408 ERICACEm® (Brown). [ Seyphogyne. 
viscid pubescenee or sometimes puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect or 
spreading, 21-11 lin. long including the petiole, }—} lin. broad, 
linear, often with a sessile gland at the obtuse apex, glabrous or 
with a slight pubeseence on the upper side, often viscid, with or 
without a minute ciliation or a few long more or less gland-tipped 
hairs on the margins; flowers axillary or in clusters of 3-6 at the 
tips of exceedingly short (rarely elongated) axillary branchlets, sub- 
sessile or minutely pedicellate ; calyx 12 lin. long, obconic, un- 
equally or subequally 4-toothed, 4-angled, pubescent ; teeth about 
1 as long as the tube, erect, ovate, obtuse or acute, sometimes tipped 
with a sessile gland, ciliate, one usually larger or smaller than the 
rest ; corolla 2—% lin. long, obconic, hyaline, quite glabrous ; 
lobes subquadrate or rounded, subtruncate, minutely erose or denticu- 
late, but not ciliate, white ; stamens 4, free at maturity, all connate 
in young flowers, very deciduous; filamemts } lin. long, glabrous ; 
anthers half-exserted, 1 lin. long, + lin. broad at the broadly notched 
apex, cuneate, rarely with, usually without, minute subsessile glands 
along the margin of the notch; ovary sessile, ovoid, pubescent 
- round the top; style + lin. long, glabrous, terminated by a large 
broadly funnel-shaped or saucer-shaped stigma, equalling or just 
exceeding the anthers, 1—2 lin. in diam., deciduous. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 709. 8. muscosa, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 568 under Erica 
albens, Thunb. Erica albens, Thunb. Prodr. Cap. 70, not of Linn. 
Ei. albida, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Sehultes, 347 partly (sheet a, Herb. 
Thunb. !). Omphalocaryon muscosum, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 
243; Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 792. Bleria muscosa, Ait. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 1. i. 150, and ed. 2, i. 249; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 630; Roem. § 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 169; Dietr. Synop. Pl. i. 444 ; Klotzsch in 
Linnxa, viii. 665. B. mucosa, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 804. B. 
albida, Thunb. Diss. Bleria, 9. B. pusilla, Wendl. Collect. iii. 
13, ¢. 79. 
Var. 8, glabriflora (N. E. Br.); calyx glabrous, minutely ciliate on the 
lobes ; corolla-lobes erose-denticulate or subentire, not ciliate ; otherwise as in 
the type. Omphalocaryon muscosum, var. glabrum, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 
Var. 7, ciliata (N. E. Br.); calyx glabrous or more or less pubescent on the 
angles, distinctly ciliate on the lobes, corolla-lobes ciliate ; otherwise as in the 
type. Erica albida, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 347 partly (sheet 8 Herb. 
Thunberg !) 
Var. 5, pubescens (N. E. Br.) ; leaves glabrous or puberulous all over ; calyx 
distinctly pubescent all over, not sharply angulate, distinctly ciliate on the 
lobes: corolla-lobes ciliate ; otherwise as in the type. 
Var. e, vestita (N. E. Br.) ; calyx and the upper part of the corolla outside 
densely pubescent ; corolla-lobes ciliate; otherwise as in the type. 
Soutn ArFrica: without locality; Var. y: Sieber, 179! Zeyher, 1121! 
Coast Reeron, from &00 to 5500 ft. : Cape Div.; on mountains, Thunberg ! 
Burchell, 617! Alewander, 23! Bolus, 3070! 4685! Wolley Dod, 893! 1008! 
3216! Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg at Sandfontein, Schlechter, 10359! mountains 
near Palmiet River, Guthrie, 4577! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, Schlechter, 7663 _ 
partly! Swellendam Div.; Zuurbraak Mountain, Galpin, 3728! Var. B: | 
Cape Div. ; Muizenberg Mountain, Bolus, 4424! George Div.; by the Maal- 
