484 Lxxvi. EEiCACE^ (oliver). \_Ericinella. 



3. ERICINELLA, Klotzsch ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 591. 



Calyx deeply 4i-fid or 4-partite, one segment (or two) larger than 

 the rest. Corolla marcescent campannlate, 4-lobed. Stamens 4-6, 

 included or shortly exserted; anthers bifid, dehiscing by elongate 

 oblique pores, unappendaged (or aristate). Ovary 3-4-celled ; stigma 

 broadly peltate with 3-4 radiate tubercles on the disk ; ovules several 

 or numerous. Capsule globose, loculicidally 3-4-valved ; valves 

 separating from the axis. — Shrubs or small trees, with narrow verti- 

 cillate heath-like leaves. Flowers as in Erica, ebracteolate. 



A small genus chiefly of South Africa and Madagjisear. 



1. S. BXannil* Hooh.fil in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 16. A shrub of 

 8-12 ft. with- erect fastigiate branches ; extremities pnberulous and 

 with spreading short barbellate hairs. Leaves erect in whorls of 3, 

 crlabrous. Flowers small, chiefly clnstered at the extremities of short 

 fateral branchlets. Stamens 5-6 ; anthers somewhat cuneately nar- 

 rowed at the base, unappendaged, equalling the corolla. Style shortly 

 exserted. — Bot. Mag. t. 5569. 



Vpper Cainea. Cameroons Mountains, 4-12,000 ft., and Clarence Peak, Fer- 

 nando Po, 10,000 ft., Mrww.' . , ^ .^ 



Dr. Kirk sends from Mafia Island (about 9 miles from the mamland of /anguebar) 

 what is probably another species of this genus, but the flowers are not well developed. 

 It 'grows in masses, about 10 ft. in height.' Rev. C. New also collected in Kiliman- 

 jaro barren specimens of an Ericaceous shrub probably referable to this genus, as 

 also of a second, with flowers too young for satisfactory analysis, which may prove to 

 be a Philippia. 



4. BLiEKIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 592. 



Flowers 4.merous (rarely 5.merous) ; calyx 4-partite ; segments 

 equal. Corolla tubular dilated above, campanulate or globose, 4-lobed. 

 Stamens 4 ; anthers 2-lobed or 2.fid, with basal aristse or unappendaged. 

 Ovary 4-celled ; ovules indefinite ; stigma small (or large and discoid). 

 ' Capsule loculicidally 4-valved.' — Low heath-like shrubs, with alternate 

 or verticillate leaves and flowers in terminal racemes (or capitate or 

 umbellate). 



A genus of about 15 species, except the following South African. 



1. 8. Bplcata, Hochst. ; Bich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 13. Six inches to one 

 foot or more from a wiry decumbent base ; extremities more or less 

 jrlandular hirsute-pubescent. Leaves in whorls of 3 or occasionally 

 alternate, linear, or linear-lanceolate, with revolute margins sparsely 

 hirsute or glandular-ciliate. Flowers IJ to nearly 3 lines long, from 

 the upper axils, forming leafy often congested racemes. Calyx- 

 segments linear-lanceolate, ^ as long as corolla, ciHate. Anthers 

 2-lobed, each cell with a short dorsal subulate appendix at the base ; 

 pore about half the length of the anther. Stigma small, capitate.— 

 B. cooidensata, Hochst. 1. c. 



vpper Guinea. Cameroons Mountain;;, 7-10,000 ft., and summit of Clarence 

 Peak, Fernando Pu, yfann ! 



