342 ERICACE® (Brown). | Giisebachia. 
ovoid and sharply 4-angled below the constriction, cup-shaped above 
it, more or less puberulous outside and at the constriction within ; 
lobes 2—1 lin. long, broadly ovate or rounded, concave, erect, glabrous ; 
anthers 2 lin. long, cuneate-subquadrate, minutely scabrous, densely 
ciliate or somewhat hispid around the inner margins, spurless; ovary 
obtuse, glabrous; style 23 lin. long, much exserted, glabrous ; stigma 
thickened, searcely capitate. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 701. rica 
cilicitflora, Salish, in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 339, ex Benth. Lc. 
Bleria ciliciiflora, G. Don, Gen, Syst, iii, 805; Klotzsch in Linnea, 
xii. 246, 
South Arrica: without locality (distributed as Erica lanata, Wendl.), 
Drége! 
Coast Rzeion: Clanwilliam Div. ; between Twenty-four Rivers and Oiiphants 
River (between Lange Valley and Oliphants River, ex Drége), Drége ex Klotzsch ; 
near Clanwilliam, Mader, 181! Leipoldt, 218! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots 
Holland, Masson ex Salisbury, but locality doubtful. 
Probably Schlechter, 5127 from Alexanders Hoek in Clanwilliam Div. also 
‘belongs here, but the flowers are not fully developed. 
7. G. dregeana (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 701); branchlets 
whitish-pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed or imbricate, $—1+ lin. 
long, linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, whitish-pubescent or sub- 
tomentose with minute subwoolly hairs, becoming glabrous on 
the back; heads terminal, about 3-6-flowered; pedicels bracteate 
above and below the middle, pubescent; bracts spreading or 
the upper applied to the calyx, 2-8 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, 
obtuse, ciliate with hispid hairs; calyx 4-partite; segments 1 lin. 
long, } lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute, hairy on the back and 
ciliate with simple or slightly hispid hairs, 1—1 lin. long; corolla- 
tube 13 lin. long, constricted above the middle, ellipsoid or sub- 
globose and sharply 4-angled below the constriction, pubescent out- 
side and at the constricticn within; lobes 1 lin. long, ovate, obtuse, 
concave, incurved-eonnivent, glabrous ; anthers 3 lin. long, cuneate- 
subquadrate, scabrous, spurless ; ovary obtuse, glabrous ; style 12 lin. 
long ; stigma small, capitate. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7803! distributed as a ‘‘ Blairia.” 
8. G. zeyheriana (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 227); branchlets 
glabrous or glandular-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, adpressed-imbri- 
cate, $—1 lin. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, with 4-6 sessile glands 
on each margin, otherwise glabrous, but apparently somewhat 
viscid ; heads globose, terminal, 1-1 in. in diam., 4—G6-flowered ; 
pedicels }—% lin. long, bracteate at or below the middle; bracts 
erect, with their tips applied to the calyx, 2—3 lin. long, subequal 
and linear-oblong or lanceolate or the middle one broader and 
ovate, thickened and leafy at the tips, glabrous, ciliate with 
long simple or slightly hispid hairs; calyx 4-partite; segments 
¢ lin. long, 4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, ciliate with simple 
or slightly hispid hairs $ lin. long, and with a few similar 
