284 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
the whole 3-33 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, 
about } the length of the tube, green; anthers included, longi- 
tudinally semiovate, acute, crested; erests semiorbicular, denticulate 
on the outer margin, about 2 of the length of the cell, brown; style 
included ; stigma subsimple or capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Andr. 
Col. Heaths, t. 258; Benth. in D@ Prodr. vii. 655. E. coni- 
flora, Klotasch in Herb. Berol. ex Benth. lc. 
South Arrica: without locality, Masson, 96! in Herb. Kew ; also, collector 
and locality unknown, in Herb. Berlin ! 
Our material is very scanty; Masson’s specimens have no flowers; we have 
only seen one flower and a few loose leaves in the Berlin Herbarium ; and our 
description is therefore drawn from these, from Benthum’s brief description and 
Andrews’ figure. Bentham remarks that it seems to be allied to E . modesta and 
to § Pachysa. 
430. E. Thodei (Guthrie & Bolus); dwarf (the single specimen 
7 in. high); stout, erect; branches numerous, nearly straight, 
rigid, pubescent, glabrescent, leafy above, covered with scars of 
prominent leaf-cushions below ; leaves 3-nate, crowded, subspreading 
but closely imbrieate, oblong or narrow-elliptic, subobtuse, thick, 
keeled, not sulcate or the keel only faintly channelled, carti- 
- laginous-ciliolate, the flat scales on the younger leaves minutely 
branched or lacerate, glabrous, shining, petiole more than 1 the 
length of the blade, the whole 14~2 lin, long; flowers strictly 
terminal and 3-nate, but in young and undeveloped or arrested 
branchlets sometimes appearing almost axillary, long-persistent ; 
pedicels puberulous, lengthening during or after flowering, attaining 
1} lin. long ; bracts remote or subapproximate, erect, linear, scarious, 
1 lin. or less long; sepals erect, adpressed, narrow-lanceolate, acute, 
concave, searious, keeled, not imbricate at the base, glabrous, cilio- 
late as the leaves, 11-12 lin. long, about ¢ the corolla; corolla 
tubular-cyathiform, equal to the mouth, glabrous, dry, ‘ white,” 
2 lin. long; segments broader than long, rounded, 1-1 the length 
of the tube ; filaments capillary, over 1 lin. long ; anthers included, 
lateral, longitudinally semiovate, smooth, membranous, pale brown, 
about 3 lin. long, crested-aristate ; pore under x the length of the 
cell; awns broadly subulate, acute, long-ciliate, nearly 2 the length 
of the cells ; style included ; stigma subsimple ; ovary glabrous. 
KALAHARI ReGion: Orange River Colony; rocky places on the summit of 
the Mont-aux-Sources, near the sources of the Tugela River, 9000-10000 ft., 
Thode, 64! in Herb. Bolus and Kew, but may be distributed under other numbers 
in other herbaria. 
In floral structure this is near the next species, but the sepals are relatively 
shorter, the indumentum on the leaves different, the ovary glabrous, and the 
habit much more erect and rigid. The specimen bears persistent old flowers ; 
but we cannot be sure that they are those of the preceding year. 
431. EF. lasiocarpa (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches flexuous, puberu- 
