278 HRICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
urceolate, slightly contracted at the throat, glabrous, white, about 
2} lin. long; segments spreading, 1-2 the length of the tube ; 
filaments tapering upwards, bent above; anthers variable, included, 
dorsifixed at or near the base; cells deeply partite and sometimes 
spreading or incurved, oblong, tapering to the base, or longitudinally 
semiovate, obtuse or subacute, scaberulous, about + lin. long, crested ; 
pore % the length of the cell ; crests from linear to broadly ovate, 
denticulate, or more or less incised, equalling or little shorter than 
the cells, brown; style short, included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary 
glabrous. Thunb. Diss. Erica, 47, t.5; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 12, 
13; Andr. Heathery, t. 245, and Col. Heaths, t. 284; Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t, 1733; Benth. in DO, Prodr. vii. 656. FE. triflora, var. 
aristata, Wendl. Beobacht. 47, and Hric. Ic. fase. 22, 153, t. 58. #. 
Jugax and E. pyroleflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 351. 
LE. marifolia, var. longifolia, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 26, 4, not of 
Soland. 
Var. 8, rosea (Benth, in DO. Prodr. vii. 656); leaves 3—4-nate; pedicels 
longer, up to 4 lin.; flowers rosy. E. arbutiflora, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 26, 
10, 
Sourn Arica: without locality, Drége! Herb. Salisbury! avd cultivated 
specimens ! ’ ‘ 
Coast RreGion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain and Devils Mountain, up to 
2500 ft., Thunberg, Bolus, 3704! 3782! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 190! 
Guthrie, 818! kloof beyond Kirstenbosch, Wolley Dod, 1684! 1685! Caledon 
Div. ; Grabouw near Palmiet River, Grisbrook ! 
In admitting the var. 8 in this place, we have followed Bentham, with some 
doubt; it is only known to us from Wendland’s figure and description. The 
very good figure seems to unite some of the characters of this species and of E. 
afinis and E. baccans, differing from all, though scarcely sufficiently so for 
specific distinction, 
E. stenoma, Tausch (Flora, 1839, 633) appears to be this species or near to it, 
but the type is too small for satisfactory examination. 
421. E. depressa (Linn. Mant. Alt. 230, not of Andr.) ; a rigid 
depressed glabrous shrub, generally less than a foot long; branehes 
stout, brittle, divaricate, usually flexuous; leaves ‘mostly 3-nate, 
occasionally also 4-nate on the same plant, crowded, spreading, 
straight or curved, oblong or lanceolate, keeled and faintly sulcate, 
coriaceous, rigid, pallid, smooth, 3—4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, 
generally fewer, when fully expanded subcorolline in aspect; pedicels 
about 1 lin. long; sepals oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, 
scarious, pallid, 2-2} lin. long, mostly as long as the tube of the 
corolla; corolla cyathiform or subecampanulate, mouth scarcely or 
only very slightly widened, white, 2-21 lin. long ; limb subspreading 
or erect, ;~3 the length of the tube ; filaments rather broad ; anthers 
included, lateral, cuneate-oblong, } lin. long, narrow-eristate ; pore 
about + the length of the cell; crests subulate-acuminate, with a few 
teeth at the outer margin near the base, or subaristate ; awns about 
z the length of the cell; style shortly exserted ; stigma capitate ; 
ovary glabrous ; capsule subglobose. Thunb. Diss. Erica, 33, t. 6; 
