Philippia.] ERICACEX (Brown). 317 
iS — Recion : Natal; near Ulundi, 5000-6000 ft., Evans, 62! in Herb. 
olus, 
3. P. Chamissonis (Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 856); a large shrub 
(tree, ex Niven); branchlets densely crowded, erect or ascending, 
densely white-puberulous with minute deflexed hairs ; leaves 3-nate, 
crowded, imbricately adpressed, 3-14 lin. long, linear, obtuse, flat, 
with a raised midrib above, glabrous and smooth or minutely scabrid, 
often with wrinkled sides in the dried state, subentire or very 
minutely scabrid on the margins; flowers in terminal clusters of 
3-7; pedicels } lin, long, glabrous; calyx-lobes coriaceous, the 
larger about }—% lin. long, 3 lin. broad, very broadly ovate, obtusely 
pointed, slightly grooved down the back towards apex, glabrous 
or minutely scabrid; corolla campanulate-globose, glabrous ; tube 
2 lin. long; lobes 4 lin. long, rounded or broadly ovate, obtuse ; 
stamens as long as the corolla or slightly exserted ; filaments connate ; 
anthers 1—2 lin. long, bifid to }-way down, connate below; ovary 
globose, glabrous; style shortly exserted, 4-1 lin. long; stigma 
% lin. in diam., crater-like, with or without 4 small papille or larger 
radiating processes at the bottom of the cup. Klotzsch in Linnwa, 
xii. 213; Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 788; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
695. Hrica virgata, var. 8, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 19. E. absinth- 
oides, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 349. EH. tristis, Bartl. in 
Linnea, vii. 643; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 691. E. cupressifolia, 
Wendl. ex Klotzsch, l.c. 213. 
Sovurn ArFrica: without locality, Thwnberg! Chamisso (ex Klotzsch), 
Mace! Roxburgh! Ecklon 5 Zeyher! Burchell, seed 1808! and cultivated 
specimen ! - 
Coast Reeion: Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Guthrie, 1164! Table Mountain, 
Niven, 218! Harvey! Camps Bay, Burchell, 848! Fish Hoek, Niven, 90! 
Muizen Berg, 400 ft., Bolus, 4477! Caledon Div.; Hot springs near Caledon, 
Ecklon! 
4. P. tristis (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 187) ; branchlets 
crowded, subparallel, covered with a minute dense white tomentum, 
becoming brown and glabrous ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, }—11 lin. 
long, linear, obtuse, glabrous, very minutely denticulate ; flowers 2-3 
in a cluster, lateral and terminal; pedicels 1—} lin. long, glabrous ; 
calyx-lobes subequal, subcoriaceous, 1—1 lin. long, + lin. broad, ovate, 
obtuse, glabrous, minutely ciliate ; corolla about 3 lin. long and the 
same in diam., subglobose-campanulate ; lobes about } lin. long and 
broad, broadly ovate, obtuse ; stamens about as long as the corolla ; 
filaments nearly + lin. long, adnate to the bottom of the corolla and 
some of them sometimes connate for half their length, free above ; 
anthers 1 lin. long, bifid to nearly half-way down, cohering at the 
middle, becoming free when in fruit; ovary globose, 4-grooved, 
glabrous ; style 3 lin. long, shortly exserted; stigma 3-3 lin. in 
diam., funnel-shaped, with ineurved margin or crater-like; seeds 
usually solitary in each cell. 
CyentraL Recion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; Koudveld Mountains, 4500 ft., 
Bolus, 2594! wie 
