300 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
segments continuous, broadly rounded, equal to the tube or some- 
what longer ; filaments rather broad, with a strong median nerve; 
anthers included, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate ; cell produced beyond 
the pore for about # the length of the latter, papillose, minutely 
ciliolate on the margins, fox-coloured, 3-1 lin. long, muticous ; pore 
less than } the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender; 
stigma subsimple ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Region: Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7027 ! 
454. E. humifusa (Hibbert ex Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 
332) ; erect or procumbent, 6-10 in. or more high, almost entirely 
glabrous ; branches flexuous, subglabrous, with whitish scars of leaf- 
cushions ; leaves 3-nate or opposite, erect, adpressed, somewhat 
imbrieate or about as long as the internodes, not crowded, oblong or 
elliptic, obtuse, round-backed, thickish, sulcate, smooth, 3—1 lin. 
long; flowers subeorolline ; pedicels slender, about 1 lin. long; 
braets subapproximate, imbricating the sepals but shorter, ovate or 
lanceolate, keeled, scarious, whitish, 1—* lin. long; sepals like the 
bracts, adpressed, very concave, * lin. long or a little more, not 
reaching to the top of. the corolla-tube; corolla funnel-shaped, 
veined, red or rosy, 1}—14 lin. long ; tube narrow-obconic ; segments 
more spreading, semiovate, very obtuse, from equal in length to the 
tube to twice as long; filaments slender, tapering to the apex; 
anthers included, manifest, 2-1 lin. long or more, the shorter sub- 
ovate, acute, the longer lanceolate or semilanceolate, acuminate ; 
cell produced beyond the pore for from —1 of the length of the 
latter, mutieous; pore about + the length of the cell, seabrid, 
foxy-brown ; style exserted ; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous. 
Soutn ArFRica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! procumbent on the rocks 
in shady places among the mountains, Niven, 37! 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; on the Cederberg Range, 2500 ft., 
Marloth, 2682! Worcester Div.; Matroos Berg, 5500 ft., Marloth, 2245! 
Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mulder ex Salisbury. Somerset Div. ; 
rocky places, summit of Bruintjeshoogte Mountain, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 1648! 
We have seen and examined specimens of Salisbury’s type, and of all the. 
others cited, and find them to agree fairly well. Marloth’s specimens and 
MacOwan’s have 3-nate leaves. In the others they are opposite so far as we 
have seen; but Bentham must have seen some also 3-nate. By its thin whip- 
like branches it looks distinct from any other species in the section. 
455. E. cristeflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 332); erect, 
1-2 ft. high; branches ascending, stout, puberulous; leaves erect- 
spreading, imbricate, rarely subsquarrose, linear, subobtuse, glabrous, 
rarely puberulous or canescent, glabrescent, 1-8 lin. long; flowers 
scanty or more or less densely clustered, corolline; pedicels puberu- 
lous, 1-25 lin. long; bracts laxly subapproximate, sometimes sub- 
remote, ovate, acute, keeled, scarious, coloured, rosy or pallid, 3-11 
lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger and broadly elliptic or 
suborbicular, obtuse or subacute, $~1} lin. long, mostly reaching to 
about the top of the corolla-tube; corolla very broadly obconic, 
