276 ERICACEm (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
suppressed branchlets, solitary in each axil, with one or two minute 
bract-like leaves, at the base of the pedicel, or occasionally also 
terminal ; pedicels slender, downy, 2-2} lin. long; bracts remote, 
minute, scarious, erect, the upper pair about * lin. long, the lowest 
smaller; sepals subspreading, not imbricate at the base, lanceolate- 
oblong, acute, secarious, brown-keeled, ciliolate, about 12 lin. long, 
reaching §—% the height of the corolla; corolla ovoid, not (or very 
slightly) constricted at the throat, with a rather wide mouth, rosy, 
about 2 lin. long; limb erect; segments broadly rounded, about 
+ the length of the tube; anthers lateral, oblong-cuneate, contracted 
at the base; cells } lin. long; pore narrow, 2 the length of the cell ; 
crests lanceolate-acuminate, denticulate on the outer margin, as 
long as the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary 
glabrous. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Mund! in Herb, Kew. 
In the structure of the flowers this comes very near to FE. baccans; but 
the different inflorescence, the minute bracts, shorter sepals, &c., serve to 
distinguish it. 
417. E. affinis (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 656); branches strag- 
gling, diffuse, flexuous, woody, but somewhat slender for their size, 
white-pubescent, 6-8 in. long; leaves 4-nate, spreading, slender, 
linear, subobtuse, sulcate, nearly flat, glabrous, 21-31 lin. long ; 
flowers mostly 4-nate, occasionally 3-nate, sometimes by arrest of the 
branchlets axillary ; pedicels suberect, pubescent, 4-5 lin. long ; 
bracts remote, lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, 11—2 lin. long ; sepals 
erect, not imbrieate at the base, obovate or oblanceolate, shortly 
acute, keeled, scarious, 2-2 lin. long, about equalling the tube of 
the corolla; corolla broad-urceolate or subglobose-urceolate, throat 
slightly constricted, several-nerved, glabrous, dry, red, about 22 lin. 
long; segments slightly spreading, broad, rounded, about 2 the 
length of the tube; filaments broad below, tapering upwards, about 
1 lin. long; anthers included, lateral, longitudinally semilanceolate 
to semiovate, subacuminate ; cells deeply parted, about 2 lin. long, 
crested ; pore 2 the length of the cell; crests broad-ovate or sub- 
orbicular, minutely serrulate, about 2 the length of the cell, brown; 
style at length exserted, angular, swollen a little at the apex ; stigma 
a short filiform point, much narrower than the truncated end of the 
style; ovary glabrous. LH. Zeyheri, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 635, not 
of Spreng. fil. 
Coast Reeton : Uitenhage Div.; stony bed of the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 
1072! 3279! 
418. E. propinqua (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 3-4 ft. high; 
branches white-pubescent, glabrescent, angled and the older searred 
by prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 4-nate, either erect, adpressed 
and about as long as the internodes, or somewhat spreading, oblong, 
or narrow-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 2-3 lin, long; flowers 3-4- 
