346 ERICACE (Brown). [ Grosebachia. 
hairs, soon becoming glabrous and smooth on the back and serru- 
late on the margins; heads globose, terminal, 3-5 lin. in 
diam., usually 6—12-flowered ; pedicels 1-1 lin. long; bracts ad- 
pressed to the calyx, the larger 3-11 lin. long, linear-oblong, lanceo- 
late or oblanceolate, acute, ciliate with long hispid hairs; calyx 
about 1 lin. long, eampanulate, aeutely 4-angled, lobed to the middle, 
rather rigid; lobes +—2 lin. broad, ovate or broadly deltoid, acute, 
ciliate with long hispid hairs, which are occasionally gland-tipped, 
and usually with some similar hairs on the back; corolla 13 lin. 
long ; tube constricted above the middle, sharply 4-angled and some- 
what obovoid below the constriction, puberulous outside, pubescent 
within at the constriction; lobes 4 lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, 
concave, incurved-erect, glabrous ; stamens not exceeding the corolla- 
lobes; filaments hairy ; anthers } lin. long, scabrous, without spurs; 
ovary compressed-oblong, obtuse, glabrous ; style exserted, 13—2+ lin. 
long; stigma small, thickened or capitate. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
701. Erica nodiflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 340, ex 
Benth. E. capitata, Salisb. Prodr. 293. Blaria nodiflora, G. 
Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 805; Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 246. 
Var. B, serrulata (N. E. Br.); anthers with curved awn-like spurs on the 
back, just below the middle, otherwise as in the type. G. serrulata, Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 701. 
Var. y, seabra (N. E. Br.); young leaves beset with long slightly hispid 
hairs on the back, which fall away so that the leaf becomes scabrous with 
age. 
Soutu Arrica: without locality ; Paterson! Var. 8: Drége, 7802! Var. y: 
Thom! 
Coast Ree@ion: Clanwilliam Div.; Oliphants River Mountains, 2000 ft., 
Schlechter, 5099! Malmesbury Div.; Saurevelder, near Hopefield, Bachmann ! 
Paarl Div.; between Mosselbanks River and Berg River, Burchell, 981! Cape 
Diy. ; Cape Flats, near Doornhoogte, Ecklon §° Zeyher, and Drége, ex Klotzsch. 
Var. 8: Malmesbury Div. ; near Groene Kloof (Mamre), Bolus, 4242! 
15. G. pilifolia (N. E. Br.) ; branchlets pubescent; leaves 3-nate, 
adpressed-imbricate, 1-13 lin. long with the petiole, linear-oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, or the smaller sometimes ovate, obtuse, rather thin 
and flatter than in other species, most minutely puberulous all over 
and thinly beset on the back and margins with long simple or slightly 
hispid hairs; heads globose, terminal, 3-1 in. in diam., 9-flowered 
in the specimen seen ; pedicels 3 lin. long, bracteate at the middle; 
bracts unequal, adpressed to the calyx, the larger % lin. long, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, the lateral smaller, lanceolate, semitransparent, 
with green tips, glabrous, ciliate with long hairs which are simple or 
branched at their tips ; calyx campanulate, nearly 1 lin. long, 4-lobed 
to the middle, rather thin and semitransparent ; tube 4-angled, 
glabrous; lobes 4—1 lin. broad, ovate, acute, ciliate with simple hairs 
2 Jin, long, and usually with a line of short hairs down the back ; 
corolla-tube 1 lin. long, constricted near the top, quadrangular- 
obovoid below the constriction, puberulous outside and at the con- 
striction within ; lobes } lin. long, ovate, obtuse, concave, erect, 
