Erica. | HRICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 283 
wherever placed. To its neighbours in this section it has a general resemblance, 
its peculiar sepals and woolly ovary being the chief exceptional characters, 
From the § Pseuderemia it differs somewhat in appearance, also by the in- 
florescence not being capitate, and its calycine, not corolline, flowers. It is also 
connected with the § Ewrystoma. 
428. E. Lycopodiastrum (Lam. Ill. ii. 428, t. 287, fig. 4); 
“a dwarf plant” (Bentham); branches erect, rigidly flexuous, 
tomentose-puberulous, 10-15 in. long; leaves 3-nate, nearly erect, 
closely and very regularly imbricate, oblong, subacute, concave above, 
round-backed, sulcate, thick, glabrous, shining, 11—2 lin. long; flowers 
3-nate, terminal on short lateral branchlets, or sometimes (by their 
partial arrest) sublateral; pedicels tomentose, decurved, 14-2 lin. 
long ; bracts mostly approximate, more rarely submedian, ovate, 
acute, keeled, rigid, scarious, 1-11 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, 
but slightly larger, 14 lin. long, 3-3 the length of the corolla; — 
corolla obconic-cyathiform, slightly widened to the mouth, glabrous, 
1} lin, long (flesh-coloured, Wendland) ; segments slightly spreading, 
rounded, 3-2 of the tube in length; filaments slender; anthers 
included, subterminal; cells bipartite, distant, stalked upon the 
slender connective, narrow-obovate, subobtuse, pale brown, mem- 
branous, about 2 lin. long, broad-aristate ; pore 1-3 the length of 
the cell ; awns affixed to the connective and free from the filament, 
pendulous, subulate, acuminate, toothed, a little over 4 the cell in 
length ; style included, short ; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous or 
with a few hairs at the summit; ovules ovoid (Bentham found them 
compressed, which our observations do not confirm). J. fabrilis, 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 338; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
655. EH. conferttfolia, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 20, 121, t. 46. LE. 
montana, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 15. £. confertiflora, Steud. 
Nom. ed. 2, i. 570. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson, Drége, Herb. Salisbury! Herb. 
Lamarck (641)! and cultivated specimens ! : é 
Coast Region: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, by the river, Niven, 55! 
Connects §§ Trigemma and Eurystoma, yet has hardly the longer corolla-limb 
of the latter. In appearance it has some resemblance to the two succeeding 
species, but is distinct by its peculiarly thin membranous subterminal anthers, and 
their narrow appendages. Wendland describes the leaves (from a cultivated 
plant) as 4-nate, which we have not seen. ‘The plant appears to be now 
rare. 
429. E. pumila (Andr. Heathery, t. 234); dwarf, probably only 
a few inches high ; branches numerous, short ; leaves 3-nate, erect or 
spreading, or the older squarrese, obovate, obtuse, thick, suleate, sub- 
glaucous, pallid, glabrous (or in cultivated specimens linear and 
green, Andrews), 2-2} lin. long; flowers 8-nate; pedicels short ; 
bracts short, approximate, cartilaginous, white, glabrous ; sepals 
ovate, obtuse, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, viscidulous, white (or in 
cultivated specimens acute, rosy), about 2 the length of the corolla ; 
corolla ovoid-inflated or subcylindric, glabrous, subviscid, tube rosy, 
