292 ERICACEH® (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
Our only specimen is in poor condition and has dropped its flowers; but the 
species is So distinct that we do not hesitate to describe it. It has the corolla of 
this section, but the sepals are so narrow as to give the flowers a somewhat 
corolline appearance. In this respect it is nearest to E. argentea, and in so far 
both recede from one of the chief characters of the section. 
443. E. nivea (Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 16); erect, almost 
entirely glabrous, 1-2 ft. high ; branches ascending, rather straight 
or subvirgate, sometimes puberulous, glabrescent; leaves erect, 
mostly subadpressed, not crowded, linear-subulate, acute, trigonous, 
deeply sulcate, 2-3 lin. long ; flowers somewhat densely crowded on 
short branchlets, calycine; pedicels slender, subglabrous, 2-8 lin. 
long; bracts laxly subapproximate, lanceolate, about 2 lin. long ; 
sepals imbricate, obovate or oblong, subacute, keeled on the upper 
half and keel-tipped, white, about 2 lin. long, about equalling the 
corolla; corolla subobconie or between rotate and salver-shaped from 
a broad base; tube subtetragonous, wider than its length ; segments 
broad, obtuse, spreading at an angle of about 45°, about 12 times the 
length of the tube, the whole about 2 lin. long, entirely white; filaments 
from a broader base tapering upwards, about 1 lin. long ; anthers 
included, manifest, sublateral, obovate-oblong, obtuse, smooth ; cells 
bipartite, about 2 lin. long, crested; pore about 2 the length of the 
cell ; crests about 1 the length of the cell, spreading ; style exserted ; 
stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous, pallid on a dark disk. Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 687. 
Soutu Arrica: without locality, Mund § Maire, ex Bentham. 
Coast Reeion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 2500 ft., Marloth, 214! Simons 
Bay, Wright! hills west of Simons Town, Wolley Dod, 1452! Caledon 
Div.; mountains near Lowrys Pass, 2000 ft., Guthrie, 3536! moist places 
pod hed ne get ae River, Schlechter, 5380! and without precise locality, Bolus, 
444, E. lachneeefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 335); 
erect, probably under 1 ft. high; branches ascending, leafy, pubes- 
cent, covered with the scars of small but prominent leaf-cushions ; 
leaves 6-farious, closely crowded, imbrieate, obovate or subelliptical, 
very obtuse, thick, somewhat concave above, rounded below, minutely 
puberulous, sulcate, gland-ciliolate, very shortly petiolate, —1 lin. 
long; flowers subcalycine ; pedicels stout, tomentose, under 1 lin. 
long; braets approximate or subapproximate, ovate, leathery, rigid, 
keeled, with green or coloured leaf-like suleate thickened tips, 
shorter than the sepals; sepals like the bracts but sometimes obo- 
vate, larger, ciliolate, nearly 14 lin. long ; corolla obconic-cyathiform, 
white (Andrews), about 2 lin. long; segments spreading, oblong, 
rounded, a little longer than the tube; anthers included, manifest, sub- 
lateral ; cells bipartite, oblong, tapering a little towards the sub- 
obtuse apex, papillose, thick, rigid, blaekish, about 2 lin. long, with 
a thick dorsal band produced downwards into two thick subulate 
awns decurrent along the filament for 1—2 their length, the acuminate 
apices free and spreading (or entirely free according to Andrews’ 
