402 ERICACE® (Brown). | Salaais. 
long, broader than long; corolla 4-% lin. 
long; stamens 8 or occasionally 6 in 8. 
axillaris : 
Upper part of the ovary and underside of 
the stigma quite glabrous : 
Ovary with several longitudinal ridges 
on the upper part, which are but 
faint on the compressed or obscurely 
3-4-angled fruit... nae . 
Ovary acutely and fruit distinctly 
3-4-angled on the upper part ... (5) octandra. 
Upper part of the ovary very minutely and 
not very distinctly scabrid-puberulous ; 
(4) axillaris. 
stigma glabrous ... i vik ... (6) Sieberi. 
Upper part of the ovary distinctly puberu- 
lous; stigma glabrous or in var. B, 
puberulous on the underside... ... (7) flexuosa. 
1. 8. puberula (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 212); apparently about 
1 ft. high or less, compactly branched ; branehlets erect, flexuose, 
puberulous; leaves 3-nate, usually erect or imbricate, spreading 
where there are flowers or young shoots in their axils, 11—24 lin. 
long, linear, acute, glabrous; flowers 1-3 together, axillary and 
terminal, subsessile ; calyx (excluding the larger lobe) }—} lin. long, 
shorter than the corolla-tube, lobed to half-way down, puberulous ; 
corolla 2—8 lin, long, eup-shaped, puberulous, green ; stamens 8 ; 
filaments 1—2 as long as the anthers, sometimes broken off shorter in 
fruit, at first more or less connate to half-way up or beyond, becom- 
ing separated in fruit and narrower at the apex than the base of the 
1-2 Jin. long ovate-oblong or oblong anthers; ovary distinctly 
puberulous, 2-celled; style very short; stigma with a funnel-shaped 
base and erect sides to the cup, 3 as deep as its breadth, puberulous 
on the underside ; fruit somewhat compressed or subglobose, puberu- 
lous on the upper half, slightly reticulately wrinkled below. Benth. 
in DC. Prodr, vii. 711 ; Dietr. Synop. Pl. ii. 1261. 
Coast Region: Caledon Div. ; mountains near the Palmiet River or Steen- 
brass River, Ecklon § Zeyher! Hermanus, 300 ft , Guthrie, 4139! 
2. §. pumila (N. E. Br.); plant (excluding the root) 3-5 in. 
high and 2-3 in. in diam.; branchlets short, spreading at the base, 
then eurved upwards, rather stout for the size of the plant, glabrous, 
greyish, becoming rough from the bark breaking up into small 
rectangular flakes,; leaves 3-nate, ereetly imbricate, 3-1 lin. long, 
oblong or linear-oblong, subobtuse, glabrous; flowers 1-3 together 
in small terminal heads, subsessile; calyx about } lin. long, broadly 
and shallowly obconic, as long as the corolla-tube, lobed to half-way 
down, glabrous; lobes ovate, obtuse or the larger one acute, not 
ciliate; corolla rather more than 2 lin. long, $-1 lin. in diam., 
broadly cup-shaped, glabrous; stamens 6; filaments very broad, 
connate below or almost up to the anthers and at least half as long 
as them; anthers about 4 lin. long and broad, cuneately subquadrate ; 
ovary broader than long, angular at the middle and with 2-4 rather 
