Erica.] eRIcace® (Guthrie & Bolus). 277 
nate or umbellate ; pedicels white-tomentose, from 2-10 lin. long, 
apparently elongating during and after flowering; bracts mostly 
remote, rarely subapproximate, lanceolate, acuminate, strongly keeled, 
scarious, very concave, incurved, 1-2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts 
but broader, 2-25 lin. long; corolla subureeolate, only slightly 
contracted at the throat, glabrous, rosy-red, 2-21 lin, long ; segments 
spreading, oblong, obtuse, with usually more or less wide sinuses 
which are sometimes obtuse or semicircular at the base, from 1—% the 
length of the tube; anthers subincluded, or reaching above the 
corolla-tube, dorsifixed at or near the base; cells deeply partite, 
oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, blackish, from 4 to nearly 2 lin. long, 
aristate ; pore } the length of the cell; awns decurrent for over } 
their length, then free and spreading, subulate, acute, about } as 
long as the cells ; style exserted ; stigma subclavate, small ; ovary 
glabrous, 
Coast Reeion: Bredasdorp Div.; in rocky places near the mouth of Ratel 
River, Bolus, 6728! 8514! Schlechter, 9721! hills near the Koude River, near 
Elim, 700 ft., Schlechter, 9598 ! 
419. E. leucodesmia (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 681); apparently 
a small straggling shrub, with hoary tomentulose branches ; leaves 
3-nate, erect, incurved, often fasciculate, linear, obtuse, rather thick, 
suleate, uniformly covered with a fine short hoary or grey tomentum, 
becoming at length glabrous, 21—8 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate on short 
lateral branchlets, at length cernuous; pedicels white-pubescent, — 
‘2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 
keeled, rigid, tomentulose, about 14 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, 
only slightly contracted at the throat, glabrous (“ white,” Marloth) 
about 13 lin. long ; segments rounded, very short, slightly spreading, 
from 3-1 the length of the tube; filaments slender, nearly twice as 
long as the anthers; anthers included, lateral, cuneate-oblong, some- 
what rough, under } lin. long, erested at the base; pore more than 
2 the length of the cell ; crests ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, distantly 
dentate, thin, hyaline, 2 the length of the cells; style included, 
short, dilated at the base ; stigma capitate ; ovary densely woolly. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Niven! in Herb. Kew. é 
Coast Region: Worcester Div.; rocky places on the Matroos Berg, 5200 ft., 
Marloth, 2214! 
420. E. triflora (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 354); erect, 3-10 ft. high ; 
stem sometimes 2-3 in. in diam, at the base; branches ascending, 
pallid, the upper parts tomentose with dense long and short barbel- 
late hairs; leaves 3-nate, crowded, spreading, ineurved, subulate- 
linear, acute or acuminate, somewhat trigonous, sulcate, glabrous, 
3-5 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 13-2} lin. long ; 
bracts approximate, or the lowest subremote, lanceolate, carious, 
keeled, 2-21 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but ovate, incurved, 
3-3 lin. long, about as long as the corolla; corolla campanulate- 
