Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus), 285 
lous, pallid, 8-10 in. long; leaves 4-nate, subspreading, linear, 
acute, widely sulcate, puberulous and thinly hispid with short stiffish 
hairs, glabrescent, 11-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate on short. lateral 
branchlets, subcorolline; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, 
linear, erect, subglumaceous, about 1 lin. long; sepals somewhat 
spreading, not imbricate unless slightly at the very base, and not 
concealing the corolla-tube, lanceolate-linear, tapering to a narrow 
keeled point, subglumaceous, ciliate, glabrous, 13-18 lin. long, 
usually reaching as high as the top of the corolla-tube or higher ; 
corolla narrow-cyathiform or subureeolate, the throat not (or scarcely) 
spreading, tetragonous, veined, glabrous, dry, 1 lin. long; segments 
ereet (in the dried specimens), or subspreading, semiovate, over- 
lapping at the base, about 3 the length of the tube; filaments 
capillary ; anthers included, lateral, euneate-oblong, obtusely rounded, 
smooth, membranous, brown, scaberulous on the margins, 2 lin, long, 
aristate; pore 2 the length of the cell; awns subulate, _ hairy, 
recurved at an angle of 45°-60° from the cells, about 3 the length of 
the cells; style included or sometimes just equal to the corolla 
and manifest; stigma capitellate; ovary densely and shortly 
villous. 
Eastern Recon: Natal ; rocky places near Van Reenen, 7000 ft., Schlechter, 
6941 ! 
This has somewhat the habit and aspect of E. caffrorum. The flowers on our 
specimens are rather scanty. 
Section XXXVII. POLYCODON. (Sp. 432-439.) 
432. E. leucanthera (Linn. f. Suppl. 223); erect, 1-12 ft. high; 
branches numerous, ascending, often dense, pubescent with short 
barbellate haits; leaves mostly erect or subspreading, crowded, 
imbricate, linear-trigonous or linear-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, 
sulcate-keeled, glabrous, 1-11 lin. long ; flowers calycine or sub- 
calycine on numerous short branchlets, often crowded in dense 
masses ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long; bracts from subapproximate 
to subremote, sepal-like, small; sepals narrow-ovate, acute, keeled, 
pallid, cartilaginous, margin scarious, under 1 lin. long, or about 
3 the length of the corolla; corolla obconic, pale yellow, L-1j lin. 
long; segments spreading to the apex, straight, semiorbicular or 
broad semiovate, from about as long as to a little longer than the 
tube ; stamens far-exserted and recurved or subincluded ; filaments 
slender, long or short; anthers oblong, slightly wider at the base ; 
cells deeply partite and spreading, or approximate, subacute or sub- 
obtuse, membranous, pale yellow, about 3 lin. long, muticous ; 
pore small, about 1 the length of the eell ; style included, or 
Just manifest; stigma capitate; ovary minutely hairy, chiefly © 
on the summit, Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 689, EB. spireeflora, 
