290 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
about 2 to 21 times longer than the internodes; flowers not 
numerous, on short branchlets thinly scattered over the whole plant, 
subealycine ; pedicels curved, stout, red, shortly white-tomentose, 
1 lin. long; bracts 3, approximate, oblong and lanceolate, ciliolate, 
shorter than the sepals; sepals ovate, acute, concave, glumaceous, 
keeled or keel-tipped, rosy suffused with bright red, white-margined 
and ciliolate with scale-like, forked or subplumose hairs, about 
4 lin. long; corolla hemispherical or subobconic-cyathiform, about 
1 lin. long ; segments equal to the tube or slightly longer, rounded, 
suberect ; filaments rather broad, lanceolate; anthers subincluded, 
or at full maturity subexserted, longitudinally semiovate, obtuse, 
minutely scaberulous, a little over } lin. long, muticous ; pore large, 
% the length of the cell; style well-exserted, stout; stigma obconic- 
cyathiform ; ovary sometimes glabrous, sometimes pubescent. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Kers Kop, Cederberg Range, near Wupper- 
thal, 3000 ft., Schlechter, 8788! 
In floral structure very like the preceding; but the branches are closer, more 
rigid and erect, the leaves broader and mostly shorter, pedicels thicker, longer, 
more densely tomentose; bracts more constant; sepals more prominent, more 
ciliate ; anthers larger with a much Jonger pore; stigma smaller. It has some 
resemblance to the § Melastemon and E. lavandulefolia. 
Section XXXVIII. EURYSTOMA. (Sp. 440-450.) 
440. E, media (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682) ; 
branches eano-puberulous; leaves erect, adpressed, oblong, sub- 
obtuse, round-backed, thick, concave and nerved above, sulcate 
below, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; flowers subcorolline ; pedicels 
rather stout, puberulous, 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, closely 
adpressed to the calyx, sepal-like, ovate, obtuse ; sepals ovate, acute, 
keeled, concave, searious or subcoriaceous, * lin. long; corolla cyathi- 
form,mouth somewhat widened, 13 lin.long ; segments erect, deltoid, 
obtuse, about + the length of the tube; filaments rather broad, 
subequal, about 2 lin. long; anthers lateral, oblong, obtuse, about 
$ lin. long, appendiculate at the base; pore 1—1 the length. of the 
cell ; appendages between crested and aristate, oblong, entire, short, 
blunt, brown, placed rather high on the cell, in length about 4 of 
the cell; style shortly exserted; stigma small, capitellate; ovary 
glabrous. 
Coast ReGion: Caledon Div.; Cape Hangklip, Mund § Maire! in Herb. 
Berlin and Kew. 
This species is closely allied to E. argentea, Klotzsch, and the latter may possibly 
be a form of this. The fragments we have before us are poor, and we therefore 
leave the species as Klotzsch and Bentham had it. 
44]. E. argentea (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 686); 
erect, 1-1} ft. high ; stem and branches flexuous ; branchlets slender, 
the ultimate and floriferous generally decurved ; leaves mostly erect 
