326 ERICACEX (Brown). | Bleria. 
South Africa: without locality, Sieber, 172! Drege! Bergius, Lichten- 
stein, Chamisso §¥ Mund (ex Klotasch). 
Coast Rrecion: Malmesbury Div.; Mamre, Baur, 1173! Cape Div.; near 
Cape Town and surrounding neighbourhood, Thunberg ! Burchell, 846! Ecklon, 
91! 297! Zeyher, 1118! 1118b! Prior! Bolus, 4517! Simons Town, Mrs. 
Jameson! Wolley Dod, 2409! 2411! Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 
8248! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 7554! Guthrie, 2283! 
Vogel Gat, Schlechter, 10401 ! 
13. B. revoluta (Bartl. in Linneza, vii. 650); plant 6-12 in. 
high, viseid and pilose on the branches, leaves and bracts; leaves 
4-nate or irregular, varying from ascending or imbricate to recurving, 
11-22 lin. long, 1-1 lin. broad, linear, obtuse ; flowers 6-12 in dense 
terminal subglobose clusters; pedicels 1~—2 lin. long; bracts 3, 
adpressed to the calyx, unequal, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 
narrowed at the base into rather long curved petioles, glandular and 
villous with white hairs whieh are usually longer than those on the 
other parts; middle bract larger than the rest, 11-2 lin. long; sepals 
free, 1-1 lin. long, linear or tapering from the base, acute, ciliate 
with very viscid glands, but without hairs; corolla rosy-purple ; 
tube 2 lin. long, 4-angled, glabrous; lobes + lin. long, rounded, 
recurved or very spreading; stamens 4; anthers exserted, about 
1-12 lin. long, oblong-linear, spurless at the very shortly subcuneate 
base; ovary ellipsoid, obtuse, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous ; ovules 
3-4 in each cell ; style exserted, 21—2+ lin. long, dilated at the base ; 
stigma simple. Klotzsch in Linnea, viii. 668, and xii. 222; Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 698. B. barbigera, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 805 ; 
Klotzsch in Linnexa, xii. 246, and Erica barbigera, Salish. in Trans. 
Linn. vee vi. 341, ex Benth. lc. Blairia revoluta, Dietr. Syn. 
Pl. i. 444. 
Coast Reeion : Caledon Div. ; moist shady places at the mouth of the Klein 
River, Zeyher, 3317! Klein River Mountains, Ecklon §° Zeyher! near Hang- 
lip, Guthrie in Herb. Bolus, 6890! near Hermanus, Galpin, 3722! Guthrie, 
4116! 
14. B. kraussiana (Klotzsch ex Walpers, Rep. Bot. ii. 728); 
plant dwarf, somewhat thinly pilose on the branches, leaves and calyx 
with fine short spreading hairs, those on the calyx much longer ; leaves 
4-nate, 3-11 lin. long with the petiole, incurved-erect, linear or linear- 
oblong, subobtuse, minutely rugose in the dried state; umbels globose, 
head-like, nodding, about 4 lin. in diam. ; pedicels 4 lin. long, form-~ 
ing nearly a right angle with the calyx, pilose; bracts 3, close to the 
calyx and all on one side of it, 1—8 lin. long, narrowly linear, obtuse, 
glandular and pilose ; sepals free, 3 lin. long, + lin. broad at the base, 
lanceolate, acute, glandular.and pilose ; corolla tubular, apparently 
pink, glabrous ; tube 14 lin. long, 4-angled; lobes nearly 3 lin. long and 
about as broad, spreading, with slightly recurved tips, broadly ovate, 
obtuse ; stamens 4, exserted ; anthers nearly 1 lin. long, linear-oblong, 
with subparallel sides down to the parallel basal spurs, minutely punc- 
tate ; spurs about 1 as long as the anther; ovary globose-quadrangular, 
