Blezria.] ERICACEA (Brown). 325 
11. B. affinis (N. E. Br.) ; branchlets slender, compactly sub- 
erect, pubescent, greyish ; leaves 4-nate, and including the petiole 
4-11 lin. long, 1—} lin, broad, imbricate or slightly spreading, ovate 
to linear, acute or obtuse, pubescent with rather long spreading hairs 
and glandular ; petiole half as long as the blade; umbels terminal, 
head-like, 6-9-flowered, about 2 lin. in diam.; pedicels 3—} lin. 
long, villous-pubescent ; bracts 3, adpressed to the calyx, equal or 
unequal, 2—2 lin. long, linear, obtuse, ciliate with glands and long 
hairs; sepals free, 4 lin. long, } lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
subobtuse, ciliate like the braets; corolla about 1 lin. long, 3 lin. in 
diam., campanulate, not very distinctly 4-angled in the dried state, 
glabrous, apparently pink ; lobes scarcely } lin. long, broadly rounded, 
erect or slightly recurved at the tips; stamens 4; anthers exserted, 
4 lin. long, oblong, rounded in to the filament at the base, spurless ; 
ovary subglobose, 4-angled, glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell; style 
much exserted, 13-2 lin. long; stigma simple. 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; mountains near Vogel Gat, near the mouth of 
the Klein River, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 10418! 
This differs from B. ericoides not only in its smaller flower-heads, but the 
branchlets are more erect and, including the spread of the leaves, are only 
3-1 lin. in diam., whilst in B. ericoides they are usually 14-3 lin. in diam., and 
are generally divergent, sometimes very widely so. 
12. B. ericoides (Linn, Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 112); branchlets more or 
less diverging, at least at their base, villous or villous-pubescent ; 
leaves 4-nate, imbricate or spreading, and including the petiole {-2{ 
lin, long, linear or oblong-linear, obtuse or subacute, pubescent with 
rather long spreading hairs often mingled with minute glands ; 
umbels head-like, terminal, 6-12-flowered, dense, usually 3-4 lin. in 
diam. ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, pubescent; bracts 3, usually unequal, 
adpressed to the calyx, 1-1 lin. long, linear, obtuse, villous-ciliate ; 
sepals free, 1—2 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, subacute, villous and 
minutely glandular; corolla 13-12 lin. long, $ lin. in diam., tubular- 
campanulate, 4-angled at the basal part, glabrous, purple ; lobes 1-1 
lin, long, broadly rounded, erect or slightly spreading, with slightly 
recurved margins; stamens 4; anthers exserted, 3—-{ lin. long, 
oblong, divided almost to the base, spurless, glabrous or very minutely 
scabrid; ovary 4-angled, glabrous; cells 2-4-ovuled ; style much 
exserted, 13-2 lin. long, slightly enlarged at the simple stigma. 
Thunb. Diss. Bleria,7; Wendl. Collect. i. 73, t. 25; Wolld. Sp. Pl. 
i. 629; Ast. Hort. Kew. ed.1,i. 149; Roem. § Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 
168, and Mant. 106; Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 649; Klotzsch im Linnea, 
viii. 663, and xii. 222; Rach in Linnwa, xxvi. 788 ; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iii. 804; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 698. B. Jasciculata, 
Sieb., § B. scabra, Drege ex Benth. 1c. B. rubra, Hort. ex Steud. 
Nomenel. Bot. ed.2, i. 208. Blairia ericoides, Dietr. Syn. Pl. 1.444. 
Erica Bleria, Thunb. Prodr. 72, and Fl. Cap. ed, Schultes, 358. FE. 
dumosa, Salisb. Prodr. 296, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 341, not of 
Andr, EE. orbicularis, Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 153. 
