304. grtcace® (Guthrie & Bolus). | Lrica. 
included, subulate or sublanceolate, acuminate, recurved, 1 lin. long; 
pore 1—1 the length of the cell ; style just exserted; stigma small, 
capitellate or subsimple ; ovary subconic, hispidulous. 
Coast Rrearon: Uniondale Div. ; Kouga Mountains, between Uniondale and 
Avontuur, Bolus, 2387 ! 
This is most nearly allied to HE. Passerine (§ Gamochlamys), and is @ con- 
necting link between the present and that section. It may be readily known 
from that species by its different indumentum, larger and flatter leaves, 
longer pedicels, and more deeply divided calyx. It is also related to the 
preceding. 
Section XL. GAMOCHLAMYS. (Sp. 461-466.) 
461. E. Passerine (Montin in Act. Nov. Upsal. ii. 289, t. 9, 
fig. 1) ; erect, about 2 ft. high, tomentose in the upper part, glab- 
rescent below ; branches, leaves, pedieels, bracts, sepals and ovary, 
but especially the sepals, uniformly covered with a short closely- 
matted white tomentum; leaves ovate to elliptic, obtuse, thick, 
deeply sulcate, or sometimes subopen-backed, at length glabrescent, 
1-14 lin. long; flowers on very short lateral branchlets, solitary or in 
pairs, erect or pendulous, from subcorolline to subcalycine ; pedicels 
2 lin. long; bracts remote, subbasal, small; sepals more or less 
united at the base, ovate, about $ the length of the corolla, 14 lin. 
long; corolla cyathiform, mouth searcely widened or contracted 
(“‘red,” Thunberg), 3 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, }—} the 
length of the tube ; filaments short and rather broad, less than 3 the 
length of the anther; anthers subulate, acute, recurved, about 3 lin. 
long; pore 1-1} the length of the cell; style included; stigma 
capitellate, very small; ovary conical, densely tomentose. Linn. f. 
Suppl. 221; Thunb. Diss. Erica, 18; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
681. LE. passerinefolia, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 332. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Paterson! Miss Cummings in 
Herb. Bolus, 9286! 
Coast Reeion: Uniondale Div.; Long Kloof, Masson, 63 ! 
Closely allied to the two preceding species (HZ. nervata and 2. trachysantha) 
all being distinct in the genus. It is also noteworthy that all inhabit the same 
general region, so far as their habitat is known to us. 
462. E. melanthera (Linn. Diss. Hrica, n. 37; Mant. Alt. 232, 
not of Lodd.); erect, about 1-2 ft. (acc, to Niven, 5-6 ft.) high; 
branches ascending or widely spreading, pubescent ; leaves mostly 
spreading, more rarely squarrose, from linear to oval, blunt, thick, 
suleate, minutely tuberculate-hispid or glabrous, at length usually 
glossy, 1—2 lin. long ; flowers generally abundant, corolline ; pedicels 
puberulous, 1-2 lin. long ; bracts from subremote to subapproximate, 
linear, small, sometimes larger and somewhat imbricating the calyx ; 
calyx obconic, 4-cleft, puberulous or glabrous, keeled throughout or 
only keel-tipped, coloured, about 1 lin. long ; segments reniform or 
obcuneate, apiculate, as long as the tube or somewhat longer 
