla; corolla urceolate or conical-urceolate, somewhat 
contracted at the throat, reddish, 11-2 lin. long; segments variable 
in length, spreading-recurved, but not stellate-patent; filaments 
rather broad, tapering to the apex; anthers included, lateral, sub- 
cuneate, 2 lin. long, the length 21 times the greatest width, crested ; 
pore about } the length of the cell; crests affixed rather high 
above the base of the cell and half its length, ovate or suborbicular, 
serrulate with a terminal longer subulate lobe; style subincluded, 
sometimes just manifest above the corolla-tube; stigma clavate ; 
