298 ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
Section XXXIX. MELASTEMON. (Sp. 451-460.) 
451. E. seriphiifolia (Salisb. Prodr. 297); erect, 1-1} ft. high ; 
branches straight and subvirgate, or spreading, subcorymbose or 
fastigiate ; leaves mostly 4-nate or sometimes scattered, erect, imbri- 
cate, usually strongly incurved, more rarely straight, linear, acute, 
glabrous, mostly 1-14 (rarely 2) lin. long; flowers mostly axillary, 
generally some also terminal, in dense clusters as if capitate at the 
ends of the branches, corolline ; pedicels slender, floccose (as in H. 
cubica), 2-4 lin. long; bracts remote, linear-spathulate, about 1 lin. 
long ; sepals ovate or lanceolate and acute, or sometimes obovate and 
retuse with a produced keel-point, often deeply concave, rigid, sub- 
scarious, coloured, 3—% lin. long, reaching 2—1 the height of the 
corolla; corolla obconic or sometimes somewhat funnel-shaped, 
bright red or crimson, 14—1% lin. long ; segments continuous, ovate, 
rounded or subacute, from } the length of the tube to a little longer 
than it ; anthers included, longitudinally semiovate, acute, the cell 
produced beyond the pore for }—2 the length of the latter, papillose, 
hispidulous or nearly glabrous, dark-coloured, about + lin. long; 
pore from i—2 the length of the cell; style well-exserted, very 
slender ; stigma subsimple ; ovary globular, glabrous, small. Salisb. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 688. £. 
cubica, var. minor, Andr. Heathery, t. 15; and Col, Heaths, t. 84. 
E. cubica, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 31, ace. to Salish. and also Rach. 
EH. bella, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 197, acc. to Benth. E. incurva, 
Thunb, Prodr. 188, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 359% not of Wendl. 
nor of Andr. LE. inflexa, Pers. Syn. i. 428? 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thwnberg, Drége, 7772! 77831 and culti- 
vated specimens ! 
Coast Recion: Riversdale Div.; near Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7150! George 
Div.; Outeniqualand, Niven, 105! Montagu Pass, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 2270! 
Guthrie in Herb. Bolus, 8675! Knysna Div.; near Plettenberg Bay, Bowie! 
Burchell, 5878! mountains near Millwood, 2000 ft., Tyson in MacOwan, Herb. 
Austr.-Afr., 1496! Uniondale Div.; Long Kloof, Ecklon ¥ Zeyher, 211! Uiten- 
hage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, Burchell, 4692 ! 
452. E. cubica (Linn. Diss. Erica, 45); erect, 1-12 ft. or more 
high; branches straight and subvirgate or spreading, subcorymbose 
and fastigiate, glabrous, pallid or dark, with more or less prominent, 
sometimes decurrent, leaf-cushions ; leaves 4-nate or scattered (or 
sometimes apparently 3-nate), very variable in size and setting, from 
2-5 lin. long, the shorter erect, crowded, imbricate, strongly incurved, 
the longer either straighter, erect and imbrieate, or incurved and 
squarrose, all linear, acute, sulcate, glabrous; flowers terminal and 
axillary, densely umbellate at the ends of the branches, corolline ; 
pedicels slender, floccose with minute distantly-branched or sub- 
plumose hairs, 2-9 lin. long; bracts 2 only (? always), remote, linear- 
spathulate, foliaceous, about 14-2} lin. long; sepals narrow-lanceo- 
late, lanceolate, ovate, obovate or suborbicular, aeute, acuminate, 
keeled or sometimes retuse with an excurrent keel-tip, occasionally 
