Bleria.] ERICACER (Brown), 323 
Coast Ree@ion: Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 2500 ft., 
Bolus, 5417! and in Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 611! by the Steenbrass River, 
Niven, 6! 7! 
7. B. purpurea (Linn. f. Suppl. 122); dwarf, densely much 
branched ; branches somewhat trigonous, glabrous ; leaves 3-nate, 
adpressed or imbricate, 1-12 lin. long, 1-1 lin. broad, oblong or 
linear-oblong, obtuse, very shortly petiolate, minutely ciliolate or 
slightly scabrid on the margins, otherwise glabrous; umbels 
terminal, 3—-9-flowered ; pedicels 1-11 lin. long, glabrous, bracteate 
near the middle ; bracts 1-2 lin. long, linear or the lower enlarged 
upwards, glabrous, minutely ciliate ; calyx about } lin. long, 4-lobed 
to below the middle, rigid, glabrous, minutely ciliate and sometimes 
with glands on the margins of the oblong, lanceolate or deltoid, acute 
or obtuse lobes ; corolla 12 (very rarely 13-2) lin. long, 2—1 lin, in 
diam., tubular, 4-angled, very shortly 4-lobed, glabrous, bright rosy 
purple ; lobes erect, rounded, broader than long; stamens 4; anthers 
partly exserted, } lin. long, bipartite nearly to the base, oblong, 
with subparallel sides, not constricted above the short subparallel or 
slightly divergent spurs, scabrid, dark brown or blackish, deciduous ; 
ovary 4-angled, glabrous; ovules 3-4 in each eell; style 12—2 lin. 
long, dilated at the base and articulated to the ovary, much exserted, 
slightly thickened at the apex ; stigma simple. Murray, Syst. Veg. 
ed. 14, 154; Thunb. Diss. Bleria, 8; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 630; Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2,1. 249; Roem. § Schult. Syst. Veg. iii, 169, and 
Mant. 107 ; Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 650; Klotasch in Linnea, viii. 658, 
and xii. 221; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 804; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
698 (excluding synonyms B. dumosa, Wendl., and Erica dumosa, 
Salisb.); Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 788. B. jucunda, Reichb. ex 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 698. B. equisetifolia, G. Don, Gen. Syst. 
ili, 805. Blairia purpurea, Dietr. Syn. Pl.i. 443. Erica purpurea, 
Thunb. Prodr. 71, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 356. EH. equisetifolia, 
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 342. 
Sourn Arrrca: without locality, Sieber, 153! 165! Herb. Salisbury! 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Thunberg ! Guthrie, 1166! 
Burchell, 552! mountains near Muizenberg, Burke ! Stellenbosch Div. 3 Lowrys 
Bass, Burchell, 8261! Caledon Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, near 
Steenbrass River, Bolus, 5420! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 43! Houw 
Hoek, Schlechter, 9420! Galpin, 3718! mountains near Genadendal, Schlechter, 
9834! Drége. 
8. B. dumosa (Wendl. Collect. ii. 3, t. 38); in habit, foliage and 
inflorescence exactly as in B. purpurea, but differing as follows :— 
corolla 11-12 lin. long, tubular, 4-angled, rosy-purple ; anthers 
divided for 2 of their length, distinctly narrowed or constricted at 
the base above the short divergent spurs and about half as broad at 
that part as at the apex. Roem. § Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 170; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 805. 
Var. B, i . E. Br.); corolla 1-1} lin. long, campanulate, 4-angled, 
purple 3 eae a . - — B. mae Drége ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 698, under B, campanulata. ; 
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