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Fruticulus ramosus, 30-40 cm., altus vel ultra; rami cum ramulis 
adscendentes foliosi puberuli, apice florigeri ; folia inferiora erecto- 
patentia, superiora erecta dense imbricata 3-na subulata subobtusa, dorso 
sulcata glabra levia nitida crassa, 0*3-0'4 cm. longa ; flores terminales 
3-ni ; pedicelli viscidulo-puberuli, 0*2 cm. longi ; bractese 3, arete approxi- 
matse lineari-lanceolatae scariosse viscidse, 0'18 cm. longse ; sepala bracteis 
conformia sed paullo longiora latioraque ; corolla campanulato-cyathiformis 
viscidula textura crassiuscula, limbi segmentis rotundatis, ca. 0'08 cm. 
longis, tota 0*25 cm. longa ; antherae manifestae corollam fere sequantes, 
basi dorsaliter affixae ovatae obtusae, basi obliquae calcaratae, calcaribus pen- 
dulis longe ciliatis longitudine dimidio antherae, poro f cellulae, cellulae 
0*1 cm. longae ; stylus exsertus ; stigma capitatum ; ovarium depresso- 
globosum glabrum pallidum. 
Hab. : Cape Colony; Prince Albert Div., in rocky places above the 
Zwartberg Pass, alt. 1,675 metres, fl. Dec, Bolus, 11600 ! (in herb. Kew). 
In external appearance most resembling E. hispidula, L. ; but in floral 
structure most nearly allied to E. copiosa, Wendl., differing in its indu- 
mentum, its fewer flowers, in its corolla of a thicker and less petaloid 
texture of a dull horn-like colour, in its anthers being always calcarate and 
the spurs always long ciliate, finally in its glabrous ovary. It should be 
placed next after the last named. 
Erica Lowryensis, Bolus, n. sp. (§ Eurystoma, Benth.). 
E. affinis E. comatcB Guthrie et Bolus ; differt foliis bracteis sepalisqtie 
glabris, sepalis lanceolatis subplanis nec concavis, corollce, segmentis angusti- 
oribus, filamentis apice ampliatis in connectivum transeuntibus . 
Fruticulus erectus, 30 cm. altus vel ultra ; caules adscendentes validi, 
in parte superiore pilis longis dense hispidi, in parte inferiore glabres- 
centes ; folia terna imbricata erecto-subincurva linearia, supra plana, 
subtus sulcata vel interdum marginibus revolutis subaperta, pleraque 
glabra, raro paucissima juniora tantum ad apices ramulorum pubescentia 
cite glabrescentia, 0'4-0'5 cm. longa; flores terminales, 3-ni, subcorollini, 
numerosi ; pedicelli pubescentes, 0*25 cm. longi ; bracteae minimae sub- 
approximatae lanceolatae, 0*11 cm. longae ; sepala ovato-lanceolata erecto- 
appressa acuta vel acuminata 1-nervia, fere plana subcoriacea glabra 
subciliolata pallida, 0'2 cm. longa ; corolla obconica glabra Candida, 
0"4 cm. longa, limbi segmenta semi-ovata subobtusa, 0*15 cm. longa; 
stamina manifesta, corolla paullo breviora ; filamenta capillaria, apice in 
connectivum ampliata ; antherae laterales dorso ad basin affixae oblongge 
muticae nigrae, 0*1 cm. longae ; poro cellula duplo breviore ; stylus breviter 
exsertus ; stigma capitellatum ; ovarium tomentosum. 
Hab. : Cape Colony ; mountains. Sir Lowry's Pass, Stellenbosch Div., 
fl. Sept., N. S. Pillans, 586 (in herb. Pillans, Kew, my own, &c.). 
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