286 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Brioa. 
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 350. E. staminea, Andr. Heathery, 
t. 193, and Col. Heaths, t. 208. . thalictriflora, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t. 1294. 
SourtH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Herb, Salisbury! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Reaton, from 900-1200 ft. : Tulbagh Div. ; Roode Zand, Masson, 
133! Winterhoek Mountain, Niven, 87! Bolus, 5188! Tulbagh Waterfall, 
MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 232! Bolus, 5370! Schlechter, 9008 ! 
Guthrie, 2072! Worcester Div., Ecklon & Zeyher! Paarl Div.; French Hoek 
Mountains, Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 608 ! 
CenTRAL Reaion: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, near Elandsfontein, 4000 ft., 
Schlechter, 10027! 
There appear to be two forms of this species :—the one with slightly smaller 
flowers, shorter corolla-limb, subincluded stamens, anther-cells smaller and 
approximate and broader stigma; the other with larger flowers, longer corolla- 
limb, far-exserted stamens, anther-cells separate and spreading, stigma somewhat 
smaller. Tne first may be the original form of Linn. f.; the latter is certainly 
E. staminea, Andr. These are either heterostyled forms, or the first are plants © 
not yet fully developed; to decide, observation of the living plant is necessary. 
In either case, we think they are one species. Bentham says this was Klotzsch’s 
conclusion (though we have not been able to trace the statement) ; but he 
himself thought they were sufficiently distinct. 
433. E. stenantha (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 685) ; 
small, branched, 8 in. or more high ;_ branches ascending, sub- 
flexuous, villous or pubescent; leaves crowded, squarrose-recurved, 
rigid, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, flattish, sulcate, glabrous, ciliate, 
glossy, about 1 lin. long; flowers numerous, on short crowded 
branchlets towards the ends of the branches, subcorolline ; pedicels 
slender, 8—22 lin. long ; bracts remote, lanceolate, subsearious, ciliate, 
small; sepals ovate to subrhomboidal, acute, keeled, concave, 
scarious, cilate, paler than the corolla, 3-1 lin. long; corolla broad- 
obconic to obconic-campanuloid, rosy or bright red, 1-15 lin. long ; 
segments continuous with the tube or slightly recurved, ovate or 
lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, keeled, from as long as, to nearly 
twice as long as the tube; anthers included, longitudinally semi- 
ovate, subacute, minutely hairy, 1 ¢ lin. long, muticous; pore 
+ the length of the cell; style exserted ; stigma subsimple or 
minutely obconic or distinctly obconic-cyathiform ; ovary villous. 
Coast Recion : Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Zeyher ! Swellen- 
dam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, 3000 ft., Niven, 107! Masson, 1! 
Ecklon § Zeyher, 221! Burchell, 7298! 7832! Bolus, 7505! Zuurbraak Moun- 
tain, 4600 ft., Galpin, 3694! 
All our specimens agree fairly well, except that in Galpin’s 3694 the stigma is 
much larger and distinctly obconic-cyathiform and the pedicels shorter ; but as 
there is a tendency towards enlargement in some of the others, it does not seem 
well to separate them. Bentham placed this species in the § Melastemon, but 
the anther-cell is scarcely produced beyond the pore and the corolla seems more 
to resemble that of the present section. 
