Erica. ] ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). 303 
the uppermost one only imbricating the sepals, lax and somewhat 
spreading, ovate, acute, complicate, keeled, membranous, pallid, 
about 14 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger and flatter, 
broad-ovate or suborbicular, imbricate above the base, 12 lin. long, by 
1; lin. wide, reaching a little beyond the top of the corolla-tube; 
corolla broad-cyathiform, 2 lin. long; segments erect, broadly 
rounded, about 2 the length of the tube; anthers included, sub- 
cuneate, acute, scaberulous or roughly papillose, nearly black, & lin. 
long ; pore about + the length of the cell, placed in the middle of the 
cell ; style slender, exserted ; stigma minute, obconie or ‘subsimple ; 
ovary puberulous. 
Coast Reeion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Gill! in Herb. Kew. 
459. E. nervata (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches hirsute (1 lin. in 
diam. in our small specimen), the lower parts covered with the 
persistent short stumps of old flowering branchlets, the upper densely 
leafy; leaves erect, rigid, strongly ineurved, crowded, imbricate, 
axils gemmiferous, broad-lanceolate, acute, from deeply suleate to 
open-backed, the revolute margins flat and wide, long-ciliate, the 
younger hispid, glabrescent, pallid, 14-2 lin. long; flowers terminal 
on very short arrested branchlets and thus appearing axillary, 
solitary, subcorojline; pedicels woolly with longish white hairs, 
2-25 lin. long; bracts remote, basal, minute; sepals incurved, 
broad-ovate or suborbicular, shortly acute, very concave, cartilaginous, 
rigid, with about 9 distinct parallel nerves, ciliate, pale rosy, about 
1 lin. long or a little more, not reaching to the top of the corolla- 
tube; corolla broad-cyathiform, red, 22 lin. long; segments con- 
tinuous with the tube, subereet, broad-ovate, about equal to it in 
length ; filaments rigid, shorter than the anther ; anthers included, 
longitudinally semilanceolate, acute, the cell produced beyond the 
pore for about 2 the length of the latter, scaberulous, dark-coloured, 
s lin. long, muticous; pore about 3 the length of the cell; style 
included ; stigma subsimple ; ovary densely woolly. 
Coast Region: Oudtshoorn Div.; grassy places, Zwarteberg Pass, 4900 ft., 
Marloth, 2409! ; 
460. E. trachysantha (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Svc. xxiv. 184) ; 
erect, rather slender, not much branched, under 1 ft. high ; branches 
(except in the lowest parts), under surface of the leaves, pedicels and 
especially the sepals, densely hirsute with shaggy dirty-white hairs ; 
leaves crowded, fasciculate in tufts, shorter or a little longer than 
the internodes, erect-incurved, ovate-lanceolate, acute, open-backed, 
with reflexed wide flattish margins, subglabrous on the upper surface, 
2-2; lin. long ; flowers mostly solitary on short branchlets, spreading, 
erect or cernuous, calycine ; pedicels 4-65 lin. long ; bracts remote, 
basal, very small ; sepals slightly united at the base, ovate, acute, 
13-2 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, nearly equal at the mouth, 2-23 
lin, long; segments equal to or a little longer than the tube ; anthers 
