Bleria.] ERICACEZ (Brown). 321 
very obtuse, spreading; stamens 4, exserted ; anthers 2 lin. long, 
oblong, with nearly parallel sides down to the spurs, black or dark 
brown, smooth, with scabrid basal spurs, 3-1 lin. long; ovary 
oblong, 4-angled, puberulous, with 2-3 ovules in each eell; style 
exserted beyond the anthers, 11—2 lin. long; stigma simple. Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 697. Erica sagittata, Klotzsch ex Benth. 
ie DC. Prodr. vii. 681. Blairia fuscescens, Dietr. Syn. Pl. i, 
3. 
Soutn ArFRicA: without precise locality, Reeves! Miller! Mund & 
Maire! 
Coast Reeton : George Div.; on Cradock Berg (Post Berg), near George, 
Burchell, 5910! Prior! Galpin, 83717! Knysna Div. ; Zitzikamma, Pappe / 
Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstaden Berg, Drége, ex Bentham. 
The type of Erica sagittata, Klotzsch, in the Berlin Herbarium has been 
examined by Dr. H. Bolus, who informs me that there is only a single imperfect 
flower upon the specimen, but that there can be no doubt of its identity with 
Bleria fuscescens, Klotzsch. 
3. B. fastigiata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 697) ; an erect shrub, 
about 2 ft. high, densely much branched ; branchlets short, crowded 
along the primary and secondary branches in a dense spike-like 
manner, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, crowded, 3—1 lin. long, linear, 
obtuse, finely puberulous, ineurved-spreading, with short adpressed 
petioles; umbels 2—6-flowered, terminating the short lateral branch- 
lets, and forming paniculate or racemiform masses ; pedicels {—1 lin. 
long, puberulous; bracts seated below the middle of the pedicel, 
upper pair very minute; sepals free, 1-2 lin. long, linear, obtuse, 
puberulous ; corolla 11-14 lin. long, tubular, 4-angled, puberulous ; 
lobes very short, rounded, erect ; stamens 4, exserted ; anthers 3 lin. 
long, linear-oblong, sides parallel down to the spurs, minutely 
scabrid, with slightly diverging basal spurs nearly half as long as 
the cells ; ovary narrowly obovoid, 4-angled, puberulous at the top; 
ovules about 2 in each cell; style 13—2 lin. long, exserted. 
Coast Rraion : Swellendam Div.; summit of a mountain peak near Swel- 
lendam, Burchell, 7331! mountains near Swellendam, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 
1671! 
4. B. coccinea (Klotzsch in Linnea, viii. 657); a shrub, 3-4 ft. 
high (Masson) ; branchlets erect, crowded, at first pilose, becoming 
glabrous ; leaves 8-nate, 14-12 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
obtuse, margins and tips thinly beset with long white hairs, 
at least when young, minutely greyish-puberulous beneath ; 
umbels 2-G6-flowered, terminal on very short racemosely arranged 
branchlets ; pedicels 2-1 lin. long, puberulous, bracteate at or below 
the middle; bracts minute, linear-subulate, fringed or tipped with 
a few long hairs; sepals free, 3-3 lin. long, linear or lanceolate, 
coriaceous, minutely puberulous, fringed with long white hairs ; 
corolla 12 lin. long, * lin, in diam., tubular, 4-angled, minutely 
puberulous, red ; Jobes erect, 3 lin. long, rounded ; stamens 4, shortly 
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