Eriea.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 291 
and adpressed or ineurved, imbricate or often only as long as the 
internodes, oblong or elliptic, acute, thick, flat above, convex and 
glossy below, glabrous, generally 1-1 (sometimes 11) lin. long; 
flowering branchlets subdistant and somewhat seanty ; pedicels under 
y lin. long ; flowers corolline ; bracts approximate, elliptic, small ; 
sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, rigid, thick with hyaline margin, 
about 1 lin. long; corolla obconie, about 11 lin. long; segments con- 
tinuous with the tube, semiovate, subacute, somewhat shorter than 
the tube; anthers included, manifest, lateral, narrow-oblong, = lin. 
long, incurved, obtuse, pale brown, shortly aristate; pore 1-1 the 
length of the cell; awns subulate, about 1 the length of the cell; 
style exserted, very slender; stigma subsimple; ovary pubescent or 
glabrous. 
a 
Var. 8, rigida (Bolus) ; stouter and more rigid, less flexuous : branchlets not 
usually decurved ; anthers shorter and broader, oblong, 4 lin. long. 
Coast Reaction: Piquetberg Div.; Oliphants River Mountains, near 
Piqueniers Kloof, Zeyher, 1106! Tulbagh Div. ; foot of Winterhoek Mountain, 
Ecklon § Zeyher, 224! Ceres Div.; mountains near Ceres, 1800 ft., Guthrie, 
2413! Bolus, 7472! Var. B: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus, 8481 ! 
The whole plant has a somewhat shining silvery-grey appearance, yet not 
quite glabrous. It is very near the preceding species. 
442. E. brevicaulis (Guthrie & Bolus); apparently a dwarf 
stunted shrub, 3 in. high ; caudex stout, about 13 lin. in diam., 
divided immediately into several rather stout main branches and 
very numerous ascending filiform branchlets, puberulous, glabres- 
cent, marked with prominent scars of leaf-cushions ; leaves opposite, 
erect, adpressed, the lower about as long as the internodes, the 
uppermost imbricate, not crowded, lanceolate, acute, thick, concave 
with a middle nerve above, suleate below, glabrous, *-1 lin, long; 
flowers terminal, 3-nate? subcorolline; pedicels slender, mostly 
bent, red, 13-18 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 inframedian, 1 basal, 
linear, 1 lin. long; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, keeled, concave, 
glabrous, glossy, red, 12 lin. long, reaching a little beyond the top 
of the corolla-tube; corolla broad-campanulate, or between that and 
broad-cyathiform, glabrous, veined, apparently red or crimson, 
nearly 13 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, ovate, a little more 
than 3 the length of the tube, colour darkened towards the apex ; 
filaments slightly dilated just below the anther; anthers included, 
manifest, sublateral, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong, subobtuse, 
smooth, about + lin. long, crested; pore about } the length of the 
cell; crests partially adherent at their base to the filament, then 
spreading-incurved, narrow-lanceolate or subulate, acuminate, with 
2 or more incised teeth near the base, the whole about } the length 
of cell; style shortly exserted, slender; stigma capitellate ; ovary 
subglobose, shortly villous. 
Coast Raion: Worcester Div. ; rocky places on the Matroos Berg, 5500 ft., 
Marloth, 2213 ! 
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