rica. } ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 289 
long ; bracts remote, laxly spreading, lanceolate, concave, scarious, 
keel-tipped, coloured, the lowest more erect, about * lin. long; 
sepals broad-ovate, 1 lin. long, otherwise like the bracts, reaching 
about } the height of the corolla; corolla cyathiform or campanulate- 
cyathiform, about 12 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, 
broadly rounded, about as long as the tube; anthers included, 
dorsifixed well above the base, longitudinally semiovate, acute or 
subacute, ciliolate on the margins, dark-coloured, 3 lin. long, 
muticous; pore about 1 the length of the eell; style exserted ; 
stigma subcapitellate, 4-lobed, rather flat on the summit; ovary 
oblate-spheroidal, puberulous. 
Coast REeGion : Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin, 3706! 
In floral structure allied closely to EZ. floribunda, yet with certain differences, 
and especially in its general aspect, which, after much consideration, have obliged 
us to distinguish it. 
438. E. peltata (Andr. Heathery, t. 276); erect, 1-2 ft. high ; 
brancbes ascending, straight or flexuous, usually clothed with a 
pubescence of very short compound (rarely simple) hairs ; leaves 
erect, imbricate, not crowded, linear, round-backed, 1-1} lin. long; 
flowers generally in interrupted numerous clusters at the ends of the 
branchlets, subcorolline; pedieels puberulous, about 3 lin. long; 
bracts variable, sometimes 1 only, close to the calyx, or with 2 
smaller and subremote, or, entirely wanting; sepals from ovate- 
lanceolate to ovate, or suborbicular, acute or subobtuse and 
apiculate, concave, hyaline, pallid, ciliolate or naked, about as long 
as the corolla-tube ; corolla broad-cyathiform or subhemispherical, 
neatly 1 lin. long; segments broadly rounded, erect, a little 
shorter than the tube; anthers subexserted, from shortly oblong to 
subovate, subacute, scabrid, dull red, about } lin. long, muticous ; 
pore about 2 the length of the cell; style exserted, straight, 
red ; stigma cyathiform, large, with 4 intramarginal short points, 
bright crimson, about } lin. in diam.; ovary small, minutely hairy. 
Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 254; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 691. £. 
Actea, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 371. E. exserta, Sinclair, Hort. 
Eric. Wob. 9. 
Coast Rreron: Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Swellendam, 10090 ft., Niven, 
31! Bolus, 7302! and in Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 604! Garcias Pass, 1500 ft., 
Schlechter, 2194! Riversdale Div. ; rocky places, Schlechter, 2172 ! George Div. ; 
near George, Schlechter, 2232! near Great Brak River, Guthrie, 3555! Union- 
dale Div.; near the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5132! 
The habit varies from that with more erect and straightish, to that with 
more slender, whip-like, flexuous branchlets ; but there are intermediate forms. 
439. E. macrotrema (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, apparently 1] ft. 
or more high; branches few, ascending, subflexuous ; branchlets 
many, the younger white-pubescent ; leaves slightly spreading, sub- 
incurved, oblong or narrow-elliptic, subobtuse, thick, round-backed, 
faintly sulcate, glabrous, cartilaginous-denticulate, }-1} lin. long, 
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