Erica] EkICACE& (Guthrie & Bolus). 281 
3-nate ; pedicels thickened upwards, viscous-pubescent, 3 lin. long ; 
bracts varying from subapproximate to subremote, lanceolate- 
acuminate, 1-1} lin. long; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, with a strong wrinkled incurved keel throughout its entire 
length, produced into a rather long spreading setiform point, scarious, 
subviseid, margin entire or sublacerate, coloured, nearly 2 lin. long, 
about as long as (or a little exceeding) the corolla-tube; corolla 
urceolate, throat contracted (in age becoming, by the swelling of the 
ovary, widened, and the tube more conical, as in § Eurystoma), 
reddish, about 2 lin. long ; segments suberect in dried specimens, 
probably spreading in life, semiovate, obtuse, 3-% the length of 
the tube; filaments slender, tapering upwards; anthers included, 
subterminal, dorsifixed at or near the base; cells bipartite but not 
much spreading, subcuneate-oblong with an oblique ascending base, — 
subacute, a little over 1 lin. long, crested ; pore about 2 the length of 
the cell; base of the crests affixed considerably above the base of 
the cells, broad-lanceolate, acute, pendulous, toothed at the apex, 
a little over 3 the cell in length; style included ; stigma capiteliate, 
small ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Ool. Heaths, t. 73; Benth. in DC. 
Prodr, vii. 685. EE. scariosa, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 477% not of Berg. 
nor of Thunb. “ E. crossota, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 201” ex 
Benth. 
Sout ArFrica: without locality, Niven ! and cultivated specimens! ’ 
Coast Reeion: Tulbagh or Worcester Div.? without. precise locality, 
Bolus, 5184! Paarl Div. ; French Hoek Mountains, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 9272! 
Allowing for differences of age the specimens cited all agree fairly well with 
Niven’s and with Andrews’ figure. Niven’s, however, are too old, and led 
Bentham to place the species doubtfully in § Eurystoma. It varies chiefly 
Ms the length and acumination of the leaves and the length of the corolla- 
imb. 
426. E. brevifolia (Soland. ex Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 
338); erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches glabrous or occasionally 
puberulous; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect or subspreading, longer or 
sometimes shorter than the internodes, mostly ovate-oblong or oblong, 
blunt, sulcate, thick, glabrous, usually 1-1} lin. long, rarely in 
‘“drawn-up” specimens linear, subspreading-recurved, 2 lin. long ; 
flowers usually 8-nate, sometimes clustered on short approximate 
branchlets, sometimes 2-nate or solitary ; pedicels puberulous, 13-2 
lin. long ; bracts remote, small, about 1 lin. long; sepals ovate or 
obovate, acute, not keeled, but shortly keel-tipped, and like the 
bracts mostly cartilaginous, thick, viscid, shining, about 14 lin. long, 
a little shorter than, to as long as the corolla; corolla sub- 
cyathiform-campanulate or urceolate-campanulate, throat searcely 
contracted, viscidulous, pale pink to rosy red, 13-2 lin. long ; 
segments slightly spreading, semiovate, about } the tube in length ; 
filaments slender ; anthers included, subterminal, ovate-oblong, very 
obtuse ; cells bipartite, stalked upon the decurrent connective (as in 
E. baecans and E. Lycopodiastrum), a little over 1} lin. long, 
