DATES OF PUBLICATION OF THE SEVERAL PARTS
OF THIS VOLUME.

Parr I., pp. 1-192, was published May, 1905.

Part IT., pp. 193-336, was published August, 1905.
Parr TIT., pp. 337-480, was published October, 1906.
Part IV., pp. 481-672, was published November, 1907.
Part V., pp. 673-864, was published March, 1908.
Part VI., pp. 865-end, was published February, 1909.

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Systematic Description of the Plants —

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CAPE COLONY, CAFFRARIA, & PORT NATAL
(AND NEIGHBOURING TERRITORIES)

BY

VARIOUS BOTANISTS.

EDITSD BY
SIR WILLIAM T. THISELTON-DYER, K.C.M.G.,
C.L.E., LL.D., Sc.D., F.B.S.

HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD,
LATE DIRECTOR, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW.

Published under the authority of the Governments of the
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PREFACE.

As pointed out in the Preface to Section 2, the preparation of
the preceding one, which is now completed, was delayed by
unavoidable difficulties. It comprises two of the most important
orders in the South African flora, the Hricacew and Asclepiadee,
in both of which the specific characters require minute and
therefore often lengthy description. The bulk of this Section
has grown accordingly, and it is actually equivalent to that of
two ordinary volumes.

Dr. Harry Bo.us, who has given such munificent encourage-
ment to Botany in South Africa, kindly undertook the elaboration
of Hricacex, which for many years he had assiduously studied
in the field. Professor Francis GuTuriz, LL.B., B.A., who
had long collaborated with Dr. Bo.us, unhappily died on October
19, 1899. The elaboration of the intricate genus Hrica is the
result of their joint labours. The loss of his fellow-worker and
his own indifferent health compelled Dr. BoLus to abandon
reluctantly proceeding with the remaining genera. These were
undertaken by Mr. N. E. Brown, A.L.S., who, in working them
out, found it necessary to establish some new ones, and in other
respects to depart from. the published key to the order. He
has accordingly prepared a new one which will be found in
the “ Additions and Corrections” at page 1123 of this Section.

Mr. N. E. Brown has also worked out the Asclepiadex with
immense pains. He has had the advantage of following
Dr. R. SCHLECHTER, an acute botanist who has few rivals as
a collector. Both have been disposed perhaps to cut their
species rather fine. But South African botanists in the future
will find less. difficulty in uniting species which cannot be
sustained than in separating those which have been injudiciously

united. Mr. Brown has himself been occupied with the study a a

viii PREFACE.

of the fascinating group of Stapeliew, both under cultivation and
in the herbarium, for the past forty years, and it may be hoped
therefore that his conclusions will have reached some finality.
He has been led to the important result that many supposed
native species have arisen from cross-fertilisaticn in European
gardens. It is, however, a singular circumstance that some of
the species which were the earliest described, and which cannot
be accounted for in this way, have never been met with again
by subsequent collectors. It is to be feared that one of the
most striking features of the South African flora is doomed to
gradual and irremediable extinction.

Mr. W. P. Hrery, F.R.S., who is the acknowledged authority
on the order, has undertaken the Ebenacew. In his monograph
published in 1873 he had already taken up two species of
Royena \eft by the late Professor HARVEY in manuscript.

For some of the smaller orders it has also been possible to
make use of Harvey’s work. It is somewhat remarkable that
two species of Jasminum of which he left descriptions have
remained since 1865 unanticipated in publication by any other
describer.

Dr. Stapr, F.R.S., has elaborated the Apocynacee.

Lieut.-Colonel Pratn, C.LE., F.R.S., the Director of the
Royal Botanic Gardens, has undertaken Loganiacew with Major
H. A. Cummins, C.M.G., and Gentianee with Mr. A. W. sees
the Assistant-Director.

For the limits of the regions under which the localities are
cited in which the species have been found to occur, reference
may be made to the Preface to Vol. VI.

I continue to be indebted for invaluable aid to Mr. GC, H.
Wricut, A.LS., now Assistant Keeper, and to Mr. N. E.
Brown, A.L.S., Assistant in the Herbarium of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, the former in reading the proofs, and the
latter in working out: the geographical distribution.

Besides the maps already cited in the Prefaces to Volumes
VI. and VIL., the following have also been used :-—

Map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and neigh-
bouring territories. Compiled from the best available informa- _

tion. By JouN TEMPLER Horne, Surveyor-General. 1895,

PREFACE. 1x

Stanford’s new map of the Orange Free State and the
southern part of the South African Republic, &c. 1899.

Carte du Thédtre de la Guerre Sud-Africaine. Par le
Colonel Camille Favre. 1902.

To many of the South African correspondents of Kew
enumerated in previously published volumes I have again to
tender my acknowledgments for the contribution of specimens in
aid of the work to the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens.

I must further record my obligations to some new
contributors, and to those whose kind assistance in various
ways has been of the greatest value in the preparation of this
section of Volume LV.

Harry Bouus, Esq., D.Sce., F.L.S., has continued his generous
gifts of specimens, besides lending others from his herbarium
of Asclepiadew and Gentianee, including many types of Dr.
Schlechter's species. |

Dr. Jonn Briqvet, Director of the Botanic Garden, Geneva.
Loan of specimens from the Delessert Herbarium.

Paur Conrats, Esq. Plants from the Transvaal.

Joseph Burrr Davy, F.LS., Government Agrostologist and
Botanist, Transvaal. Plants from the Transvaal.

Dr. CASIMIR DE CANDOLLE, Geneva. Photograph and loan of

specimen from the Candollean herbarium.
@eheimrath Dr. A. ENGLER, Director of the Botanic Garden
and Museum, Berlin. Loan of Gentianee.

Dr. H. O. Just, Director of the Botanic Garden, Upsala.
Loan of portions of Thunberg’s herbarium.

Prof. Pau, Henrt Lecomrs, Jardin des Plantes, Paris.
Photographs of Lamarck’s types of Chironia.

Miss R. LEENDERTZ. Plants from the Transvaal.

Dr. H. W. C. Lenz, Director of the Museum, Lubeck.
Loan of E. Meyer’s types of Asclepiadex and Gentianee.

Dr. C. A. M. Linpman. Loan of specimen of Chironia from
the herbarium of P. J. Bergius, Stockholm.

Dr. Joun P. Lorsy, Director of the Royal Herbarium, Leiden.
Loan of specimens of Gentianex.

Dr. Rupotph Marori, Capetown. Stapeliew, living and
in fluid. : :

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Miss A. PEGLER. Plants from the Transkei.

Dr. G. ALBert PETER, Director of the Botanic Garden,
Gottingen. Loan of specimens of Gentianex.

N. S. Pittans, Capetown. Large collection of Stapeliex,
living and in fluid, including many new species, and the loan
of his large and valuable herbarium of the group. The
generous aid of this enthusiastic collector and the free use of
his copious notes have been of the greatest value in the difficult
task of working out the species.

_ Humpnrey Joun Sankey, Esq. Plants from the vicinity of
Harrismith, Orange River Colony.

Dr. Hans Scuinz, Director of the Botanic Garden and
Museum, Ziirich. Numerous specimens collected by Dr. R.
Schlechter ; loan of Gentianee.

Dr. SELMAR ScHONLAND, Curator of the Albany Museum,
Grahamstown. Small collection of <Asclepiadew and loan of
Gentianeer.

Prof. ALBERT CHARLES SEWARD, F.R.S. Loan of Gentiance
from the University Museum, Cambridge.

Miss ETHEL West. Plants from Port Elizabeth.

JoHN Mepiey Woop, A.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gar-
dens, Durban. Numerous specimens of Asclepiadex and loan
of Gentianen.

Prof. E. PerckrvaL Wriaut, Sec. R.1.A., Keeper of the
Herbarium, University of Dublin. Loan of portions of
Harvey’s herbarium. .

Dr. ALEXANDER ZAHLBRUCKNER, Keeper of the Botanical
Collections of the Naturhistorische Hofmuseum, Vienna. Loan
of specimens of Asclepiadex and Gentianee.

On this occasion it is appropriate to pay a brief tribute to
the memory cf Sir Henry Barxty, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.B.S.,
who died on October 21, 1898. It was at his instance that
during his last period of official life as
Colony (1873-7 ) the preparation of the Flora Capensis was
resumed, and it was due to his support that the approval and
aid of the legislature of Cape Colony and Natal were secured.
‘He was deeply interested in the Stapelicw, of which at the
time the study had been comparatively neglected. Hecollected _

Governor of Cape

PREFACE. xi

and cultivated as many as he could, and also sent a large living
collection to Kew. Lady Barkly and Miss E. B. Barkly made
water-colour drawings of them as they flowered. Of these
copies were sent to Kew, together with specimens in alcohol,
accompanied by copious descriptive notes. An account of
this material was published in Hooker’s Jcones Plantarum,
tt. 1901-25; and coloured figures of four of the species that
flowered at Kew appeared in the Botanical Magazine. The
whole of Sir Henry Barkly’s material was a contribution to
the study and elaboration of the group only second perhaps in
value to that of Mr. Pillans.

I may be permitted more personally to express my indebted-
ness to Lieut.-Colonel Pratn for kind and unfailing assistance
in many ways, without which the task of editing a work of
this kind at a distance from the resources of Kew would be
one of peculiar difficulty.

The critics of niceties of nomenclature, which often seem to
obscure the interest of larger problems, will probably notice
that the Kew tradition has been adhered to, and the supposed
right of priority of the original specific epithet has been
disregarded where an existing name is available which has
correctly placed a species in the genus to which its affinity is
most obvious. The principle was laid down by Sir Joseph
Hooker in 1872 in Zhe Flora of British India. Its
justification is based on technical grounds equally with those
of common sense. It may be convenient to briefly state
them :— -

i. The so-called binominal nomenclature which we employ
was devised by Linneus, and, as with everything he did, on
a logical and definite basis. Nothing but confusion can arise
by departure from this. To the specific epithet, apart from its
proper function, Linnzus attached no importance at all. He
saw that the scientific problem was to get the species into its
right genus. ‘Nomen specificum sine generico est quasi
pistillum sine campana.” The specific name taken alone is
the clapper without the bell. A Linnean name, then, though
it consists of two parts, must be treated asa whole. “ Nomen

omne plantarum constabit nomine generico et specifico.” And — “ 2

xii PREFACE.

the same principle obviously applies to all names constructed
in accordance with Linnean rules. The supposed appeal to
justice begins by repudiating the authority of the lawgiver.
Alphonse de Candolle appreciated the true position when he
said: “ The real merit of Linnzeus has been to combine, for all
plants, the generic name with the specific epithet.”

ii. But the claim for justice works the greatest injustice,
and it is not even tempered with mercy. Any careless or
incompetent botanist can tack on a blundering name to an
undescribed plant, and his blunder with his name attached is
to be handed down to posterity for all time. As Linneus saw,
the real scientific feat is to discover its true affinity, not to give
it a haphazard label. And the author who does this success-
fully is the one whose insight deserves commemoration. It is
impossible not to agree with Sir Joseph Hooker when he says:
“T regard the naturalist who puts a described plant into its
proper position in regard to its allies as rendering a greater @
service to science than its describer when he either puts it
into a wrong place or throws it into any of those chaotic
heaps, miscalled genera, with which systematic works. still
abound.”

ili. Every revision of the contents of an order involves a
reconsideration of the mutual affinities of its contents, and this
usually involves some transposition of species from one genus
to another, or the creation of new genera. It may be hoped
that the process is generally judiciously accomplished. But
in any case it yields a crop of synonyms. This is inevitable,
and these in a work like the present have to be examined and
quoted. The labour involved will be evident from many of its
pages. There is said to be a species of Fimbristylis with 135.
synonyms. ‘Taxonomic science must in the end be crushed by
its own literary top-hamper. The only remedy eventually will
be to draw a line behind which synonymy will be ignored. ~—
But we need not add to the burden by the creation of a new -
specific name when one which is valid and available already :
exists in the genus. The appeal to justice lays itself open in
such cases to the suspicion of being little more than a cloak
for the vanity of the author,

PREFACE. xili

I have equally resisted the wholesale manufacture of new
specific names by the revival of obsolete or forgotten genera
without any obvious necessity. Nomenclature is a mere
means to an end; it is ignominious to become its slave, and
we alienate the sympathy of the public, which we wish to
secure, by changes of familiar names which, to its eyes, must
seem simply wanton.

The expenses of preparation and publication of the present
section of Volume IV. have been aided by grants from the
Governments of Cape Colony and Natal. The Government of
the Transvaal has not hitherto been associated with the work.
It is a gratifying evidence of the appreciation of its usefulness
in South Africa that that Government: has now spontaneously
also made a grant in aid of its publication.

WT. E-D.
Witcomse, 1909.

SEQUENCE OF ORDERS CONTAINED IN
VOL. IV. SECT. 1, WITH BRIEF CHARACTERS.

Sub-class IIf. Gamoreranm. Ord. LXXVII.—XC.

Series IJ. Hertreromerm. Ord. LXXVIII.—LXXXIV. Ovary usually
; superior. Carpels more than two.

Conortiv. Ericaues. lowers regular, hermaphrodite. Stamens twice
as many as the corolla-lobes, or equal in number to and alternate
with them. Ovary 2-20-celled. Seeds small or minute.

LXXVIII. VACCINIACEA (page 1). Ovary inferior. Fruit fleshy.
(Shrubs, undershrubs or sma:l trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate.
Flowers racemose or fascicled, rarely solitary.)

LXXIX. ERICACEAE! (page 2). Ovary superior. Fruit capsular,
rarely fleshy. (Shrubs, wndershrubs or trees, often evergreen, Leaves
alternate, opposite or verticillate, exstipulute. Inflorescence various.)

Conort v. PrimvunaLes, Flowers hermaphrodite, or by abortion poly-
gamous, Stamens as many as, and opposite to the corolla-lobes. Uvary
polycarpellary, 1-celled; placenta 1, basal.

LXXX. PLUMBAGINEZ (page418). Ovary 1-ovuled; styles or style-
branches 5. Endosperm floury. (Herbs, usually stemless, rarely shrubs.
Leaves rosulate or alternate. Inflorescence spicute, racemose, cymose or
panicu/ate.)

LXXXI. PRIMULACEZ (page 426). Overy 2-co-ovuled; style
simple. Fruit capsular. Hndosperm fleshy or horny. (Herbs.
Leaves radical, opposite or alternate. Flowers solitary and axillary, or
in umbels, racemes or panicles. )

LXXXII. MYRSINEZ (page 431). Ovary 2-2»-ovuled ; style simple.
Fruit indehiscent. Lndosperm fleshy or horny. (Shrubs or trees.
Leaves usually alternate. Inflorescence various ; flowers usually small.)

Conort vi. Exsrenaues. J /owers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual.
Stumens as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite to them, or
numerous. Ovary 2-00 -celled.

LXXIII. SAPOTACEZ (page 436). Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens
epipetalous. Ovules solitary, ascending. (Trees or shrvbs with milky
sap. Leaves alternate, entire, extipulate. Flowers axillary.)

LXXXIV. EBENACEZ (page 444). lowers dicecious. rarely herma-
phrodite. Stamens hypogynous or on the very base of the corolla-
tube. Ovules geminate or solitary, pendulous. (7/7rees or shrubs;
heartwood hard; sap not milky. Leaves alternate, entire, usually
coriaceous. Flowers cymose, racemose or solitary.) eee

Xvi SEQUENCE OF ORDERS.

Series III. BroarpELLat#. Ord. LXXXV.—XC. Ovary usually superior.
Carpels 2, rarely 1 or 3.

Conort vii. GENTIANALES. Corolla regular. Stamens as many as the
coroila-lobes and alternate with them, or if fewer alternate with the
carpels. eaves usually opposite.

LXXXV. OLEACEZ! (page478). Curolla-lobes 4 tomany. Stamens 2.
Ovary 2-celled; style simple; stigma terminal; ovules usually 2 in
each cell. (Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, simple or
compound. dnflorescence cymose, paniculate or fascicled.)

LXXXVI. SALVADORACEZ (page 488). Corolla-lobes 4. Stamens 4.
Ovary 1-2-celled; ovules 1-2 in each cell. (Zrees or shrubs,
sometimes spiny. Leaves opposite, entire; stipules rudimentary.
Panicles trichotomous, axillary.)

LXXXVII. APOCYNACEAE (page 490). Corol/a-lobes 5. Stamens 5;
polleu-grains free, rarely cohering. Carpels usually 2, free or united
below; style entire or divided at the base; ovules few or many.
(Trees, erect or climbing shrubs, very rarely herbs. Leaves opposite or
revi entire, stipulate or not. Flowers cymose, small, or larye and

owy.)

LXXXVIII. ASCLEPIADEZ (page 518). Corolla-lobes 5. Stamens 5;
pollen-grains usually united into waxy masses, Carpels usually 2,
free blow; styles united and dilated above; ovules usually many.
(Herbs or shrubs, erect, prostrate or twininy; sap milky or watery.
Leaves «pposite or whorled, sometimes absent, exstipulate. Flowers
usually few cymosely arranged.)

LXXXIX. LOGANIACEZ (page 1036). Corolla-lobes 5-16. Stamens
5-16. Carpels 2, united; style simple; ovules many. (Shrubs or
trees. Leaves opposite, rare'y whorled or Fascicled ; stipules usually
reduced to an interpetiolar line. Flowers cymose, rarely racemose.) a

XC. GENTIANEA (page 1056). Corolla-lobes 4-6. Stamens 4-6.
Carpels 2, united ; style simple; ovary 1-2-celled; ovules numerous.
(Annual or perennial glabrous herbs, rarely shrubs, Leaves opposite,

rarely alternate. Flowers cymose, paniculute, fasciculate or solitary
terminal or axillary.) :

p. 479, line 10, after salver-shaped add: lobes 5-12, contorted.

sy, after line 15 insert:—IV. Olea.—Trees or shrubs
Corolla deeply 4-lobed ; lobes induplicate-valvate. Fruit
a drupe.

FLORA CAPENSIS.

| Orper LXXVIII. VACCINIACEZ.
| (By N. E. Brown.)

Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyzx-tube adnate to the ovary;
limb 5-lobed or 5-toothed, persistent or deciduous. Corolla gamo-
petalous, tubular, campanulate, globose or urceolate, 4—7- (usually 5-)

| lobed or toothed, deciduous ; lobes imbricate or valvate. Stamens
4-14, usually twice as many as the corolla-lobes, epigynous or in-
j serted at the base of the corolla; filaments free or connate ; anthers
dorsifixed, 2-celled; cells usually produced into tubes at the apex,
opening by terminal pores or elongated slits. Ovary inferior, 2-10-
eelled, often crowned with an epigynous disk; style slender or fili-
form; stigma simple, subcapitate or minutely 4~5-lobed; ovules
usually numerous, rarely 2 to few in each eell, axile on tumid or
bilobed placentas, anatropous. Fruit a many- (rarely few-) seeded
berry, Seeds smal] or minute, usually compressed, testa coriaceous ;
albumen fleshy ; embryo minute, axile.

Shrubs, undershrubs, or small trees, sometimes epiphytic. Leaves alternate ;
stipules 0. Inflorescence various, usually bracteate.

Distr1B. Genera about 32; species about 350, chiefly natives of the Tropics
on mountains, with a few in the temperate regions; only 3 or 4 occur in Africa.

I. VACCINIUM, Linn.

Calyx superior, 4—-5-lobed. Corolla urceolate, campanulate or
subtubular, 4—5-lobed or -toothed. Stamens 8-10, free; anthers
produced into 2 tubes opening by pores or slits at the apex, some-
times spurred on the back. Ovary inferior, turbinate, hemispherical
or globose, 4—5-celled or falsely 8-10-celled by spurious partitions
from the placenta; style slender; stigma simple or subcapitate >
ovules numerous or few in each cell. Fruit a berry. ne

Shrubs or undershrubs, rarely trees; leaves evergreen or deciduous, entire or
serrulate ; flowers in fascicles or racemes, rarely solitary, bracteate. ables

Species over 100, chiefly natives of the North Temperate zone and mountains
of the Tropics, 3—4 in Africa. ! ae

4. V. Exul (Bolus in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 1941); a shrub 2-5 ft.
high; branchlets terete, becoming angular-striate when dried, pube-

pubescent ; blade 3-12 in. long, 3~$ in.

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scent, leafy ; leaves rather rigidly coriaceous ; petiole 1-1} lin. longyi.

2 VACCINIACES (Brown). [ Vaccinium.

lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, slightly thickened and recurved
along the serrulate margins, more or less pubescent on the basal part
of the midrib, otherwise glabrous on both sides, reticulately veined,
with the veins more conspicuous beneath; racemes axillary, }—} in,
long, 5-8-flowered; rhachis angular, glabrous; flowers nodding;
bracts 1-2 lin. long, 4-1 lin. broad, lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acute,
boat-shaped, minutely ciliate; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, jointed under
the ovary, glabrous ; calyx glabrous ; ovary-part 4 lin. long, broadly
obconical ; lobes 3 lin. long, 2—1 lin. broad, deltoid-ovate, acuminate,
erect; corolla urceolate, 4—5-lobed, glabrous, white ; tube 2 lin.
long, 14-14 lin. in diam.; lobes % lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate-
oblong, obtuse, recurved; stamens 8-10, epigynous, about { lin.
longer than the corolla-tube ; filaments 1} lin. long, flattened, hairy ;
anthers 12 lin. long, minutely scabrous, produced into 2 tubes open-
ing by oblique pores at the apex; ovary 4~5-celled ; style filiform,
2 lin. long; stigma simple; fruit not seen.

Katanart ReGion: Transvaal; amongst rocks on the summit of the Devils
Kantoor, near Barberton, 5500-5600 ft., Galpin, 659! Bolus, 7616!

V. africanum (Britt. in Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 23, t. 4, fig. 3-5)
from Nyasaland, is a very close ally of this, differing in its glabrous stems,
longer pointed leaves (which are much more conspicuously reticulate with more
prominent veins on both sides) and longer racemes.

Orper LXXIX. ERICACEZ.
(By H. Bouvs, Ff, Guturiz, and N. B. Brown.)

Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx free, 4-5-toothed, -lobed
or -partite; teeth, lobes or segments equal or unequal, imbricate,
valvate or open in bud, persistent. Corolla hypogynous or in —
Lagenoearpus arising from the middle of the ovary, gamopetalous —
and 2-5- (rarely 6-10-) lobed or of 3-7 free petals, very variable in
form, imbricate, contorted or rarely valvate in bud, persistent or
deciduous. Stamens 3-10, rarely 12 or more, hypogynous except in
Lagenocarpus, sometimes adnate to the base of the corolla ; filaments
free or rarely connate; anthers 2-celled, basifixed or dorsifixed, free _
or connate ; cells often free down to the middle or beyond, with or
without a crest, spur or arista at the base or on the back at or towards _
the apex, sometimes produced at the apex into tubes, opening by
pores or longitudinal slits. Disk none or annular or tumid, crenate
or lobed. Ovary superior or in Lagenocarpus half-inferior to the
corolla, 1-12-celled; style filiform or cylindrie; stigma simple,
capitate or peltate, entire, lobed or dentate. Ovules 1 to many in
each cell, axile, pendulous or rarely erect, anatropous. Fruit a
loculicidal or septicidal capsule, rarely baccate or drupaceous, 1- to
many-seeded. Seeds usually minute, angled or compressed ; testa
sometimes Jax and produced at the ends; albumen fleshy, embryo

minute, axile.

ues

ERICACEx (Bolus, Guthrie & Brown). 3

Shrubs, undershrubs or trees, often evergreen; leaves alternate, opposite or
verticillate; stipules 0; inflorescence various ; pedicels often bracteate.

DistRIB. Genera about 56; species about 1200, distributed in all parts of the
world.
* Corolla and stamens hypogynous; ovary superior.

t+ Ovary 2-4- (rarely 8-) celled.
~ Ovules 2 or more in each cell.
§ Stamens normally 8, rarely 6-7.

I. Erica.—Bracts 3 (very rarely 1 or 0). Calys# equally 4-partite (rarely
4-lobed), very rarely longer than the variously shaped 4-lobed or -toothed
corolla. Ovary 4- (rarely 8-) celled,

II. Philippia.—Bracts 0. Caly# unequally 4-lobed or -partite. Corolla very
small, 4-lobed or -toothed. Ovary 4-celled.

§§ Stamens normally 4, occasionally 5-6.

III. Ericinella.—Bracts 0. Calyx unequally 3-4-partite or -lobed. Corolla
very small, 3—4-lobed or -toothed. Ovary 3-4-celled.

IV. Bleria.—Bracts 3. Calyw equally 4-lobed or -partite. Corolla small,
tubular or tubular-campanulate, 4-lobed, often 4-angled. Ovary 4-celled,

tt Ovule solitary in each cell,
§ Stamens 6-8.

VII. Eremia.—Bracts 3. Calyx equally 4-partite ; segments broad, ciliate or
hairy, but not woolly. Corvila urceolate-campanulate or campanulate, 14-2
times as long as broad. Stamens 8; anthers included or not exceeding the
corolla-lobes. Ovary 2-4-celled. Leaves spreading, not woolly.

VIII. Hexastemon.—Bracts 3. Calyx equally and deeply 4-lobed; lobes
rather narrow, white-woolly. Corolla narrowly ovoid-tubular, 3 times as
long as broad. Stamens 6; anthers much exserted. Ovary 2-celled. Leaves
densely imbricate, white-woolly.

XVII. Salaxis.—Bracts 0. Caly# unequally or subequally 4-toothed, -lobed or
«partite. Corolla minute, obconic or subglobose. Anthers included or partly
exserted. Stigma large, crater-like or peltate.

gg Stamens 3-4, oF
|| Corolla 4- (very rarely 3-) toothed or lobed.
{{ Bracts 0. Calyx unequally 4-partite, glabrous; tube 0.

V. Coilostigma.—Corolla small, ovoid, oblong-ovoid or tubular-oblong, often
contracted at the apex. Ovary 2-celled.

{{ Bracts 3 (2 of them extremely minute in one species of Thoracosperma).
Calyx equally and deeply 4-lobed or 4-partite; tabe short or 0, not
thick nor fleshy nor sharply 4-angled.

(a) Corolla more or less constricted below the limb or at the middle or
inflated at the base. Anthers included or not exceeding the corolla-

lobes.

IX. Grisebachia.—Calyx-segments broad (not linear), hairy or ciliate. Corolla
campanulate or globose-campanulate above the constriction. Ovary 2-
celled,

(b) Corolla not constricted at any part, sometimes narrowed below.
Anthers entirely or partially exserted beyond the corolla-lobes (except
in one species of Thoracosperma). sa

VI. Thoracosperma.—Calyz minute, inconspicuous, glabrous or ciliate or puberu-

lous with very minute hairs, Corolla ovoid, suburceolate, tubular-oblong or
campanulate, often contracted at the apex. Ovary 2—4-celled. :

X. Acrostemon.—Calys conspicuous, clothed with long hairs; segments linear or

narrowly deltoid. Corolla elongated, tubular or clavate-tubular, often cou- oe

tracted at the apex. Ovary 2-celled. 4 eee

4 ERICACER (Bolus, Guthrie & Brown).

q Bracts 1-3. Calyx tubular, campanulate or obconic, equally and
shortly 4-toothed or lobed to the middle; tube usually rather thick
or somewhat fleshy and often sharply 4-angled.

XI. Simocheilus.— Corolla much elongated and tubular or tubular-clavate or
4-angled and about twice as long as the calyx. Ovary 2-4.celled.

||| Corolla equally but shortly 2-lobed, tubular or tubular-funnel-shaped.
Anthers exserted. Ovary 2-celled.

XIV. Aniserica.—Bract 1, at the very base of the pedicel, or 0. Calyx cam-
panulate, 4-angled, equally 4-toothed.

XV. Sympieza.—Bracts 0-3. Calyx dorsally much flattened, 2-angled, or if
3-angled, with the 3rd angle next the axis, equally 2-3-lobed.

tt Ovary 1-celled; ovule solitary.
a. Stamens 8.

XVI. Lepterica.—Bracts 0. Calyw subunequally 4-toothed. Corolla minute,
obconic. Anthers included. Stigma very large, crater-like.

8. Stamens 3-5, very rarely 2.

XII. Syndesmanthus.—Bracts usually 0, rarely 1-3. Calyx obconie or turbi-
nate, equally 3—4.toothed, usually hairy; tube distinctly 3-8-angled, thin or
. coriaceous, not fleshy. Corolla tubular or clavate. Stigma simple, or peltate
with the centre produced.

XIIT. Anomalanthus.—Bracts 3. Calyw ovoid or campanulate, thick and
fleshy, scarcely or not at all angular, equally 4-toothed, glabrous, Corolla
campanulate, tubular or narrowly funnel-shaped. Stigma simple.

XVIII. Scyphogyne.—Bracts usually 0, rarely 1. Calyw obconic or campanu-
late, thin or coriaceous, not fleshy, more or less angular, unequally or equally
3-4-toothed or -lobed. Corolla minute, globose, obconic, campanulate or
urceolate. Stigma very large, crater-like or peltate.

** Corolla arising from the middle of the ovary, which is half inferior to it, but
free from the calyz.

XIX. Lagenocarpus.—Bracts 0. Calyx campanulate, 4-toothed. Corolla
a campanulate or subglobose. Anthers sessile, included. Ovary 2-3-

-

I. ERICA, Linn.
(By F. Gutunm and H. Bouvs.) *

_ Calyx free, mostly 4-partite, rarely 4-fid or 4-dentate. Corolla
hypogynous, deciduous, or rarely persistent, tubular, ampullaceous,
urceolate, globose, ovoid, campanulate, cyathiform, obconic, or funnel-
shaped, 4-lobed, less commonly 4-fid, rarely sub-4-partite. Stamens
hypogynous, normally 8, very rarely fewer or more, mostly arising
from the base of a free, more or less elevated disk ; filaments free ;
anthers terminal or lateral, dehiscing by lateral pores or slits, muticous,
crested or aristate at or near the insertion of the filament or more —
rarely distant, the appendages often adnate to it, or sometimes

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Erica.] ERicacex (Guthrie & Bolus). 5

entirely free from the anther-cells. Disk more or less prominent,
lobed or crenulate, rarely obsolete. Ovary sessile or stipitate, mostly
4- (very rarely 8-celled); cells 2-co-ovuled. Style filiform ; stigma
simple, capitate, peltate or eyathiform, very rarely 4-fid. Capsule
globose, conical or cylindrical, loculicidally 4-valved, valves separat-
ing from the axis, mostly many-seeded. Seeds minute, ellipsoidal,
more rarely lenticular, or much compressed and margined or more
rarely winged.

Perennial shrubs, from a few inches to 10 ft., or rarely more; leaves 3-6-nate,
in whorls, less commonly scattered or opposite, most usually rigid and narrow,
linear, trigonous, margins revolute and connate with the underside, leaving only
a channel more or less wide and deep between them, or less commonly, flatter,
broader and “ open-backed,” i.e. the margins revolute or reflexed, but leaving the
underside visible, very rarely nearly flat ; inflorescence mostly normally terminal,
or often axillary (the flowers clustered in the axils, at the ends of partially or
entirely arrested lateral branchlets), very rarely truly indefinite and racemose ;
flowers solitary, more commonly 2—4-nate, umbellate or capitate; pedicels
1-flowered ; bracts 3, rarely fewer, very rarely wanting. The flowers are ferti-
lized in some cases by the wind, in others by insects, and many of the longer
and tubular (Subgenus I. Syrinaopea) by birds (cf. G. F. Scott-Elliot, in
Ann. Bot. iv. 269, 270).

The Ericacex are chiefly xeropbilous mostly on rocky mountain-sides, lower
hills, or sandy plains, very rarely on wet or marshy ground. They inhabit for
the most part the littoral strip, some 50 or 60 miles in breadth, from the Olifants
River on the west to the Van Stadensberg Range on the east, diminishing rapidly
in number beyond these limits. Their greatest concentration may be on the Cape
Peninsula, where 92 species have been recorded in an area of 198 square miles;
but the home of the more beautiful, and now rarer, species is in the Caledon
Division. Many species have a very small distribution-area.

Disteis. Species over 500, of which 469 are endemic in South Africa, 6 or 8
in Tropical Africa, and the rest dispersed from the Atlantic Isles through Europe
and North Africa to the Orient.

This genus is remarkable for an unusual degree of variability in the form of
almost all its organs. It is therefore one difficult of definition as to its species,
and of arrangement into satisfactory natural groups. Many of the species are
obviously allied to others in very different sections ; and in most of the sections
and subgenera it is necessary to note exceptions to the general technical
characters. Many authors have treated of them with great divergency of views ;
and the earlier botanists unduly multiplied the species as they arrived from the
Cape. At the end of the 18th, and the early part of the 19th centuries, the
heaths became fashionable in European gardens, were much hybridized and
copiously figured. This has added to the difficulty of definition, and still more to
the confusion of the synonomy. In respect of the latter, we have had largely to
rely upon others, and can but hope at most to have cleared up some few of the
obscurities by which the genus has been surrounded, leaving many in which,
owing to absence of types and imperfect descriptions, it may continue to be
involved. a

The following terms have been used in this genus :—the flowers are said to be
calycine (Aiton) or corolline acording as the calyx or corolla predominates in
the general appearance of the flower, which depends upon either the position
or relative size of those organs. The relative height of the calyx and corolla
is taken from the flowers when viewed horizontally, and, on account of the usual
spreading of the sepals, appears at first sight at variance with the measurements
of those organs when separated and flattened out. The shape of the anther-cell
is described from its profile, unless otherwise stated. Anthers projecting forwards
at the base are termed prognathous; these occur chiefly in § 8, Zuryloma, —
Anthers neither distinctly included nor exserted, but plainly visible at the level _
of the mouth of the corolla-tube, are said to be manifest. Awe

6 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.
SUBGENERA.

(Leceptions disregarded and shown under the Sections.)

Flowers mostly corolline :

Corolla tubular, over 4 lin. long, mostly from 6-12
lin. long, limb not stellato-patent; flowers
always corolline ,., ive ‘st tes vy

Corolla various, not tubular, if exceeding 4 lin. in
length then urceolate, or inflated, or with a
stellato-patent limb; flowers corolline, very
rarely subcalycine :

Corolla-segments stellato-patent ; tube mostly
elongate, or ampullaceous, or urceolate ... II. STELLANTHRE.
Corolla-segments not, or very rarely, stellato-
patent, mostly less than (rarely over) 4 lin.
long i ies ai
Flowers mostly calycine :

Corolla mostly urceolate or subcyathiform, not
usually widening to the mouth ... se .» IV. CaLtaMyDANTHE,

Corolla mostly obconic or campanulate, usually
widening to the mouth, more rarely suburceolate
or broad-cyathiform Bi ea ie «. V. PLATYSTOMA.

SYNOPSIS OF SECTIONS.

Suserenus I. SYRINGODEA.

§ 1. Gigandra. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, Ovrolla tubular, or
tubular-inflated, rarely elongate-ovoid, glabrous, dry. Anthers fur-exserted,
terminal, muticous. : ‘ . . 5 ‘ : - Species 1-5.

§ 2. Didymanthera. Inflorescence terminal or axillary. Corolla tubular,
glabrous, dry. Anthers exserted, subterminal or sublateral, sometimes (or
always ?) articulated to the filament at their base See - Species 6-11.

§ 3. Pleurocallis. Injlorescence mostly axillary, more rarely also terminal on
the same plant. Corolla tubular, mostly over 6 lin. long, rarely shorter.
_ Anthers lateral, rarely terminal a ‘ ‘ : « Species 12-35.

§ 4. Evanthe. Inflorescence terminal, very rarely umbellate never sub-
capitate. Corolia mostly tubular, rarely obconic or subcampanulate. Anihers
mostly included, rarely exserted, lateral, free, Ovary usually glabrous,
; Species 36-70.

§ 5. Dasyanthes. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate or subcapitete, Corolla
tubular or subovoid-tubular, mostly roughly hispid, never glabrous. Anthers
lateral, free. Ovary more or less eat ee . - Species 71-77.
§ 6. Chona. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate. Corolla clavate-tubular.

Anthers exserted, lateral, cohering round the style in a conical truncated tube.

actridium. ; Species 78.

§ 7. Bactridium. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate, or psendo-axilla aa
subverticillate. Corolla tubular or inflated-tubular an Abit

included, lateral. Ovary long-stipitate . . glabrous, viscid. Anthers

: : + Species 79-80.
Suscenvus II. STELLANTHE.

§ 8. Euryloma. Inflorescence terminal, mostly umbellate. Corolla mostly

ampullaceous, or suburceolate, rare] tubular, contra : 3 li
often large. Anthers included, lateral, usually acu fee seat feos one
bilobed at the base. Ovary stipitate or elongate , . - Species 81-95

§ 9. Ceramus. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers umbellate, or 3—4-nate Corolla
urceolate, glabrous, dry. Anthers included, lateral, rarely prognathous Ova’
stipitate, or ab least: narrowed to the base. « eo Species bacon,
_§ 10. Callista. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers usually 4-nate rarely solitary.
Corolla narrow-tubular or suburceolate, rarely subampullaceous. Anthers in-
cluded, lateral, not p. thous at the base, usually Fa

I. SyrRInGcopra.

III. Everica.

very small, Ovary sessile.
mitota ss _ Species 101-111, oS

Erica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 7

§ 11. Platyspora. Inflorescence axillary, pseudo-racemose, pseudo-spicate or
capitate ; flowers corolline or rarely subcalycine. Sepals mostly in opposite
pairs. Corolla various, 3-8 lin. long (mostly resembling that of §§ Euryloma,
Callista, or Lamprotis). Anthers included, lateral. Ovules ruch compressed
or lenticular, sometimes margined or winged ‘ . . Species 112-117.

§ 12. Myra. Inflorescence mostly axillary, in two species strictly racemose,
or sometimes terminal. Corolla subtubular, urceolate, or rarely subampullaceous,
mostly pubescent. Anthers usually included, lateral, appendiculate; mostly
glandular-viscid subshrubs . . , é 3 ‘ . Species 118-122.

SuscEnus II]. EVERICA.

§ 13. Ephebus. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers 3-4-nate or solitary, rarely
clustered or umbellate, mostly corolline, rarely subcalycine. Corolla variously
shaped, rarely over 3 lin, long, most usually more or less hairy, occasionally
glabrous, dry, rarely viscid. Anthers mostly included, rarely exserted or sub-
exserted, lateral. . i " , é é 5 : . Species 123-175.

§ 14. Ceramia. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, sometimes both on the
sume plant; flowers mostly 3-4-nate, or umbellate, rarely subcapitate or solitury,
cvrolline rarely subcalycine. Corolla variously shaped, rarely over 2} lin. long,
niostly glabrous or less commonly pubescent. Anthers lateral, very rarely sub-
termiual. Mostly diffuse and slender plants, less commonly erect and slender,
very rarely stout and rigid . é ° p ‘ ‘ Species 176-207.

§ 15. Desmia. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers 3-nate, umbellate or capitate,
corolline or subcorolline. Corolla urceolate, glabrous, 13-24 lin. loug. Anthers
subexserted, terminal, muticous . : ‘ ° ‘ Species 208 -210.

§ 16. Gypsocallis. Inflorescence axillary, rarely also terminal; flowers
corolline or rarely subcalycine. Corolla urceolate, ovoid, or subcampanulate,
glabrous, dry; limb short, 1-3 lin. long. Anthers mostly exserted or sub-
exserted, rarely subincluded, usually lateral, rarely subterminal. Species 211-218.

§ 17. Pyrouium. Inflorescence terminal; flowers 3-nate, rarely umbellate or
clustered, corolline, rarely subcorolline. Corolla mostly cyathiform, or sub-
campanulate, suburceolate, or ovoid, 3-2} lin. long. Resembling § Gypsocallis,
diftering almost solely by its terminal flowers . . . Species 219-232,

§ 18. Orophanes. Injlorescence terminal; flowers 4-nate or sometimes um-
bellate or irregularly clustered, very rarely in a congested pseudo-spike ; flowers
corolline, Corotla various, mostly urceolate, cyathiform or campauulate, usually
14-24 (rarely 4-5) lin. long. Anmthers mostly included, rarely subexserted,
lateral, always appendiculate.. Leaves almost always 4-nate . . Species 233-259.

§ 19. Leptodendron. Inflorescence terminal; flowers 3-nate or solitary,
corolline, very rarely subcorolline. Corolla various in shape, glabrous, dry,
14-34 lin. long. Anthers incinded, lateral. Leaves almost always 3-nate—
these and its 3-nate flowers forming the chief distinction from the preceding
section . ‘ é ‘ ‘ é é . ‘ ‘ . Species 260-268.

§ 20. Pachysa. Inflorescence terminal, occasionally also pseudo-axillary ;
flowers mostly 3-4-nate or umbellate, rarely subcapitate, corolline, or very
rarely subcalycine. Corolla more or less viscid, ovoid, urceolate, or very rarely
vbconic, 1-10 (usually 2-4) lin. long. Anéhers mostly included, very rarely
exserted, lateral, appendiculate or very rarely muticous. Ovary sessile, rarely sub-
Stipitate Species 269-292,

. .

§ 21. Hermes. Injlorescence mostly axillary, rarely both terminal and axillary,

usually pseudo-spicate or pseudo-racemose towards the ends of the branches ;—

flowers corolline, rarely subcalycine. Corolla various, mostly campanulate,
obconic or subtubular, 14-4 lin. long. Anthers more usually included, lateral
Or sulternteh sg katie oh dae re + Species 293-307.

§ 22. Chlorocodon. Injlorescence axillary; flowers 1-3-nate on the uppermost
branches, occasionally a few also terminal, corolline, very small. Corolla cyathi-

. .

form, campanulate or subobconic, }-1 lin. long. Anthers mostly lateral, —

subterminal. Stigma capitate, peltate or cyathiform. . . Species 308-3
§ 23. Arsace. Jnjlorescence terminal; flowers 3-nate,

7

8 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

urceolate, cyathiform or campanulate, }-1} lin. long. Anthers lateral or sub-
lateral. Stigma as in the preceding section ‘ . Species 315-330.

§ 24. Pseuderemia. Injlorescence terminal, capitate ; flowers mostly corolline.
Corolla urceolate or campanulate, 1-5 lin. long. Anthers mostly included,
lateral, appendiculate. |. . ‘ ‘ , é i Species 831-339.

§ 25. Polydesmia. Inflorescence terminal, capitate or subumbellate ; flowers
mostly corolline, rarely subcalycine. Corolla suburceolate or ovoid, 12-24 lin,
long. Anthers exserted or subexserted, terminal or subterminal. Species 340-343.

Suscenus IV. CHLAMYDANTHE.

§ 26. Chromostegia. Inflorescence terminal, capitate; heads 4-fld., mostly
involucrated by the more or less enlarged and discoloured floral leaves; flowers
calycine. Bracts closely approximate, broader than the narrow sepals. Corolla
various, puberulous, 1-2 lin. loug. Procumbent or suberect; leaves 4-nate,
strongly ciliate 4 . , ‘ i é - Species 344-346.
‘ § 27. Oxyloma. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers subsessile, 3-nate, or capitate
in many-fid. heads, calycine. Bracts approximate, and (with the sepals) closely
adpressed to the corolla, coloured. Corolla short-tubular or subinflated, 2-5
lin. long; segments suberect, long, acute or acuminate. Anthers included,
lateral, muticous i ici 6s aera gal a matin Species 347-349.

§ 28. Eriodesmia. Inflorescence terminal; flowers 1-6-nate, subcapitate or
umbellate, mostly calycine, rarely subcorolline. Sepals densely villous or woolly.
Corolla urceolate or campanulate, hairy, 13-2} lin, long. Anthers terminal,
Plants more or less hairy in all parts. ‘ - « _ « Species 350-353.

§ 29, Amphodea, Inflorescence terminal, capitate; heads 3-fld.; flowers
calycine. Bracts approximate, like the sepals scarious and coloured. Corolla

narrow-ovoid or suburceolate, glabrous, dry, 13-22 lin, long; segments erect,

hee acute. Anthers terminal or subterminal, decurrent-aristate. Leaves
nate .

Sis. We Lew wiiigks i. a cial ‘ - Species 354-356,

§ 30. Geissostegia, Injlorescence terminal ; flowers mostly take calycine,
small. Bracts mostly approximate and imbricate, more rarely subremote. Sepals
usually about as long as the corolla, rarely much shorter. Corolla various,
mostly urceolate or cyathiform, 1-23 lin. long. Anthers exserted, mostly
terminal or subterminal, muticous. Leaves 3-nate . 3 - Species 357-371.

§ 31. Elytrostegia, Inflorescence terminal; flowers mostly 3-nate or
clustered, calycine. Bracts closely approximate, sepal-like, paleaceous or car-

tilaginous. Corolla tubular-cyathiform or suburceolate labrous, dry, 1-24 lin
ee Anthers lateral or subterminal, Stigma trom subeiapie to ouliahe: howe

a ee ss ee noe oe gcse een O1E-B78.
§ 32. Apecus. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers mostly 4-nate a sabamabellate,

; ; Corolla cyathiform
seemdr onic, glabrous, 14-24 lin. long, Anthers ineluded or subincludel lateral,

. Bede - Species 377-878.
flowers 3-nate or clustered > rarely also pseudo-axillary ;

Anthers included,

Leaves 3-nate or opposit
Iostly adpressed and erect. All parts of the plants usually glabrous, gincshs ae

§ 34. Eurystegia, Inflorescence terminal, rarely als oe

4 terminal ; flow li in pairs
short branchlets, usually in long dense leafy pacudo-racemes, more carey pe :
vhat lax « ets, calycine. Sepals in opposite pai
_ times longer than the suboyoid 4-fid corolla, ma completely. Pet ng oad ‘
ne cer es a ' Species 409. —

Erica.| ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 9

. § 36. Trigemma. Inflorescence terminal, occasionally also axillary ; flowers
3-4-nate, rarely subumbellate, never capitate, calycine or rarely subcorolline.
Sepals mostly large, prominent coloured. Corolla various, mostly glabrous, 13-
33 lin. long; limb mostly somewhat spreading or recurved, not stellate-
spreading. Anthers included, very rarely exserted. Leaves 3—4-nate, mostly
spreading, seldom or nevér closely adpressed ‘ > $ Species 410-431,

Suseenus V. PLATYSTOMA.

§ 37. Polyeodon. Inflorescence terminal 3 flowers 3-nate, mostly corolline or
subcalycine, rarely calycine. Corolla obconic or broad-cyathiform, glabrous,
dry, 7-14 lin. long; segments equalling, or longer than, the tube, rarely a little
shorter. Anthers lateral. Leaves 3-nate : . - Species 432-439,

§ 38. Eurystoma. Inflorescence terminal; flowers usually 3-nate, mostly
calycine or subcalycine, more rarely subcorolline or corolline. | Corolla obcsénic,
cyathiform or subcampanulate, wide-mouthed, very rarely subglobose-urceolate,
glabrous, dry, 1-24 lin. long. Anthers included or rarely subexserted, mostly
manifest, not produced beyond the pore. Leaves 3-nate, very rarely opposite.

Species 440-450.

§ 39. Melastemon. Inflorescence terminal or sometimes also pseudo-axillary ;
flowers mostly 3-nate, more rarely umbellate or subcapitate, mostly corolline,
rarely calycine or subealycine, 1-4 lin. long, usually glabrous. Corolla mostly
obconic or broad-cyathiform, wide-mouthed, rarely cyathiform. Anthers in-
cluded, lateral, usually more or less produced at the apex beyond the pore.

Species 451-460.

§ 40. Gamochlamys. Inflorescence terminal, or sometimes also pseudo-
axillary ; flowers mostly 3-nate, rarely solitary, corolline or more rarely calycine.
Calyx more or less gamosepalous. Corolla wide-mouthed, glabrous, , 1-3
lin. long. -Anthers mostly included, rarely subexserted, lateral, muticous, in one
species produced beyond the pore. Leaves 3-nate . . . Species 461-466.

§ 41. Cyatholoma. Injlorescence terminal, or sometimes pseudo-axillary ;
flowers 3-nate, subcalycine or subcorolline. Corolla subglobose below with large
cup-shaped limb, or ovoid-urceolate, 2-5 lin. long. Anthers included, lateral, in
two species subprognathous at the base. Ovary sessile or stipitate. Leaves
3-nate . ‘ ‘ . é ‘ ‘ . ° x - Species 467-469.

I. SYRINGODEA.

§ 1. GiaanpRa. Inflorescence terminal, or by arrest of the lateral branch-
lets. sometimes pseudo-axillary ; flowers 3-nate or solitary, at length cernuous,
Bracts approximate, imbricate, or remote and small, sepal-like. Sepals scarious,
rigid, imbricate at the base. - Corolla mostly tubular or tubular-inflated, rarely
elongate-ovoid, glabrous, dry; limb erect. Anthers long-exserted, terminal,
linear, bifid, muticous.. Ovary sessile, glabrous, Leaves 3-nate. Rigid, usually
stout shrubs, 1-2 ft. high.

EXcEPTIONS: corolla elongate-oyoid in E. scariosa 3 less than 4} lin. long in
E. Petiveri, var. y. }

Bracts approximate, imbricate, usually large and prominent : ;
Leaves 2-3} lin. long, glabrous or nearly so, rigid --» (1) Petiveri.
Leaves 4-5 lin. long, pubescent and pilose .., sek --- (2) vestifiua.

Bracts remote, usually small : i
Sepals broad-ovate or oblong, flat, not keeled ... --. (3) lineata.
Sepals narrow-lanceolate to ovate, concave, keeled : : :

Corolla 6 lin. long or more __... eo ee () Plukeneti.
Corolla less than 5 lin. long... ise aoe «+. (4) Scariosa,

§ 2. DipyMANTHERA. Inflorescence terminal or axillary; flowers 3-nate.
Bracts approximate, sepal-like, adpressed, rigid, searious, coloured. Corolla oe
tubular, glabrous, dry. Anthers exserted, terminal or sublateral, often (or ee

10 _ Ericace£ (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica,

always ?) articulated to the filament; cells mostly divaricate. Ovary sessile.
Erect or procumbent shrubs ; leaves 3—4-nate or scattered.

Inflorescence terminal :
Erect shrubs : '
Corolla 5 lin. long, crimson... “0d ... (6) monadelphia.
Corolla 10~13 lin. long, green ... ove ... (9) viridiflora.
Procumbent shrubs :
Corolla wide, almost equally so from base to
apex; filaments 4 lin. wide .., is C
Corolla narrower, especially at the base, widen-
ing upwards ; filaments 4 lin. wide or less... (8) primulina.
Inflorescence axillary :
Leaves 4-nate ; anthers muticous, 1} lin. long ... (10) sphenanthera.
Leaves 6-nate or scattered; anthers denticulate,

Pps BO BE OP, sis ... (11) cerviciflora,

§ 3. PrevRocaLtts. Inflorescence axillary, rarely both axillary and terminal ;
flowers mostly crowded below the ends of the branches, sometimes lax. Bracts
mostly small, rarely somewhat large. Corolla usually tubular, from 6-12 lin.
long, rarely shorter, glabrous or hairy, dry or viscid. Anthers usually included,
rarely subexserted or exserted, lateral, rarely terminal, appendiculate or muticous.

Leaves 6-nate, scattered or 4-nate. Stout shrubs, often of virgate habit, 1-3 ft.
high.

Mr. Scott-Elliot (Ann, Bot. iv. 270) observes that “ probably the whole
Pleurocallis section is ornithophilous.”

EXCEPTIONS: inflorescence terminal and axillary in E. annectens ; bracts rather
large in E. gilva, aud E. sessiliflora ; corolla short, 6 lin. or less in E. filipendula
var., coccined var., conica, regia var., casta, nematophylla, an
anthers subexserted in FB. longisepala, pu
pinea, and vestita, and exserted in EF. ex
E. vestita.

(7) Banksia.

d filamentosa ;
rpurea, sometimes so in EH. coccinea,
surgens, grandiflora, sometimes so in

KEY TO SUBSECTIONS.

Anthers aristate; ovary glabrous... .., (1) Mamuosax
Anthers muticous (in 32, sometimes minutely decurrent- :
denticulate) :
Ovary glabrous, or at most puberulous :

Ovary sessile, broadish at the base, mostly elon-
gate toe

tee Fue ve “ee eee Pant 2) Foa :
ee substipitate, or narrowed to the base, (@) Frameuna
short vee eee eee eee eee obs Pin
Ovary villous, rarely puberulous : (3) —

epals broadish, ovate-lanceolate to ovate

Sepals narrow, linear to lanceolate (4) Reet.

ove sw (5) Loneiroura.
: + 1. Mammose.
Ovary sessile :

Corolla more than 5 lin. long:

Corolla more or less distinct] 4afe
‘ae uine Y 4-foveolate at

— about 1 lin. long; sepals 14-2 lin. ei
ong ... sé wits ee +e (IS
miso 2-23 lin. long; sepals about 3 lin, ee
Corolla terete at the base or nearly so; ehaiehten
Flowers in a very dense close spike . | Sessilifi:
Flowers not in a very dense a oe eed abe
Corolla inflated below, tapering toa ,
narrow mouth, red...

Hrica.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 11

Corolla somewhat asymmetrically in-
flated medially, white :
Leaves 13-3 lin. long, obtuse,

spreading (14) bowieana.
Leaves 4-5 lin. long, acute, sub-
erect... : .. (15) gi
Corolla 3-4 lin. long, red or yellow .. see wi§dT) Sitpenhang var.
Ovary stipitate, corolla of various length, white .-»» (17) filipendula,

+ 2. Flammule.
Anthers subterminal; cells free; filaments forked at

the apex:
Corolla-segments semiovate, bluntly acute - .. (18) grandiflora.
Corolla-segments semilanceolate, very acute | (19) exsurgens.
Anthers sublateral or lateral ; cells not free to the
base :

Corolla extremely viscid; sepals thick, leathery ... (21) Hibbertia.
Corolla slightly viseid, or dry :
Corolla tubular, 9-13 lin. long :
Sepals lanceolate, ginbaae; 3 Ovary gla-

brous j (22) purpurea,
Sepals oblanceolate, villows 5 ovary his-
pidulous ... , es .. (23) coccinea.

Corolla tubular, 5-8 lin. ‘long :
Sepals linear-lanceolate, about equal to
the corolla-tube ... ... (20) longisepala.
Sepals obcuneate, cuspidate, villous, much
shorter than the corolla-tube ... (23) coccinea, var. B.

Corolla obconic or tg ee vi lin.
long |. sw vee .. (24) conica,

Tt 3. Pinex.

Ovary puberulous; sepals 2 lin. long... sss ws» (26) hesseana.
Ovary glabrous ; sepals 24-33 lin. long:
Anthers dorsifixed at the base, 2-1 lin. long;
flowers yellow or white... (25) pinea.
Anthers dorsifixed above the base, a lin. long ;
flowers red ... we eis ae .. (27) annectens,

+ 4. Regiz.
Anthers prognathous; corolla 4-9 lin. long, colour
various, seldom or never entirely white re ... (28) regia.
Anthers not, or scarcely, prognathous :
Corolla attenuate at the base, mostly white or rosy,
inflated at the middle, mouth contracted, 4-8 lin.

long ... . (29) casta,
Corolla-tube equal, bent, mouth not contracted,

12 lin. long .. an “ : .. (30) Marie.

, + 5. Longifoliz.
Leaves 3-4 lin. broad; petiole 1-2 lin. long by Ts-8 lin,
broad :

Corolla clavate-tubular, 8-12 lin. leng, mouth

more or less widened wii s . (31) vestita. —
Corolla clavate-tubular, 5 lin. long, mouth more

or less contracted ... es, +. (32) i
Corolla obconic-tubular or subconic, 4-6} lin. long,

mouth much widened sew - (33 ) filamentosa.

Leaves distinctly broader ; petioles shorter and broader :
Sepals linear ; bracts linear aad 2 sesame ee nr —

12 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [Brica.

Sepals lanceolate :
Corolla trumpet-shaped ; mouth not contracted ;

bracts approximate, long... mn ... (84) longifolia, var. ¢.
Corolla inflated; mouth contracted ;_ bracts
subremote, small vie owe bas ... (85) onosmefiora,

§ 4. Evantue. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers solitary or 2-4-nate, rarely
clustered. Corolla mostly tubular, very rarely obconic or subcampanulate, at
least 44 lin. long, usually longer. Anthers mostly included or more rarely sub-
exserted or exserted, lateral, free, muticous or decurrent-denticulate or aristate,
very rarely subcristate. Ovary sessile, glabrous or more rarely pubescent, 4-. or
more rarely 8-celled, Leaves 3-4-nate, rarely 4-6-nate, Usually erect, stout,
woody shrubs, from 1-5 ft. high; more rarely procumbent or slender.

Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot believes all the large-flowered Evanthes to be almost
certainly ornithophilous (Ann. Bot. iv. 270).

Exceptions: E. verticillata, var. B, has sometimes corollas less than 41 lin,
long. Umbellate inflorescence may sometimes occur in E . verticillata.

Many of the species of this section are very variable and difficult of definition.
Some, with normally 4-nate leaves, occasionally have 3-nate leaves; more often
the inflorescence varies according to the degree of luxuriance of growth, and the
size of the corolla is frequently affected by the same cause. In using the key,
therefore, it will often be found necessary to try under more headings than one.

A. Loneirtorx. Corolla more than 6 lin. long.
1. Ovary more or less pubescent.
Anthers mnticous :
" Sepals 3-4 lin. long; filaments dilated at the base ... (58) versicolor.
Sepals under 1 lin. long; filaments not dilated at

the base ote th 333 at: s. (40) xanthina.
Anthers appendiculate : (40)

Sepals broad-ovate ; leaves 3-4-nate, subglabrous... (65) mertensiana,
Sepals ovate-lanceolate ; leaves 3-nate, cano-pu-

bescent ees i ... (41) Maximiliani.
Sepals lanceolate-linear; leaves 3-nate, shortly

pilose... cok Ndi tele ..» (67) wendlandiana,

. : 2.. Ovary glabrous.
* Flowers solitary (in 44 ¢ unknown) :
Anthers aristate, awns free :
Leaves 3-nate ;
‘Awns shorter than the anther-cell :

Leaves linear to lanceolate, 14-24 lin,
long ; sepals lanceolate or oblong,

3-3 lin. long wp 7 tts ase (49) densifolia.

Leaves linear-subfiliform : sepals sub-

linear, 2 lin. lon a on i
ee usually much longer than the anther. GaN ere
ce ea i ee ea) --» (51) speciosa
Leaves 4-nate; awns as lon as or cis é
the anther-cell ; rere mane.
Sepals 2 lin. long ; leaves 2-23 lin. long 37) sacciflor
2 5 . eee a.
Sepals 4-6 lin. long ; leaves 4-6 lin. long (an abietina.
— 4-nate ; awns shorter than the anther-
ce eee wee wee vee eee eee urviflo:
Anthers muticous or minutely decurrent-awned or —. 4
toothed :
. Sepals 4 lin. long, ovate or subcuneate ‘
Sepals under 1 lin, long, or sometimes a little meen

Erie sem, eis stad cag -» (40) xanthina.

Lirica. | ERICACER® (Guthrie & Bolus). 13

Sepals 14-4 lin. long: |
Anthers distinctly curved forwards at the
base se ike vs hag ... (48) conspicua.
Anthers not curved forwards at the base :
Corolla-tube subequal in diam. :
Sepals under 1 lin. long; bracts
minute ; corolla-tube yellow ... (40) xanthina.
Sepals 3—4 lin. long ; bracts large ;
corolla-tube red om ... (57) MacOwanii.
Corolla globosely swollen below the
throat, glabrous, white to rosy... (63) colorans.
Corolla somewhat inflated at the base
and apex, yellow... his ... (43) dubia.
Corolla gradually widened to the
mouth, rarely subequal :
Sepals and tube of yellow corolla
glabrous ; filaments attached at
a right-angle to connective ... (44) bibax.
Sepals, corolla, and filaments not so :
Ovary 8-celled ... ves ... (62) perspicua.
Ovary 4-celled; sepals very
variable in shape and size ... (45) eurviflora.
Corolla-limb 2-3} lin. long (45) eurviflora, var. B.
Corojla-limb mostly less
than 2 lin. long:
Branches stout, erect ;
leaves densely im-
bricate :
Anthers affixed
about the mid-
dle of the cell,
appendiculate . (45) curviflora, var. y.
Anthers affixed
below the middle
of the cell, mu-
ticous :
Corolla about
19 lin. long,
nearly glab-
rous, red ... (45) curviflora, var. ¢.
Corolla under
14 lin. long,
densely villous,
yellow ... (45) curviflora, var. 5,
Branches diffuse and
slender ; leaves sub-
: distant ... .., (45) curviflora, var. e.
** Flowers 2-3-4-nate (in 64, sometimes umbellate, in
48 and 62 usually, in others, occasionally, solitary) :
+ Anthers muticous :
Anthers affixed near the middle of the cell by
the thick connective ; ovary 8-celled ... (64) verticillata.
Anthers affixed near the base of the cell, and
as long as the filament; corolla hairy within (70) brachialis.
Anthers, ovary and corolla not asin the two

foregoing :
t Corolla dry (or in 64, viscidulous with
glandular hairs) :
Ovary 4-celled:

Anthers straight or nearly so;
_ Sepals 1-2 lin. longs

14 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

Leaves 4-nate; anthers } lin.
long :
Corolla pubescent, yellow ;
limb connivent ... ... (40) xanthina.
Corolla glabrous, blood-red ;
limb erect or spreading . (68) hematosiphon.
Leaves 3-nate; corolla 11-14
lin. long; anthers 1-14 lin.
long ... ide vi .»- (58) versicolor.
Leaves 3-nate ; corolla 8-10 lin.
long; anthers $-1 lin. long. (66) cruenta, var. B.
Sepals exceeding 2 lin. long:
Leaves 3-nate; flowers 3-6-
“nate, 10 lin. Jong... ... (42) pallens,
Leaves 3-4-nate; flowers 1-2-

nate, 8 lin. long ... ..- (48) dubia,
Leaves 4-nate :

Leaves glabrous; corolla

about 19 lin. long —,,,_ (45) curviflora, var. ¢
Leaves plumose-ciliate, or

serrulate ; corolla 12 lin.

Ong x ++ .. (56) serratifolia.
Anthers curved forwards at the base:

Flowers usually 4-nate, gland-

hairy; anthers 1 lin. long .. (61) glandulosa.
Flowers usually solitary; not
gland-hairy ; anthers 1}-14
lin. long ~ .., ave --. (48) conspicua.
Ovary 8-celled ; corolla usually villous
or pubescent x aye .-- (62) perspicua.
tf Corolla viscid :
Sepals 2 lin, long :
Anthers 11-12 lin, long; leaves
Squarrose to recurved .., .. (59) berzelioides.
Anthers 2 or more lin, long ;

leaves suberect, imbricate (60) diaphana.
Sepals 8-5 lin, long :

Leaves 3-nate vee .-. (58) versicolor,
Leaves 4-nate ... ive --» (54) dichrus,
tt Anthers appendiculate :

Anthers } lin, long or less :
Appendages shortly subulate, scarcely
reaching to the base of the cell ... ... (47) macropus,

Appendages decurrent-denticulate on the
filament ..,

bee OR a -. (63) colorans.
a yep de as long as or
onger than the ce is és . (38 i -
Anthers 2-1 lin. long : serra
Awns of anther about as long as or longer
than the cell:
Procumbent, dwarf ;

eu ovary sub-
stipitate or constricted | --» (39) nana,
Erect, tall ; ovary sessile, broad-based {3} foliacea.
Awns much shorter :

Base of the anthers hollowed at the
_ approximation of the cellg :
ves 3-nate; awns of anther
3-§ of length of cell ... -+» (53) discolor,
eaves 4-nate; awns minute,
carcely projecting beyond the _ es:
Olle se (54) dichrus;

- tee

and subverticillate by innovation of the branches. — Corolla tubular or inflated. se

Hriea.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 15

Base of the anthers not, or scarcely,
hollowed :

Anthers oblong, affixed to the

filament above their base;
bracts mostly small :

Leaves ciliate with plumose

hairs; flowers yellow ... (56) serratifolia.
Leaves naked ; flowers blood-

red... ie ots ... (66) cruenta.
Anthers linear, affixed near their
base ; bracts largish ... ... (55) unicolor.

Anthers 13-2 lin. long:
Leaves 4-6-nate; corolla contracted at
the throat ... #is va Sti ... (69) chloroloma.
Leaves 3-nate :
Awns of anthers nearly as long as the
cell ; cells blunt at the base ... (51) speciosa.
Awns of anther shorter; cells mostly

with a sharp projecting basal ‘ *
point:

Sepals tomentose ... aee .. (52) hebecalyx.

Sepals glabrous ... sie ... (60) diaphana.

B. BreviFtor®. Corolla less than 6 lin. long.

Leaves 3-nate ges iM we ese oe ... (66) cruenta,vars. +, 5.
Leaves 4-nate :
Ovary 8-celled; connective of anther projecting

dorsally ~~ ‘vs ows ees wis ... (64) verticillata, var. 8.
Ovary 4-celled; connective of anther not pro-
jecting = pai ee ide owe +». (61) glandulosa, var. 8.

§ 5. Dasyantues. Inflorescence terminal; flowers mostly umbellate, or sub-
capitate. Bracts approximate or subremote. Corolla tubular, rarely sub-
ovoid-tubular, more or less hairy, sometimes setose-hispid, never quite glabrous,
mostly dry, rarely subviscidulous. Anthers included or_exserted, lateral, free,
muticous or aristate. Ovary sessile, usually villous, or rarely puberulous, never
glubrous, 4-celled. Leaves usually 4-nate, more rarely 3-6-o-nate. Rigid
woody shrubs, 1-4 ft, high.

Ovary villous:
Sepals, bracts and leaves pectinate-ciliate :
Sepals and bracts oblong-linear —....—.., (71) _strigilifolia.
Sepals and bracts unguiculate de ... (72) pectinifolia.
Sepals and bracts not pectinate-ciliate :
Sepals and bracts thickly setose-hispid with
long pallid hairs... iis ws ... (73) Sparrmanni.
Sepals and bracts not thickly setose-hispid :
Anthers aristate :
Corolla 5-64 lin. long avs --» (76) Oatesii.
Corolla 6-16 lin. long (mostly
10-12) ; anthers often muticous. (77) cerinthoides.
Anthers cristate-aristate; awns subulate,
curved and lacerate ... sai ... (75) splendens.
_ Anthers muticous or very minutely

aristate... ae Oe ose .-. (77) cerinthoides.
Ovary puberulous ; anthers shortly decurrent-aristate (74) doliiformis.
§ 6. CHona. Cae ah

Only species... 2. su, cee seen (78) embothriifolia,
§ 7. Bacrripium. Inflorescence terminal and umbellate, or pseudo-axillary

16 ERIcACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

tubular, viscid. Anthers included, lateral. Ovary narrow, elongate, long-
stipitate, glabrous.

The species are probably fertilized by birds. (Cf. Scott-Elliot, Annals of
Botany, iv. 270).

Tall and virgate ; leaves linear, 6-8 lin. long __.... ... (79) fascicularis.
Shorter, more branched; leaves oblong, 2 lin. long _—.., (80) Massoni.

Il. STELLANTHE.

§ 8. EvrytomA. Inflorescence terminal; flowers generally umbellate. Corolla
mostly ampullaceous, sometimes suburceolate, rarely tubular, contracted at the
throat, usually viscid; limb spreading, often large. Anthers included, lateral,
either subcrescent-shaped, prognathous and distinctly bilobed at the base, or less
commonly nearly straight, equal and scarcely lobed, muticous or appendiculate.
Ovary more or less distinctly stipitate, or elongate, usually glabrous. Leaves
3-4-nate, adpressed, squarrose or recurved. Usually glabrous shrubs.

1. Anthers distinctly prognathous, also crescent-shaped and bilobed at the base.
Corolla mostly ampullaceous, or at least tubular-inflated

below :
Anthers aristate; ovary short-stipitate ; corolla 9-20
lin, long Se ae le io ... (87) Junonia.
Anthers muticous:
Leaves 3-nate :

Corol)a ampullaceous, 12-15 lin. long :
Corolla tapering into a long thin

neck ; leaves 3-4 lin. long... ... (85) lagenezformis.
Corolla with a shorter and thicker
neck; leaves 4-6 lin. long ... .-- (88) shannonea.

eh Ni re Sime sien or suburceolate,
4-10 lin. lo: ove vee «+ «.. (90) irbyana.
Leaves 4-nate : oo ig oa
Corolla-tube 4 lin. long; leaves nearly erect (81) Gysbertii.
Corolla-tube much longer ; leaves spreading
or recurved ;
Sepals pubescent ; corolla-segments very
acute .., oe bs ba -.. (84) retorta.
Sepals glabrous ; corolla-segments obtuse
or retuse :
Corolla-segments wider than long,
Tetuse,. -s. © ss sess (88) aristate.
; Corolla-segments longer than wide,
ag OE ee ws .s (89) ampulleces.
Corolla-tube cylindrical, not inflated ; limb very large ... (86) jasminiflora.

2. Anthers not distinctly prognathous, straight or nearly so, obscurely bilobed
at the base.
Anthers appendiculate :
Corolla &-6 lin. long; anthers broad-cuneate; awns

nearly aslongasthecell ... .., +++ ss. (92) pectinata.
Corolla 3-4 lin. long; anthers oblong or semiovate ; ae
awns much shorter... 0... ... (93) trichroma.

Corolla nae: lin. Jong; awns of anther about equalling
the cell... ‘ain er sie eee bad os (95 *
Anthers muticons : Seep
Leaves 3-nate, minutely gland-ciliolate or serrulate :

Leaves 2-3 lin. long ; corolla 4-84 lin. long... ci curvifolia.

Leaves {-1 lin, long ; corolla about 2 lin. lon 94) tubercularis.
Leaves 4-nate or sub-4-nate, ciliate with long hairs .,. 82) squarrosa. __

Erica. | ERICACEEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). 17

§ 9. Curamvs. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers umbellate or 3~4-nate, rarely
pseudo-corymbose. Bracts usually remote, or subremote and small, rarely sub-
approximate and rather large. Sepals narrow, small, rarely equalling the corolla-
tube. Corolla ovoid-urceolate, or obovoid-urceolate, rarely urceolate, glabrous,
dry; throat mostly much constricted. Anthers included, lateral, mostly equal
at the base, rarely prognathous or slightly so, usually appendiculate, more
rarely muticous, Ovary stipitate or at least narrowed at the base, glabrous.
Leaves 3-nate, 4-nate or scattered.

Exceptions : anthers prognathous, or slightly so, in Z. incarnata.

Leaves 3-nate ... qe Hi os ee ... (96) incarnata,
Leaves 4-nate :

Leaves 5-10 lin. long:
Virgate; leaves very slender; corolla
3-4 lin.long ... op one --» (99) inflata,
Much branched ; corolla 5-10 lin. long ... (100) ventricosa,
Leaves 1-4 lin. long:
Anthers very minutely cristate; leaves
2-3 lin. long re sve bo ..» (97) Savilea,
Anthers muticous ; leaves 3-4 lin. long ... (38) precox.

§ 10. Caxtista (Stellanthe, Salisb.). Inflorescence terminal ; flowers usually
4-nate, rarely solitary. Bracts approximate, Sepals linear, lanceolate-oblong,
ovate, obovate or spathulate, mostly ciliate, denticulate or lacerate, scarious,
Corolla narrow-tubular, urceolate, or narrow-ovoid-urceolate, from 2-10 lin.
long, mostly glabrous and dry, the spreading limb often covered on tbe
upper surface by a pallid thickish mealy film. Anthers included, lateral, basi-
fixed or subdorsifixed, muticous or very rarely minutely aristulate, usually 3-4 lin.
long. Ovary sessile, rarely elongate, glabrous. Leaves 4-nate, mostly linear,
rarely broader, usually glabrous. Erect, rigid shrubs with glabrous rarely
pubescent branches.

The section is a natural one; but the last four or five species are difficult of
definition and limitation.

EXxcePtions: flowers usually solitary in HE. Lawsonia ; ovary elongate, some-
what contracted at the base in E. cylindrica.

Corolla tubular, not, or scarcely inflated ; sepals linear
or lanceolate-linear :
Flowers solitary, or generally so... .». (101) Lawsonia.
Flowers 4-nate, or sub-4-nate:
Sepals less than half as long as the corolla-
tube:
Corolla-tube 8-10 lin. long, about 4 lin.
wide, slightly inflated at the throat ... (102) pavetteflora.
Corolla-tube 6-7 lin. long, about # lin.
wide, slightly contracted at the throat (103) cylindrica,
Sepals from 3—§ the length of the corolla-
tube:
Corolla-tube not inflated, 4 lin. by 1 lin. (104) fastigiata.
Corolla-tube slightly inflated, 5-6 lin.
by 1-1} lin. :
Corolla-segments ovate-oblong, 2 :
lin. Jong ... see ov .-. (104) fastigiata, var. y.
Corolla-segments ovate-lanceolate, :
3 lin. long... ‘uy . se. (104) fastigiata, var. 8.
Corolla-tube scarcely inflated; sepals lanceolate or
ovate-lanceolate :
Corolla-tube 2-24 lin. long re ove ... (105) transparens,
Corolla-tube 34-7 oe long : " ee
Sepals ; lin., subequal corolla-tube ; : ‘ i
Te olla-denmeute® het by 2} lim (106) Vallis-Gratin.
NOL. IV.—SECT. I. a Serie c

18 gricace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

Sepals about 4 the length of the corolla-tube
or less:
Corolla-tube 4-5 lin. by 14 lin.; sepals :
about 2 lin. long dex we ... (109) daphniflora, var.¢.
Corolla-tube 7 lin. by 14 lin. ; sepals ’
about 8 lin. long awe oe ... (107) preenitens.
- Corolla-tube usually distinctly inflated below :
Sepals not distinctly widest above the middle : -
Sepals subulate-linear, 6 lin. long ... ... (104) fastigiata, var. y.
Sepals broader, tapering from middle to
ME eres -_ t00s one am ... (109) daphniflora, and
Sepals oblong, elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, vars. B, y, and ¢.
not tapering from middle to apex ... (109) daphnifiora, vars.
Sepals, and generally the bracts also, distinctly B, y, 5, €
widest above the middle, and more or less
- lacerate-edged: . , :
Sepais only slightly lacerate, or denticulate ; ;
leaves usually spreading-incurved :
Sepals with a long foliaceous cusp;
corolla 5-6 lin. long ... w+ wee (110) pellucida,
Sepals not so, or with a very short cusp;
corolla 3-4 lin, long ... ibe ... (108) Walkeria.
Sepals and bracts usually deeply pectinate-
lacerate or fimbriate ; leaves usually erect
or ascending ... fk dea ie ... (111) denticulata.

§ 11. Puatyspora. Inflorescence axillary or subaxillary; flowers sometimes
arranged in long pseudo-racemes, or dense pseudo-spikes or heads, corolline or
rarely subealycine. Bracts and sepals scarious or glumaceous, the former always
smaller, the sepals more or less distinctly imbricate and in opposite pairs, upper
pair somewhat narrower, all white or pallid. Corolla suburceolate, subsalver-
shaped, or ovoid, contracted at the throat, from 3-8} lin. long; limb mostly
spreading or recurved, sometimes large {with a general resemblance to that of
§§ Callista and Lamprotis). Filaments capillary, rarely rather broad. Anthers
included, lateral, shortly aristate or muticous. Style included ; stigma simple or,
capitellate ; ovary mostly glabrous, rarely puberulous; ovules flat or more or —
less broadly -winged, or with a membranous margin, or lenticular and not
marginate, Leaves 8- or 4-nate, always narrow, acute or acuminate, glabrous.
Branches mostly virgate. '

EXCEPTION : the flowers are snbcalycine in E. albens.

Allied on varions sides to the §§ Euryloma, Callista, and Lamprotis. From
the two former it is distinguished generally by the flat or compressed, mostly mar-
gined or winged, ovules and seeds. The character is not, however, always
capable of verification, and sometimes not well-marked. Similar seeds have been
found in other species, as in EH. dianthifolia, BE. chlorosepala (and perhaps in —
others) which, owing to the predominance of other characters, have been placed

elsewhere. From § Lamprotis this section is distingui
corolline flowers. : tht See ger: on is distinguished by its usually

Sepals ovate or lanceolate :
Pedicels about 5 lin. long; inflorescence sub-
corymbose : ... (112) astroites.

Pedicels about 2 lin, long ;_ inflorescence " pseudo-
spicate or racemose :
Flowers in a long lax pseudo-raceme, often
— Ss wie See HS: .-» (118) albens.
owers in a short crowded spike or head ) ae
Sepals narrow-lanceolate : ceed eho . -
Leaves 4-nate ; anthers muticous; seeds searcely .
see margined eee eee oer aoe cae aoe (115) macilenta. :

ee

Brica.] pricacea: (Guthrie & Bolus). 19

Leaves 3- (or occasionally 4-) nate :
Corolla-tube 4 lin. by 1 lin., 4-gonous; anthers
muticous; seeds not (or narrowly) margined... (116) tetragona,
Corolla-tube 3 lin. by 14 lin., cylindrical ; anthers
minutely aristate; seeds broadly winged _.., (117) heliophila.

§ 12. Myra. Inflorescence axillary, in at least two species strictly racemose,
or sometimes terminal and umbellate. Bracts small and inconspicuous, remote or
approximate. Sepals small, glabrous or gland-hispid. Corolla subtubular,
urceolate, rarely subampullaceous, mostly pubescent. Anthers generally in-
cluded, lateral, appendiculate. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, glabrous or
rarely thinly puberulous ; limb mostly flattish and stellato-patent. Leaves 3-4-
nate below, scattered on the upper branches, irregular and often distant. Well
characterized by the branches, leaves, pedicels, and sometimes the bracts and
sepals, being more or less densely hispid and viscid with gland-tipped hairs.

ExcEPTIOoN : corolla-segments spreading, but scarcely stellato-patent in E.
armata, ‘ es
Sepals glabrous ; anthers crested : ,
Corolla-tube about 4 lin. long; anthers cuneate-
CUION av Ls ot 2 Ey aes eee ... (121) glutinosa.
Corolla-tube 7-12 lin. long; anthers narrow-cuneate.. (120) rufescens.
Sepals gland-hispid ; anthers crested :
Corolla-tube 6-8 lin. long ; pedicels 4-6 lin. long... (119) irrorata.
Corolla-tube 3-4 lin. long ; pedicels 13-2 lin. long ... (118) glandulifera.
Sepals gland-hispid ; anthers aristate ite ive ... (122) armata.

III. EUERICA, Bentz.

§ 18. Epaesus (Lasianthe, Bartl.). Inflorescence mostly terminal, rarely
terminal and axillary; flowers usually 3—4-nate, sometimes solitary, rarely
clustered or umbellate, corolline rarely subcalycine. Sepals usually small and
inconspicuous, Corolla variously shaped, rarely over 3 lin. long, most usually
with indumentum, dry or rarely viscid. Anthers usually included, rarely
exserted or subexserted, lateral, appendiculate or muticous. Leaves 3—4-nate.
Generally erect and rigid shrubs.

Exceptions : inflorescence terminal and lateral in E. caterveflora, Atherstonei,
aggregata, globosa, aud sometimes so in H. podophylla; clustered or subcapitate
in E. caterveflora, distorta, turgida, nidularia, aggregata; flowers solitary, or
occasionally so, in E. podophylla, propendens, pyramidalis, chrysocodon, tricho-
phora and cyrillefora ; subcalycine in LE. podophylla and BE. Lerouxie ; corolla
glabrous in vars, of EH. Alopecwrus, pyramidalis, caterveflora, intervallaris,
oresigena, or becomes glabrous in HE. Atherstonei ; and exceeds 3 lin. in length in
E. propendens, pyramidalis, chrysocodon, oresigena, Fianagani, and coffra;
anthers exserted in EZ. turgida and subexserted'in HE. algida, Atherstonei, perlata,
and globosa ; ovary sometimes 8-celled in E. propendens.

The shape of the corolla.is necessarily taken in most cases from dried or boiled
specimens. In either state it often appears wider at the mouth than in the living
plant, and, notwithstanding care, may be sometimes thus described.

I. SULCAT.A. Leaves sulcate, or only occasionally subopen-backed.
: 1. Leaves 3-nate.

Inflorescence a dense narrow pseudo-spike, 1-3 in. long ... (133) Alopecurus.

Inflorescence not a dense narrow pseudo-spike :
Corolla-mouth more or less widened at maturity :
Ovary glabrous :

Leaves subpungent ; corolla dark-purple, viscid-

pubescent ae iis ei leu

Leaves not pungent; corolla white or pallid,

_very minutely oe ia oye, oor (Ae) Omale.

(136) siewfolia.

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:

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20 gricace& (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica.

Ovary pubescent = :
Corolla densely tomentose ... ots w+» (124) Peziza.

Corolla minutely puberulous wit ... (160) trichadenia.

Corolla scarcely widened or contracted at the mouth

or throat:

Ovary never glabrous :
Bracts remote and small :
Corolla densely woolly and shaggy ... (125) ovina.
Corolla hirsute, pubescent or puberu-
lous:
Anthers cristate or subcristate :
Corolla strongly 4-nerved,
pulverulent . «» (138) Atherstonei.
Corolla not nerved :
Anthers broad-cristate ;
petioles 1 lin. or more
long ... eat ... (137) podophylla.
Anthers narrow-cristate ;
petioles } lin, long or
1es8 tee ... (129) albescens.
Anthers aristate or subaristate :
Sepals and young leaves
copiously long-setose; ¢o-
rolla 3 lin. long ... —... (130) oxyandra.
Sepals and leaves not long-
’ setose ; corolla 1} lin. long :
Anthers over 4 lin. long (129) albescens.
Anthers } lin. long ... (147) parviflora, var. ¢.
Bracts approximate, 1 lin. or more long :
Corolla 2-24 lin. long; sepals 14 lin.
long ; anthers nearly } lin. long .., (181) dysantha.
Corolla 1 lin. long ; sepals $ lin. long;
anthers } lin. long 1.00 ka 13 eriocodon.

Ovary glabrous ; seh 3—4 lin. long .., -» (154) modesta,
ary Sometimes glabrous ; corolla 1-1} lin.long (147) parviflora, var.
Corolla contracted at the throst ; eae ‘
Bracts approximate :
Whole plant roughly hispid; sepals} lin.long (128) Constantia.
Plant not roughly hispid ; sepals 14-2 lin.

Straggling plant; leaves distant;
sepals linear aoe ee oe eee (135) auriculata.
aa leaves imbricate ; sepals
Ovi orn eee oor eee A ad
ee and. small ; 2 eaten
rola-segments recurved, tips dark- ‘
ete ee ee (127) pubigera.
Corolla-segments not recurved :
Sepals nearly as long as the corolla ... (132) dilatata.
Sepals much shorter than the corolla :
Corolla globose-urceolate; mouth
much -contracted w+ ase (123) nivalis.
Corolla urceolate or ovoid-urceo-
late; mouth not much econ-
tracted; -

—— <s oe — + to
nearly 4 as high as corolla (170) pubeseens.
Sepals — long, } as high Seeued

ascoroiia ... .. 4.. (126) tomentosa.
Corolla oval or cyathiform, densely se

woolly and shaggy ... .., (125) ovina,

Erica.| ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 21

2. Leaves 4-nate.

* Corolla-mouth widened; ovary glabrous :
Authers muticous :
Corolla 13 lin, long ; sepals $ lin. long .. (143) setulosa.
Corolla 3-5 lin. long; sepals 1-14 lin. long: :
Bracts approximate ; sepals oe wed
brous, scarious ... . (139) propendens.
Bracts remote ; 3 Sepals pubescent :
Sepals linear or acuminate from an
evate coloured base :
Leaves 23-34 lin. long; corolla
glabrous or puberulous (140) pyramidalis.
Leaves 1-1} lin, long; corolla
softly pilose... . (142) trichophora.
Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; ;
corolla funnel-shaped de .. (141) chrysocodon,
Anthers appendiculate :
Anthers oblong, subcristate, 4 lin. oe pore
about 4 as long as the cell... (145) distorta.
Anthers oblong, aristate, 3 lin. long, pore about
4 as long as the cell .., (144) pusilla.
Anthers broad-oblong, aristate, a5 lin, long,
pore about # as long as the cell ‘—< . (144) pusilla, var. B.
** Corolla-mouth scarcely widened or contracted :
} Ovary glabrous; bracts remote and small:
Corolla tetragonous or subtetragonous :
Flowers densely clustered ; corolla 24 lin.

long (146) caterveeflora.
Flowers not “densely clustered ; “corolla
14-2 lin. long... ‘as ove .. (148) intervallaris.
Corolla not tetragonous :
Anthers appendiculate :
Corolla semiglobose-urceolate or broad-
cyathiform, 1-1} lin. long .. ... (145) distorta.

Corolla ovoid-urceolate, or cyathiform
or subtubular, 14-2 lin. long:
Corolla mostly ovoid-urceolate ;
hairs usually very rough;
anthers ovate-cuneate .. (156) hirtifiora,
Corolla mostly narrow-cyathiform
or subtubular ; hairs less rough
than in the above; anthers ’
oblong . vee eww «lee (187) parviflora.
Anthers muticous :
Corolla subtubular or tubular-cam- a
panulate, 3 lin. long vis ie a eyrilleflora.
Corolla suburceolate, 2 lin. long 147) parviflora, var.y.
fi Ovary with indumentum :
Bracts subapproximate, one longer and folia-
ceous :
Anthers east mostly with a sharp
anterior basal point wes (151) turgida.
Anthers obovate-oblong, without a meted
anterior basal point ia "haze! algida,
Bracts remote; anthers longitudinally semi
ovate... ive ae ~ (152) nidularia.
### Qorolla-mouth more or less contracted ;
mostly urceolate :
Bracts approximate or subapproximate : oe
Corolla 34-4 st very stout shrub _ ... (155) Flanagani.

fii

22 Ericacem (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

Corolla 2 lin. long ; flowers few ; branches with

long internodes es ate (135) auriculata.
Corolla 14 lin. long ; flowers numerous ; ; inter-
nodes short... ave ee ve .. (151) turgida.

Bracts remote and small;
Corolla-segments acuminate; leaves ovoid, 4
thick, short} ... int . (159) oophylla. 4
Corolla-segments not acuminate ; leaves not :
ovoid, thick and short :
Sepals 2 lin. or more long, gland-ciliate,
or soft subplumose-ciliate (153) oresigena,
Sepals 1 lin. or less long, not gland- ciliate :
Anthers with a sharp anterior basal
point .. (151) turgida,
Anthers without a sharp anterior basal
point:
Corolla-limb spreading, nearly }
as long as the tube; stigma sub-
peltate: ied aired oouades (157) mollis,
Corolla-limb erect or rarely
spreading, much less than 4 the
_ length of the tube; stigma
capitate :
. Sepals. — with the

corolla (132) dilatata.
Sepals half ‘as long as the
corolla or less :
Anthers ovate-cunentes
.awns long-ciliate
Corolla puberulous,
bright crimson ... (158) ribisaria.
Corolla roughly tu- j
berculate-hirsute,
pale purple or rosy (156) hirtiflora.
Anthers oblong; awns
rough-edged or short-
ciliolate oes .. (147) parviflora,

II. CERAMIOIDEA. Leaves more or less open-backed and spreading.

1. Leaves 3-nate.
Bracts approximate :
Leaves ovate; sepals foliaceous, green, short-ciliate (167) enero
ioent lancaster sepals coloured, at least in the
ower
Corolla-mouth wide; anthers subincluded,
manifest : si
Repale-§ i. Yong. ai. ds. ees .. (166) setosa.
Sepals 14 lin. long ... mg fausta.
Corolla moderately contracted or nearly equal
at the throat :
Sepals 13-2) lin.long, reaching to} the height
of the corolla ; filaments broad, ciliate (168) Lerouxie.
Sepals 1-1} lin. long, reaching to eS the
— of the sea oe filaments narrow,
na eae oe 7 oo. eee bescens.
Bracts remote, small : « IO) pe
Leaves open-backed, narrow, whether linear, oblong
or lanceolate :
Petioles 1 lin. long or more, ciliate (leaves

mostly sulcate only) os. ae aes st) podopbylis,

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 23

Petioles 4 lin. Jong or less:
Anuthers muticous ... ave ws ase (161) eriocodon.
Anthers appendiculate :
Corolla-mouth distinctly contracted :
Corolla 3-84 lin. long, long per-
persistent :
Anthers distinctly aristate ;
leaves up to 6 lin. long ... (169) caffra.
Anthers obscurely aristate ;
leaves much shorter _... (169) caffra, var. B.
Corolla 2 lin. long ; leaves 2-3 lin.
LOmGy sve or sn ... (172) aggregata.
Corolla-mouth scarcely widened or
contracted :
Sepals broad-lanceolate, 1 lin.
long ; corolla ovoid-urceolate.. (170) pubescens.
Sepals linear, 14 lin. long ; corolla
- broad-urceolate ie ... (171) hirta.
Corolla-mouth widened; leaves fim-
briate-ciliate cat set ... (160) trichadenia.
Leaves open-backed, ovate or at least broad :
Corolla-limb subequal to the tube; mouth
widened ... eet és see ot ... (162) patens.
Corolla-limb much shorter than the tube;
mouth not widened :
Corolla about 3 lin. long; leaves broad,
ovate to elliptical ey it ... (174) marifolia.
Corolla 2-24 lin. long; leaves linear to
narrow-ovate :
Dwarf, diffuse ; pubescence silvery ... (175) argyrea.
Taller, erect ; pubescence not silvery :
Flowers crowded at the ends of
the branches; pubescence fine
and soft, not glandular ... (172) aggregata.
‘Flowers not crowded ; pubescence
usually more or less coarsely
glandular-viscid :
Anthers’ oblong, 3 times as”
long as broad... ... (171) hirta.
Anthers linear, 4-5 times as
long as broad =... ss (178) globose.

2, Leaves 4-nate (linear or linear-lanceolate).

Anthers cristate, included but often manifest ... ... (164) barbata.
Anthers minutely aristate, subexserted ... iv ... (163) perlata.

§ 14. Ceramia. Inflorescence variable, sometimes so on the same plant,
terminal or axillary ; flowers commonly 3-4-nate, umbellate or rarely sub-
capitate or solitary, corolline, rarely subcalycine. Sepals usually small and
inconspicuous. Corolla variously shaped, rarely exceeding 24 lin. in length,
mostly glabrous or less commonly pubescent, or puberulous, dry or viscid.
Anthers exserted or included, lateral or rarely terminal or subterminal, appendicu-
late or muticous. Leaves 3-nate or less commonly 4-nate. Diffuse or often
weakly-growing shrubs, less commonly erect but then generally slender, very
rarely stout and rigid, :

Notwithstanding the inconstancy of man of the sectional characters, this
section is a fairly natural one, and will give ittle trouble. Species not readily
found here may be sought for in § Ephebus.

Exceptions: flowers subcalycine in E. cordata and £. Lehmannii ; sub-
corolline in E. oreophila; the corolla exceeds (at least occasionally ) 24 lin. in-

24 ERIcAcEz (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

length in ZL, flewicaulis and E. macrophylla ; stamens irregular in number (40r 8)
in E. filiformis ; anthers terminal or subterminal in LE. Lehmannii, EB. Marlothis,
and rarely so in E. filiformis; sublateral in several species; habit erect, stout,
and rigid in E, strigosa.

1. Diffuse shrubs.

*Anthers included, seldom even manifest ;
Leaves so rolled back at the sides as to appear inflated
or bladdery _... = ava oe ies -«. (182) physophylla.
Leaves broad, more or less flat, open-backed, some-
times concave below :
t+ Anthers aristate :
Anthers 4 lin. long or less:
Corolla-mouth widened :

Corolla obconic-cyathiform ..» (183) oxycoccifolia.
Corolla funnel-shaped :
Bracts remote ... —... «+» (187)leptoclada,var.6.
Bracts approximate... ... (188) trichoclada,

Corolla-mouth contracted or not widened :
Anthers obovate, } lin. long ; sepals

$ lin, long aes) cay ... (176) cymosa,
Anthers short-cuneate, } lin. long ;
sepals 1 lin. long Gi .-. (177) oreophila.
Anthers over 4 lin, long:
Flowers terminal or mostly so, 3-nate ;
bracts approximate... .., ..» (179) heterophylla.
Flowers axillary or mostly so; bracts
usually remote :

Leaves 14-2 lin. long; filaments
broader at the base; flowers pale
parpie ae oak .»» (178) planifolia.
et 3-1} a long; filaments
near ual; flowers yellowish .. (180 tanthera.
+} Anthers mulitoult™ . - we tn
Leaves ovate to subrotund ; pedicels 2-84 lin.

TOU... om nesses aes atw (188) Oxyeocifolia,
inte linear to lanceolate ; pedicels 14 lin.
ong

sve Pe ity gi a ... (187) leptoclada,
_ Leaves oblong; pedicels 6-9 lin. long ... (181) tenuipes.
Leaves narrow, oblong or linear, sulcate, sometimes
subopen-backed :
Leaves generally 4-nate, small and very slender,
about. Pins lowg Wiese GAM) Lee oa 185) myriocodon.
Leaves 3-nate, linear-oblong, 3-4 lin. long -«. (184) tenuicaulis,
_ Leaves 3-nate, linear or lanceolate, 14 lin, long... 187) leptoclada,.

oer eae subincluded or subexserted, generally mani-
est :

seen pcre mouth widened «+ ave (188) trichoclada.
orolla urceolate; mouth coytracted ... .,. ,.. t ifoli
#*#** Anthers exserted : re

T Leaves ovate or lanceolate, open-backed :
mona i aera leaves 3-2 lin. long;
anthers minutely aristate a oes ... (186) brachycen’
~~ remote or lax; leaves more than # lin, ~~ etn
ong : :
Anthers muticons :
Corolla-mouth much contracted ; flowers
mostly solitary :
Corolla much collapsed in the upper
part during flowering ; style stout, = te
uncinate-decurved s+ eve (189) Marlothii,

Erica. } ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 25

Corolla moderately collapsed during

flowering ; style slender, straight (190) oligantha.
Corolla-mouth slightly contracted ;

flowers terminal, 3-nate os ... (191) debilis.

Anthers minutely aristate; corolla-mouth
not contracted; filaments ovate at the

base ... . (192) thimifolia.
++ Leaves linear or setaceous, suleate (not open-

backed) :
Leaves 3-nate :
Bracts approximate : :

Anthers muticous; stamens variable

in number (4-8) we si ... (198) filiformis.
Anthers aristate ; stamens regular 194) Tysoni
Bracts remote, minute ... (199) confusa,
Leaves 4-nate, setaceous, about “ke in. wide 195) aspalathoides.

2. Erect-branched, or scarcely diffuse shrubs.
* Corolla contracted at the mouth :
¢ Anthers muticous:
Bracts remote :
Ovary variably hairy:
Corolla less than 2 lin. long:
Pedicels #14 lin. long :
Inflorescence densely capitate ;
sepals much shorter than
the corolla ... ss ... (207) ocellata.
Inflorescence subcapitate, or
3-nate; sepals Monee sine
to the corolla fe : Ae cordata,
Pedicels 3-4 lin. long 202) latifolia.
Corolla 2 lin. long or more:
Anthers included; leaves 4-nate,

broad-linear eo ie .. (198) flexicanlis.
Authers exserted or subexserted :
Pedicels 4-1 lin. long; leaves
ciliate, hairy above . (206) macrophylla.
Pedicels 2-4 lin. long; leaves
ciliate, glabrous above egy hirsuta.
Ovary glabrous ace 198) flexicaulis.
Bracts all approximate ; anthers far-exserted,
subterminal . (205) Lehmannii.
Bracts 2 approximate, 1 remote ; Yeaves “4enate,
flowers umbellate © a . (198) flexicaulis.
Bracts subremote, very small; "leaves "Benate ;
flowers capitate ... eid wee bei .. (207) ocellata.
++ Anthers aristate :
Sepals foliaceous, 4 lin. long, broad-ovate .. (199) confusa.

Sepals scarious, 1~1} lin. long, ovate-lanceolate .. . (200) grata.
** Corolla not contracted at the mouth:
Anthers muticous :
Filaments spoon-bowl-shaped at the base ... (201) flacea.
Filaments equal or nearly so:

Bracts remote, minute he ¥ = Mundii. —
Bracts approximate, rather large, searious ... (
Anthers pk ate ; at ot wpe cen a . (197) strigosa. —
*** Corolla slightly ‘widened at the mouth, subtubu ar-
Gampanulate iP EO ae ae OR) flacea.

§ 15. Desmia (Conferta, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal ; flowers 3-nate,
umbellate or capitate, corolline or subcorolline. — Bracts oe or the lower

26 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrieca.

sometimes remote or lax, sepal-like, coloured. Sepals ovate or lanceolate, shorter
than. the corolla, subscarious or cartilaginous, coloured. Corolia urceolate,
glabrous, sometimes viscid, 14-24 lin. long; segments short. Anthers sub-
exserted, terminal, muticous.. Style exserted ; stigma capitate. Ovary mostly
glabrous or subglabrous. Leaves mostly 3- (rarely 4-) nate, mostly long and thin.
Straggling or erect shrubs. Allied to § Ceramia and § Pachysa; but distinct
from. both by its terminal anthers.

Leaves 4-nate; heads densely many-flowered ... ... (208) conferta.
Leaves 38-nate; flowers umbellate or clustered, but
scarcely dense or many :
Leaves 5-11 lin. long, acute or acuminate ... ... (209) polifolia.
_ Leaves 3-5 lin, long, obtuse... ... vow ... (210) obtusata,

§ 16. Gypsocattis. Inflorescence axillary towards the ends of .the branches,
rarely also terminal; flowers corolline or rarely subcalycine. Bracts small and
(except in one species) remote. Sepals usually small and inconspicuous. Corolla
urceolate, ovoid or subcampanulate, 1-3 Jin. long, dry, glabrous; limb short or
very short. Anthers exserted or subexserted, rarely subincluded, mostly lateral,
more rarely subterminal, muticous, or (in two species only) aristulate; pore
generally small proportionately to the cell. Generally erect and rigid shrubs,
with 3-4-nate, erect, sulcate (or rarely subopen-backed) leaves.

Exceptions: leaves sometimes subopen-backed in FE. racemosa and E. dumosa ;
flowers subcalycine in E. fucata, and sometimes so in L. scytophylla; anthers
sometimes scarcely exserted in EB. fucata and in E, seytophylla.

Leaves 4-nate ; anthers muticous :
Ovary pubescent; anthers subexserted; leaves
hairy sae ae eS ed as, (SED) PCOmeR.
Ovary glabrous; anthers quite exserted; leaves
subglabrous’... 623) we ews (212) aghillana,

Leaves 3-nate :
Bracts (or 2 at least) quite approximate; anthers
aristate #3 : ai vs ..- (213) petrea.

Bracts remote; anthers muticous :
Ovary pubescent, at least at the top; leaves
sometimes subopen-backed ... ...—... (214) dumosa.
Ovary glabrous ; leaf-back always closed :
Sepals subequal to the corolla:
Pedicels 3-53 lin. long; anthers

muticous ie ier ... (215) fucata,
pe 2-3 lin. long; anthers den- srl
iculate at the base... ... ... (216 hylla.
~ Sepals shorter than the corolla : Sewer
ng hoe 1-14 lin. long; anthers pale-
‘i Ge i’. (217) capillaris.
Leaves 2-4 lin. long; anthers dark- Bon
coloured :

Anthers well-exserted, muticous (218) nudiflora.
Anthers subexserted, squarrose-

denticulate at the base .-. (216) seytophylla. .

2

corolline, 3-nate, rarely umbellate or clustered. Bracts always small and in-
conspicuous. Sepals usually small, Corolla various, mostly cyathiform, some-
times subcampanulate, suburceolate or ovoid, mostly glabrous, from 2-94 lin.
long. Anthers exserted, subexserted or just manifest, mostly lateral, some-
times subterminal, rarely terminal, muticous or appendiculate. “Leaves 3- (rarely
gg linear-trigonous, suleate, very rarely subopen-backed. Small rigid

§ 17. Pyrontum. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers corolline, rarely sub-

Erica. ] gricacE# (Guthrie & Bolus). 27

EXxcEPTIONS: leaves sometimes 4-nate in E. nutans and E. drakensbergensis ;
sometimes open-backed in E. bicolor; flowers sometimes subcorolline in EF.

paniculata,

Corolla mostly 13-24 lin. long:
Anthers muticous, well exserted e+ wee (219) nutans.
Anthers muticous, subexserted ... ous ... (220) deliciosa.
Anthers appendiculate, subexserted :
_Appendages of anther minute, toothed or
... (220) deliciosa.

single ved wid sie ies
Appendages of anther long-decurrent, with
free points ... (280) unilateralis.

Appendages of anther aristate, entirely
free ves tes, tae, see, os, (221) drakensbergensis.
Corolla not exceeding 1} lin. long, mostly less :
Anthers appendiculate :
Appendages decurrent, longer than the _
cells eas avs ie as ... (230) unilateralis.
Appendages decurrent, much shorter than
the cells... or ies wale ... (229) parvula.
Appendages not decurrent, aristate or
toothed :
Sepals scarious or subscarious :
Corolla much widened from the
base to the mouth ... (224) paniculata,
Corolla not (or scarcely) widened
to the mouth :
Corolla tubular-campanulate,
narrow... es ... (227) opulenta.
Corolla subcyathiform, broad-
faa
Ovary cano-pubescent... (222) decipiens.
Ovary glabrous .» (221) drakensbergensis,
Sepals foliaceous or subfoliaceous :
Corolla 1}-2 lin. long ... _ ... (221) drakensbergensis.
Corolla 1-1} lin. long; anthers
broad, very obtuse ... _ ... (225) bicolor.
Corolla # lin. long; anthers
narrow, tapering to the apex... (228) harveiana.
Anthers muticous :
Sepals scarious or subscarions :
Corolla obconic-cyathiform ... ... (224) paniculata.
Corolla narrow-cyathiform to subovoid
or ovoid-urceolate :
Pedicels 4-1 lin. long; corolla
glabrous oe sa dee
Pedicels 1-2 lin. long; corolla a
very minutely hispidulous ... (223) demissa.
Sepals foliaceous or subfoliaceous :
Sepals coloured; flowers numerous,
bright red, prominent wee ... (226) dioteflora.
Sepals green; flowers few, dull yellow
or red, inconspicuous ves wee (231) brachysepala.
_Imperfectly known species ; anthers muticous ... (232) kra
§ 18. OnopHanes. Inflorescence terminal; flowers 4-nate, sometimes um-
bellate or irregularly clustered, rarely in a congested pseud , corolline.
Bracts generally remote, always small and inconspicuous. small, rarely
as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla various, mostly urceolate, cyathiform or
campanulate, mouth contracted or widened, glabrous, dry, mostly 14-24 (rarely
4-5) lin, long. Anthers mostly included, rarely subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed

(222) decipiens.

28 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [LHrica.

just above the base, or very rarely at or above the middle of the cell, usually
small, often minute, always appendiculate. Ovary mostly glabrous and sessile,
rarely shortly stipitate. Leaves mostly 4-nate, rarely scattered. § Leptodendron
should also be consulted in cases of difficulty.

EXCEPTIONS : inflorescence in EF. aspalathifolia forming a dense pseudo-spike ;
umbellate or clustered in E. pilulifera ; corolla obconie in BE. adequata ; anthers
subexserted or sometimes manifest in E. scabriuscula, HE. gibbosa, H. adxquata,
and H. lateralis; inserted at or near the middle of the cell in HE. bergiana ;
leaves scattered or partially so in E. pilulifera and in E. subulata,

1, Leaves scattered, or partially so.
Inflorescence umbellate, or clustered with some axillary
- flowers below the umbel ... ~ ov wow -» (233) pilulifera,
Inflorescence 4-nate ‘ ow ae ... (234) subulata.

2. Leaves scabro- or tuberculate-hispid. q
Sepals ascending : :

Pedicels 2 lin. long or more; sepals oblong or

lanceolate, 1 lin. long oe i » ... (235) scabriuscula.
Pedicels 1 lin. long; sepals ovate or subovate,

lin. long ... vs < we ee -»» (236) gibbosa.
Sepals reflexed = Sa tee 237) bergiana,.

3. Inflorescence usually, at least partially,
a congested pseudo-spike.

Leaves very narrow, almost hair-like ; flowers some-
SMOG SA aie i irene lic he: oe (238) aspalathifolia.
4, Sepals reflewed.

tee eee

Only species... =... ... (237) bergiana.
5. Anthers subeuserted.

Corolla obconic; mouth widened... —.., in’ ... (239) adequata.
Corolla suburceolate ; mouth contracted or not widened (246) lateralis,

6. Leaves, inflorescence, sepals and anthers
. not as in the foregoing,
Anther-appendages more or less adnate to the upper
part of the filament, or to the produced connective,
a standing out at a right angle, or nearly so to the
Corolla-mouth i ag a :
edicels 6-7 lin, long ; ovary stipitate +.» (240) rubens.
Pedicels 2-4 lin. long ; ovary ‘earite BY egy tot} leta.
Corolla-mouth widened, or not contracted ; sepals
“Tr as the corolla-tube ;
CES CRORE FE Ee Gel sey. (B49 turbiniflora.
Anthers long-decurrent-aristate see oa turbiniflora,var.8.
—- ng a as above described : ;
Anthers subequilateral-triangular, with rounded
angles, 4-$ lin. long (in 242 sometimes 4 lin,
mn, :
Interstices Rater corolla-limb rounded, con-
spicuous inbud-_—,,, ow vee ete viridi: urea.
Interstices of the corolla-limb acute : — ie
Authers crested ; crests fringed or lacerate :
. fae aie lin. long, urceolate ;
imb less than 4 as long as the tube
Corolla 1} lin. long, quhig ibe tnedys 9 Ce
late; limb more than } as long as

dhe ee (249) chionophila,

wae

Erica.} ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 29

Anthers aristate; awns not fringed;
corolla 3-1} lin. long :
Corolla-mouth distinctly widened ;
leaves $14 lin. long wee ... (250) quadrangnilaris.
Corolla-mouth scarcely, or very little
widened ; leaves 4-1 lin. long... (251) eyathiformis,
**Anthers suboblong, or cuneate or ovate, always
longer than wide :
Leaves aristate :
Pedicels 14 lin. long; bracts approxi-

mate ; anthers oblong, aristate ... (234) subulata.
Pedicels 2-8 lin. long ; bracts subremote ;
anthers cuneate, cristate iss ... (252) hemastoma,

Leaves not aristate :
Corolla 38-4 lin. long; anthers papillose-
scabrid :
Flowers red or white; anthers some-
what square ... hed ches ... (244) sitiens.
Flowers yellow ; anthers longitudinally
semiovate ... ove ws» ase (245) Blandfordia.
Corolla 2-3 lin. long :
Anthers crested; leaves stout ; flowers
often subumbellate :
Leaves mostly keeled and only
faintly sulcate ... oxi ... (246) lateralis.
Leaves scarcely keeled, deeply
salcate i.) -o w+ wes (247) verecunda.
Anthers aristate; corolla 2-24 lin.
long ; leaves slender ves wee (258) velitaris.
Corolla 1-2 lin. long :
Anthers about + lin. long; leaves

glabrous:
Anthers ovate; corolla-mouth
slightly contracted... ... (254) gracilis.
Anthers elliptical or oblong;
corolla-mouth widened ... (255) leucantha,
Anthers }-4 lin. long ; leaves glabrous
or pubescent :

Anthers oblong, length about
twice the width in the middle.. (256) subdivaricata.
Anthers oblong, length about 4
times the width in the middle .. (259) trichophylla.
Anthers about 4 lin. long; leaves
glabrous : i
Corolla subtubular-oblong, not or
scarcely widened at the mouth, :
white ... ... «. « (257) margaritacea.
Corolla campanulate; mouth
widened... ... .. —--. (258) curvirostris.

§ 19. LepropENDRON. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers 3-nate or solitary,
corolline, very rarely subcorolline. Bracts generally remote, small. Sepals
small, very rarely equal to the corolla-tube. Corolla various in shape, glabrous, dry,
14-3% lin. long, Anthers included, lateral, appendiculate or muticous. Leaves
almost always 3-nate, occasionally also 4-nate, in one species opposite, in another
sometimes so. A very artificial section, which has been separated from
§ Orophanes chiefly by its usually 3-nate flowers and leaves.

Exceptions: leaves, in E. virginalis, so far as known, always opposite ; in E.
rupicola, sometimes 4-nate ; in H. campanulata, sometimes 4-nate, or opposite ;
flowers in E. polycoma, subcorolline. sie, Sil

30 ERIcACcExZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

Leaves generally 3-nate, rarely 4-nate or opposite :
Sepals silky pilose; anthers crested; flowers
subcorolline... ves ive ae ... (267) polycoma.
Sepals glabrous or merely puberulous :
Anthers distinctly crested ; ovary glabrous :
Corolla urceolate ; throat contracted ;
leaves glabrous at .-. (264) Vanheurckii.
Corolla campanulate - cyathiform ;
throat not contracted; leaves
tomentose-downy .:. ... ... (266) lachneeoides.
Anthers narrow-crested or subaristate :
Corolla subtubular .., 1... (262) mira,
Corolla broad-cyathiform ... (263) micrandra,
Anthers muticous :
Corolla contracted towards the apex.. (260) rupicola.
Corolla not contracted towards the
apex :
Corolla-segments 3-3 as long as
the tube wi eH ... (261) condensata, var. B.
Corolla-segments less than } as
long as the tube :
Filaments about 2 lin. long,
sigmoid at the apex —..._ (260). rupicola.
Filaments about 4 lin. long,
nearly straight :
Corolla yellow; sepals
scarious, 1}-13 lin.
long ... -» ss» (265) campanulata,
Corolla red; sepals
thick, subcoriaceous,

2-1 lin. long .-» (261) condensata.
Leaves regularly opposite; anthers with small see
crests... ee oe . re nee ... (268) virginalis,

§ 20. Pacuysa (Physoidex, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal, occasionally also
pseudo-lateral ; flowers mostly 3—4-nate or umbellate, rarely subcapitate, corol-
line, or rarely with a subcalycine appearance. Sepals 4 as long as the corolla or
less, usually thick and viscid. Corolla more or less viscid, usually ovoid, urceo-
Jate or rarely obconic, generally thick in texture, 1-10 lin. long, mostly from 2-4
lin, Jong. Anthers usually included, rarely exserted, lateral, dorsifixed at or
shortly above the base, appendiculate or rarely muticous, Ovary sessile, or rarely
substipitate. Leaves 3-4-nate, rarely scattered.

EXcEPTIONS : leaves scattered in E. obliqua; inflorescence subcapitate and
flowers subcalycine in E. Fairit 3 corolla obconic, with a very long limb, in
Ey macroloma 3 anthers exserted in E. Alewandri, muticous in EB. odorata ;
ovary stipitate in EZ. obliqua and substipitate in E. macroloma.

1. Flowers terminal, rarely also sublateral (in 286); corolla tl 3 li
long (im 281 var. B, 4 lin.), white, red a eo ie
* Leaves 3-nate :
Authers crested :
Ovary hirsute; anther-crests narrow, de-
carrent, bearded "gc. Qo (281) glomifiora.
a glabrous, or nearly so :
owers umbellate; corolla subglobose (269 ramentacea
; Flowers 3-nate ; corolla ovoid-urceolate (mn) ;
Anthers aristate, or sometimes narrow-crested ;, 2
Pedicels 34-6 lin. long : ses
air es! anther decurrent along the
Hated connective; ovary glabrous .., (273 spectabilis, :
Awns of anther free ; si. poise le nubigenan.

«

Erica.| ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 31

Pedicels 2 lin. or less; ovary densely hirsute :
Corolla-tube globose, not tapering to
neck , . (278) formosa.
Corolla-tube ovoid, more or less tapering ‘to
a neck ;
Anthers 24 times longer than the width
in the middle, less than 4 liv. long;
corolla 2-24 lin. long .. (280) tragulifera.
Anthers 3-39 times longer than the
width in the middle, §-% lin. long;

corolla 2}—4 lin. long .. iow . (281) glomifiora.
Anthers muticous, oblong; pedicels short ; ovary
glabrous swe sm ov oe ws . (279) umbelliflora.
** Leaves 4-nate:
Sepals densely floccose-woolly ; stamens included ... (274) floccifiora.
Sepals hispid on the keel only ; stamens exserted (re) Alexandri. |

Sepals glabrous, sometimes ciliate :
Corolla subglobose ; anthers densely and a
hair: ‘ vei soe . (269) ramentacea.
Corolla not subglobose :
Anthers free aristate :
Pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts pet se
mate . (276) frigida,
Pedicels 5-6 lin. long ; ; bracts remote .. . (277) nubigena.
Anthers crested :
Corolla elliptic-urceolate ; —- gla-

brous... . (270) mucosa,
Corolla suburceolate- eyathiform ovary
Wiloms aus. 6 4A) + ats ti . (272) Schlechteri.

2. Flowers mostly terminal, or rarely a few sublateral at the ends of the
branches ; corolla medium-sized to large, white, green, or orange. Usually
stout shrubs.

Sepals linear ; flowers pire sete cee under 1 lin.

long ... .. (234) Fairii.
Sepals not linear ; ; pedicels 14 lin. or ‘Jonger : ;
Anthers decurrent-aristate ; corolla narrow-ovoid ... (285) oblongiflora.
Anthers crested ; corolla globose-urceolate or ovoid-
conical :

Pedicels mostiy less than 3 lin. Jong; compact
small shrub; flowers white... a ... (282) physodes.
Pediceis mostly longer than 3 lin. :

Leaves 4-nate; tall ins be shrub ; flower
.. (283) Urna-viridis,

green ... eee
Leaves 3-nate :

Corolla red or white, 3-4 lin. rg . (287) ardens.
Corolla orange, n-ti 5

long ce (288) blenna.
Corolla orange, green-tipped, 9-10 lin.

long és . (288) blenna, var. B.

Anthers muticous ; stamens very ‘short | Sie ». (286) odorata.

3. Flowers terminal, long-pedicelled, wmbellate or subracemose at the ends
of the branches. Bracts small and remote. Corolla 2-4 lin. long, red,
rosy or white. Mostly slender shrubs.

Ovary sessile, oblate :

Habit decumbent; corolla urocolate-globose, con-

tracted at the mouth ... Pion ene Pee (289) ixanthera,
Habit suberect ; cena a te, wide a

siouth a site ee wae ey age AOU) Oeniaifolia.

32 ERIcacEsx (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica,

Ovary stipitate, or at least narrow at the base, prolate :
Son ovoid-urceolate, limb much shorter than the :
tube... — sam ove = owe .-- (291) obliqua.
Corolla obconic, limb equal to or longer than the
ee ee bee ... (292) macroloma.

§ 21. Hermes. Inflorescence axillary, rarely both terminal and axillary,
usually psendo-spicate or pseudo-racemose towards the ends of the branches ;
flowers corolline, rarely subcalycine. Bracts and sepals various, not prominent.
Corolla various, mostly campanulate, obconie or subtubular, usually glabrous,
often viscid, from 13-4 lin. long. Anthers generally included, lateral or sub-
terminal, muticous or appendiculate. Leaves 3-, 4-, 6-nate or scattered. Erect
or rarely prostrate shrubs.

EXcEPTIons : inflorescence both terminal and axillary in E. hemantha; some-
times subcapitate in E. amena ; flowers sometimes subcorolline in E, deflexa ;
and subcalycine in E. pulvinata and EF. collina,

Flowers subsessile in a congested pseudo-spike; pedicels
4-1 lin. long: at
Leaves 6-nate ; anthers oblong, narrow-crested .., (293) empetrifolia,
Leaves 6-nate; anthers elliptical, very broad-
crested enna Saabs eateia vee wi ... (294) pyxidifiora.
Leaves 4-nate; anthers setaceo-aristate ... —.., (296) Dodii.
Flowers pseudo-racemose ; pedicels over 1 lin. long:

Ovary villous:
Leaves filiform, tremulous, 5~7 lin. long, } lin,
broad we --. (33) filamentosa,

Leaves shorter, broader and rigid:
Leaves, pedicels, bracts and sepals hirsute
with long hairs; anthers long-crested-
aristate ... ae ons eee ... (295) amena.
Leaves, é&c., glabrous or pubescent; an-
thers muticous or decurrent-denticulate :
Sepals and corolla more or less pubes.
cent or scaberulous ; corolla nearly
equal to the mouth... sea ... (302) viscaria,
Sepals and corolla glabrous; corolla
usually widened to the mouth _,,, (303) axillifiora,
Ovary glabrous or glabrescent, at most puberulous :
Anthers muticous, or sometimes decurrent-
denticulate:
Corolla subobconie or subfunnel-shaped,
34-6 lin. long, red Res wes te
Corolla subtubular to campanulate, 2~4 lin.
ROR TON a, (301) parilis.
Anthers aristate, or broadish-aristate; awns
free or partly decurrent :
Corolla obconic, widened to the mouth ... (299) longiaristata.
Corolla ovoid, or tubular-ovoid, contracted
tothe mouth... wos ‘ins -.. (17) filipendula.
Corolla various, equal or scarcely widened
or contracted :
Leaves squarrose or spreading, in-
curved above the madiite; fica
subcalycine :
Corolla 14-1} lin. long; leaves
14-2 lin. ot sas ... (306) collina,
Corvlla. 2-24 lin. long; leaves
B65 lis Jog st gaia (305) pulvinata,

(24) conica,

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 33

Leaves not incurved ; flowers corol-
line:
Leaves 3-6 lin. long; branches
and racemes mostly very long... (297) regerminans.
Leaves 1-24 lin. long, flat or
flattish :
Corolla campanulate-tubular,
2-24 lin. long, yellow;
sepals pallid ee ... (300) flavicoma,
Corolla urceolate-campanu-
late, 14-2 lin. long, red;
sepals dark red ... _..,. (298) pulchella.
Leaves 1-1 lin, long, thick, sub-
terete or semiterete; corolla
cyathiform-obconic, 14 lin.
long sceweie acid ... (307) deflexa.
Anthers crested, or narrow-crested :
Inflorescence lax; corolla 34-4 lin. long,

crimson... a8 io s ... (304) hemantha,
Inflorescence dense, pseudo-racemose ;
corolla 2 lin. long aa Ses ... (297) regerminans.

§ 22. Cutorocopon. Inflorescence axillary ; flowers 1-3-nate on the upper-
most branches, occasionally a few also terminal, corolline, very small. Bracts
remote, small, sometimes deficient. Sepals shorter than the corolla. Corolla
cyathiform, campanulate or subobconic, from 3-1 lin. long, Anthers included or
often subincluded and manifest, mostly lateral (in one species subterminal),
muticous, or (in one species) aristate. Stigma capitate, peltate, or subcyathiform.
Leaves mostly 3-nate, occasionally also 4-nate on the same plant, and (in one
species) constantly 4-nate. Mostly small shrubs, but in one species reaching
5-7 ft. high.

Exceptions: leaves occasionally 4-nate in E. coarctata and constantly so in
E. alticola ; inflorescence sometimes terminal as well as axiliary in EZ. Woodii ;
anthers aristate in E. Woodii, subterminal in EZ. mesta.

Leaves 3-nate (occasionally in HE. coarctata 3- and 4-
nate):
siti aristate Se Lah hs Ginna pwn: een ODO), AOE
Authers muticous :
Anthers subterminal; style shorter than the
ovary ... ove ewe oe $s ... (309) mesta.
Antbers lateral or sublateral; style longer
than the ovary :
Corolla cyathiform or campanulate, not
much narrowed at the base; sepals about
4 lin, long:
Corolla-segments shorter or a little
longer than the tube :
Leaves linear, 24-4 lin. long;
pedicels 3-14 lin. long ... (310) coarctata.
Leaves oblong, 14-2 lin. long;
pedicels 13-2 lin. long ... (511) curtophylla.
Corolla-segments 8-4 times longer gs
than the tube vet sue ... (312) Priori.
Corolla obconic, narrowed at the base ; poi
sepals } lin. long... ves ves we (813) leptostachya.
a Perniaasiieen tan a as ie oF oe
Pseudo-spikes short, dense a e ends 0 e.
Sranebed 3 style ie gh gg pee es (314) alticola,
Pseudo-spikes long, lax ow the ends of t
branches; style exserted ... —..- i .- (310) coarctata.
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34 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

§ 23. Arsace. Inflorescence terminal, occasionally by arrest of branchlets
appearing axillary; flowers 3-nate, corolline, small. Bracts usually remote,
rarely subapproximate, small. Sepals inconspicuous, small, Corolla urceolate,
cyathiform or campanulate, mostly glabrous, 4-1} lin, long. Anthers mostly
included, occasionally subexserted, lateral or rarely sublateral, appendiculate or
muticous. Style exserted or more rarely included. Stigma capitate, peltate or
cyathiform. Ovary glabrous or hispidulous, Leaves 3-nate; tall, or more |
usually, small shrubs, erect, very rarely diffuse.

EXcEPTIONs: anthers sublateral in E.arachnoidea; corolla sometimes puberu-
lous in H, arachnoidea, E. leuwcopelta var. y, E. copiosa, and E. setacea.

I. PELTATZ.—Stigma peltate or cyathiform.
Corolla urceolate :
Bracts 3:
Leaves open-backed :
Leaves densely white tomentose below ... (316) arachnoidea.

Leaves glabrous... ox it ... (315) hispidula, var. B.
Leaves suleate, usually linear ‘ 315) hispidula.
Bract 1, cartilaginous, semi-amplexicaul ... ... (317) inops.

Corolla usually cyathiform, or obconic or campanulate :
Anthers aristate; bracts subapproximate .., ... (320) salax,
Anthers muticous ; bracts remote :
Leaves glabrous; bracts subequal, quite basal (319) maritima.
Leaves pubescent; bracts unequal, 1 much
larger, 2 minute or wanting ... ve ..- (318) leucopelta.

II, Capirate.—Stigma capitate or clavate-capitate.
Style included ; plant entirely glabrous :
Corolla cyathiform ; anthers aristate :
Pedicels 3-1 lin. long; filaments usually ex-
panded at the base ; anthers }-2 lin. long ... (324) tenuis.
So iy “ick lin. long ; filaments usually equal
throughout; anthers 12 lin. long ... aw (aael wl us,
Corolla globose-urceolate ; mates orestel ov oe (sa1} ertinats,
Style exserted; plant more or less hairy :
Branches floccose with minute plumose hairs :
Leaves roughly setose-hispid es ..» (330) setacea,
Leaves glabrous, or rarely shortly hispid :
Anthers 2 lin. long; appendages very
short, spreading ; stigma large — ... (325) crateriformis.
Anthers 4 lin. long ; appendages long or

short pendulous; stigma small ... +» (326) subverticillaris.
Branches with simple hairs : ee

Anthers muticous : 5
Sepals cartilaginous, pallid, smooth, gla-
brous ; anthers 4 lin. lo i ..» (829) microcodon.
pi mostly foliaceous ; anthers 4-4 lin.
Anthers aiviite or crested aristate : ghee bepegnem
Whole plant densely covered with small
flowers ; leaves 4~—2 lin, long ; anthers

+ lin. long ie sve ve +». (328) onusta.
Habit not so; leaves and anthers usually 4
longer :
ocr mostly glabrous; pedicels
~24 lin. long sts wee vee (822) leptopus.
a hirsute ; pedicels about 1 lin. ioe
Ong 6s

ee Ge Seva 9 40° (927) eoploge.
Anthers unknown; plant slender with very ce

small flowers s pedicels longer than the
corolla; style long-exserted ... 2... (323) minutissima. —

Erica.| ERICACE (Guthrie & Bolus). 35

§ 24. PseUDEREMIA. [Inflorescence terminal, capitate; heads few or many-
flowered ; flowers mostly corolline. Bracts mostly closely approximate, like the
sepals narrow, and most. usually ciliate with rather long plumose hairs. Corolla
urceolate or campanulate, glabrous or pubescent, mostly 1-4 lin. long, in one
species sometimes attaining to 5 lin. Anthers mostly included or rarely sub-
exserted lateral, appendiculate. . Habit various. Leaves 3-nate or 4-nate, some-
times irregular or scattered. Pubescence variable, often characterized by plumose
hairs. All the species (except one) are denizens of the higher mountains.

The section is allied to § Chromostegia, from which it is artificially divided by
a different aspect and the absence of involucrating leaves below the heads,

ExcePtions: flowers subcorolline or subcalycine in E. Cooperi; anthers sub-
exserted in H. Greyit.

Leaves 3-nate (in ZH. Maderi often 4-nate or scat-
tered) :
Toads 10-23-flowered ; corolla 24-5 lin. long ... (832) Maderi.
Heads usually fewer than 10-flowered; corolla
2 lin. long or less :
Anthers long-subulate-aristate; style in-
cluded ies see fet veh .-. (337) oxysepala.
Anthers very minutely toothed; style ex-
serted ts ve sta vs ... (338) Greyii.
Leaves 4-nate (in HE. Maderi sometimes 3-nate or
scattered) :
Corolla pubescent or puberulous :
Not much branched, mostly weak and
straggling .., i “ea ave .-. (334) Solandra.
Much branched, erect :
Stout and rigid; corolla narrow-urceolate,
2-23 lin. long ves vee see (335) Cooperi.
Slender, subflexuous; corolla globose- ,
urceolate, 14 lin. long... ave ... (336) Baurii.
Corolla glabrous : :
Sepals filiform at the base, wider upwards ... (339) clavisepala.
Sepals lanceolate or linear, not wider up-
wards :
Ovary villous or hispid ... ‘iis ... (334) Solandra.
Ovary glabrous :
Branches more or less flexuous :
Branches numerous, slender ;
heads 4-8-flowered .., ... (331) cernua.
Branches few, stoutish ; heads
10—23-flowered, 7-10 lin. in
diam. owe sie ... (832) Maderi.
Branches mostly straight, slender ;
heads 6—28-flowered, 4-64 lin. in
diam. vis sive + ss» (333) spherocephala.

§ 25. PorypEsMra (Séellares, Klotzsch), Inflorescence terminal, capitate or
subumbellate; flowers mostly corolline, rarely subcalycine. Bracts sepal-like,
mostly approximate, rarely remote and minute. Sepals usually narrow, dry or
rarely viscidulous. Corolla suburceolate, or ovoid, glabrous or nearly so, dry or
viscidulous, 13-23 lin, long. Anthers exserted or subexserted, terminal or sub-
terminal, muticous, toothed or decurrent-aristate. Style exserted. Ovary
glabrous or hairy. Leaves 3-6-nate or scattered. Small shrubs.

One species (HE. ustulescens) has the aspect of § Pyronium, having scarcely
either capitate or umbellate flowers, but is retained here by reason of the
similarity of its floral characters to those - the species of this section.

D |

36 eRicaces# (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

Ovary glabrous : ;
Heads densely many-flowered, hemispherical ; leaves ;
incurved .... vis swe eas ave ... (340) incurva.
Heads laxly 5-9-flowered or subumbellate; leaves
straight ‘ ae ni aa vay ... (341) ustulescens.
Ovary hairy :
Leaves 4—5-nate, oblong or subterete; sepals 3 the
length of the corolla ss ies mn ... (342) stylaris.
Leaves 3-nate, lanceolate, flat ; sepals }-3 the length
of the corolla ele ha “é ... (343) turmalis.

IV. CHLAMYDANTHE.

$ 26. CuRomosTEaGIA (Involucratz, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal, capi-
tate; heads 4-flowered, usually involucrated by the more or less enlarged and
discoloured floral leaves; flowers calycine. Bracts closely approximate, broader
than the narrow sepals, and ciliate with long hairs. Corolla of various shapes,
1-2 lin. long, puberulous. Anthers exserted or subexserted, terminal or lateral,
appendiculate. Leaves 4-nate, always strongly ciliate. Procumbent or sub-
erect shrubs, generally roughly hairy. All the species belong to mountainous
regions.
Floral leaves only slightly, or not, different from the
cauline ; anthers lateral, aristulate ... re ... (344) eriophoros.
Floral leaves more or less enlarged, and discoloured :
Leaves 1} lin. long; anthers lateral, crested .. (345) senilis.
Leaves 2-3 lin. long ; anthers terminal, crested ... (346) involucrata.

§ 27. Oxytoma (Acutijisse, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal ; flowers sub-
sessile, 3-nate or capitate in many-flowered heads, calycine. Bracts approximate
and with the sepals imbricate and closely adpressed to the corolla, coloured.
Corolla short-tubular, slightly inflated, 4-fid, 2-5 lin. long; segments suberect,
gird or acuminate, oun Anthers included, lateral or sublateral, dorsifixed at

e base, muticous. Style exserted; stigmasimple. Ova brous or minutely
hirtellous. Leaves 3-4-nate or seatteneae . efi aur :

This has some resemblances to § Polydesmia.

Leaves scattered (4-6 lin. long); bracts and sepals

nearly equalling or exceeding the corolla ... ... (347) recurvata.
rego yn 3 paige and sepals shorter than corolla;

style di and trancate at the apex «+ vee (348) genistefolia.
Leaves 4-nate ; style fusiform at the apex... ei (549) camniisens,

§ 28. Exiopzsmia (Capitatz, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal: flowers
1-6-nate, subcapitate or umbellate, mostly calycine or subcorolline. Bracts
approximate or remote, small. Sepals densely villous or woolly. Corolla mostly
urceolate or campanulate, puberulous or pilose, 14-2} lin. long. Anthers mostly
exserted, or included but manifest, terminal. Style exserted. Ovary more

or less villous. Leaves mostly 3- (or rarely 4- ES
hairy in all parts. y 8- (or rarely 4-) nate. “Small shrubs, more’ or less

EXCEPTION: flowers sometimes subcorolline in E. villosa.

Leaves usually 4-nate, open-backed; flowers laxi
capitate .,. se ENG ee pes --. (350) lana:
Leaves 3-nate, sulcate ; flowers 3-nate or solitary : ee ; *:

Anthers exserted or subexserted ; flowers ovoid |
_ or oblong :
—— pepe oe 3 hairs coarse, not v
ense or very long ... —... vee ove (851
ewan cue or oblong ; hairs fine, very dense ng rte
an ong eee eee of.
Anthers included, just manifest ; fi

+ se ase (352) bruniades,
owers globular (358) capitata.

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 37

§ 29. AMpHOoDEA (Spumose, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal, capitate;
heads 3 flowered; flowers calycine. Bracts approximate, like the sepals ad-
pressed, scarious, coloured, very concave, glabrous, dry, 12-24 lin. long;
segments mostly long, acute, erect. Anthers exserted, terminal or subterminal,
Nae Ri i pier Style exserted ; 3 stigma simple. ‘Ovary glabrous. Leaves

nate.

Bracts broad-ovate :
Corolla-segments ovate, acute ; flowers dull whitish (354) sexfaria.
Corolla-segments lanceolate, acute ; flowers reddish (355) spumosa.
Bracts eee Lae corolla- segments lanceolate,
acuminate ., i* at re .. (356) amphigena,

§ 30. Guissosteaia. Inflorescence terminal; flowers most usually 3-nate,
rarely (perhaps in one species) subumbellate, calycine, small. Bracts approxi-
mate, more rarely remote. Sepals prominent, usually enwrapping the corolia,
and as long as or a little ptt a it, rarely shorter or much shorter, coloured.
Corolla various, most commonly urceolate or cyathiform, 1-24 lin.long. Anthers
exserted, terminal or subterminal, rarely sublateral, always muticous. Style
exserted. Stigma capitate or subclavate, small. Ovary most usually glabrous,
rarely scantily pubescent. Mostly small shrubs, 14 ft. high or less; leaves
3-nate.

Corolla about twice as long as the sepals, or longer :
Corolla obconic-tubular, longer than wide ... (357) desmantha,
Corolla subglobose-urceolate, wider than long _... (358) physantha.
Corolla less than twice as long as the sepals :
Corolla depressed below the apex, and contracted
round tue stamens :
Sepals 14 lin. Jong; leaves mostly 3-4 lin. long (368) placenteflora.
Sepals 4-2 lin. long; leaves 1-14 lin. long ... (367) Guthriei.
Corolla not depressed below the apex nor con-
tracted round the stamens ;
Anthers (viewed laterally) obtuse or widely

rounded ;
Leaves (at least the — recurved ;
anthers broad-elliptical . evs .. (364) azalezfolia.

Leaves and anthers not so:
Sepals about equalling the corolla, a
little longer or shorter :
Leaves subadpressed, erect, in-

curved . . (360) involvens.
Leaves spreading, straight or
nearly so:
Sepals transversely wrinkled ;

leaves rugulose or pitted ... (865) sonderiana.
Sepals smooth; leaves not Gare
rugulose or pitted . (369) imbricata.

Sepals much shorter ian the corolla (358) physantha,

Anthers (viewed laterally) acute or acuminate,
rarely subobtuse :
* Anther-cells narrow, 34 times or more
longer than wide :

Corolla a little wider than its length ;
sepals with a thickened marginal
line on either side, converging to
the apex, instead of the usual

median keel . . (366) crassisepala,
Corolla longer than its ‘width ; “keel on
‘the sepals median :
Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceo-

sie ie lit a (970) triceps,

38 gRIcAcEEy (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Hrica.

Leaves wnarrow-linear or tri-
gonous :
Corolla-segments broad-ob-
long, rounded or sub-
truncate :
Anthers setaceo-acumi-
nate ... vis ... (371) calyculata.
Anthers subobtuse _... (371) calyculata,
Corolla-segments not broad- var. B.
oblon pa me ... (369) imbricata.
** Anuther-cells broad or broadish, 3 times
or less longer than their width :
Style hooked or at least deflexed :
Sepals and bracts usually lax;
flowers somewhat few... .... (859) adunca,
Sepals and bracts usually ad-
pressed; flowers somewhat
numerous s+ ae wee. (369) imbricata,
Style usually straight or nearly so :
Leaves recurved, spreading or
squarrose :
Sepals and corolla minutely
puberulous, or rough _... (363) pogonanthera.
Sepals and corolla glabrous,
smooth, shining ... _... (369) imbricata.
Leaves incurved or straight,
erect or spreading :
Sepals broad-ovate or ellip-
tical ; leaves mostly spread-
ing Si view ie ... (361) chartacea.
Sepals obovate-oblong ; leaves
mostly incurved ... ... (362) suffulta,

§ 31. Exyrrosrecia. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers mostly 3-nate, or
clustered, calycine or subcorolline. Bracts closely approximate, sepal-like,
paleacous or cartilaginous, mostly small. Sepals like the bracts, but larger,
from half the corolla to equal to it in length. Corolla subtubular, cyathiform
or suburceolate, glabrous, dry. Anthers lateral to subterminal, exserted or in-
cluded, muticous or appendiculate. Style exserted, Stigma various, from
subsimple to capitate, cyathiform or peltate. Qvary glabrous. Leaves 3-nate.

Exceptions : Bracts wanting in E. accommodata, var. y, ebracteata; corolla
may be viscidulous in E. accommodata, var. 8, subviscidula.

Anthers included, or just manifest, aristate ... —... (376) diosmeefolia.
Anthers subexserted, or subincluded, muticous or very i
minutely decurrent-toothed :
Branches with plumose hairs oss wes aes (875) lepidota.
Branches with simple hairs ... =... 0, (73) accommodata.
Anthers fully exserted at maturity :

Anthers muticons 4g gg. oe 372) lasciva.
Authers decurrent-aristate ... 5 ma giumefiora.

§ 32. Apacus. Inflorescence terminal, occasionally pseudo- ; rs
usually 4-nate, sometimes subumbellate, calycine. ae terms on eens tae .
approximate, small, Sepals imbricate, adpressed to the corolla, nearly as long as
and almost entirely concealing it, cartilaginous or subglumaceous. Corolla sub-
obeonie or cyathiform, mostly somewhat widened to the mouth glabrous, dry or
subviscidulous, 14-24 lin. long or less; segments longish, sometimes nearly |
equalling the tube, Anthers included or subincluded, lateral, appendiculate. ©

eee eee oe

Style exserted or perhaps occasionally included. Ovary glabrous; ovules com-

Erica.]| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 39

pressed ; mature seeds unknown. Leaves 4-nate, small. Small woody shrubs of
various habit.

Flowers 2-24 lin. long; anther-crests ample, sub-
orbicular, incised wii ve “we vhs ... (377) Brownleee.
Flowers 1-14 lin. long ; anthers subcrested or aristate,
appendages narrow and small, or very minute ... (878) Caffrorum.

§ 33. LamproTis. Inflorescence terminal, rarely also pseudo-lateral ; flowers
usually 3-nate, often clustered, sometimes pseudo-capitate or pseudo-spicate,
calycine. ‘T'wo upper bracts approximate or remote, the lower basal, wanting or
represented by a floral leaf not adherent to the pedicels. Sepals prominent,
scarious, glabrous, smooth, coloured, from half the corolla to a little exceeding
it in length. Ccrolla mostly suburceolate or conical, more rarely subtabular or
cyathiform, glabrous, usually dry, from 14-10 lin, long; limb spreading
horizontally, or nearly erect or recurved, frequently discoloured or brownish.
Anthers included, lateral, mostly appendiculate, rarely muticous. Style mostly
included; stigma capitete, rarely 4-fid. Ovary glabrous. Leaves 3-nate or
opposite, generally adpressed or erect. All parts of the plant most usually
glabrous, smooth and glossy.—Closely allied to the § Trigemma, and being
separated from it chiefly by secondary characters, is often difficult of distinction.
The ‘stellate-patent” character of the corolla-limb, attributed by former
authors, is not constant, or at least is often obscure, disappearing by the con-
pivance of the segments immediately after maturity, or after gathering, and
therefore generally lost in dried specimens, and, besides, occurs more or less
distinctly in species of other sections, outside of Bentham’s subgenus Stellanthe.

Exceptions: leaves spreading or even squarrose in E. tawifolia; leaves,
bracts and sepals, ciliate in HE. melanacme; inflorescence pseudo -axillary
(apparently always) in E. chlorosepala, sometimes so in E. taxifolia, E. levigata,
and E. nodiflora; flowers somewhat viscidulous in E. nigrimontana and FE,
melanacme ; corolla viscidulous in E. ehlamydijlora ; style exserted in EL. nigrt-
montana. One or two other species have @ slight pubescence on the younger
branches.

A species with the habit of this section (405, EF. lanipes) will be found in
§ Eurystegia.

1. Leaves opposite (sometimes also 3-nate in 382, 394, and 395).

Limb of the corolla concolorous; leaves constantly
opposite : : So
Pedicels pubescent with minutely plumose hairs ... (379) dianthifolia.
Pedicels without plumose hairs :
Corolla-tube inflated ; corolla 5-6 lin. long,
Corolla-tube conical, slightly inflated, slender ;
corolla 3-84 lin. long, white or pallid ... (381) lutea,
Corolla ovoid-urceolate or subconical, 24-3 lin. ae
long, rosy eos ee wisi isd ... (382) tenuifolia.
Limb of the corolla discoloured or brownish; leaves
3-nate or opposite :
Corolla urceolate-tubular or narrow-urceolate,
scarcely inflated below or contracted upwards
14-5 lin. long svt eee es ee ’
Corolla urceolate-subconical, very wide below and j
much contracted upwards, 14-2 lin. long ... (395) nodiflora.

2. Leaves 3-nate (sometimes also opposite in 382, 394, and 395).

Inflorescence psendo-axillary ; flowers solitary below
the ends of excurrent branches; habit prostrate or
decumbent (flowers golden-yellow) «ever oe

(380) borbonizfolia.

(394) corifolia.

(392) chlorosepala.

40 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus), [Hrica.

Inflorescence mostly terminal, only occasionally a few
flowers pseudo-axillary ; habit erect : ‘
Stigma 4-fid, cruciform ch ve ive .-. (389) gnaphaloides.
Stigma capitate, rarely subsimple :
Corolla from 3-10 lin. lung :
Anthers muticous :
Corolla 9-10 lin. long; leaves 4-4}
lin. long; sepals ovate-acuminate .. (388) Alfredii.
Corolla 4-5 lin. long; leaves 14-2
lin. long; sepals oblanceolate... (385) steinbergiana.
Anthers minutely toothed at the base;
sepals unguiculate-spathulate ... -., (384) bracteolaris,
Anthers broad-aristate, awns short and
subulate ; leaves 4-6 lin. long ... —.... (386) taxifolia,
Anthers crested :
Leaves ovate or broad-lanceolate :
Sepals oblanceolate, 3 lin. long ;
anther-crests$aslongas the cell (387) pycnantha.
Sepals broad-obovate, 14 lin.
long; anther-crests 2 as long
as the cell we - --- (391) caledonica,
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate .. {504) corifolia.
Corolla under 3 lin. (commonly 14-2 lin.) long :
Sepals as long as the corolla, or nearly so :
Pedicels mostly 3-4 lin. long ;_ sepals
not or scarcely spreading :
Sepals straight, naked, dry, apex
concolorous... ....—.., (396) palliifiora.
Sepals incurved at the apex,
ciliate, subviscid, apex darkly
Giscoloured 6800 sauus 5. wad, (398) melanacme.
Pedicels mostly 14-2 (rarely 3) lin.
long ; sepals spreading :
Flowers dry ; style included (394) corifolia.
Flowers viscidulous ; style ex-
serted ... oe aa --. (397) nigrimontana.
Sepals mostly 4, or at most reaching 3, ite
the length of the corolla :
Corolla-limb concolorous or nearly so,
“a brownish :
nthers minutely a: diculate.. (393 levigata.
Anthers a tet Loom en,
Anthers 5-6 times lon
beam their iar ;
crests narrow small... (888) chlamydiflora.
Anthers relatively shorter ee
crests broader :
Corolla subconical, much
widened at the base,
ing down in a fold
at maturity... ... (395) nodiflora, var. B.
Corolla suburceolate or sh mo
subtubular, neither
much wider at the

: nor contracted
at the throat «+. (890 icularis,
Corolla-limb discoloured or brownish ; ae

at the base ae oes --» (395) nodifi
——o suburceolate or subtubu _— ae
dar, no

Erica.) ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 4}

§ 34. Evrysrneia (incl. Eurylepsis, Don). Inflorescence terminal, rarely
also axillary ; flowers usually 3- (rarely 4-) nate, or umbellate, calycine. Bracts
approximate or remote, mostly scarious, coloured, sometimes large. Sepals
large and prominent, scarious, cartilaginous or subpetaloid, from half to nearly
as long as the corolla. Corolla various, but never tubular (in 2 species quadri-
partite nearly tu the base), pubescent or glabrous, dry, mostly from 34-11 lin.
long, rarely 2 lin. only; limb erect or slightly recurved. Anthers included,
lateral or sublateral, appendiculate or rarely sometimes maticous. Style in-
cluded, rarely subexserted. Ovary glabrons. Mostly strong-growing, large-
flowered shrubs. Leaves 3- (or rarely 4-) nate, mostly spreading, often long,
rigid and coarse. This section is scarcely separable from § Trigemma, except by
its usually larger flowers.

Excrrrions: leaves adpressed and the whole plant with the aspect of § Lam-
protis, in E. lanipes; inflorescence often axillary in E. Grisbrookii; flowers
4-nate or umbellate in E. papyracea, only 2 lin. long in E. holosericea, var. 6;
anthers muticous in 2. Halicacaba.

Leaves 4-nate; flowers 4-nate, clustered or umbel-
late ... ves oo or ii és --- (406) papyracea.
Leaves 3-nate; flowers 3-2-nate or solitary :
Corolla deeply parted nearly to the base :
Corolla 7-9 lin. long ; bracts approximate (399) lanuginosa.
Corolla 4-6 lin. long; bracts remote... (400) Bodkinii.
Corolla not deeply parted :
Corolla 8-11 lin. long:
Bracts approximate; flowers yellow
or white:
Corolla divided 4 its entire A
length ; leaves 4—7 lin. long ... (401) Halicacaba.
Corolla divided 3-1 its entire .
length ; leaves 2-3 lin, long .. (402) monsoniana.
Bracts remote, flowers rosy ...__.-. (408) nobilis.
Corolla 34-6 lin. long; sepals 24-5 lin.
long:
lewvel closely adpressed ; bracts ;
approximate sey rr ... (405) lanipes.
Leaves erect (but scarcely adpressed)
or spreading ; bracts remote :
Entirely glabrous; leaves glau-
GOUS vst ive Ae .. (404) glauca.
More or less pubescent; leaves
_not glaucous :
Sepals puberulous; corolla :
campanulate-cyathiform .. (407) holosericea.
Sepals- glabrous; corolla
conical-ovoid or globose- : 3
urceolate ... le ... (408) Grisbrookii.
Corolla 2 lin. long ; sepals 14 lin. long ... (407) holosericea, var. 8.

§ 35. ADELOPETALUM.
Only species bed aay ocd es + «ev (400) Nabea,

: lycine, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal, or occasionally,
bs arcabasiaeed: a A appearing axillary ; flowers 3-nate or less com-
monly 4-nate, rarely subumbellate, never capitate, calycine, rarely subcorolline.
Bracts approximate or remote, usually small. Sepals mostly large, prominent
and adpressed, seldom imbricate, never entirely concealing the corolla, scarious,
membranous or rarely cartilaginous, glabrous, generally dry, rarely viscidulous,
coloured. Corolia urceolate, cyathiform or campanulate, almost always gla-
brous, occasionally viscidulous, 14-34 lin. long; limb generally more or less
spreading, or recurved, not horizontally stellate. _Anthers included, or rarely

42 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

(in one species only) exserted, mostly lateral, more rarely subterminal or
terminal, the cells sometimes stalked upon the low or decurrent connective,
variously appendiculate, more rarely muticous, Style mostly included, more
rarely exserted. Ovary generally glabrous, more rarely lanate or villous; ovules
sometimes flat or compressed. Leaves mostly 3-nate, less commonly 4-nate,
more or less spreading, or more rarely erect-incurved, seldom or never closely
adpressed to the branches, glabrous or rarely pubescent. ‘Tall or small shrubs of
various habit. ‘

EXcEpTions: anthers exserted in E. gracilipes ; subexserted in E. petiolaris ;
terminal or subterminal in £. petiolaris ; subterminal in E. Lycopodiastrum, E.
brevifolia, and HE. acuta.

A. Leaves 4-nate.
Bracts approximate, large, equalling or longer than the

sepals ies Bee bee oe a oe ... (414) gigantea.
Bracts remote or subremote, smaller or shorter than the
sepals :

Style included or subincluded :
Flowers 12 lin. long, subcorolline; ovary
densely villous suis wee oe ... (431) lasiocarpa,
Flowers 2-24 lin. long, calycine or subcaly-
cine; ovary glabrous :
Fiowers terminal ; bracts 2-3 lin. long ... (415) baceans.
Flowers pseudo-axillary and terminal;
bracts 2 lin. long se tye ... (416) irregularis.
Style at full maturity exserted or subexserted :
Sepals ovate, obovate or oblanceolate, nearly
covering the corolla :
Stigma a short filiform point, much narower
than the truncate apex of the style;

anther-crests broad is ie ... (417) affinis,
Stigma subsimple or clavate; anthers de-
current-aristate ... ’ ... (418) propingua.

Sepals lanceolate or lanceolate-linear, not
nearly covering the corolla :
Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 3—4 lin. long,

1 lin. wide we oes ae ... (421) depressa.
Leaves linear, 14-2 lin, long, under $ lin.
wide ve vee vee a ++» (431) lasiocarpa.

B. Leaves 3-nate.
I. Anthers incladed, or subincluded.
1, Anthers muticous,
Petioles at least 4 as long as the blade ... ae «+. (422) petiolaris,
Petioles less than 4 as long as the blade:
Corolla 3 lin. long, urceolate ; sepals 1} lin. long,

small é ‘ Ss fe ste --. (412) crassifolia.
Corolla 3} lin. long, campanulate ; sepals 24 lin,
long ... i oes ee vi wis ... (411) inelusa.

2. Anthers appendiculate,
_Pubescence of the branches floccose with minutely
plumose or barbellate hairs. és bed ..- (410) plumigera.
Pubescence of branches (when present) not floccose :
Corolla 3 lin. long, ovoid-inflated ; anthers crested (429) pumila,
Corolla less than 3 lin. long:
Ovary densely woolly or villous :
Bracts approximate; sepals broad-ovate,
obtuse, pectinate-ciliate; anthers aris-

tate tee soe eee aes vse (427) fimbriata,

oe

Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 43

Bracts remote; sepals lanceolate-acumi-
nate, naked; anthers crested ... we. (419) leucodesmia.
Ovary glabrous :
Anthers crested; crests broad-lanceolate
to suborbicular :
Leaves, bracts and sepals setaceo-
acuminate ... see di ... (425) acuta.
Leaves, bracts and sepals not so:
Auther-cells more or less dis-
tinctly stalked upon the basal
connective... sss wee (420) triflora.
Anther-cells not stalked:
Sepals with a deep depres-
sion at the base; pedicels
24-3 lin. long; corolla
13-2 lin. long... ... (423) selaginifolia.
Sepals not foveolate ; pedi-
cels 14-2 lin. long ; corolla —
2-24 lin, long :
Inflorescence terminal ;
bracts approximate,
2-24 lin. long ... (418) tegulefolia.
Inflorescence terminal
and_pseudo-axillary ;
bracts remote, ? lin. ?
long ... seu ... (416) irregularis.
Anthers narrow-crested or broad-aristate :
Anther-cells more or less distinctly
stalked on the basal connective :
Leaves spreading, 3-5 lin. long; ;
corolla 24 lin, long ... ... (420) triflora.
Leaves erect, closely imbricate,
14-2 lin. long; corolla 1} lin.
long owt ave as af
Anther-cells not stalked on the con-
nective : a) ens Tt
Style exse: 3 Sepals in.
pie ibs aia io ... (421) depressa.
Style included; sepals 13-1} lin. ‘
ct ee ses wat ... (430) Thodei.
Antbers decurrent-aristate; ceils very Ss
obtuse, stalked... we wes ... (426) brevifolia.

II. Anthers exserted.
Flowers pseudo-axillary ... 0 «6 0s) +

_-V. PLATYSTOMA.

§ 87. Potycopon. Inflorescence terminal ; flowers 8-nate, corolline or sub-
calycine, rarely calycine. Bracts small, approximate or remote. Sepals lanceo-
late to orbicular, mostly wide, glabrous, prominent, coloured. Corolla obconic
or broad-cyathiform, glabrous, dry, small, $i lin. long ; segments equalling or
somewhat longer than the tube, rarely a little shorter. _Anthers included or
exserted, lateral, more usually muticous, or (in two species) aristate or occa-
sionally so. Style mostly exserted. Ovary glabrous or hairy, Leaves 3-nate.

Small sh with the aspect of $$ Pyronium and Arsace ; distinguishable
Piooge the rie by its ard sto eesuthen corolla; from the latter by its
broader, more prominent, and always coloured sepals.

Exceptions: flowers sometimes calycine in E. leucanthera, subcalycine in a

few other species.

(428) Lycopodiastrum.

... (424) gracilipes.

44 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

Style included, rarely as long as the corolla; flowers
yellow... ie a ee) ... (482) leucanthera,
Style exserted ; flowers red or reddish :
Leaves squarrose-recurved, ciliate (at least the
younger)... ei eve oe ‘ ... (488) stenantha.
Leaves not so, not distinctly ciliate ;
Ovary glabrous or subglabrous : :
Anthers aristate ; pore 2 of cell .., ..- (434) consobrina.
Anthers muticous; pore Z of cell . (4389) macrotrema.
Ovary pubescent or bispidulous:
Anthers muticous :
Hairs on the pedicels simple :

Stigma capitellate ie ... (485) nemorosa,
Stigma narrow-obconic-cyathi-
form; anther-pore { of cell ... (439) macrotrema,

Stigma very broad cyathiform-
peltate ; anther-pore % of cell (438) peltata.
Hairs on the pedicels minutely sub-
plumose :
Anthers oblong, obtuse; flowers
#-llin. long ... vee .. (436) floribunda,
Anthers longitudinally semiovate,
acute or subacute; flowers ,
1g lin. long... ibe ... (437) rhodantha.
Anthers aristulate ; stigma capitellate ... (435) nemorosa.

§ 38. Eurystoma. Inflorescence terminal; flowers usually 3-nate, mostly
calycine or subcalycine, more rarely corolline or subcorolline. Bracts and sepals
rarely as long as the corolla, mostly 4-2 its length, cartilaginous or scarious, rigid,
glabrous, dry, coloured. Corolla from obconic to cyathiform or subcampanulate,
mostly wide-mouthed, rarely subglobose-urceolate, glabrous, dry, 1-24 lin.
Jong ; segments erect or spreading, shorter than the tube, or equalling or rarely
exceeding it in length. Anthers included, rarely subexserted, almost always
manifest, lateral, subterminal or rarely terminal, appendiculate or muticous.
Style usually exserted. Ovary glabrous or hairy, Leaves 3-nate or rarely opposite.

EXcEPTIONS: leaves opposite in E. brevicaulis, sometimes opposite in HE,
calycina, var. y, villous-pubescent in B. comata ; flowers corolline or sub-
corolline in E. argentea, E. media, and E. brevicaulis 3; corolla sometimes
cyathiform or subglobose-urceolate in H. lucida, and subcyathiform in FH, media.

1. Leaves 3-nate,
* Ovary glabrous :
recta floccose with subplumose or compound
rs:
Corolla 2 lin. long ;, segments as long as the
tube, white ... és va .. (448) floccosa,
Corolla 14-1} lin. long; segments 3-? as
long as the tube, red FOMK Sy +». (449) Incida.
Branches when hairy having simple hairs :
Leaves 4—10 lin, long ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long (450) mucronata.
Leaves and pedicels shorter :
Sepals as long asthe corolla .., (443) nivea.
Sepals shorter than the corolla :
—- 3 bie ans obovate,
thick, lin. long Si +» (444) lac i
Leaves not so and alzo longer : ee
pt St corolline or subcorol-
ne:
Sepals ovate; corolla
cyathiform; segments
3 as long as the tube .., (440) media, __

wee

Erica.] ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 45

Sepals lanceolate; co-
rolla obconic; segments
nearly as long as the
tube... des ... (441) argentea.
Flowers calycine or subealy-
cine ;
Anthers lateral ;
Anther-crests subu-
late, entire; sepals
4 as long as the
corolla, or less... (440) media.
Anther-crests broad,
deeply incised ; se-
pals 4-? as long as
the corolla ... (449) lucida.
Anthers generally ter-
minal or subterminal,
or very rarely lateral ... (445) calycina,
** Ovary more or less hairy :
Anthers muticous; leaves villous-pubescent,
tipped with a tuft of hairs iy ... (446) comata.
Anthers appendiculate ; leaves glabrous :
Leaves erect, adpressed ; corolla 14 lin.
long ... bis AES vie oe ... (441) argentea.
Leaves spreading or squarrose ; corolla about
llin, long ... ee see ose .». (447) saxicola.

2. Leaves opposite.

Leaves 3-1 lin. long; pedicels glabrous; ovary : ‘
entircly shortly-villous sen sé ves ... (442) brevicaulis.
Leaves mostly 14-2 lin. Iong; pedicels floccose or

pubescent; ovary hirtellous on the apex or sub- :
glabrous Ye ie Pes: tas pee ... (445) ealycina, var. y.

§ 39. Metasremon (Lophandra, Don; Cornutarwm, Klotzsch). Inflorescence
terminal, or by arrest of the lateral branchlets sometimes pseudo-axillary ;
flowers mostly 3-nate, more rarely umbellate or subcapitate, mostly corolline,
rarely calycine or subcalycine, 1-4 lin. long. Bracts usually mediocre or
inconspicuous. Sepals mediocre, scarious or cartilaginous, coloured, mostly
glabrous, rarely hirsute. Corolla mostly obconic or broad-cyathiform, wide-
mouthed, rarely cyathiform and subequal at the mouth, glabrous, dry, from
1-4 lin. long; segments of various length, Anthers mostly included, very
rarely subexserted, lateral, usually more or less produced at the apex (i.e. mcre
than in other sections) beyond the pore, acute or acuininate, usually roughly
papillose or scaberulous, or coarsely shaggy, mostly muticous, very rarely aristu-
late. Style exserted. Stigma generally small, Ovary glabrous, or more rarely
minutely puberulous. Leaves mostly 3- more rarely 4-nate or scattered,

glabrous, or in one species hispid.
Exceptions: sepals in E. trachysantha densely hirsute ; corolla in EL. trachy-
santha, cyathiform and subequal at the mouth; anthers sometimes subexserted in

E. lavandulefolia ; anther-cells in E. mervata and in E. trachysantha are acute,
but very little produced beyond the pore ; anthers are sometimes very minutely
aristulate in B. cubica.
Note: E. melanthera, a species with anthers produced beyond the pore, as in
this section, will be found in § Gamochlamys (462).
Flowers terminal or axillary, mostly more or less
clustered, umbellate or subcapitate; leaves 3-4-
my ee ord 1 : tly uniformly erect-in
Leaves 1-2 lin. long, mostly uniformly -in- cen
curved; corolla 14-1? lin. long —--- ... (451) seriphiifolia,

46 ERICACES (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

Leaves 2-5 lin. long, mostly spreading or also :
incurved ; corolla 14-3} lin. long... ... (452) eubica,
Flowers terminal and 3-nate, or axillary towards the
ends of the branches, pseudo-umbellate, lax, not :
clustered; habit Jaxly diffuse “ ese ... (453) tetrathecoides.
Flowers terminal, 3-nate or solitary ; leaves 3-nate :
Ovary more or less hairy:
Leaves linear, sulcate :
Branches and pedicels floccose with
minute subplumose hairs... ... (458) Gillii.
Branches and pedicels pubescent with
simple hairs... sit vee ... (457) lavandulefolia.
Leaves lanceolate, more or less open-
backed :
Sepals glabrous; pedicels 2-25 lin. long (459) nervata.
Sepals densely hirsute; pedicels 4-6 lin.
long ies sa vei ... (460) trachysantha.
Ovary glabrous:
Leaves notably few, spreading, mostly
shorter than the internodes, 3-44 lin.
SE eee ws wees eee, (458) tetrathecoides,
Leaves not so and shorter :
Leaves adpressed, #-1 lin. long; flower-
ing branches mostly long and fili-
form: ies i ese w+ ose (454) humifusa,
Leaves not usually adpressed, erect or
spreading, 1-3 lin. long; branchlets
not long and thin :
Pedicels pubescent with simple

hairs :
Corolla 24-4 lin. long ... (456) moschata.
_ Corolla 1-24 lin. long ... (455) cristeflora.
Pedicels floccose with minute plu-
mose hairs Se -.. (452) eubica,

§ 40. Gamocuiamys. Inflorescence terminal, or rarely (by arrest of lateral
branchlets) pseudo-axillary ; flowers mostly 3-nate, rarely solitary, corolline or
more rarely calycine. Bracts usually small and inconspicuous. Calyx more or
less gamosepalous, scarious or cartilaginous, glabrous or hairy ; segments from
4-} the entire length. Corolla obconic, broad-cyathiform, cyathiform or sub-
funnel-shaped, glabrous, dry, from 14-3 lin. long. Anthers most usually in-
cluded, rarely subexserted, lateral, muticous; in one species distinctly pro-
duced at the apex beyond the pore (as in § Melastemon). Style exserted or
included. Ovary most usually hairy. Leaves 3-nate. Shrubs with the general

aspect of §§ Polycodon and Melastemon, except the first species, which is more
woolly than is usual in these sections.

Exceptions: antber-cell produced considerably beyond the pore in E. melan-
thera (usin § Melastemon); anthers subexserted in E. canaliculata.

Calyx with short white closely-matted tomentum ... (461) Passerine.
Calyx not so:
Stigma peltate or cyathiform ... ... 4. (466) natalitia.
Stigma simple, obconic or capitellate :
Calyx-segments about equal to the tube,
or somewhat shorter or longer, mostly
more or less hairy :
Pedicels and calyx puberulous or gla-
brous; anther produced beyond the
POre = see nee new nee eee, (462) melanthera.
Pedicels and calyx villous; anther not,
or slightly, produced beyond the pore (463) Chamissonis.

Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). AT

Calyx-segments about 2-4 times longer than
the tube, glabreus :
Calyx-segments convex, strongly keeled
from the base upwards ts .«. (464) longipes.
Calyx-segments concave or flattish, not
strongly keeled, margins recurved .,, (465) canaliculata.

§ 41. CyatHotoma (Colorate, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal; flowers
3-nate, sometimes (by arrest of the branchlets) pseudo-axillary, subcalycine or
subcorolline, Sepals lax, bright-coloured and prominent, more than } as long
as the corolla, or more adpressed and somewhat smaller. Corolla with a sub-
globose, constricted tube and larger, ascending, cup-like limb, or (in one species)
ovoid-urceolate with shorter limb, 2-5 lin. long. Anthers included, lateral, in
two species subprognathous at the base, appendiculate or muticous, Ovary
sessile or stipitate, glabrous. Leaves 3-nate.

A not very natural section even as proposed by Bentham on the two original
species, HZ, Thunbergii and E. Corydalis, which are utterly unlike in habit and
aspect, and have only the single character of a similar corolla in common. To
these we have added a third which is only related to the former in appearance,
sepals and bracts but differs from both in several important characters. We
have associated these rather than make three sections for the three species.

Corolla globose at the base with a large dilated cup-

shaped limb: sf

Sepals lax, dry, bright yellow... sie ... (467) Thunbergii.
Sepals adpressed, viscidulous, horn-colour ... (468) Corydalis.

Corolla ovoid-urceolate with a small limb... ... (469) flavisepala.

Section I. GIGANDRA. (Sp. 1-5.)

1. E. Petiveri (Linn. Diss. Erica, n. 50; Mant. alt. 235) ; erect,
2-3 ft. high; branches stout, with many short mostly curved
branchlets ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or recurved, more rarely erect
and straight, linear, subglabrous, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 1—3-nate,
mostly cernuous ; pedicels 2-2} lin. long; bracts approximate,
ovate, 3-2 the length of the sepals; sepals ovate, oblong or narrow-
lanceolate, acute, scarious, concave, glabrous, 23-3} lin. long, }—} as
long as the corolla; corolla narrow ovoid to tubular, glabrous,
greenish-yellow, orange or reddish, 3-8} lin. long; limb erect,
2-3 lin. long. E. coccinea, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, i. 855, not of Diss.
E. Sebana, Donn, Hort. Cantab. 45, ex Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 395;
Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 10; Wendl. Eric. Ie. fase. 10,5; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 23; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.621. EH. Sebana, vars. aurantia,
lutea, viridis and spicata, Andr. Heathery, tt. 83, 84, 85, 190, and
Col. Heaths, tt. 55, 56, 57, 129. EH. Sebana, var. nana, Andr.
Heathery, t. 189. E. Sebana, var. lutea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 266.
E. soceiflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 347, E. demissa,
Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 8, not of Klotzsch. EE. baculiflora,
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 346. E. cothurnalis, Salish. Prodr.
297, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 347.—E. africana angustifolia,

etc., Seba, Thes. i. 82, t. 21, fig. 4-
Var. 8, pubescens (Bolus) ; bracts and sepals almost without keel, and cano-

tomentose,
Var. y, intermedia (Bolus) ; flowers frequently so'itary, small, 3-4 lin. long.
E. intermedia, Klotzsch ex Benth, in DC, Prodr. vii. 621.

Ss

48 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

Var. 5, Willdenovii (Bolus); leaves usually shorter and straighter ; flowers
mostly solitary, more rarely 8-nate ; sepals oval or oblong, without keel or nearly
so. E. Petiverii, var. 8, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 21. E. Petiverii, Willd. Sp. Pl.
ii. 394; vars. fusca and lutea, Wendl. l.c. fasc. 9, 35. E.petiveriana, and var.
aurantia, Andr. Heathery, tt. 78, 79, and Col. Heaths, tt. 44,117; Wendl. l.c.
fase. 14, 23. E. Petiveri, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1426; Benth. l.c. 621. LE. follicu-
laris, Salisb., l.c. 848; Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 772.

Var. e, melastoma (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 622); habit of the preceding;
bracts and sepals lanceolate, acuminate, the latter more than half the length of
the corolla, coloured; limb of the corolla oblong, 3 lin. Jong. purple. E. melas-
toma, Andr. Heathery, t. 30, and Col. Heaths, t.387; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 17,
67,t. 25; Lodd. Lc. t. 333.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7695! 76961 Var.d: Thunberg.
And cultivated specimens of the type and var, 5!

Coast Rrcion: on mountains from 500-5000 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; near
Tulbagh, Schlechter, 7473! Cape Div.; Table Mountain and other places,
Thunberg, Burchell, 612! 776! Ecklon, 99! Drége! Bolus, 3770! 4568!
Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 5!
Zeyher, 31858! Caledon Div.; near Genadendal and Baviaans Kloof, Burchell,
8627! 7650! 7803! Schlechter, 10308! Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3185a !
Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Burchell, 7302! Riversdale Div.; summit
of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7125! George Div.; between Touw River and
Kaymans River, Burchell, 5768! Var. B: Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass,
Burchell, 8246! Hottentots Holland, Niven, 129! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, ©
Burchell, 8130! Div.? Bolus, 8086! Var. y~: Swellendam Div., Niven, 127!
George Div.; Outeniqualand, Niven, 128! Div. ? Guthrie, 3015! Var. 3: Cape
Div. ; mountains near Cape Town, Burchell, 553! Cooper, 2681! Wilms, 3449!
Bolus, 4476! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mund, 1! Bredasdorp
Div.; Elim, Schlechter, 7741! Swellendam Div.; peak near Swellendam,
Burchell, 7424! Var. ¢: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Mund, 2!
phe a near Hemel en Aarde, Zeyher, 3186! Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, Schlechter,

CentraL Recion: Var. e: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter,

2. E. vestifiua (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 346); erect, 14 ft.
high ; branches ascending, pubescent, covered with shorter branch-
lets and leaf-tufts ; leaves 3-nate, spreading-incurved, linear, slender,
margins inflexed, pilose, 4-5 lin. long; petiole longish, pallid, flat,
flowers solitary (or 3-nate ex Andrews), cernuous; pedicels about
1 lin.; bracts approximate, broad ovate, rigid, paleaceous, glabrous,
2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, subobtuse, apiculate or minutely
keel-tipped, 4 lin. long; corolla tubular, curved, about 8 lin. long,
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 622. HE. Petiveri, var. hirsuta, Andr.
Heathery, t. 80, and Col. Heaths, t.118. E. picta, Sinclair, Hort.
Eric. Wob. 19. es

Sourn Arkrica: without locality; growi as the basis : gs
Horb, Solisbwrpl aniboulitiaded apccmenst. Arte Ea ee

In floral structure this much resembles E. Petiveri, var. Willdenovii. but the
flowers are usually smaller and the habit and leaves quite different. eine

_ 8. E. lineata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 622); erect, glabrous
1-1} ft. high; branches subvirgate ; leaves Phe tinkicitace,
erect-incurved, densely imbricate, linear-subulate, slender, 6-8 lin.
long ; inflorescence pseudo-axillary, on very short branchlets ; pedi-

Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 49

cels 4-7-10 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, slender, scarious ;
sepals ovate or oblong, subobtuse, flat, not keeled, faintly nerved,
keel-tipped, rigid, scarious, 33-5 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly
inflated at the base, glabrous, dry, 51—6 lin. long ; limb short, erect.

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Mund !
Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, 300 ft., Schlechter, 7712!
hills near Ratel River, 50 ft., Schlechter, 9711!

4. E. scariosa (Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 350) ; erect, gla-
brous, 1-11 ft. high; leaves erect-spreading, crowded, mostly on
very short branchlets; inflorescence strictly terminal, flowers solitary,
sometimes by the suppression of the branchlets pseudo-lateral ;
pedicels 3-4 lin. long; bracts remote, minute ; sepals ovate to ovate-
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, strongly keeled, scarious, 1}—2 lin.
long; corolla ovoid to tubular-inflated, white or rosy, 34+43 lin.
long, 2-21 lin. wide. H. Plukenetit B, Thunb. Diss. Erica, t. 2.
E. Plukenetit, var. inflata, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 22,147,t.55? LE.
Plukenetit, conferta, Wendl. l.c. fasc. 24, 183, t.69?. EH. fustformis,
vare. y and 6, Salish. in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 347, EF. Plukenetit, var.
eckloniana, Klotzsch, and var, dregeana, Klotzsch ex Rach in Linnea,
xxvi. 772. E. Petiverii var. 8, Salish. in Thunb. Diss. Erica, ed.
altera, 20, fig. 5, not of Thunb. LE. penicillata, Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vil. 622, not of Andr.

Sovurn Arrica; without locality, Thunberg! Niven! Zeyher, 1090! Dreége,
7694! Bolws, 2964! :

Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederherg Range, Leipoldt, 357! and
without precise locality, Zeyher! Mader! Piquetberg Div.; near Twenty-four
Rivers, Zeyher, 1090! Talbagh Div.; Ceres Road, Schlechter, 9084! Worcester
Div. ; Breede River Valley, Bolus, 5114! Paarl Div.; French Hoek Mountains,
1000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Aust-Afr., 987! Cape Div.; Muizen Berg,
Harvey !

ORR IRAX, Reaion: Ceres Div.; near the Wagenbooms River, 5500 ft.,
Schlechter, 10151!

We admit this species with doubt. Its principal distinction from EL, Plukeneti
lies in the shorter and proportionately broader corolla, and there does appear to
be a break between the shortest-flowered forms of E. Plukeneti, and the longest-
flowered of this. It is curious, however, that Andrews’ Heathery, t. 135, which
Bentham cites, is clearly E. Plukeneti, with corollas of 64~73 lin. long. The
specimens Bentham had in describing were those collected by Drége, Niven, and
Zeyher (1098), which show corollas shorter than any others, viz. 3-5 lin. long,
and sometimes somewhat globose, nearly 3 lin. in diameter. These are shorter
and broader than any others we have seen. We are obliged to cite Wendland’s
figures with doubt; they are from cultivated specimens, and probably more
luxuriant than any wild ones; in fact, we have not seen any figure fairly repre-
senting the wild plant, which has a distinct facies, but little like that of E,
Plukeneti, and on this account we allow it, with some reluctance, to stand.

[This is the plant figured by Salisbury as “E. Petiverii, var. 8,” and the type
specimen so named from his herbarium, now at Kew, is a branchlet broken from
(as is evidenced by the ends fitting together) the type specimen of E£. scartosa in
Thunberg’s herbarium, on the sheet of which Thunberg has written E.

lukenetii B,” he plant under that name. Salisbury evidently
Plukenetii B,” and has figured the pla ts mes var. BY

made a mistake in copying and publishing the name as ‘‘ £. . ) :”
since the plant so named in Thunberg’s herbarium is LZ, Petiveri, var. Willdenovii,

50 ERIcACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

5. E. Plukeneti (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 356); erect, glabrous,
1-2 ft. high; leaves spreading, usually densely imbricate, linear,
subtrigonous, mostly 6-8 rarely 11 lin. long; inflorescence generally
pseudo-axillary, sometimes obviously terminal; pedicels 4—6 lin.
long ; sepals ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled,
very concave, 2-5 lin. long; eorolla tubular, more or less inflated
towards the base, 53-9 lin. long, from twice to four times as long
as the sepals, red-orange or whitish. . Plukenetii, var. pinifolia,
Wendl. Beobacht. 45, var. pinea, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 1, 9;
vars. interrupta and inflata, Wendl. Beobacht. 46 and Eric. Ic.
Jase. 2, 21, and fase. 22, 147,t.55. EH. Plukenetia, Andr. Heathery,
t. 186; vars. nana and albens, Andr. lc. t. 1389, 187, and Col.
Heaths, t. 47, 256. E. plukenetiana, Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 9; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t, 1274. EH. Plukenetii, Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 91;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 622. E. penicillata, Andr. Heathery, t.
135, and Ool. Heaths, t. 116, not of Benth. ; Lodd. l.c. t. 1918.
E. fusiformis, Salish. Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 345.
Ei. adenostoma, Kuntze in Linnea, xx. 38,

Var. B, bicarinata (Bolus) ; sepals § as long as the corolla, with a deep median
channel down the keel. E. revolvens, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 631,

Var. 7, brevifolia (Bolus); leaves 23-3} lin. long, crowded, subsquarrose ;

oe short, about 4 of the 8-9 line long corolla; lateral branchlets very
short.

SourH AFrica: without locality, Drége, 7692! 7693a! Zeyher, 1089! and

cultivated specimens! Var. B: Thom, 611! Herb. Salisbury !
_ Coast REGION, common, ascending from 20-5500 ft.: Clanwilliam Div.;
Koude Berg, Schlechter, 8743! Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 8689 !
Mitchells Pass, Schlechter, 8942! Paarl Div.; Great Britain Park, Wilms,
3444! Cape Div.; Table Mountain and other localities, Thunberg, Ecklon, 102!
275! MacOwan, Herb, Norm. Aust.-Afr., 6! Burchell, 554! 281! 8410!
8574! Bolus, 2116! 2963! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Mund,
4! Stellenbosch, Niven, 138! Caledon Div. ; Burchell, 7954! Schlechter, 5416!
7845! 10399! Zeyher, 31848! Bolus, 5115! Swellendam Div.; peak near
Swellendam, Burchell, 7885! Var. B: Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 2500 ft., Schlechter,
7743 | Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Burchell, 7767 ! Niven, 231! Swellendam
Div. ; near Swellendam, Mund, 3! Div.? Guthrie, 4575! Var. 7: Piquetberg
Div. ; Piquetberg Range, Schlechter, 5208!

Chiefly variable in the size of its flowers, and the relative proportions of the
sepals and corolla. Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot observed that this species was
abundantly visited on the hills near Cape Town by a “‘sugar-bird ” (Nectarinia
chalybea). He says, “ The distance from the extremities [of the anthers] to the
base of the flower is 16 lines, which is exactly the length of the beak of N.
chalybea. . » »«. « « The bird always seizes the branch below the flowers and
exhausts one branch before going to another. It is an important article of

ag the birds, as it blooms practically all the year,” (Ann. Bot. iv. 269-

Section IT. DIDYMANTHERA. (Sp. 6-11.)

6. E. monadelphia (Andr, Col, Heaths, t. 38); erect, 12-18 in.
high ; branches subvirgate, or spreading, stout ; leaves 3-nate, sub-
erect and imbricate, or squarrose, linear-trigonous, blunt, 12-22 lin.
long ; inflorescence mostly 1-2-flowered; flowers éreet or cernuous ;
pedicels 1} lin. long; bracts broad-ovate, obtuse, suleate-keeled, thick,
rigid, coloured, about half as Jong as the sepals; sepals like the

Lyrica.] FRICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 51

bracts, but. narrower, about 23 lin. long; corolla-limb short, erect,
entirely crimson, 2-2} times the length of the sepals; filaments
x lin. wide, slightly broader than the 21 lin. long linear anther,
slightly curved at the articulation with it. Andr. Heathery, t. 129;
Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii. 622; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii.396. FE. furfurosa,
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 348.

Coast Rraton: Cape Div. ; Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 441! Caledon Div. ;
Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 130! Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 3187! Hermanus,
Guthrie, 4124! Bredasdorp Div.; Elands Kloof, 1200 ft., Schlechter, 9750!
near the mouth of Ratel River, Bolus, 8509! Riversdale Div.; above the water-
fall at Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7002! also cultivated specimens !

Bentham remarks that the younger filaments are submonadelphous, whence
the name. We have not observed this; perhaps it is less. frequent in wild

specimens,

7. E, Banksia (Andr, Col. Heaths, t. 5, and Heathery, t. 105) ;
procumbent; branches stout, flexuous, rigid, brittle, cano-pubescent,
6-9 in. long; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, broad-linear, acute,
thick, pallid, somewhat glossy, 2-4 lin. long; flowers mostly cer-
nuous; pedicels 1 lin. long or less; bracts ovate, acute, keeled, rigid,
thick, concave, 3-4 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but more
scarious and more acuminate (sometimes “‘ very unequal,” Bentham),
3-6 lin. long ; corolla 7-10 lin. long; tube rosy, white or yellowish ;
segments erect or spreading, acute, sometimes discoloured ; filaments
1 lin. wide; anthers somewhat spathulate, cells at length very
divaricate ; ovary villous with white hairs, sometimes glabrescent.
E. Banksii, Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 395 ; Bauer, Huot. Pl. t. 29;
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 14, 21; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 623. £.
aristata, Salisb. Prodr. 292. E. fragilis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn.
Soe. vi. 346. E. pilifera, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 350 ; Rach

in Linnea, xxvi. 772.

Var. 8, purpurea (Andr. Heathery, t. 106) ; corolla-limb bright purple; pore
of the anther shorter; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t.151. HE. mona-
delpha, Curt, Bot. Mag. t. 1870, not of Andr. EH. banksiana, Paxt. Mag. vii.

243, with plate. :
Sours Mack without locality, Thunberg, Mund! and cultivated specimens

of the type and var. B! :
Ctaee Baas: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher,
3189! Niven, 131! Masson (ex Salisbury). Caledon Div.; mountains near

Lowrys Pass, 1800 ft., Guthrie, 2025! Houw Hoek, 3600 ft., Schlechter, 7572!
Bolus, 5457! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; on Babylons Tower, Guthrie, 4092!

8. E. primulina (Bolus); procumbent, much branched, under
1 ft. high; branches spreading, flexuous, rigid, brittle, cano-puberu-
lous, glabreseent, 3-6 in. long; leaves 3-nate or somewhat irregular,
crowded, spreading or suberect, incurved, oblong, subobtuse, thick,
flattish above, rounded and deeply suleate below, pale grey-pubescent,
3-4 lin. long; flowers 2-3-nate, subcernuous, pedicels copiously
woolly, 13-2 lin. long; bracts approximate, imbricating the sepals,
unequal, ovate, acute, concave, subscarious, ciliate, 2-23 Jin, long ;
sepals erect, adpressed, in opposite pairs, the lower imbricating the
upper, oblong or narrow-ovate, aaa concave, keel-tipped, sub-
ae E

52 ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica,

scarious, ciliate, pallid, 21-3 lin. long; corolla trumpet-shaped, from
a narrow base widening upwards, straight or curved, nerved, glabrous,
dry, pale-primrose, about 9-10 lin, long; segments erect, ovate or
oblong, obtuse, about + the length of the tube ; filaments linear,
about 1 lin. wide, slightly widening and becoming reddish-brown at
the apex, with a small tooth-like projection on either side below the
anther; anthers subexserted (in our specimens which may probably
not be quite mature), oblong, subobtuse, cells becoming somewhat
divaricate, about 12 lin. long, pore 2 as long as the cell; style
subexserted or manifest; stigma turbinate; ovary subobconic,
glabrous.

Coast Reason: Ladismith Div. ; on rocky mountain slopes of the Klein
Zwartebergen, near Seven Weeks Poort, 3250 ft., Marloth, 2937 !

This has the habit of Z. Banksia, but more nearly the floral structure of F.
viridiflora, yet is well distinguished from either. It is one of the few species
which straggle far inland, the only known station being about 70 miles from the
nearest coast. It bears a remarkable superficial resemblance to HE. Mawimiliani,
which grows not far from the present, but still further (83 miles) from the sea.
The habit of the two is different, but a small frustule of either may be easily
mistaken for the other. The anthers afford a ready means of distinction.

9. E. viridiflora (Andr. Heathery, t.299); 3-4 ft. high; branches
ascending, stout; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, linear, acute,
glabrous, 21-4 lin. long; flowers cernuous; pedicels 14 lin. long;
bracts lanceolate, acute, scarious, 3-4 lin. long; sepals like the
bracts, but acuminate, ciliate, 4-6 lin. long ; corolla-tube equal or
widening upwards, glabrous, dry, green, 11-13 lin. long ; limb erect
or spreading; segments oblong, 21 lin. long; filaments narrow,
iin, wide ; anthers sublateral, spreading, linear, with a short spread-
ing appendage at the base, or more rarely muticous; ovary glabrous.
Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 287; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 917; Benth. in DC.

Prodr, vii, 623. EH. clavata, Andr. Heathery, t. 208, and Col.
Heaths, t. 159. :

Coast Region: George Div.; mountains near George, 1600 ft., Guthrie
3657 ! Bolus, 8672! Pappe! Montagu Pass, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 5801!

E. clarata, Audr., differs chiefly from having been described and figured from
a plant not fully developed, except as to its muticous anthers, in respect of which
it is probably variable. :

10. E. sphenanthera (Tausch in Flora, 1839, 626); leaves
4-nate, erect, linear, acute, glabrous, + in, long; inflorescence
axillary, below the ends of the branches, secund ; flowers cernuous ;
pedicels 1 lin, long; bracts approximate, ovate, acuminate, scarious,
nerved, rigid, glabrous, 2} lin. long; sepals ovate, cuspidate, keel-
tipped, scarious, rigid, glabrous, coloured, 4 lin. long ; corolla tubular,
glabrous, dry, 10} lin. long, including the erect obtuse 22 lin. long
limb-segments ; anthers exserted, subterminal, linear, apex obtusely
rounded, muticous, 1}~2 lin. long; ovary glabrous.

oe Arrica? Described from a specimen without indication of origin

ly cultivated and a hybrid), preserved in th i f iversity |
ot Prague, which we have fat A aS age 4

Erica.] ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 53

11. E. cerviciflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 362) ; branches
somewhat slender; leaves 4-nate (?), sub-6-nate or scattered, erect-
spreading, linear, acute, l-nerved above, sulcate below, subglabrous,
about + in. long; pedicels puberulous, about 2 lin. long ; bracts
subapproximate, lanceolate, acute; sepals lanceolate, acuminate,
glandular-ciliolate, 2-2} lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated
in the middle, narrowed at the throat, glabrous or minutely puberu-
lous, about 1 in. long; segments slightly spreading, obtusely
rounded; anthers exserted (Salisbury), (included according to
Bentham, but the filaments in the type are certainly longer than
the corolla-tube), sublateral, eells bipartite, at length somewhat
spreading above, muticous or decurrent-denticulate ; filament just
below the anther dilated into a small point on either side ; ovary
glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 664. E. inaperta, Hort. ex G.

Don in Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 3, 429.

Coast Region : Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Mulder !

A singular species only known to us from the type in Salisbury’s herbarium at
Kew. In a note on the ticket the author observes: ‘‘I do not know any to
which it is allied; the peduncles are certainly axillary in the upper leaves, not
alternate with them. In appearance it does not differ much from EZ, mellijtua
[E. eruenta, Soland]. The anthers resemble those of E. grandiflora, muticous,
but with a rudimentary spur on the filament, almost as in HE. hottoniaflora [E.
eubica, L.].” The shape of the anther is, however, remarkably like that of
E. viridiflora, and in spite of its lateral inflorescence it is, perhaps, better placed

here,

Section III. PLEUROCALLIS. (Sp. 12-35.)

12. E. mammosa (Linn. Mant. alt. 234); erect, 1-4 ft. high ;
branches generally few, ascending, sometimes virgate, leafy above,
naked below; leaves 4-nate or scattered, erect-spreading, linear-
lanceolate, subacute, 3-5 lin. long; flowers in a loose or congested
raceme ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate,
acute, keeled, scarious, 1j—2 lin. long ; corolla tubular, slightly
inflated, glabrous, dry, 4-foveolate at the base, 6-12 (mostly 8-10) lin.
long, purple-red, scarlet or white ; limb short, erect, concolorous ;

- anthers included, lateral, oblong or cuneate,

filaments capillary ; f I
mostly with a sharp basal point in front, about 1 lin. long, aristate,
awns of variable length ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Heathery, tt. 124,

125 (var. minor), and Col. Heaths, t. 33, and 184, not of Thunb. ;
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 125, 951 (var. pallida). Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 624. E. abietina, Berg. Pl. Cap. 105; Thunb. Diss. Erica, 42,
not of Linn. E. laxa, Lam. Encycl. i. 480, not of others. E. verti-
cillata, Andr. Heathery, t. 48, and Col. Heaths, t.66; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 145, not of Berg. E. quadrifossa, Salish. Prodr, 293. B.
coralloides, Hort. ex Tausch in Flora, 1834, 600. E. speciosa,

Schneev. Ic. Pl. Rar, t. 3.
Thunberg, and cultivated specimens ! ©

Sourn ArRrica: without localit, :
Baws se sea level to 4600 ft.: Piquetberg Div. ;

Coast RxrGION, common i
Zeyher, 1087! 1088! Paarl Div. ; Drakensteen Mountains, MacOwan, Herb.

Nee AbibcAlt s

7{ 7b! Paarl Mountain, Drége! Cape Div. ; on hills and flats,

54 ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Lrica.

Burchell, 551! 704! 8540! Bolus, 2951! 3354! Stellenbosch Div.; near Jonkers
Hoek, Burchell, 8309! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, &c., Burchell, 7786!
7582 ! Bot River, Zeyher, 1075!

YenTRAL Recion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 10115 !

13. E. broadleyana (Andr. Heathery, t. 206, not of Benth.) ;
erect, 11 ft. high, apparently quite glabrous ; branches numerous,
ascending ; leaves 3-nate (in the description, or 4-nate in the figure),
fascicled, erect-spreading, linear, acute, incurved, glabrous, 4—5 lin.
long ; flowers solitary, pendulous, forming a loose pseudo-raceme in
the middle of the branches (or perhaps sometimes at the end of short
branchlets?) ; pedicels coloured, curved, 3-5 lin. long; bracts remote,
nearly basal, small], coloured; corolla inflated-tubular, much con-
tracted at the mouth, red-purple, 7-81 lin. long; segments small,
erect, yellow; anthers included, lateral, oblong, muticous ; filament
with a double sigmoid curve above the middle ; ovary cylindrical,
sessile, glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 154.

Sout ArFrica: locality and collector unknown.

The type of this species is Andrews’ figure above cited, which exhibits a very
distinct plant we have nowhere met with. Bentham mistakenly identified with
this a specimen of Thom’s in herb. Kew, which on dissection proved to be, with- |
‘out doubt, a form of E. filipendula, Benth. The author noted its want of
agreement with Andrews’ figure and framed his description partly upon the
specimen and partly upon the figure, placing it in § Bactridiwm. We have
confined ourselves to the figure and description. It is impossible to see in
Andrews’ figure whether the inflorescence is terminal or lateral. But the ovary
is so very different from that of the other species of § Bactridiwm that it seems
more properly a member of this section.

14. E. bowieana (Lodd. Bot.- Cab. t. 842); branches virgate,
10-12 in. long, with dense pseudo-racemes of flowers below the ends
of the branches; leaves 4-nate, squarrose to recurved, crowded,
oblong or lanceolate, acute, sulcate, thick, glabrous, 2-21 lin. long ;
pedicels glabrous, about 3 lin. long; bracts remote, small, ovate-
rhomboidal or suborbicular, subacute, keel-tipped, scarious, 2-21 lin.
‘long; corolla tubular asymmetrically inflated, mouth contracted,
oblique, white, glabrous, dry, 8-10 lin. long; limb ereet, short ;
anthers included, oblong, sharply prognathous, about 1 lin. long,
aristate; awns about as long as the cells; ovary very shortly
stipitate, glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 624. EH. Bowia,
Sinclair, Hort. Bric. Wob. 4. -E. Bauera, Andi. Heathery, t. 252,

Col. Heaths, t. 221. HE. Bowerii, Donovan in Nat. Repos. iii.
(1824) ¢. 83.

Soutn Arkrica: without locality, Herb. Banks in British Museum, Also
cultivated specimens !

Coast RxGion: Riversdale Div.; Aasvogel Berg, Galpin, 3564! ree
near Riversdale, Hewitt in Herb. Bolus, 30071 g, Galpin, 3564! moun

15. E. gilva (Wendl. Beobacht. 48) ; erect, glabrous, 11-3 ft.
high; branches stout, ascending, leafy ; leaves 4-nate, erect-spread-
ing to squarrose, imbricate, often flexuous, lanceolate-linear, acute,
3-5 lin. long ; inflorescence lateral, mostly solitary, though some-

Hrica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 55

what crowded, rarely subterminal ; pedicels decurved, 2-5} lin. long ;
bracts subremote, ovate, scarious, 2-22 lin. long ; sepals rhomboid-
oval, acute, keeled, scarious, 3 lin. long, greenish ; corolla tubular,
slightly asymmetrically inflated, mouth somewhat contracted, more
or less deeply 4-foveolate at the base, glabrous, dry, 6-12 lin. long,
white or greenish-white ; limb a somewhat darker green ; anthers
nearly as in EH. bowieana, but somewhat wider; ovary sessile, gla-
brous. Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 13, 13; var. angustata, Rach in
Linnea, xxvi. 773. EH. alveiflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc.
vi. 366. E. gelida, Andr. Heathery, t. 24, and Col. Heaths, t. 96.

Coast ReGion: Cape Div. ; on the Devils Peak and Table Mountain, 2000-
3000 ft., Niven, 204! Bolus, 4567! Guthrie, 1520! Treleaven in MacOwan,
Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1761! Wilms, 3435! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens !

16. E. sessiliflora (Linn. f. Suppl. 222); erect, 1-11 ft. high;
branches ascending, densely leafy ; leaves 6-nate or scattered, erect-
spreading or incurved, imbricate, linear or subulate, acute or acumi-
nate, often mucronate, glabrous or pubescent, ciliate or naked, 2-7 lin.
long ; inflorescence generally a dense congested spike, thickening and
persisting long after the fall of the corolla; pedicels always very
short and stout; bracts and sepals closely adpressed, usually similar
in shape and texture, from rhomboid, orbicular-spathulate, or broad-
obovate to unguieulate-spathulate (the lamina small, ovate, acute),
oblanceolate, and narrow-oblanceolate, ciliate or naked, rarely lacerate,
scarious, nerved, pale coloured or at length deep red, from 13~3 lin.
long ; corolla tubular trumpet-shaped, mostly narrow at the base and
widening upwards, rarely more equal, glabrous, dry, green to greenish-
white or yellowish-green, 8-15 (usually 10-12) lin. long; limb
small, erect; anthers usually included, sometimes just visible, sub-
ceuneate-oblong, prognathous at the base, with a more or less sharp
deflexed point, 3-1 lin. long, aristate ; awns variable, usually shorter
than the cell; ovary sessile, glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii.
625. . cephalotes, Willd. ex Steud. Nomen. ed. 2, i. 570, not of
Thunb. E. spicata, Thunb. Diss. 48, t. 4; Andr. Heathery, t.
45, and Col. Heaths, t. 61; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 2, 27 ; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 1203. E. favosa, Salish. Prodr. 298, and in Trans.

Linn. Soc. vi. 365.

Var. 8, claveflora (Bolus) ; sepals broadly rhomboid, orbicular-spathulate or
obvi margin are, 3-34 lin. long, 23—3$ lin. wide. _&E. sessiliftora, Andr, t.
86, and Col. Heaths, t. 180, E. claveflora, Salish. in Trans, Linn, Soc. vi.
365.

Var. y, oblanceolata (Bolus) ; sepals oblanceolate, ciliate or naked, about
23 lin. long. : oe e
- Var. 3, sceptriformis (Bolus); sepals broadly spathulate, margins lacerate.
BE. peared ys Salish oa? E. enneaphylla, Rowb. ew Salisb. in Trans.
Linn. Soe. vi. 365. E. spicata, Thunb., var. ciliata, Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii.

: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Niven, 207! Cape Div.; on
- potiathini-aidooy Thuaborg, Solin, WAB61 and $0: Harb. Now, Aust fr; AT!

56 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Mund, 8! Caledon Div.; on mountains,
Burchell, 7719 ! 8104! Zeyher, 3176! Drége, 7707a! Bolus, 5343 4 Schlechter,
7583! George Div.; Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5130! Knysna Div. ; various
localities, Burchell, 5197 ! 5854! Bolus, 2886! Humansdorp Div.; near Kromme
River, Drége, 7707b! and cultivated specimens! Var. B: Caledon Div.? top of
hills (Houw Hoek?), Niven, 17! Herd. Salisbury! Var. y: Div. ? Guthrie,
3795! Var. 6: Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 8652! Roode Zand, Niven,
208! Herb. Salisbury (at Kew)!

We adopt the older name of Linnzus the younger, and have little hesitation in
grouping the several forms above described. The type and var. ‘y almost pass into
each other by gradations ; var. 8 is more distinct, but it differs chiefly in its broader
sepals, It appears to have been described by Salisbury, and figured by Andrews,
from cultivated plants ; it is scarcely possible in a group where the sepals vary so
greatly to rely upon them for specific differences. We have dissected eight
gradations of form as indicated in the text above, without finding any other
uniformly correlated differences of any weight. ‘The mere greater or less width
of the corolla is of even less value.

17. E. filipendula (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 663); glabrous,
1-2 ft. high; branches erect, subvirgate, bearing in their upper
portion a somewhat lax pseudo-raceme of flowers; leaves 4-nate,
erect-spreading, not densely crowded, linear, acute, somewhat round-
backed, 3-5 lin. long; pedicels 3-4 lin. long ; bracts remote, nearly
basal, small; sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, keeled, acute,
scarious, 13-2 lin. long, whitish; corolla ovoid to ovoid-urceolate,
canary-yellow, 4 lin. long, mouth somewhat contracted, texture
papery, glabrous, dry, finally brownish; limb short, erect; anthers
included, oblong, bilobed at the base, prognathous, and sometimes
sharp-pointed, about % lin. long, aristate ; awns nearly as long as the
cells; ovary on a short stipe.

Var. 8, major (Bolus); sepals broadly ovate; corolla tubular-urceolate to
inflated-tubular, 5-9 lin. long; ovary somewhat long-stipitate. E. broadleyana,
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 637, not of Andr. ;

Var, y, minor (Bolus) ; like the preceding but the corolla smaller, hardly
3 lin. long, white, becoming pink near the apex; anthers slightly or scarcely
prognathous at the base; ovary substipitate or contracted at the base.

SourH Arrica;: without locality, Bowie! Var. 8: Thom, 1094! and cultivated
specimen !

Coast RuGion: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Elim and Ratel River, 300-
400 ft., Guthrie, 3785! Bolus, 8450! Var. B: Bredasdorp Div. ; fairly abundant
on the downs between Elim and Ratel River, 300-600 ft., Guthrie, 3786! Bolus,
8452! Schlechter, 7618! 7726! and in MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1920!
Var. y: Bredasdorp Div.; between Elim and Ratel River, 200-800 ft., Guthrie,
3784! Bolus, 8451! Schlechter, 10472; here also apparently belongs Zeyher,
1090, of which the locality is unknown to us,

These three forms, unlike as they appear at first sight, can hardly be separated
specifically. Beyond the size and colour of the corolla there is scarcely anything
to distinguish them excepting a small difference in the length of the stipes of the
ovary, a very variable character, where it exists, throughout the genus. They
afford a fresh example of the cases, which a larger supply of material has brought
to light, of the connection and gradation between supposed species with long-
and others with short-flowered corollas which have hitherto been placed in
different sections. In this instance the affinity is shown with § Hermes, and

_ other cases occur in E, casta and E. coccinea, in this section ; besides several in
_§ Evanthe, There is a considerable resemblance between our var. 8 and E. gilva, —
and E, mammosa, and the almost identical shape of anthers in all three, as well —

Erica. | ERICACEEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). 57

as in the type and var. y, leaves little room for doubt as to the true position of
this species,

18. E. grandiflora (Linn. f. Suppl. 223); erect, robust, 3-5 ft.
high ; branches ascending, sometimes virgate; leaves 6-nate or
scattered, erect-incurved, spreading or squarrose, linear, acuminate,
round-backed, glabrous, 8-10 lin. long; inflorescence generally
crowded towards the ends of the branches; pedicels about 2 lin.
long; bracts subremote or subapproximate, linear, about 1} lin.
long ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, glabrous, 1-3 lin. long ;
corolla attenuate below, glabrous, viscidulous or dry, 12-14 lin.
long, orange-red; limb erect; segments semi-ovate, bluntly acute;
stamens far exserted; anthers subterminal or sublateral, obovate-
oblong, the long wide pore (from 4% to nearly the full length of the
cell) giving an ear-like appearance ; cells often bipartite from below
the base, muticous, 1-14 lin. long; ovary most usually minutely
puberulous with reversed hairs, more rarely glabrous; Bauer, Exot.
Pl. t. 8; Bot. Mag. t. 189; Andr. Heathery, t. 117, and Col.
Heaths, t. 26; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 498 ; var. longifolia, Wendl. Eric.
Ie. fase. 6, 5; var. monstrosa, Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 774. EF,
strictifolia, Klotesch in Linnea, ix. 646. . strictiflora, Steud.
Nomencel. ed. 2,1. 580. E. spectabilis, Waitz. Beschr. Heid. 220.

Sourn AFrica: without locality, Thunbderg. Also cultivated specimens!

Coasr Region: Ceres Diy.; near the Breede River, Masson (ex Salisbury),
Mitchells Pass, 1200-1800 ft., Bolus, 4400! Guthrie, 2285! Schlechter, 9958 !
Worcester Div. ; on Matroos Berg, 5200 ft., Marloth, 2211!

19. E. exsurgens (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 22); characters of £.
grandiflora, except: size somewhat smaller, habit sometimes more
diffuse ; sepals longer (5 lin.) and more acuminate; corolla dry,
more uniformly widening upwards, with larger lanceolate more acute
and more spreading segments; stamens less exserted. <Andr.
Heathery, t. 20; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 835; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
627; var. minor, Andr. Lc. t. 21, and var. longifolia, Andr. Le. t.
215. E. grandiflora, var. brevifolia, Wendl. Eric, Ic. fase. 7, 7.
ER. pharetraformis, Salish. Prodr. 295, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi.
361. LE. acutiflora, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 626.

Var. 6. diffusa (Bolus); branches more diffuse and straggling; corolla

viscid. : . :
ding from the Flats to 3000 ft.: Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh
ee eee eee Bains Kloof, Bolus, 4054! Schlechter, 9197 {

Div. ; near :
he cele tra Bolus; 5395 { Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Niven, 195! M iss Fair
in Herb. Bolus, 6321! Stellenbosch Div., Burchell, 8340! 8370! Drége! Bolus

Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 10! 11! Schlechter, 7808! Caledon
Div. By sane ihe MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1717! Also cultivated
specimens ! Var. 8: Riversdale Div.; Platte Kloof, Tygerberg, without collector’s

i Govt. Herb.
a ae the aeandivg, of which it ought perhaps to be regarded as a
variety.

90. E. longisepala (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, virgately branched

with largish glossy leaves and verticillate flowers with corolla

58 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

scarcely longer than the green sepals; branches reversedly puberu-
lous, 10-12 in. (or more) long; leaves 6-nate or sub-6-nate, erect-
incurved, densely imbricate on the upper part of the branches,
broadly linear, subacute, glabrous, 5 lin. long; inflorescence some-
what crowded below the ends of the branches; pedicels stout,
puberulous, about 3 lin. long; bracts subremote, one infra-median,
two supra-median, foliaceous, 33 lin. long; sepals foliaceous, linear-
lanceolate, subacute, keeled, concave, rigid, glabrous, 43 lin. long ;
corolla tubular-inflated, viscidulous-puberulous, about 5 lin. long;
limb short, generally erect ; anthers subexserted, subterminal, obliquely
tapering to the filament, semi-ovate, scarcely ear-like, about 1 lin.
long, minutely decurrent-denticulate for about % lin. below the cells ;
ovary cylindrical, lobed, puberulous; style 4-gonous, puberulous ;
stigma capitate,

Coast Rucion: Clanwilliam Div. ; without precise locality, Mader! in the
Cape Govt. Herb.

A very distinct species connecting the sections Pleurocallis and Hermes ; it
forms a link between HE. grandiflora of the former, and EZ. viscaria, var. B,
decora and EH. parilis of the latter. It is described from a single, but excellent,
specimen ; though there is some ground for suspecting that it may not be qnite
fully developed, in which case the corolla might become somewhat longer, and the
stamens more fully exserted.

21. E. Hibbertia (Andr. Heathery, t. 118) ; stout, erect, 1-12 ft.
high; branehes ascending, puberulous; leaves 6-nate, spreading-
ineurved, imbricate, linear, blunt, glabrous or minutely puberulous,
glandular-ciliate, 3-4 lin. long ;_ inflorescence vertieillate towards the
ends of the branches, sometimes apparently terminal ; pedicels
viscid-puberulous, about 5 lin, long; bracts, two approximate, one
remote (in our specimen and in Andrews’ figure, but, according to
Bentham, all remote), linear, about 3 lin. long; sepals oblong or
lanceolate, subobtuse, concave, thick, rigid, foliaceous, glabrous,
viscid, pallid, 3 lin. long, about 1 lin. wide ; corolla clavate-tubular,
slightly curved, glabrous, extremely viscid, 12-15 lin, long by 2 lin.
wide, red with a green erect limb; anthers subincluded, lateral,
oblong, muticous, about 1 lin. long ; ovary very shortly substipitate,
with prominent glands alternating with the bases of the filaments,
glabrous. Andy. Col. Heaths, t. 172. 4H. hibbertiana, Ait. Hort.
— ed, 2. ii. 378 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1758; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.

Micon tt taal ee Div. 5 high rocky places near the Zondereinde River,
iven > in clayey soul, near the eastern end of French Hoek P, ss
Bolter, 5168!- Also cultivated specimens ! sg setae di

This species shows an affinity with those of the section Bactridium.

22. E. purpurea (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 50 ; erect, virgatel
branched, 9-3 ft. high ; leaves sub-6-nate, Bete Tie or preter
spreading to squarrose, linear, acute, glabrous, 4~7 lin, long ; flowers —

Hrica.| ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 59

verticillate towards the end of the branches; pedicels about 1 lin.
long ; bracts subapproximate to subremote, linear, acute, scarious,
13 lin. long; sepals lanceolate or . linear-lanceolate, acuminate,
foliaceous above, submembranous below, glabrous, about 3 lin. long ;
corolla clavate-tubular, curved, glabrous, dry or viscidulous, red or
red-purple, 10-12 lin. long; anthers subexserted, lateral, oblong,
muticous, pallid, pore more than half the length of the cell, about
1 lin. long; ovary cylindrical, longer than wide, often or always
shortly stipitate, glabrescent. Andr. Heathery, t. 81; Wendl. EKric. Ic.
fasc. 15, 39, t. 15; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 627. E. phylicefolia,
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 364. EH. formosa, Andr. Heathery,
t. 114, and Ool. Heaths, t. 94, not of Thunb. EE. Salisburia, Andr.
Heathery, t. 288, and Col. Heaths, t. 271, . pinea, var. purpurea,
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1259, not of Thunb., nor of Wendl. EE. acutifolia,
Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 651? EE, rigidiuscula, Wendl. ex Klotsch in
Linnea, ix. 647. E. coccinea, a, Thunb. Herb. ex Rach in Linnea,
xxvi. 774. EH. superba, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 340.

Coast Reeton, frequent, ascending to 3500 ft.: Cape Div.; region of Cape
Town, &c., Thunberg, Burchell, 455! Niven, 179! Drége! Bolus, 4475! 4516!
Wilms, 3439! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 192! Stellenbosch Div. ;
Hottentots Holland, Mulder! Lowrys Pass, Galpin, 3526! Also cultivated
specimens !

CrentRAL REGIon : Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 8878!

Allied to E. coccinea and EZ. annectens, from either of which it may be dis-
tinguished by the sepals. The best figure of the plant, as known to us in its wild

state, is Andr. Heathery, t. 114.

Mr. G, F. Scott-Elliot observes of this species: ‘‘ I have often seen the flowers
visited by Nectarinea chalybea [a species of ‘ sugar-bird ’] at Wynberg Butts and
Muizenberg, Owing to the upward curvature the bird has to seize the branch
above the tlowers and suck them head downwards, ‘This is an advantage to the
flower, as self-fertilization is quite impossible, while in E. Plukeneti it must

occasionally happen.” (Ann. Bot. iv. 270.)

23. E. coccinea (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 92); erect, 2-3 ft. high ;
branches ascending, thickly pubescent ; leaves 6-nate, erect-spread-
ing or squarrose-upeurved, crowded, linear, acute, stout and rigid,
glabrous, 5-6 lin. long ; inflorescence verticillate, crowded at the
ends of the branches ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long; bracts from approxi-
mate to remote, oblanceolate, acuminate, nerved, viscid, pubescent,
ciliolate, 2-3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, villous, gland-
margined, very viscid, 4-5 lin. long; corolla tubular, widening
upwards, slightly curved, pubescent, or sometimes glabrous, viscidu-
lous, bright red, 10-13 lin. long; limb erect, minutely erosulate ;
anthers included, sometimes becoming subexserted, sublateral or
lateral, oblong, somewhat narrowly ear-shaped with a. wide pore,
muticous, a little more than 1 lin. long; style thinly puberulous ;
ovary very shortly stipitate, minutely and reversedly puberulous.
Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 25; Andr. Heathery, t. 57, and Col. Heaths, t.
13; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 3,9; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1375; Benth. in

DC. Prodr. vii. 627, and others, not of Linn. EH. frondosa, Salisb.

60 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

Prodr. 296, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 364. E. pulviniformis,
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 364.

Var. B, echiiflora (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 627) ; sepals obcuneate, cuspidate,
villous ; corolla 5-8 lin. long; anthers subterminal, smaller, about 4 lin. long,
scarcely ear-shaped, dark coloured. LE. cephalotes, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 21. E,
echitflora, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 364. EH. echiflora, var. purpurea, Andr. Heathery,
t. 260, and Col. Heaths, t.164. E. glandulosa, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 18, 5, not
of Thunb. E. ostrina, Lodd. lc. t. 1218. EH. puberula, Klotzsch in Linnea, ix.
629; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 625. E. coccinea, Thunb, Diss. Erica, 28, en
Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 773.

SoutH AFgIca: without locality, Forster! Berg! and cultivated specimens!
Var. B: Thunberg, and cultivated specimens !

Coast Region, frequent on mountains from 800-3000 ft.: Cape Div.;
around Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 99! 582! 8429! 8508! Drege! Ecklon,
277! Bolus, 2966! 3366! Wilms, 34388a! Wolley Dod, 178! 2124! Swellendam
Div.; near the River Zondereinde, Zeyher, 1084! Var. B: Cape Div. ; Devils
Peak, 2000-3300 ft., Bolus, 37721 and Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1891! Wilms,
3437! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland (ex Salisbury), Mulder !

Allied to Z. purpurea and E. annectens, but generally distinguishable from
either by its sepals, and the indumentum of its ovary. Of E. puberula, Klotzsch,
we have seen specimens in Herb. Kew of Mund and Maire so named by Bentham,
which are probably authentic. These, as also Klotzsch’s description, agree very
well with var. echiiflora.

24. E. conica (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1179) ; erect, 1-12 ft. high;
branches subvirgate ; leaves 4—6-nate, mostly erect-incurved, more
rarely spreading, linear, acute, glabrous, 4-6 lin. long ; inflorescence
crowded towards the ends of the branches; flowers usually erect or
ascending ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long; braets subapproximate or
remote, linear, 1} lin. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or
cuspidate, keeled, keel broadly cuneate at base tapering upwards,
viscidulous, green, 2-3 lin. long; corolla subobconic, sometimes
subcampanulate, narrow-tubular in the lower half, then somewhat
suddenly and obliquely widened upwards, oblique at the apex,
viscidulous, red, 1-3 in. long; limb erect; anthers ineluded,
subterminal to sublateral, semiobovate, muticous, dark-coloured,
about # lin. long; style glabrous, included’; ovary turbinate, sessile
or substipitate, puberulous, glabrescent. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
664. H. coccinea, Berg., var. breviflora, Rach in Linnea, xxvi.
774. ere

Coast RecGion: Cape Div. ; mountains near Cape Town, 1200 ft., Bolus,
3715! 7949! above Tokay Plantation, Wolley Dod, 1280! Also cultivated
specimen ! ;

A species precisely upon the meeting-point of the present section and § Hermes.
We place it here because of its close affinity with 2. coccinea, var. echiiflora,
from which there is little to separate it, except the habit. Loddiges’ figure is
good. It has a strong external resemblance to E. avilliflora, Bartl.

25. E. pinea (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 23, not of Andr..nor Wendl.) ;
erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches stout, rigid, often flexuous ;
leaves sub-6-nate, or scattered, densely imbricate, erect-incurved,
_ lanceolate-linear or linear, acute, round-backed, glabrous, 6-8 lin.
long; flowers crowded at the ends of the branches ; pedicels 14 lin.

Hriea.| ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 61

long; bracts, 2 approximate, linear, 22 lin. long, the third medial
and smaller; sepals linear from an ovate base with subscarious
margins, acute, foliaceous, glabrous, 23-32 lin. long; corolla clavate-
tubular, slightly curved, glabrous, dry, yellow, or white, 10-12. lin.
long; anthers subexserted or subincluded, lateral, oblong, basifixed,
muticous, from 2—1 lin. long, pore about 4+ the length of the cell;
ovary turbinate, shortly stipitate, glabrous. H. aurea, and var.,
Andr. Heathery, t. 153, 204, and Col. Heaths, t. 76, 149; Benth. in

DC. Prodr. vii, 628, :

Var. 8, argentiflora (Bolus) ; sepals somewhat shorter, 2} lin. long, the base
proportionately broader, the linear foliaceous part shorter; corolla white ; ovary
sometimes puberulous. EF. argentijlora, Andr. Heathery, t. 202, E. purpurea,
var, argentiflora, Benth, in DC. Prodr, vii. 628.

Var. y, viscosissima (Bolus); sepals shorter, shortly’ acuminate ; corolla
more viscid. EH. aurea, Andr., var. viscosissima, Benth. in DC. Prod. vii.
628.

Sourn ArFRicA: without locality, Thunberg, Drége, 7705b! and cultivated

specimens ! : a

Coast REGION, on mountains 1000-2000 ft.: Tulbagh Diy. ; vicinity of
Tulbagh, Niven, 184! Scott Elliot, 20! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége !
Bains Kloof, Schlechter, 9197! 10254! Paarl Div.; Drakensteen Range, Mac-
Owan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 9! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Burchell,
“798! Var. 8: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Miss Fair in Herb. Bolus, 6320!
Niven, 185! Schlechter, 10275! Var. y; Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Masson,
120!

We owe to Rach’s paper on the examination of Thunberg’s collection of heaths
(Linnea, xxvi. 774) the identification of Andrews’ E. aurea with this species.
That E. argentiflora belongs here is shown by its anther with small pore, as well
as by its sepals. The species may readily be known from HF. purpurea by
the anther pore alone; from EB. annectens, by the shape of the anther, besides

other characters.

26. E. hesseana (Wendl. ex Klotsch in Linnga, ix. 634) ; erect,
11 ft, high; branches verticillate, densely covered with leaf-sears ;
leaves squarrose, 4~5-(rarely 6-)nate, lliptic-linear, subobtuse,
glabrous, 1% lin. long ; inflorescence axillary, verticillate, crowded at
the tops of the branches ; pedicels pubescent, 1 lin. long; bracts
approximate, linear; sepals adpressed, lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous,
thick, subfoliaceous, 2 lin. long; corolla clavate, glabrous, purple,
9 lin, long; limb short, erect, crenulate ; anthers exserted, lateral,
elongate, cells parted to the base, muticous; stigma simple, obtuse,
ovary turbinate, puberulous.

Sourn Arrica! without locality, Hesse. ;
We only know this plant from Klotzsch’s description which we have condensed
and cited above,

27, E. annectens (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 1 ft. high; branches
spreading, diffuse, but stout and rigid; leaves 4-6-nate, spreading-
recurved, subulate, subobtuse, glabrous, 3-5 . lin. long ; inflorescence
both terminal and lateral, flowers 4-nate or -verticillate ; pedicels
striate, glabrous, 1 lin.; bracts strictly remote, but approximate in

62 -—-BRICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hriea.

aspect, subulate, foliaceous, about 3 lin. long; sepals narrow linear
from a short ovate scarious base, foliaceous, keeled, 31 lin. long;
corolla tubular, subequal, curved, glabrous, viscidulous in the lower
part, red, 10-12 lin. long; limb erect, 1) lin. long; anthers sub-
included, lateral, dorsifixed, semiovate, dark coloured, muticous,
about 1 lin. long; style glabrous; ovary broadly turbinate, wider
than long, shortly stipitate, glabrous.

Coast Rea@ion: Cape Div. ; mountains near Kalk Bay, Guthrie, 1002!

This species, from its inflorescence, might be placed in either of the sections
Pleurocallis or Evanthe ; in its leaves and general aspect it seems better included
here. It isallied to HE. purpurea and EF, coccinea, but the sepals and anthers are
quite different from either ; also to E. pinea, from which it may be known by its
more spreading and blunter leaves, and smaller, differently set and shaped
anthers ; lastly, to EZ. hesseana, from which it is to be distinguished by its longer
sepals, shorter anthers, &c.

28, E. regia (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 630); erect, 2-3 ft. high ;
branches straggling, somewhat slender, except on the smaller
generally denuded of leaves ; leaves 6-nate, erect or slightly spread-
ing, imbricate, linear, blunt or subacute, round-backed, glabrous or
minutely puberulous, 3-6 lin. long; inflorescence verticillate, mostly
towards the ends of the branches, somewhat lax; flowers spreading
or pendulous; pedicels 13-23 lin. long; bracts from subapproxi-
mate to remote, linear, small; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acuminate,
keeled, thick, rigid, glossy, 13-2} lin. long; corolla broadly tubular,
subequal, contracted at the mouth, more or less viscid, crimson,
about 7-9 lin. long by 2 lin. wide; limb small, spreading or recurved,
crispulate ; anthers ineluded, lateral, basifixed, oblong, somewhat
prognathous, convex at the base, muticous, pallid, %~1 lin. long ;
ovary turbinate, villous with copious erect grey hairs. Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 626.

Var, B, variegata (Bolus); corolla white or pink from the base shading to
purple, red and occasionally green towards the summit.

Var. , Williana (Bolus) ; pedicels somewhat longer, 2} lin. long; inflorescence
looser ; corolla shorter, }-4 in. long, of various colours (mostly crimson) but not
variegated ; anthers somewhat shorter and narrower.

Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; near Zoetendals Vlei, Miss Joubert ; hills
near Elim, 150-500 ft., Guthrie, 37961 Schlechter, 7667! Will in MacOwan,
Herb. Aust-Afr., 1728! var. 8: Bredasdorp Div. ; hills near Elim, 300-400 ft.,
Pappe, 60! Bolus, 6754! Guthrie, 2862! Will in MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr.,
1718! Schlechter, 7621! var. y: same locality, Guthrie, 8788! Bolus, 8448 !
Schlechter, 7680! Will in MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1719!

The var. B, locally known as ‘‘ the Elim heath”? is of great beauty, but d
appear to have been ever cultivated in England. ' = ee he

29. E. casta (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches
virgate, slender; leaves 6-nate, erect, imbricate, linear, subacute,
keeled, glabrous, 1—1 in, long ; inflorescence verticillate towards the
ends of the branches ; pedicels viscid, puberulous, about 1 lin. long ;
bracts approximate, linear, less than 1 lin. long ; sepals lanceolate,

Erica.) ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 63

subacuminate, sulcate, keel-tipped, glabrous, viscid, pallid or reddish,
2-3 lin. long; corolla tubular, unequally inflated in the upper part,
mouth widened or contracted, attenuated at the base, glabrous,
more or less viscid, white or pale rosy, 5-7 lin. long by 1-12 lin.
broad; limb-segments less than 1 lin. long, subereet, not imbricate
at the base; anthers included, lateral, basifixed, oblong, not prog-
nathous, muticous, dark-coloured, 3—2 lin. long; ovary villous with
ereet white hairs.

VAR. 8, breviflora (Guthrie & Bolus) ; sepals ovate, acuminate; corolla cyathi-
form or obconic, about 4 in. long.

Coast Ree@ion: Bredasdorp Div.; maritime downs and hills near Elim,
about 300 ft., Guthrie, 3719! Bolus, 6752! 6762! 8446! Var. 6: Bredasdorp
Div. ; hills near Elim, 300 ft., Guthrie, 3790! Bolus, 8449! 8460!

Closely allied to E. regia, the chief difference, besides that of colour, being in
the usually coarser and stouter leaves, corolla more attenuated to the base, the
limb less spreading, and the absence of a projecting base to the anther in this
species, The two species are each abundant, grow very near each other, and
though the look of extreme forms is different, we propose the species with some
doubt, The var. breviflora, had it stood alone, would naturally have been placed

in the § Hermes,

30. E. Marie (Guthrie & Bolus); apparently a rather large shrub,
with rigid subvirgate branches ; leaves 6-nate, erect, mostly imbricate,
broadish linear, blunt, suleate, glabrous, about + in. long ; pedicels
puberulous, 2-22 lin. long; bracts 2 subapproximate, one remote,
linear, 1 lin. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, thick, glabrous, red,
about 22 lin. long; corolla tubular, subequal, slightly curved, mouth
not contracted, glabrous, dry, red, 10-12 lin. long; limb short, erect
or somewhat spreading ; anthers included, lateral, basifixed, oblong,
not prognathous at base ; cells somewhat ear-like, pale brown, about
1 lin. long ; ovary turbinate, densely villous except in the lower part

with long pale silky hairs.

Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div.; at Milkwood Fontein, 600 ft., Galpin,

3565 !

This species, with E. regia and EF. casta, forms fairly well-defined group of
the section. It connects with the next group through EF. onosmaflora. From
E. regia it is most readily known by its longer, more erect corolla, not con-
tracted at the mouth, with less spreading limb, and anthers not prognathous at
the base. We name the species in honour of Mrs. E. E. Galpin of Queenstown.

81. E. vestita (Thunb. Diss. Eric. 22) ; ereet, virgately branched,
1-22 ft. high ; leaves 6-nate, crowded, erect to spreading, tremulous,
slender, linear-subtrigonous, acute, glabrous, 3-1} in. long, scarcely
1 lin. wide ; petioles pallid, capillary, 1;-2 lin. long, 7y-y'5 lin. wide ;
pedicels 11-4 lin. long; bracts from approximate to remote, mostly
small; sepals linear from an ovate base, acuminate, foliaceous, 4—5
lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, mouth more or less widened,
straight or curved, more or less pubescent, dry, white, yellow, rosy
or crimson, 2-1 in. long; limb erect or slightly spreading; anthers
included, subexserted, or rarely exserted, dorsifixed at or shortly above

*

64 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica,

the base, oblong, more or less curved, 3] lin. long, muticous or
decurrent-denticulate on the filament very near the apex; pore about
1 the length of the cell; ovary turbinate, deeply lobed, villous on the
upper half, usually glabrous below. Bauer, Hxot. Pl. t. 26;
Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 626. FE. vestita, vars. incarnata, rosea,
alba, purpurea, carnea, and lutea, Andr. Heathery, tt. 97, 98,
147, 198, 246, 247, and Col. Heaths, tt. 68, 69, 138, 139, 215. £.
vestita, var. purpurea, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 10,7; Lodd. Bot. Cab.
#.217; var. alba, Wendl. l.c. fase. 12, 3, and Lodd. l.c. t. 24353 var.
coccinea, Wendl. 1.c. fasc. 11,5; var. formosa, Wendl. l.c. fasc. 23,
167, ¢. 63, and vars. carnea and blanda, Lodd. Lc. tt. 1696, 1716.
E. pinifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 362. H. eckloniana,
Tausch in Flora, 1839, 625.

Var. f, fulgida (Andr. Col. Heaths, ii. t. 137, and Heathery, ii. t. 96);
anthers exserted; ovary entirely silky or puberulous. EH. fulgida, Sinclair, Hort.
Eric. Wob. 11; Benth. in DOC. Prodr. vii. 626; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1633. E.

mera and E. speciosissima, Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 644, 645, LE. vestita, var.
coccinea, Andr. Heathery, t. 199, and Col. Heaths, t. 70.

Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg, Masson, 122! Zeyher, 3169 !
Niven, 182! and cultivated specimens! Var. B: Mund & Maire, Lichtenstein
(ex Klotzsch), and cultivated specimens !

Coast REGION, on mountains 600-5000 ft.: Tulbagh Div. ; Witsen Berg,
Burchell, 8729! Caledon Div.; Donker Hoek Mountain, Burchell, 7949! near
Caledon, Mund, 7! Zoetemelks Valley, Niven, 181! and various localities,
Bolus, 3192! 9226! Guthrie, 2500! 4576! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam,
Pappe! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 800 ft., Schlechter, 7634!

A distinct and well-marked species; yet often confused with ZF, longifolia.
From this it may be most readily distinguished by its more slender leaves, and
. their longer and more slender petioles; they are also tremulous in the wind,
while in Z. longifolia they are rigid. The two next species are closely allied by
the same peculiar foliage, their sepals, anthers and ovary, But they differ by
their corolla. We have specimens connecting, by subexserted anthers, var. B
with the type.

32. E. nematophylla (Guthrie & Bolus); branches slender,
glabrous, the younger deeply channelled between the-long prominent
leaf-cushions ; leaves 6-nate or somewhat scattered, erect or spread-
ing, with a long hair-like pallid petiole, slender-linear, subtrigonous,
keeled, acute, glabrous, 3—% in. long; flowers more or less crowded
towards the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, puberulous, 4—}
in. long; bracts remote, narrow-linear, 1} lin. long; sepals linear
from an ovate base, long-acuminate, minutely gland-ciliate, deep-red,
11-22 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, slightly inflated above the
middle, thence gradually contracted towards the apex, glabrous or
minutely velvety or puberulous, dry, 5 lin. long; limb short,
rounded, erect; filaments 3 lin. long; anthers ineluded, dorsifixed
near the base, oblong, obtuse, about + lin. long, muticous or some-
times minutely decurrent-denticulate shortly below the anther; pore
2 the length of the cell; style exserted, stout; stigma rather large,
capitate ; ovary exactly that of preceding and next species,

Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div., 1000 ft.; slopes of the Langeberg Range
near Riversdale, Schlechter, 1728! road-side, Garcias Pass, Galpin, 8643!

$

Hriea. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 65

This is in many respects intermediate between the preceding and the next
species, The leaves, sepals, anthers and ovary are closely similar, The shape of
the corolla is, however, different, being so far as our specimens go, always
narrowed (instead of widened) towards the apex. :

33. E. filamentosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 22); slender, erect,
1-1: ft. high; branches subvirgate, puberulous, channelled between
the long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 6-nate or irregular and
somewhat scattered, erect-incurved, crowded, tremulous, slender-
linear, acute, round-backed or keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 5-7 lin.
long, about 1 lin. wide; petioles pallid, about 1 lin. long, +}; lin.
wide; inflorescence axillary, crowded towards the ends of the
branches; pedicels slender, 4-6 lin. long; braets remote, small ;
sepals linear from a short ovate or lanceolate base, acuminate,
coloured, 2 lin. long; corolla obconic- or subobconic-tubular, much
wider at the mouth than at the base, glabrous or minutely puberu-
lous, dry, rosy, 4-4} lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed just
above the base, oblong, obtuse, 2—* lin. long, muticous; pore a little
under or over 3 the length of the cell; style at length exserted ; stigma
capitellate ; ovary exactly that of the two preceding species. Andr.
Col. Heaths, t. 91; Bot. Reg. t. 6; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 395; Benth.
in DC. Prodr, vii. 664.

Var. f, longiflora (Bolus) ; branches, leaves and pedicels stouter than in the

type ; corolla obconic-tubular, 6-63 lin. long.
Coast Rraion: Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Swellendam, 400-1500 ft.,

Niven, 183! Mund, 12! MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1494! also. cultivated
specimens! Var. B: Swellendam Div.; mountain ridges along the lower part of
the River Zondereinde, Zeyher, 3171! Caledon Div.: without collector’s name

or number, Cape Govt. Herb. !

Closely allied to the two preceding species ; and not improbably, when more
ample material of the two latter is available, it will be thought better to unite all
three as forms of one variable species. Here as elsewhere in this section we
have a distinct link with the § Hermes, in which indeed the present species was

ineluded by Bentham.

34. E. longifolia (Ait. in Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 4); erect, 1-3 ft.
high ; branches virgate or spreading ; leaves 6-nate, mostly erect and
imbrieate, sometimes spreading, rarely squarrose, linear, acute,
mostly glabrous, rigid, 4-10 lin. long, from 4 to over 2 lin. wide ;
pedicels 1-3 lin. long ;_ bracts linear, approximate or subapproximate,
from 2 to 3 the length of the sepals ; sepals linear or linear-subulate,
foliaceous, dry or viseid, glabrous or pubescent, 3-5 lin. long;
corolla tubular or clavate-tubular, asymmetrically inflated, more
rarely subequal, contracted or widened at the mouth, pubescent or
villous, usually more or less viscid, variously coloured, 6-11 lin. long ;
anthers included, lateral, oblong, blunt, rarely semiovate and acute,
muticous, }—1 lin. long; ovary ovoid or turbinate, villous with long
hairs, mostly glabrous towards the base. Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed.
i. 42; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 625. E. pulchella, Thunb. Diss.
Erica, 22, not of others, fide Rach. E. pityophylla, Spreng. Syst.
qi.181. E. Leea, Andr. ew Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 400 ; also Heathery, t. 74
and Col. Heaths, t. 31. 2. leeana, [Dryand. in] Ait. Hort. Kew,

: F

-yvOL, 1V.-—SECT. I.

66 gricacEm (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

ed. 2, ii. 376; Bauer, l.c. t. 24; Benth. 1.c. 625; var. longifolia, Rach
in Linnea, xxvi. 773. EE. vestita, Drege ex Benth. l.c. 625. E.
costeflora, and E. argutifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 363,
364. E. candida, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 628. HE. glaucescens,
Bartl. lc. 6512 E.-piniformis, Wendl. ex Klotzsch in Linnea,
ix. 626.

Var. §, contracta (Bolus) ; corolla asymmetrically inflated, mouth contracted,
white, red, orange or purple. EH. pinea, Wendl: Eric. Ic. fasc. 1, 11, and fase.
13, 9, not of Thund., nor Andr. E. pinifolia, Andr. Heathery, t. 184, and Col.
Heaths, t. 199 and E. pinifolia, var. coccinea, Heathery, t. 137, and Col.
Heaths, t.119. E. leeana, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 298. E. glutinosa, var. minor,
Andr. Heathery, t. 67, and Col. Heaths, t. 171. E. pura, Sinclair, Hort.
Eric. Wob. 20; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 626 (probably an error for E.
pinifolia, Andr. Heathery, iv. t. 184).

Var. y, amplicata (Bolus) ; corolla clavate-tubular, curved, not inflated,
gradually widened to the mouth. E. vestita, var. coccinea, Bot. Mag. t. 402,
and Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 55, not of Thunb. E. pinea, Andr. Heathery, t. 35, and
Col. Heaths, t. 46, not of Thunb. E. pinifolia, var. discolor, Andr, Heathery, t.
138, and Col. Heaths, t. 200.

Var. 5, viridis (Bolus); corolla tubular, asymmetrically inflated, sometimes
wider than in other forms, contracted at the mouth, hispid, and covered with
more or less prominent rough tubercles, viscid, green or greenish, or sometimes
purple. E. viridis, Andr. Heathery, t.148; Col. Heaths, t. 140.

Var. «, squarrosa (Bolus); leaves narrower than-usual, crowded, squarrose ;
corolla clavate-tubular, curved, mouth widened, white or red with a white tip.

Var. (¢, maritima (Bolus); leaves glabrous, 5-7 lin. long; including the
1-1} lin. long petiole; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, subscarious, with a linear
foliaceous cusp of variable length, 3-4 lin. long ; corolla clavate-tubular, velvety,
pale purple, 9-11 lin. long; anthers minutely decurrent-denticulate on the filament.

Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg, Mund! Drége! and cultivated
specimens ! Var. y: Niven, 40! Var. ¢: Herb. Lehmann!

Coast REGION, mountain sides to 5000 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass,
Burchell, 8203! 8251! Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 8! Hottentots Holland,
Zeyher, 3172! Caledon Div. ; common, Burchell, 7752! 7866! 8082! Zeyher,
3177! Niven, 177! 178! 180! Var. 8: Div. and locality? Bolus, 6952!
Guthrie, 20241 2293! 8794! 4094! 4969! Var. y: Caledon Div.; near Gena-
dendal, Schlechter, 9824! Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 3491 Div. and locality ?
Bolus, 53898! Guthrie, 4972! Var. 5: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains,
Burchell, 8039! Schlechter, 7342! locality? Guthrie, 4970! Var. ¢: Div. and
locality ? Bolus, 6474! Schlechter, 4789! Var. ¢: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near
Cape Agulhas, Schlechter, 10556!

We have united with this E. Leea, Andr., which consists of nothing but short-
leaved forms; and even most of the varieties we have tried to distinguish run into
each other. The last, however, is more distinct, and might by some be held as a
good species. It has the sepals of EH. vestita, but not its leaves; the corolla and
leaves of the present species, but broader sepals, and differs from E. onosmefiora
chiefly in its somewhat differently-shaped, rot inflated, and not viscid corolla.

Yet it appears to be too near to all of these to make it worthy of distinction as a
species.

35. E. onosmeeflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 363) ; erect,
1-2 ft. high; branches somewhat virgate ; leaves 6-nate, erect-
incurved to spreading, linear, subacute, round-backed, glabrous, 5-7
lin. long by 14-3 lin. broad; flowers towards the. ends of the
branches, mostly ascending; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; bracts sub-
approximate, small ; sepals lanceolate with a long linear acuminate
tip, thiek, glabrous, viscid and at length glossy and wrinkled, pallid,

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 67

3-5 lin. long ; corolla tubular, more or less asymmetrically inflated
and slightly contracted at the mouth, rarely equal, viscid, glabrous or
puberulous, pale purple or ochraceous yellow, 8-11 lin. long;
anthers included, lateral, oblong, muticous, about {$ lin. long; ovary
villous in the upper portion, glabrous below. . glutinosa, Andr.
Heathery, t. 66, and Col. Heaths, t. 25, not of Thunb. . viscida,
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 13, 7. E. pulehella, Willd. ex Steud.
Nomenel. ed. 2, i.578. HE. viscosa, Steud, Nomenel. ed. i. 311 1.

po ye Arnica: without locality, Herd. Salisbury ! also cultivated spect=
mens !

Coast Raion, on mountains, 400-4500 ft.: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Peak
Marloth, 2415! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Alexander! Cape Div.; Camp
ground, Grey! Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 2295! Caledon Div. ;
common, Burchell, 7579! 7799! 7950! 7995! Zeyher, 3178! Bolus, 5895!
Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, Bolus, 6751! 8447 !

CenrRAL Recion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 8902!

Section VI. EVANTHE. (Sp. 36-70.)

36. E. abietina (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 355) ; erect, glabrous, 2 ft.
or more high; branches virgate, with a dense pseudo-raceme of
flowers, several inches long, not reaching to the apex ; leaves 4-nate,
densely imbricate erect-ineurved, linear, acute, 4-6 lin. long;
flowers solitary, on short crowded branchlets; pedicels } lin. long or
less; bracts approximate, linear, foliaceous, 2-21 lin. long; sepals
linear from a broad ovate scarious base, acuminate, foliaceous, 3}—6
lin. long; corolla tubular, contracted towards the apex, mostly
straight or nearly so, glabrous, dry, yellow with an orange limb,
7-9 lin. long (or according to Salisbury 6-8 lin. and to Bentham
9-12 lin.); limb short, spreading, at length revolute; anthers
included, oblong, papillose, }—} lin. long, aristate; awns slightly
longer than the cells; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DG. Prodr. vii.
630. E.Patersonia, Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 43, and Heathery, ¢. 181;
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 1, 15. £. Patersonia, var. major, Andr.
Col. Heaths, t. 195 and Heathery, t. 998, E. Patersoni, Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 1727. E. spissifolia, Salisb. Prodr. 293, and in Trans.

Linn. Soc. vi. 355.

Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg !

Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; hills near Smitswinkle Bay, Bolus, 7201! and
in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 12! Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, 1000-
3000 ft., Zeyher, 3179 ! mountains near Vogel Gat, 3200 ft., Schlechter, 9551!
also cultivated specimens! —

This is one of the few winter-flowering heaths.

37. E. sacciflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 355) ; erect,
9-3 ft. high; branches mostly virgate, furrowed by cushions below
the leaves, the older scarred, bearing many flowers in @ pseudo-

raceme on short crowded branchlets below the apex; leaves 4-nate,

erect-incurved, imbricate, linear, glabrous, 2-21 lin. long; flowers
small, scarious ;

solitary; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts subremote,

sepals broadly ovate, acute, keeled, searious, glabrous, coloured,
2 lin, long; corolla tubular, contracted at the apex, straight or
F2

68 rricace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

slightly curved, glabrous, dry, yellow, darkened at the throat, 8-10
lin. long; limb short, subcordate-reniform, spreading; anthers in-
eluded, oblong, papillose, 8 lin. long, with spreading awns as long as
the cells; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630. E.
pauciflora, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 656 in syn. ;

Coast Recton: Paarl Div.; in a valley near Kehrwieder, French Hoek,
Le Roux in Herb. Huguenot Seminary, 302! and in Herb. Bolus, 5949! mountains
of French Hoek, 1600-1700 ft., Bolus, 6333 ! 6900! Mac Owan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-
Afr., 958! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Masson (ex Salisbury).

38. E. foliacea (Andr. Heathery, t. 263); erect, 2-3 ft. high ;
branches stout, spreading or virgate, glabrous or puberulous (the
plant entirely glabrous elsewhere) ; leaves 4-nate, somewhat spread-
ing, curved, linear, rather stout, 3-5 lin. long ; flowers 4—5-nate,
on distant spreading lateral branchlets }—1 in. long, upon pedicels
1 lin, long; bracts approximate, narrow-lanceolate, acute, rigid,
keeled, margins scarious, 2-3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but
broader and a. little longer; corolla tubular, mostly somewhat in-
flated, straight or slightly curved, distinctly contracted at the throat,
dry, stout in texture, clear sulphur-yellow, 7-8 lin. long; limb
subspreading, semi-ovate, short; awns included, oblong, scaberu-
lous, 2 lin. long, aristate ; awns 1}—2 times the length of the cells ;
ovary glabrous, broad-based, sessile. Andr. Col. Heaths, t, 2385;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630.

Var. B, fulgens (Klotzsch in Linna, xii. 507); more virgate; flowering
branchlets more numerous, shorter, mostly densely crowded and forming a
pseudo-spike of flowers several inches long; leaves shorter and straighter,
24-34 lin. long, clogely imbricate ; sepals somewhat smaller in proportion to the
corolla; corolla orange or reddish orange; anthers smaller, about 4 lin. long.
E. fulgens, Klotzsch, l.c.

Coast REGIoN: Caledon Div.; without precise locality, Bolus, 6870! Var. B:
Caledon Div.; Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 173! near the mouth of Klein River,
Masson, 114! mountains near Palmiet River and near Lowrys Pass, Ecklon Sf
Zeyher, Guthrie, 3551! 3766!

. CenTRAL REeton: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, in moist places, 5000 ft.,
Schlechter, 8925 !

Taking Andrews’ figure as the type, the specimens first above cited are the
only ones we have seen which entirely agree with it. Klotzsch’s var, has a very
different appearance, usually more resembling E, abietina, yet quite distinct from
that by its 4-nate flowers, besides other characters ; but the floral differences of
var. fulgens from the type are not considerable. Bentham appears to have
described from the variety, which seems to- be much more frequent than
Andrews’ type. In its flowers it also resembles E. nana, but the corolla is
somewhat smaller, the ovary quite sessile and broad-based, and the habit very

different.

39. E. nana (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 355); procumbent,
robust, a span high or less; branches divaricate, flexuous,. rigid,
glabrous; leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved or spreading, imbricate,
linear, glabrous, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate; pedicels 1 lin.
long ; bracts approximate, lanceolate, 3-4 lin. long ; sepals ovate,
acuminate, keeled, 3-31 lin. long, margins wide, scarious, sub-
lacerate ; corolla subclavate-tubular, wide, thick in texture, slightly
constricted at the wide throat, glabrous, dry, yellow, 10-11 lin.

Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 69

long ; limb short, spreading or reflexed ; anthers included, oblong,
curved, $—1 lin. long, with setiform awns somewhat shorter than,
or equalling the cells; ovary substipitate, glabrous. Wendl. Eric.
Te. fasc. 25, 9, t. 4; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 631. HE. depressa,
Andr. Heathery, t. 17, not of Linn.

Sourn Arica: without locality, Rowburgh, and Paterson (ex Bentham).
Also cultivated specimens !

Coast REGION: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, procumbent on the
rocks, Niven, 172! Masson! Caledon Div.; mountains near Lowrys Pass,
native collector in Herb. Guthrie, 3554!

A well-marked species allied to E. foliacea and E. sacciflora. It seems to be
now rare, and a small twig, with a few flowers, brought in by a native collector
in 1895, appears to be the only recorded gathering during a period of nearly a
century.

40. E. xanthina (Guthrie & Bolus); branches 12-14 in, long,
subvirgate, stout, densely covered with short pubescent branchlets ;
leaves 4-nate, mostly erect-incurved, imbricate, sometimes spreading,
linear, subobtuse, convex and slightly sulcate below, flat above,
roughly puberulous, ciliolate, 2-3 lin. long including the longish
pallid slender petiole ; flowers 1—2-nate at the ends of the numerous
branchlets ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long, pubescent ; bracts remote,
almost basal, minute; sepals ovate to subrotund, cuspidate-aeumi-
nate, keeled, pubescent, ciliate, subscarious, coloured, less than
1 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly narrowed in the middle, and
again towards the apex, pubescent, dry, yellow or orange ; segments
of the limb ovate, subacute, subconnivent (in age), apparently
discoloured, the whole 7-71 lin. long; filaments tapering upwards,
sharply bent near the anther, glabrous; anther included, dorsifixed
just above the base, oblong or subsemiovate, muticous, } lin. long ;
style subexserted ; stigma capitellate ; ovary obovoid or subspherical,
minutely and thinly puberulous, probably becoming glabrous.

Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Genadendal, Alewander, 5! in Herb. Kew.

41. E. Maximiliani (Guthrie & Bolusin Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 173) ;
erect, 2-4 ft. high ; branches rigid, spreading, curved, naked and
dark-coloured below} branches cano-tomentose, densely leafy ;
leaves 4-nate or occasionally scattered, erect-spreading and slightly
incurved, imbricate, linear-subterete, obtuse, sulcate, cano-pulveru-
lent, the younger villous, 4-6 lin. long ; inflorescence 1—4-nate, on
short branchlets; pedicels cano-tomentose, 3-4 lin. long; bracts
subremote, small, upper one lanceolate, obtuse, lower two smaller,
nearly basal, pubescent ; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, bluntish,
imbricate at base, keeled, pubescent, 23-3 lin. long ; corolla tubular,
widening upwards, straight or curved, glabrous, dry, pale sulphur-
yellow, 14-16 lin. long ; limb short and broad, at length spreading ;
anthers at length subexserted, linear, slender, brown, smooth, 1$-2
lin. long, aristate, awns inserted with the filament about 4 of the |
length of the cells above their base, and reaching about the same
— length below it; ovary densely villous, except towards its base, with
somewhat long erect hairs. :

70: ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

CoAst REcGion: Clanwilliam Div.; Koude Berg, near Wapperthal, 3700 ft.,
Schlechter, 8739! Pakhuis Pass on the Cederberg Range, at the highest part of
the public road, about 2500 ft., Bolus, 8683 !

CENTRAL ReGion: Worcester Div.; rocky places on the Witteberg Range,
near Matjes Fontein, 3750 ft., Marloth, 2950 !

42. E. pallens (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 194); erect, 6 in. high;
branches numerous, spreading ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or recurved,
subulate, downy, whitish-green, 2-3 lin. long; infloreseence umbel-
late (8-6, Andrews’ fig. shows as many as 9 flowers), subsessile ;
flowers spreading horizontally; bracts subapproximate, sepaloid,
largish ; sepals lanceolate, subacuminate, apparently glabrous, about
3 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, slightly constricted at the throat,
straightish, glabrous, pale sulphur-yellow, 10 lin. long; limb short,
spreading; anthers included, muticous; ovary glabrous. Andr.
Heathery, t. 182; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 635. E. Dickinsoni,
Dodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1793 ?.

‘ SourH Arrica: Only known from Andrews’ figures and description.

Kvidently a very distinct species, and may perhaps be allied to E. Mami-
miliant.

43. E. dubia (Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 776); erect, glabrous, with
subvirgate branches, 2~3 ft. high ; leaves 3—4-nate, erect-spreading,
linear, 3-4 lin. long; flowers solitary or geminate, spreading ; bracts
remote, foliaceous, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keel-
tipped, ciliate-serrulate, foliaceous, 21~3 lin. long ; corolla tubular,
straight, wider at the base and apex, the middle somewhat contracted,
clear yellow, 8 lin. long; limb short, erect; anthers subovate,
muticous, included ; ovary glabrous. LE, cylindrica, Wendl. Eric. Ic.
fase. 11, 7, not of Thunb. nor Andr.

Sour Arnica: Known to us only from cultivated specimens and Wendland’s
excellent figure and description.

_Allied to E. bibaw, yet apparently distinct by its more foliaceous sepals and the
different manner in which the anthers are affixed to the filament.

44, E. bibax (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 358) ; erect, virgate,
1-2 ft. high; branches and limb of the corolla puberulous, glabrous
elsewhere ; leaves 4-nate, linear-trigonous, erect-spreading, 2—4 lin.
long ; flowers solitary, spreading; bracts approximate, like the sepals
but smaller; sepals lanceolate, acute, keel-tipped, scarious, shining,
coloured, 83-42 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, curved or nearly
straight, puberulous or velvety, dry, yellow with a paler limb, 7-10
lin. long ; filaments sharply bent at a right angle at the junction with
the thickened dorsally-projecting connective; anthers included,
oblong, $ lin. long, attached to the filament near the base of the
cells, muticous ; ovary glabrous. E. flammea, Andr. Heathery, t.
23, and Col. Heaths, t. 92 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 633.

oo adele : ae pa a Nirah

OAST REGION: enbose iv. ; w
7813! Grisbrook in Herb. Bolus, 6473! Caled Div 7 Be yraent

a on the Zwart Berg near Caledon, MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr.,

Rrica.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 71

Very near to the more glabrous forms of E. curviflora, of which it might,
perhaps, be regarded as a variety. The angular attachment of the anther to
= filament is, however, more marked than in any specimens of that which we

ave seen.

45. E. curviflora (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 354); 14-5 ft. high ;
branches virgate, stout, more rarely spreading or slender; leaves
4-nate, erect, incurved or spreading, imbricate, linear or lanceolate-
linear, acute, subtrigonous, keeled, or somewhat open-backed, ciliate
or glabrous or pubescent, 14-32 lin, long; flowers solitary, usually
subsessile and ascending, sometimes at length decurved; braets
small, approximate, or subremote; sepals variable, linear and
foliaceous from a broad scarious base, or lanceolate or ovate, scarious
with a broad foliaceous keel, or entirely scarious and coloured,
glabrous or pubescent, 13-41 lin. long; corolla elavate-tubular or
trumpet-shaped, curved or more rarely straight, mostly pubescent, or
villous, more rarely glabrous, dry, red, orange or yellow, 10-19
(commonly 11-13) lin. long ; limb 1}-2} lin. long; filaments slender,
glabrous or pilose ; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, straight
or slightly curved forwards at the base, inserted on the filament
above their base, about * to a little over 1 lin. long, muticous or
minutely decurrent-denticulate along the filament; ovary glabrous, -
sessile or substipitate, sometimes excavate at the apex, with callous
bosses rising above the base of the style. Thunb. Diss. Erica, 24 ;
Wendl. Eric. Ic. jasc. 3, 7; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 633 ; Andr.
Heathery, it. 16, 211 (var. rubra), and Col. Heaths, tt. 19, 161;
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1663. EE. tubiflora, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 505;
Thunb. Diss. Erica, 25. E. cuspidigera, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc.
vi, 358. E. procera, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 17, 71, t. at.. I
simpliciflora, Willd. Sp. Pl, ii. 402, and Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 17,
69, t. 26. E. simplicefolia, Steud. Nomencl. ed. i. 309. E.. fas-
tuosa, Salisb. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 359. FE. buecineformis,
Salish. Prodr. 294, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 359; Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 633. E. ignescens, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 8, 3, and
var. atropurpurea, fase. 20, 117, 4. 44; Andr. Heathery, t. 27, and
Col. Heaths, t.103. LE. lanitflora, F. W. Schmidt, Neue und selt.
Pfl. 44, not of Wendl. E. tubulosa, Sm. ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 1,
310.—Erica, Seb. Mus. 2, t. 19, fig. 5, and 1, t. 20, fig. 4.

Var. 8, Burchellii (Bolus) ; tall, stout, virgate; leaves often more or less
open-backed ; sepals 14-44 lin. long; corolla hairy or rarely glabrous ; limb
oblong, 2-34 lin. long, the sinus acute, or obtuse and somewhat open; ovary
wmostly callous-bossed at the apex; E. tubslora, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii, 403, and
others, not of Linn.; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 28; Andr. Heathery, t. 46, and
Col. Heaths, t. 64; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 4, 7; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 634.
E. coccinea, of Linn. Herb. not of Sp. Pl. ed. 1, according to Benth. E.
Burchellii, Benth. 1.c. 632. E. sordida, Drége ex Benth. l.c. 634.

Var. y, Versatilis (Bolus) ; bracts scarious, coloured; sepals ovate-lanceolate,
acute, keeled, scarious, coloured, pubescent, 3 lin. long; filaments inserted
higher on the anther than usual, about the middle of the cell, with decur-
rent awns slightly free at the apex, but scarcely reaching to the base of the

cells. : :
Var. 3; sulfurea (Bolus); very villous in all parts; leaves subdistant ;

72 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

branches spreading ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2}-3 lin. long, with a channelled
keel; corolla yellow. HE. sulfwrea, Andr. Heathery, t. 241, and Col. Heaths, t.
278; Bot. Mag. t. 1984; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1762; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
634. E. stagnalis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 359? EH. tubijlora, Rowb.
ew Salisb. l.c.

Var. ¢, diffusa (Bolus); more slender than any other form; branches diffuse ;
leaves spreading and subdistant, 6 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals lanceolate-ovate to
ovate, acute, scarious, ciliate, coloured ; corolla glabrous except for the ciliate
and hair-tufted limb, clear rosy red.

Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. B, Sieber, 76!
Var. 5, Mund, Herb. Salisbury! Var. ¢, Mund SY Maire! and cultivated
specimens of the type and vars. 8 and 5!

Coast RxGion : in Clanwilliam, Tulbagh and Piquetberg Div., and in all the
coast Divisions from Cape to Albany Div., at from 300-2500 ft., Thunberg,
Burchell, 546! 3719! 5747! 7046! 7777! Niven, 193! 194! 229! Zeyher,
3160! Drége, 7700! 7701! 7702! 7710! Galpin, 3585! MacOwan, 81! and in
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr.,'751! Bolus, 1577 ! 3998! 4168! 5851! 8668! Mulder !
Schlechter, 1918! 2417! 10379! Var. 8: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Niven,
191! Mund, 11! Bolus, 3716! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 18! George
Div.; Cradock Berg, Burchell, 6023! near Touw River, Burchell, 5738! Var.y:
Worcester Div. ; Goudini, Schlechter, 9943! Caledon Div.; mountains near the
Zondereinde River, 4500 ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4595! Var. 5: Paarl Div. ;
mountains around French Hoek, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 957!
Schlechter, 9264! Caledon Div.; Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 10! Var. e:
Caledon Div. ; near Genadendal, 3000 ft., Galpin, 3573! mountains near Grey-
town, Herb. Bolus, 6750!

A very variable species of wide distribution. Earlier authors described and
figured the forms as they successively appeared, as so many distinct species.
With a very large amount of material before us we have with difficulty dis-
tinguished 3 or 4 varieties, and even some of these run into each other.

46. E. sulcata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 632); ereet; leaves
4-nate, incurved, narrow or broadish linear, blunt, deeply sulcate,
sometimes slightly open-backed, the upper copiously and softly long
ciliate, 14-23 lin. long; flowers solitary, subsessile; bracts sub-
remote, minute, sepal-like: sepals ovate, or subcuneate and retuse,
apiculate, scarious, about } lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, in-
curved, tomentose-pubescent, dry, 10-12 lin. long; limb 12 lin.
long, spreading, somewhat fleshy ; filaments widening towards the
anther ; anthers subexserted, oblong, mid-dorsifixed, muticous, $—1
lin. long; ovary glabrous.

Coast Region: George Div. ; Devils Kop, near George, Niven, 190!

Closely allied to E. cwrviflora, var. Burchellii, and might perhaps be regarded

as another variety of that with minute sepals. Bentham also says that “it has
the habit of E. tubiflora, Willd.” [E. curviflora, L.]

47. E. macropus (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, rigid, much-branched ;
branches pallid, pubescent; leaves 4-nate, incurvo-patent, linear,
subtrigonous, glabrous, 2 lin. Jong ; flowers sub-4-nate, numerous ;
pedicels 4 lin. long, slender ; bracts linear, remote ; sepals lanceolate,
acute, foliaceous, scarious-edged, concave, glabrous, 2} lin. long ;
corolla clavate-tubular, incurved, glabrous, dry, red, 9 lin. long ;
limb short, erect; anthers included, oblong-cuneate, less than 4 lin.
long, with short and broad subulate appendages reaching to the base
of the cells, or slightly longer. pad ee Sn

Erica.| ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). 73

Coast ReGion: Clanwilliam Div.; near Clanwilliam, Mader, 2180! in the
Cape Gov. Herb., not of Herb. MacOwan.

_ Well distinguished by its long pedicels, and broad, short anther-appendages.

48. E. conspicua (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 22);
2-3 ft. high; branches subvirgate, variably pubescent, rarely gla-
brous, usually covered with many short branchlets, the uppermost
only bearing flowers; leaves 4-nate, slightly spreading, imbricate,
linear to sublanceolate, pubescent, villous or rarely glabrous, 1—2 lin.
long ; flowers solitary, more rarely 2—4-nate ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long ;
bracts subremote, sepal-like, oblong, very obtuse, or linear, 2-2} lin.
long; sepals from ovate subacute to lanceolate acuminate, sub-
scarious, with a thick keel or boss at the apex, pilose or glabrous,
3-41 lin. long ; corolla clavate-tubular, incurved, variably hairy or
more rarely glabrous, dry, 9-20 (mostly 15-18) lin. long, rosy, dull
red, or yellow ; limb oblong, spreading or recurved, 2-2 lin. long ;
filaments somewhat broad at the base, occasionally thinly pilose ;
anthers included or subexserted, oblong, affixed shortly below the
middle of the cell, distinetly curved forwards in front, 1j-1} lin.
long, muticous or sometimes minutely decurrent-denticulate ; ovary
glabrous. Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 12; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 4, 9;
Andr. Heathery, t. 12, and Col. Heaths, t. 14; Salish. in Trans.
Linn. Soc. vi. 359. E. inconspicua, Thunb. Prodr. 71 (sphalm.).
E. longiflora, Salish. le. 359; Andr. Heathery, t. 222, and Col.
Heaths, t. 183 ; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 983. E. elata, Andr. Heathery,
t. 112, and Ool. Heaths, t. 87 ; Lodd. luc. t. 1788. LE. splendens,
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 8, 5, not of Andr. £. lanijlora, Wendl. 1.c.
fase, 2,23. EE. laniflora, var. glabra, Wendl. l.c. fase. 19, 105, t. 40.
E. lanata, Wendl. lc. fase. 5, 5. £. sordida, Andr. Heathery, t.
191, and Col. Heaths, t. 60; Lodd. lc. t.1973. E. floccosa and

#. verticillaris, Salisb. le. 360, not of Bartl.

Coast REGION, on mountains, 700-1000 ft.; Worcester Div. ; near Worcester,
Rehmann, 2529! in the Goudini, Bolus, 5171! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-
Afr., 231! Paarl Div.; near Wellington, in Cape Gov. Herb.; French Hoek,
MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust-Afr., 936! Bolus, 5169! Schlechter, 9320!
Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, Masson, 51! near the Zondereinde River, Schlechter,

9888! Also cultivated specimens !

A distinct species well characterized by its small subremote bracts and its
anthers. We are unable, however, to find any serviceable definitions for its
* varieties. Var. glabra (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 633) appears only to be known

from garden specimens.

49. E. densifolia (Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 359); erect, 2-3 ft. high ;
branches stout, erect, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, mostly densely
imbricate on short branchlets, incurved or spreading, lanceolate to
linear, the younger pubescent becoming glabrous and shining, 1)-25
lin, long; flowers mostly solitary at the ends of short branchlets
forming a pseudo-raceme ; pedicels } lin. long or less; bracts
approximate, > lin. long ; sepals lanceolate to oblong, acute, thick
and rigid, keeled or thickened at the margins and sulcate, pubescent
or glabrous, sometimes forming a tetragonous calyx, 3-3; lin. long ;

74 pricacem (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

corolla clavate-tubular, curved, more or less hairy, viscidulous chiefly
in the lower half, tube red, the throat and limb greenish-yellow,
12-15 lin. long; anthers subexserted, linear-lanceolate, tapering to
each extremity, aristate; awns straightly pendulous, }—{ the length
of the cell; style usually decurved at the apex ; ovary glabrous. E.
decora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 354, not of Andr. E. Uhria,
Andr. Heathery, t. 149, and Col. Heaths, t. 141; Wendl. Eric. Ic.
fasc. 18, 91, t. 35; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 628, and var. pilosa,
Andr. Heathery, t. 150, and Col. Heaths, t. 142. EH. ewerana
[Dryand. in| Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, ii. 368; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
1303, and var. pilosa, t. 1992.

Coast Rrcion: George Div.; Outeniqualand, Niven, 202! Montagu Pass,
1400 ft., Bolus, 8669! Schlechter, 5837! Uniondale Div.; near Groot Fontein,
in Lange Kloof, 2000 ft., Drége, 7713! Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Pappe !
Buchanan! and in Herb. Bolus, 5834! Also cultivated specimens !

50. E. xerophila (Bolus); erect, reaching 6 ft. high; branches
ascending, rigid, the younger puberulous, glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate,
crowded, erect or spreading, incurved, narrow-linear or subfiliform,
subobtuse, deeply suleate, minutely hispidulous and tuberculate,
shining, 3-4 lin. long ; petioles pallid; flowers solitary, few ; pedi-
cels puberulous, 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, linear, inecurved,
foliaceous, 3-1 lin. long; sepals linear from a short broader base,
leaf-like, incurved, sulcate, sparsely ciliate, 2 lin. long; corolla
trumpet-shaped, or nearly straight, narrow at the base, thinly puberu-
lous, dry, thin in texture, crimson, 10-11 lin. long; segments erect
or spreading, subdeltoid, concolorous, under 1 lin. long; anthers
affixed to the filament about + of the length of the cells above their
base, included, narrow-oblong, slightly bilobed but not at all pro-
jecting at the base, + lin. long, aristate ; pore about 2 the length of
the cell; awns setiform, 2 the length of the cell; style exserted,
thickened and channelled at the base; stigma capitellate; ovary
cylindrical, slightly contracted at the base, pallid, glabrous,

Coast Recion: Ladismith Div.; slopes of the Klein Zwartberg Range,
near Ladismith, about 2000 ft., Marloth, 2935!

From E. cruenta it differs by its much more slender rough leaves, solitary
flowers and narrower sepals. ‘he species is one of the few stragglers far
inland, the station above recorded being about 63 miles from the nearest sea-
coast.

51. E. speciosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 192); erect, 2-4 ft. high;
branches virgate or spreading ; leaves 3-nate, suberect and imbricate
or spreading, linear, narrow-lanceolate, or oblong, sulcate, glabrous or
viscid-puberulous, ciliate or naked, 2—4} lin. long; flowers 3-nate,
occasionally solitary ; bracts usually approximate, rarely remote,
like the sepals, but shorter; sepals narrow- to broad-lanceolate,
searious below with a leaf-like keeled tip, glabrous or pubescent,
ciliate or naked, usually coloured, 23—41 lin. long; corolla clavate-
tubular, curved, dry or viscid, glabrous or rarely sparsely pilose,
10-15 lin. long, crimson, limb usually greenish-yellow ; filaments
slender, linear ; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, subobtuse

Erica. | gRIcace® (Guthrie & Bolus). 75

at the base, 11-2 lin. long, aristate ; awns straight, from } to nearly
the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 133.
E. hirta, Andr. Heathery, t. 165, and Col. Heaths, t. 101; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 1116, not of Thunb. LE. polytricha, Sweet, Hort. Brit.
ed. ii, 838, ex Ind. Kew.

Coast REGION, on mountains from 500-4500 ft. : Oudtshoorn Div. ; Zwart-
berg Pass, Murloth, 2428! George Div. ; Cradock Berg, Burchell, 5926! Galpin,
3578! near Touw River, Burchell, 5731! Knysna Div.; near the Keurbvoms
River, Burchell, 5160! 6169! near Knysna, Newdigate in MacOwan, Herb.
Aust.-Afr., 1922! The Glebe, Galpin, 3577 ! Uniondale Div. ; near Vlugt,; Bolus,
2382! 2383! 2385! Humansdorp Div.; Lottering Bush, Galpin, 3587! Uiten-
hage Div.; Witte Klip, Bolus! Also cultivated specimens !

52. E. hebecalyx (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630); erect,
virgately branched; leaves 3-nate, erect, subincurved, imbricate,
linear or linear-lanceolate, suleate, puberulous, 2—3 lin. long; flowers
usually 3-nate, occasionally solitary by abortion ; pedicels 3 lin. long ;
bracts approximate, ovate, acute, keel-tipped, with scarious margins,
like the sepals very concave and covered with a soft greyish tomen-
tum, ciliate, about } as long as the sepals ; sepals oblong or obovate,
obtuse, keel-tipped, apiculate, scarious, 213 lin. long; corolla sub-
clavate-tubular, incurved, glabrous, viscid, 12-15 lin. long; limb
nearly erect ; filaments capillary, nearly equally linear; anthers in-
cluded or subexserted, oblong, truncate at the base and somewhat
sharply pointed in front, 13-14 lin. long, aristate; awns capillary and
somewhat turned backwards ; ovary glabrous. E. speciosa, Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 575 (good), not of Andr. E, speciosa, var. tomentosa,
Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 656, fide Benth., not of Andr.

Sourn AFRica: without locality, Mund § Maire! Also cultivated

specimens !
Coast Reaion: George Div. ; Montagu Pass, near George, 1000-2500 ft.,

Alexander, 22! Schlechter, 2268! Marloth, 2407! Tyson, 3164!

The broad softly tomentose sepals give this a distinct appearance; the awns
of the anther are usually shorter than in EZ. speciosa, and are not straight
as in that species but spread backwards. It seems to be very local.

53. E. discolor (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 20); erect, 2-3 ft. high ;
branches stout, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, suberect and imbricate, or
somewhat spreading, linear or narrow-lanceolate, glabrous or the
younger viscid-puberulous, often glossy, 14-3} lin. long ; pedicels
1-1 lin. long ; bracts approximate, like the sepals but about 2 their
length ; sepals. ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keeled-tipped,
scarious, coloured, glabrous, ciliolate or naked, 2-23 lin. long;
corolla clavate-tubular or trumpet-shaped, glabrous, dry, red, 9-12
lin. long; limb erect or slightly spreading, red or greenish ; filaments
equal at the base or but slightly dilated ; anthers included or just
manifest, linear to oblong, more or less hollowed at the base, about
8 lin. long, aristate ; awns reaching 2 the length of the cell below it,
or much shorter; style usually curved at the apex ; ovary glabrous.
Andr. Heathery, t. 160; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 5,9; Lodd. Bot.

Cab. t. 1453. E. cupressiformis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc.

76 ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

vi. 354. E, densiflora, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente,
105.

Var. §8, puberula (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630); leaves and sepals
puberulous.

Coast REeGIoN: Caledon Div.; Palmiet River, Niven, 103! Houw Hoek,
Zeyher, 3159; Bolus, 53846! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 193! Bredasdorp
Div.; near Elim, Bolus, 6761 ! George Div. ; Outeniqualand, Niven, 197 ; west
end of Lange Valley, Burchell, 5686 ; Knysna Div. ; hills near Melville, Burchell,
5460! Humansdorp Div.; near Kromme River, Burchell, 4846, 4875, 4877.
Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, Holland! Also cultivated specimens !
Var. 8: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Mund § Maire! ©

Very near to HZ. wnicolor ; also allied to E. versicolor, from which it may be
most readily distinguished by its aristate anthers not sharp pointed at the base
in front, and by its filaments nearly equal at the base ; its flowering season also
appears to be almost constantly some months earlier.

54. E. dichrus (Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 179); erect, 3-5 ft. high ;
branches subvirgate, pubescent; leaves 4-nate, ereet and imbricate,
or somewhat spreading, linear, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate,
3-5 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, mostly erect; bracts approximate,
like the sepals, but about 2 of their length ; sepals linear-lanceolate
and acuminate, or ovate-lanceolate or oblong and subobtuse, sub-
scarious below with a foliaceous keeled apex, pilose or glabrous,
ciliate, 23-43 lin. long ; corolla tubular or clavate-tubular, glabrous,
viscid, red below, yellow above, 10-12 lin. long; filaments very
slightly wider at the base; anthers ineluded or manifest, broad-
linear, truncate and somewhat hollowed at the base, but searcely
pointed in front, about 1 lin. long, minutely aristate or muticous ;
awns scarcely reaching beyond the base of the cells; style often
decurved at the apex; ovary glabrous. . bicolor, Andr. Heathery,
t. 54, and Col. Heaths, t. 79 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1001, not of Thunb.
E. dichromata, Lodd. lc. t. 1813. #. quadriflora, Klotzsch in
Linnea, ix. 665. E. refulgens, Andr. Heathery, t. 284.?.

Coast Recion: Mossel Bay Div. ; Hagel Kraal, near Attaquas Kloof, Niven,
200! Attaquas Kloof, Drége, 7716! near Mossel Bay, 800 ft., Galpin, 3579!

George Div. ;. Outeniqualand, Niven, 201! Montagu Pass, 1000 ft., Bolus, 8667!
Also cultivated specimens ! é

55. E unicolor (Wendl. Eric. Ie. fasc. 25, 7, t. 3); erect, 3-4 ft.
high, with ascending branches ; leaves 4-nate (‘« 3-4-nate,” Bentham),
Jaxly spreading, linear, hispid with long hairs, 3-4 lin. long; flowers
4-nate (or “sub-3-nate,” Bentham), sessile or pedicels very short :
bracts approximate, linear, foliaceous, hispid, 21 lin. long; sepals
like the bracts, 23-3 lin. long (or in Andrews’ fig. 5 lin. long); corolla
tubular, straight, glabrous, viscid, green, 8-11 lin. long; anthers
narrow-oblong, 1 lin. long, included, aristate ; awns eapillary, 1—2
the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. LZ. virescens, Link, Enum.
Hort. Berol. i. 359, not of Thunb. E. viridescens, Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t. 233. LE. hirta, var. viridiflora, Andr. Heathery, t. 166, and Col.
Heaths, t. 173.

. Sourn Arrica: without locality, Mund § Maire! Also cultivated speci-
mens ! :

Friea.] ERicAacex (Guthrie & Bolus). 77

Coast Recion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 104!

We retain this species, which seems too closely allied to E. dichrus, with much
doubt. Excepting in its more spreading, more hairy leaves, and straighter green
corolla, there is little difference, and both come from the same locality. The
material, however, at disposal, is very poor.

56. E. serratifolia (Andr, Col. Heaths, t. 58); erect, 1 ft. or
more high; branches numerous; leaves 4-nate, spreading or re-
curved, linear, ciliate with plumose hairs, (‘‘ ciliate-serrate,” Bentham)
9-3 lin. long; flowers 4-nate [2-3-nate (Andrews) or subsolitary
(Bentham) | ; bracts approximate or subremote, foliaceous, 2 lin. long ;
sepals lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, foliaceous, gland-ciliate,

1-3 lin. long ; corolla tubular, nearly straight, red below, yellow
above, 9-12 lin. long; limb short, spreading ; filaments capillary ;
anthers oblong, not pointed at the base, s_] lin. long, muticous or
shortly aristate (Salisbury) ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Heathery, t. 44;
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1703. HE. plumosa, Wendl. Erie. Ic. fase. 12, 5,
not of Andr. LE. cylindriflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi.
356.

Soura AFRICA: Cultivated specimens !

Unknown to us in the wild state, unless it be a cultivated form of the next
species. Andrews shows the leaves as 4-nate; Wendland as 3-nate; both
describe the anthers as muticous. Salisbury finds them always calcarate. In
one cultivated specimen examined we found the anthers minutely 2-toothed at

the base.

57. E. MacOwanii (Cufino in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital., 1903, 290) ;
erect, probably 2-3 ft. high; branches stout, sometimes virgate,
densely leafy, pubescent, with many lateral flowering branchlets
from i—2 in. long; leaves 4-nate, imbricate, erect-incurved, narrow-
lanceolate, acute, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliolate with
simple hairs, 3-4} lin. long; flowers solitary, erect or spreading;
pedicels pubescent, under 1 lin. long; bracts adpressed, narrow-
lanceolate, acute, scarious, translucent, pale green, ciliate, about 4
the length of the sepals ; sepals like the bracts, but larger and narrow
ovate, keeled with a dark green band, 4 lin. long ; corolla 10-12 lin.
long, tubular, usually straight, rarely slightly curved ; tube nearly
equal, dilated at the throat, the lower portion thinly pubescent and
dark red, the upper pilose, passing into orange at the throat and
limb; throat oblique ; segments spreading, semiorbicular, 11-2 lin.
long ; anthers included or manifest, rarely subexserted, inserted on
the filament just above the base of the cell, broad oblong, subobtuse,
rounded at the base, scaberulous, muticous, dark-coloured, about
2 lin. long ; pore 3-2 of the length of the cell ; style shortly exserted ;
stigma capitellate ; ovary subglobose, glabrous.

Coast Reon: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, MacOwan! Locality and
collector unknown, Herb, Bolus, 6899 ! : :

This rs to be closely allied to the preceding species, differing by the much
shorter SE ainote hairs on the leaf-margin, by its broader sepals, and solitary
flowers. From E. perspicua, to which it is compared by the author, it differs by
its 4-celled ovary, and by the colour of the flower. :

78 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

58. E. versicolor (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 11, 3); erect, 2-4 ft.
high ; branches mostly flexuous, sometimes straight; leaves 3-nate,
erect and imbricate, or spreading, linear to narrow-elliptic, acute,
glabrous or the younger puberulous, ciliolate or naked, 2-31 lin.
long ; flowers 3-nate, erect or spreading; bracts approximate, like
the sepals but about 2 of the length; sepals usually lanceolate,
acuminate, more rarely oblong and subobtuse, keel-tipped, searious,
glabrous, coloured, 3-4 lin. long; corolla tubular and equal, or
widening to the apex, or inflated below, glabrous, dry or viscidulous,
costate or smooth, mostly red below and greenish-yellow near the
tip, 11-14 lin. long; limb short, usually more or less erose or
crispulate ; filaments usually more or less dilated and ovate at the
base, or at least wider and gradually contracted and tapering up-
wards ; anthers included or subexserted, linear, usually with a sharp
projecting point in front at the base, muticous, 1-11 lin. long;
ovary mostly glabrous, rarely minutely hirtulous. Andr. Heathery,
it. 47, 249 (var. longiflora), and Col. Heaths, t. 67; Lodd. Bot. Cab.
tt. 208, 1316 ( var. major); Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 631. LE.
versicolor, var. ciliata, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 20, 115, t. 43. E.
costata, Andr. Heathery, t. 13, and Col. Heaths, t. 16. E. ovata,
Wendl. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 577.

Var. 8, monticola (Bolus); anthers truncate or rounded at the base

in front; leaves more closely and regularly adpressed than in the usual
form.

Sourm ArFRica: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast Region: Swellendam Div.; near and around Swellendam, Masson,
105! Niven, 198! Zeyher, 3157! 3158! near Kinko River, Zeyher, 3156!
Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, 1000 ft., Galpin, 3581! near Zoetemelks River,
Burchell, 6571! near Tygerfontein, Galpin, 3580! Schlechter, 1981! Kamp-
sche Berg, Burchell, 7087! Var. 8: Worcester Div.; Matroos Berg,

oaks ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3951! Swellendam Diy., Shand in Herb.
Bolus!

A very variable. species; yet the lanceolate, scarious, coloured sepals seem
constant, and serve chiefly to distinguish it from its more immediate allies.
The spoon-shaped base of the filaments is also decisive where it exists,
but is not a constant character, or at least is not distinctly visible in some
specimens.

59. E. berzelioides (Guthrie & Bolus); branches stout, ascending,
puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, squarrose, the lower reflexed,
oblong, blunt, glabrous, smovth and glossy, sulcate, the younger
gland-ciliate, 13-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, pedicels, bracts, sepals
and corolla very viscid ; pedicels 11—2 lin, long; bracts approximate,
like the sepals but with a larger foliaceous point, 12 lin. long; sepals
lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, about 2 lin. long; corolla trumpet-
shaped, glabrous, viscid, red below, paler above, 1 in. long; limb
erect; segments 1 lin. long, rounded ; filaments slender, scarcely
widened at the base ; anthers subexserted, linear-oblong, rounded at
the base in front, muticous, 1} lin. long; ovary glabrous,

Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; Mierkraal, 200 ft., Schlechter, 10530!

Erica, | ERICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). 79

60. E. diaphana (Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 178); erect, 2-5 ft.
high ; branches spreading, rigid, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect
and imbrieate, or somewhat spreading, linear to elliptic-oblong,
sulcate, thick, smooth, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, at length
nodding; pedicels 23 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous,
ovate, very thick, viseid, 2 the length of the sepals; sepals like the
bracts, 2 lin. long; corolla subclavate-tubular, glabrous, thick, very
viscid, 10-12 lin. long; tube pink; limb suberect, green ; stamens
included; filaments slightly wider at the base; anthers narrow-
oblong, with a projecting point at the base, 2 lin. long, muticous or
minutely aristulate; ovary glabrous. E. transparens, Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 177; Andr. Heathery, t. 296, and Col. Heaths, t. 283, not of
Berg.

Coast Recion: Mossel Bay Div.; near Mossel Bay, Alexander, 14!
Humansdorp Div.; by streams near the Gamtoos River, Niven, 199! near the
Kromme River, Drege, 7714! rocky places near Storms River, Schlechter,
5993! Kadies Berg, Galpin, 3584! Witte Els Bosch, Galpin, 3589! Also a
cultivated specimen !

61. E. glandulosa (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 25) ; erect, 2 ft. or more
high, all parts more or less covered with gland-tipped hairs; leaves
4-nate, spreading, linear, obtuse, sulcate or sometimes somewhat
open-backed, 2-5 lin. long ; flowers usually 4-nate (sometimes 2-5-
nate); pedicels 2-8 lin. long ; bracts approximate, foliaceous, linear
or broad linear; sepals broad linear, acute, 3-45 lin. long; corolla
clavate-tubular, mostly pubescent, rarely glabrous, dry or glandular-
viscid, 9-18 lin. long; filaments slender, not, or only very slightly,
dilated at the base; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, curved
forwards ‘at the base, muticous, about 1 lin. long; ovary glabrous.
E. pellucida, Andr. Heathery, it. 183, 277 (var. rubra), and Col.
Heaths, t. 197 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 276; Klotzsch in Linnea, ix.
675. HE. exudans, Andr. Heathery, t. 216. E. exsudans, Lodd. l.c.
4.287. E. droserafolia, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 600 ?

- Var. B, breviflora (Bolus); bracts remote; sepals 2 lin. long; corolla
‘wees tae ia less than 5 lin. long; anthers decurrent-denticulate,

bout # lin. long. : :
c one tbavas : without locality, Thunberg. Also cultivated specimens !

Coast REGION, frequent between 150-800 ft.: Mossel Bay Div. ; Attaquas
Kloof, Masson, 109! George Div.; between George and Malgat River, Burchell,
6097! Bolus, 5520! 8671! Outeniqualand, Niven, 189! Humansdorp Div. ;
near the Gamtoos River, Niven, 186! by the Kromme River, Masson, 103!
Uitenbage Div.; near Van Stadens Hoogte, MacOwan, 1124! Port Elizabeth
Div., Burchell, 4576! Pappe! Var. 8: Humansdorp Div. ; between Gamtoos
River and Leuwenbosch River, Burchell, 4803 !

62. E. perspicua (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 1,-7) ; erect, 2 ft. high
or more; branches virgate or sometimes spreading ; leaves 3- or
4-nate, erect or spreading, narrow-linear, subtrigonous, pubescent or
glabrous, lanceolate and roughly hispid, ciliate or naked, 13-2 lin.
long ; flowers solitary on numerous short lateral branchlets, or some-
times (according to Bentham) 1-3-nate; pedicels }—{ lin. long;

80 ERIcACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

bracts small, subapproximate, scarious, keel-tipped ; sepals. very
variable, linear from a broad subrotund scarious lacerate base, more
or less elongate, keeled, or ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, pilose
or glabrous, 11-22 lin. long ; corolla subclavate-tubular, more or less
pubescent or villous, dry, at length curved, pale rosy or purplish,
8-12 lin. long ; limb erect or spreading ; filaments dilated and bent
near the anther; anthers included, broadly oblong or euneate,
muticous; ovary 8-celled (or, according to Salisbury) 6-8-celled,
glabrous. Andr. Heathery, t. 230, and Col, Heaths, t. 255; Benth.
in DC. Prodr, vii. 634. EH. transparens, Thunb. Prodr. 71. 4.
lituiflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 356. EH. Linnea, Andr.
Heathery, t. 752, and Col. Heaths, t. 106? EE, linneana, Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 102?

VaR. 8, latifolia (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 634); leaves linear-lanceolate,
broader, more rigid, incurved, hispid; sepals lanceolate, slightly dilated at the
base ; corolla 7-8 lin. long. :

Var. y, lanceolata (Bolus); leaves lanceolate, broader than in var. 8, in-
curved ; sepals narrow-lanceolate, not dilated at the base, the lower half
searious, foliaceous above ; corolla 9-10 lin. long.

SoutH AFRiIca: without locality, Mund § Maire ! and cultivated specimens !

Coast REGIon, from near sea-level to 3000 ft.: Caledon Div.; near the -

mouth of Klein River, Masson, 50! Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3165! near
Hawston, Schlechter, 9477! between Houw Hoek and Bot River, Galpin,
3576! Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 9426! near Babylon’s Tower, Templeman in
Herb. MacOwan, 2747! Var. B, Caledon Div.; near the mouth of the Klein
River, Masson, 112! Var. y, Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, Miss Borcherds in
Herb. Bolus, 6286!
__ Judging from numerous flowers examined, this species seems to differ from its
allies by its constantly 8-celled ovary. The alternate dissepiments are some-
times not quite complete to the central column; but are usually so, and always
nearly so. In other respects the species resembles some forms of FE. curviflora,
but the anther is slightly different.

63, E. colorans (Andr. Heathery, t.209); 1-2 ft. high; branches
virgate, hirsute ; leaves 4-nate, erect-spreading or incurved, linear-
subulate, subtrigonous, keeled, glabrous, ciliate, 11-2 lin. long;
flowers 1-4-nate, on short branchlets densely crowded into a pseudo-
raceme below the ends of the branches; pedicels 1—% lin. long;
bracts subremote, small and narrow; sepals lanceolate, acuminate,
scarious, keel-tipped, ciliate, about 22 lin, long; corolla tubular,
with a slight globose swelling below the apex (not always visible in
dried specimens), mostly straight, glabrous, dry, white, rosy towards
the apex, somewhat transparent, 7-8 lin. long; limb short, acute,
subincurved, 1-1} lin. long; anthers included, subsemiovate, trun-
cate at the broad base, black, less than + lin. long, decurrent-
denticulate along the filament; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths,
t. 223; Bot. Reg. t. 601; Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 224; Benth. in DC.
Prodr, vii. 634,

Coast Reaton: Bredasdorp Div. ; near streams on the downs and mountains

near Elim, 100-1600 ft., Bolus, 6760! Schlechter, 7693! andin MacOwan, Herb.
Aust.-Afr., 1921! Also cultivated specimens !

A well-marked species, most nearly allied to EB. perspicua (with which it

Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 81

appears sometimes to hybridize naturally), and also to E. vanthina. The globose
swelling of the corolla when in the living state, or when (as occasionally
happens) visible in the dried state, and the appendiculate anthers, will always
a to distinguish it. Andrews’ figure cited is excellent; the others fairly
good,

64. E. verticillata (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 99, not of Andr.);
erect, 4-5 ft; high; branches spreading or erect; leaves 4—5—6-nate,
densely imbricate, erect or spreading, linear, convex and suleate
below, glabrous, the younger ciliate, 2-3 lin. long ; flowers mostly
4-nate in wild specimens (in cultivated plants umbellately 3-10-fld.,
Andrews), usually crowded on short branchlets in dense oblong
pseudo-racemes below the ends of the branches; flowers erect or
spreading ; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, linear, folia-
ceous ; sepals linear from an ovate scarious base, foliaceous, ciliate,
2~2> lin. long; corolla tubular, mostly straight, pubescent, dry,
rosy, 7-10 lin. long; limb erect or spreading; anthers included,
oblong, curved ; filament inserted about the middle of the cell to
the thick dorsally-projecting connective, about 4 lin, long, muticous ;
ovary completely 8-celled ; capsule at length splitting into 8 valves,
crowned at the apex by a callous cup-like process (‘‘concave-trun-
cate” (Bentham), glabrous. E. concinna, [Soland. in] Ait. Hort.
Kew. ed. 1, ii. 23; Andr. Heathery, t. 58, and Ool. Heaths, t. 82;
Wendl. Hric. Ic. fase. 9,9; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 636. £.
paludosa, Salisb. Prodr, 293, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 356.
E. abietina, Andy. ex G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii, 823, not of Linn.
nor Berg.

? Var. 8, Boxburghii (Bolus); leaves 4-nate; corolla tubular-oblong or
tubular-obeonic, 4-5 lin. long; ovary callous-crowned, sub-8-celled, glabrous.
E. Roxburghit, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682.

Sourn AFRicaA: without locality, Thunberg.

Coast Rereron: Cape Div.; on the Flats in the vicinity of Cape Town,
Wynberg and Rondebosch, Burchell, 700! 765! Niven, 206! Zeyher, 1085!
Bolus, 2965! 8755! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 14! Schlechter, 7534!
Aiso cultivated specimens! Var. B: Stellenbosch Div.; in marshy places,
Roxburgh! Niven!

Readily recognized by its peculiar anther, and callous-crested 8-celled ovary.
(There is, however, a less marked form of these callous protuberances in £.
curviflora, var. Burchellit, which has a 4-celled ovary.) Respecting the var B,
Bentham says that on the authority of the collectors it was found growing with
E. verticillata and EF. pyramidalis, and was thought by them to be a hybrid
between those species. He adds that it is intermediate between them, and
seemed to have perfect seeds. It appears to us better to regard it as a short-
flowered form of E. verticillata (not a few instances of this variation occurring in
other sections) ; and its sepals, anthers and ovary agree fur better with this

ies than with E. pyramidalis. The anther, especially, of E. Rowburghii,
agrees almost exactly with the peculiar anther of this species.

65. E. mertensiana (Wendl. ex Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 659);
erect, 2 ft. high; branches puberulous, reddish ; leaves 3-4-nate,
_ erect-spreading, linear, flat above, convex and sulcate below, sub-
glabrous, 3-4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, erect ; pedicels 23-3 lin. .
long; bracts subremote, linear, acute, pubescent; sepals broad
ovate, acuminate, puberulous, keel-tipped, purplish-green, 2 lin. long ;
_ VOL. IV.—SEOT. I. fe G

82 ERICACES. (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Lrica.

corolla clavate, straight, glabrous, blood-red, faintly ribbed, 9 lin.
long; limb short, erect, crenulate, concolorous; anthers exserted,
aristate, awns short; ovary silky. Benth. in DC, Prodr, vii,
635.

- Sout Arnica: cultivated specimen in Herb. Wendland,

Only known to us from the above description. We have not seen any specimen
which agrees with it.

66. E. cruenta (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 16);
erect, 2-8 ft. high; leaves 3-nate (3~4-nate, Bentham), spreading or
incurved, imbricate, linear, glabrous or the younger pubescent, 2}—4
lin. long; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts mostly small and remote,
rarely approximate ; sepals ovate, acute, or lanceolate, acuminate,
about 2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular or trumpet-shaped, gla-
brous, dry, 10-12 lin. long, blood-red; filaments slender, wider at
the base, usually affixed at an angle to the anther and shortly. below
its middle ; anther ineluded or subexserted, oblong, about 1 lin. long,
aristate ; awns sometimes short and partially subdecurrent along the
filament, or longer and hanging below the cell; more rarely muti-
cous; ovary glabrous. Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 13; Wendl. Eric. Ie.
fase. 4,11; Andr. Heathery, t. 110, and Col. Heaths, t. 17; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 1656; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 629. HE. melliflua,
Salisb. Prodr. 293, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 354. E. coccinea,
Drige, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 182.

Var. 8, mutica (Bolus); leaves broader; pedicels shorter, less than 1 lin.
long ; corolla 8-10 lin. long; anthers muticous. .

Var. y, buccinula (Bolus) ; pedicels 14 lin. long; sepals 2 lin. long ; corolla
tubular-funnel-shaped, curved, oblique at the mouth, paler purplish-red, 5-8 lin.
lone.

Var. 5, campanulata (Bolus) ; flowers 2-3-nate; corolla wide campanulate or
obeonic, purple or pink, 3-34 lin. long by 3-3} lin, wide at the mouth (when
flattened) ; anthers semi-obovate, muticous,

SoutH ARRicA: without locality, Thunberg, Drege! Herb. Salisbury! and
cultivated specimens f

Coast Ruaion: Caledon Div.; from Palmiet River to Zoetemelks Valley,
700-2500 ft., Burchell, 7580! 7928! MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm, Aust.-
Afr., 188! Schlechter, 5573! 5599; 7783! 10449! Swellendam Div.; near
Swellendam, Masson, 118! near Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3575! Var. B : Caledon
Div.; Houw Hoek, 1000 ft., Guthrie, 4590! Var. y: Caledon Div.; Palmiet
River, 800 ft., Guthrie, 2297! 3553! 4163! Var. 3: Bredasdorp Div.;
peed hare. 300 ft., Bolus, 6738! Caledon Div.; Diep Gat, 300 ft., Galpin,

The species is variable as to the length of sepals and corolla, and of anther-
appendages ; in var. 8, which differs little, the anthers are muticous. In var. y
the shorter and paler corolla gives so different an appearance that we should
have hesitated to place it here but for the presence of one specimen which
showed corollas on the same branch ranging from 6-8 lin. in length. Otherwise
the structure of the flowers is similar. This var. is intermediate in character
between the normal form and var. 6, and connects two forms which appear
widely different, though we cannot doubt their close relationship.

67. E. wendlandiana (Klotzsch in Linnwa, ix. 652); erect,
2 ft. high; branches crowded, elongate, flexuous, whitish ru-
berulous; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear, shortly pilose,

Erica.) ERICACcEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 83

2-3 lin. long ; inflorescenee sub-3-nate 3 flowers erect ; pedicels 2 lin.
tong ; bracts remote, linear, puberulous ; sepals leaf-like, lanceolate-
linear, shortly pilose, 12 lin, long; corolla clavate, puberulous,
subcostate, subdilated at the apex, brick-red, 8-9 lin. long; limb
short, recurved, concolorous ; filaments (and style) pilose ; anthers
far-exserted, aristate ; awns straight ; ovary “glabrous, capitate, the
capitulum pilose ” (Klotzsch). (Bentham says «“ Ovary capitate-
dilated at the apex, minutely puberulous”). Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 629, :

bee Re@ion: Tulbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh, Mund ¥ Maire! in Herb,

ew. p

We have only seen one poor specimen, which could not be examined, and
have been obliged to confine ourselves to copying the author’s original de-
scription. Bentham saw a specimen in the Berlin Herbarium. It appears to be
allied to E. cruenta.

68, E. hematosiphon (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, somewhat
straggling, 1-11 ft. hieh ; branches spreading, pubescent ; leaves
4-nate, erect, incurved, imbricate, linear or linear-lanceolate, glabrous,
1-2} lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate ; pedicels slender, coloured, 2~22
lin, long; braets remote, small; sepals broad ovate or ovate-laneeo-
late, subfoliaceous with scarious margins, leathery, keeled, glabrous
or pubescent, 1-11 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, slightly and
obliquely curved or nearly straight, glabrous, dry, blood-red, 1~1
in. long; limb short, rounded, erect; filaments capillary ; anthers
included, ovate to subcuneate, about 2 lin. long, muticous; style

included, nearly straight ; ovary substipitate, glabrous,

Coast Reetoy, from 1700-5500 ft.: Clanwilliam Div.; without precise
locality, Leipoldt, 622! Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Guthrie, 3182! Gydouw
Mountain, Schlechter, 10045! Worcester Div.; Matroos Berg, Bolus in Herb.
Guthrie, 3946! _ :

A well-marked species, somewhat resembling E. chloroloma and EB. cruenta,
but easily distinguished from either. Schlechter’s specimens from a_ higher
altitude, but scarcely more than 10 or 12 miles distant, have shorter leaves,
corollas and anthers than Guthrie’s 3182, but otherwise agree. Guthrie's 3946
might be regarded as a distinct variety with laxer, weaker habit, pedicels up to
4 lin. long, broader sepals, and corolla 11 lin. long.

69. E. chloroloma (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 17); ereet, 2 ft.
high ; branches ascending, stout, pubescent, furrowed with ridges
below the somewhat prominent leaf-cushions ; leaves 4—6-nate, erect-
spreading, imbricate, linear, minutely seabrid-pubescent, 3-42 lin,
long ; flowers mostly 3-nate, occasionally 4-nate, or solitary ; pedicels
13-2 lin. long; bracts subremote, minute; sepals linear from an
ovate scarious-edged ciliate base, acute, keeled, 11 lin. long; corolla
clavate-tubular, very slightly constricted at the throat, little curved,
glabrous, dry, red, 7-8 lin. long; limb very short, green; anthers
ineluded, linear, 14 lin. long, aristate; awns less than half the
length of the cell; style at length exserted; ovary glabrous.
Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 629. E. dregeana, Klotzsch in Linnea,
xii, 50], ,

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84 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

Coast Rrcion: Uitenhage Div.; without precise locality, Zeyher ! Port
Elizabeth Div. ; hills near Port Elizabeth, Zeyher ! Pappe! Mrs. Helland, 231
Miss West! and in MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1919!

70. E. brachialis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 367); erect,
1-91 ft. high; branches numerous, erect or divarieate, very stout
and rigid, densely leafy, tomentose, becoming glabrous ; leaves
scattered or 4—6-nate, erect-incurved, densely imbricate, narrow-
oblong, subobtuse, convex and sulcate below, minutely serrulate,
glabrous or minutely puberulous, 2} lin. long; inflorescence, umbel-
late ; umbels 1—5- (mostly 3—4-) flowered ; flowers erect or spreading ;
pedicels 3-4 lin. long, pubescent ; bracts subapproximate, leaf-like ;
sepals lanceolate, subobtuse, suleate-keeled in the upper half, scarious
below, pubescent, 33 lin. long ; corolla tubular, slightly narrowed in
the middle, cano-pubescent externally and within, dry, thick and
rigid, pale ochre-yellow, 7-8 lin. long ; limb short, slightly spreading,
less than 1 lin. Jong; filaments short, contracted from a wide base,
thickened and bent into a subsigmoid flexure below the anther ;.
anthers included, dorsifixed, linear, smooth, muticous, 2 lin. long,
equalling in length the filaments ; style slender, shortly exserted ;
ovary 4-celled, glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 635.

Coast Rreton: Cape Div. ; Camps Bay, Alewander, 4! on low granite hills
near the western coast, between Table Bay and Hout Bay, Marloth in Herb.

Bolus, 4922! Bolus Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 347! Chapmans Peak, Wolley
Dol, 949! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Masson in Herb. Salisbury / 4

A singular species, unlike any other known to us. Bentham places it in this
section with doubt, and suggests Dasyanthes, in which, however, we cannot
concur. It seems to be confined to the Cape Peninsula. No recent collector has
found it elsewhere, and Salisbury’s citation of “‘ Hottentots Holland” is probably
quite erroneous in this as in many other instances.

Section V. DASYANTHES. (Sp. 71-77.)

71. E. strigilifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 367); erect,
1-11 ft. high; branches slender; leaves 4-nate, erect or slightly
spreading, closely imbricate, oblong or cuneate-oblong, acute, roughly
hispid and pectinate-ciliate with rigid pallid hairs, thick and rigid,

3-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, cernuous; pedicels stout, under
1 lin. long ; bracts approximate, like the leaves and as long; sepals
like the bracts, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pectinate-ciliate, 2-25
lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated in the middle, contracted
at the throat, puberulous all over and in the upper portion also
clothed with longer shaggy or barbellate hairs, white, 7-9 lin. long ;
limb short, somewhat spreading ; anthers included, oblong, % lin.
long, muticous; style included (or possibly at length exserted ?) ;
ovary obconic, villous with long silky white hairs. JH. elongata,
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 738; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 6387. £.
venusta, Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 695, not of Salish. nor of Sinclair.
E. cerinthoides, Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap. 104, not of Linn. E.
cerinthoides, var. y, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 26, and Fl. Cap. ed.
Schultes, 354. E. strigiliflora, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 580.

« Var. B, rosea (Bolus) ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, softly puberulous,
rosy; corolla rosy ; anthers short-aristate, awns }—} lin. long.

Erica.] ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 85

Pos Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Drége, 7730! 7731! Mund &
Loire !

Coast Recion : Oudtshoorn Div.; Zwartberg Pass, 4200 ft., Marloth, 2406!
Kolbe! Var. B: same locality, 4900 ft., Marloth, 2404!

Much resembling the following species, but distinguishable by its sepals. The
variety described may be connected by intermediate forms, but though we have
several specimens we have seen none.

72. E. pectinifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 867); erect,
11-21 ft. high ; branches slender; leaves 4-nate, erect, imbricate or
sometimes shorter than the internodes, variable in size, from linear to
lanceolate and ovate, aeute, more or less open-backed, thick and
rigid, roughly and thinly hispid, and pectinate-ciliate with long
pallid cartilaginous hairs, the floral leaves wider and passing gradually
into the form of the bracts, 13-3 lin. long; flowers mostly 4-nate,
cernuous or spreading; pedicels} lin. long; bracts approximate,
unguiculate, broad ovate or subtriangular, margins searious, rigidly
pectinate-ciliate, with a thick central nerve, about 3 lin. long ;
sepals like the bracts but the claw longer, and the blade somewhat
smaller, about 32 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated about
the middle, constricted below the short spreading limb, pubescent,
the upper part with longer barbellate or shaggy hairs, white or rosy,
7-9 lin. long; anthers included, oblong, 4 lin. long, shortly aristate ;
style exserted ; ovary obconieal, villous with long white silky hairs.
E. erubescens, Andr. Heathery, t. 113; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
637, not of Lodd. E. cerinthoides, var. B, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 26,
and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 354.

Coast Rreron, on mountains at 400-600 ft.: Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof
Mountains, Thunberg, Bolus, 2391! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River, Niven,
167! Kruisfontein, Galpin, 3594! Clarkson, 400 ft., Schlechter, 6006! Zitzi-
kamma, Pappe! Uitenhage Div., near the Lead Mines, and between there
and Van Stadens River, Burchell, 4511! 4580! 4621! Van Stadens Mountains,
MacOwan, 1126! 2059! Bolus, 1578! Witte Klip, Bolus, 9132!

There has often been confusion of this species with the preceding. Yet
according to Salisbury’s own description the peculiar sepals and bracts of this
species separate the two quite effectually, and we have seen no intermediate or
doubtful forms. The resemblance is considerable at first sight, but is only
superficial. This species, so far as we know, is much commoner and more widely

distributed than the preceding.

73. E. Sparrmanni (Linn. f. in Vet. Acad. Hand]. Stockh. 1778,
21, t. 2); erect, 1-11 ft. high, with the habit of the preceding ;
leaves 4-nate, suberect, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, deeply
suleate or somewhat open-backed, rigidly hispid and pectinate-
ciliate, 2-8 lin. long; flowers 4-nate on short branchlets, cernuous ;
pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, lanceolate, hispid and
ciliate like the leaves, paler and more naked below, about 2 lin. long ;
sepals like the bracts but linear-lanceolate, 3 lin. long; corolla
tubular, inflated about the middle, densely hispid with long coarse
setose yellow hairs, yellow or greenish-yellow, }—$ in. long;
segments erect, deltoid, subacute ; anthers included, oblong, 1 lin,
long, muticous; style exserted; ovary obconic, villous with white

86 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

silky hairs. Linn. Aman. Acad. ed. Schreb. x. App. 123, t. 6;
Thunb. Diss. Hrica, 26; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 686. E.
hystriciflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 367. E. aspera,
Andr. Heathery, t.104, and Col. Heaths,t.148. EH. armata, Spreng.
Syst. Veg. ii. 184? not of Klotzsch.

Coast Recion: Uniondale Div.; mountains of Long Kloof Thunberg, Drége.
Humansdorp Div. ; mountains near Storms River, Herb. MacOwan, 3370! near
Kromme River, Drége, Masson, 101! Niven, 166! near Clarkson, 250-800 ft.,
Schlechter, 6010! Galpin, 3593! Also cultivated specimens !

A distinct species; recognized by the inflated, almost narrow-ovoid, corolla,
and its peculiar long bristly yellow hairs,

74, E. doliiformis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 368); under
1 ft. high; branches ereet or spreading ; leaves sub-6-nate, crowded,
spreading and upcurved, or subsquarrose, linear, glabrous, glandular-
ciliate, 5-6 lin. long; flowers umbellate; pedicels 5-7 lin, long,
glandular-pubescent ; bracts approximate, linear, foliaceous, 23—3 lin.
long ; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glandular, slightly exceed-
ing the bracts ; corolla tubular-inflated, narrowed to base and apex,
glandular-pubescent, 5-7 lin. long, rosy ; anthers subincluded,
oblong, very shortly decurrent-aristate, nearly 1 lin. long; style
shortly exserted ; ovary turbinate, thinly puberulous. Z. blanda,
Andr. Heathery, t. 107, and Col. Heaths, t. 152, not of Salisb. ;
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 13; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 686. E. mam-
mosa, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 42, not of Linn. E. metuleflora, Andr.
Heathery, t. 224, and Col. Heaths, t. 185; Bot. Mag. t. 612; and
var. discolor, Andr. Heathery, 269. —

_ Sovrn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg.
Coast Reeion: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 2000-3000 ft., Drége, 1146!
7736! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Niven, 149! Also cultivated specimens !

Apparently a rare species, not found by any recent collector. There are good
specimens in the Cape Govt. Herb. but without any indication of origin. It
seems to be usually distinguishable by its long slender glandular-hairy pedicels
and puberulous ovaries.

75. E. splendens (Andr. Heathery, t. 240, not of Wendl.) ;
erect, 1-2 ft. high; branches spreading, flexuous, rigid, pubescent or
pilose ; leaves 4-nate, densely crowded, erect or spreading, imbricate,
linear, oblong or laneeolate, subobtuse, pubescent, ashy-grey, hispid-
ciliate, 1j-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate or umbellate, cernuous,
spreading or erect ; pedicels pubescent and glandular-pilose, 4~8 lin.
long ; bracts from approximate to subremote, linear or oblong, obtuse,
pubescent and glandular-pilose, 13-21 lin. long; sepals like the
bracts, but linear-lanceolate, 2-3 Jin. long; corolla wide-tubular-
inflated, sometimes asymmetrically so, straight or eurved, pubescent,
dry, blood-red or pink, 3-1 in. long; anthers subexserted, linear,
about 1 lin. long, ‘cristato-aristate ; awns curved-subulate, lacerate on
the outer edge, ;—5 lin. long; filaments capillary ; style exserted ;
ovary oval, villous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 275. E. tumida, Ker-
Gaul. in Bot. leg. t. 65; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 636.

rica.) ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). 87

Var. 8, minor (Bolus); smaller in all parts; corolla somewhat less inflated,
narrower, shorter and scarcely curved, pink, 5-6 lin. long.

Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; slopes of Winterhoek Mountains, 5000 ft.,
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 5905! Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4174! Var. 8: Clan-
william Div. ; Snecuwkop, Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 623!

CENTRAL RxEGton: Ceres Div.; Table Mountain in the Cold Bokkeveld,
5500 ft. Schlechter, 10102!

The var. 8 has some curious points of resemblance to E. armata, Klotzsch in
the section Myra. The species appears to be somewhat rare.

76. E. Oatesii (Rolfe in Oates, Matabeleland, ed. 2, 402, t. 11) ;
erect, 1-4 ft. high; branches spreading, pubescent and _ hispid;
leaves 3-4-nate (sometimes on the same branch), spreading and
recurved or suberect, narrow-linear, subacute, puberulous or roughly
hispidulous, naked or ciliate with long gland-tipped hairs, margins
reflexed, the broader forms often open-backed, 3-4! lin. long;
flowers in more or less close, few-flowered umbels ; pedicels pubescent,
3 lin. long; bracts, two approximate, the lower remote, or all sub-
remote, oblong or linear-pubescent, gland-ciliate, 2-3 lin. long ;
sepals lanceolate, acute or acuminate, somewhat scarious below and
tapering to a linear foliaceous point, pubescent, gland-ciliate, 23-;
lin. long; corolla ovoid-tubular (or ‘‘ellipsoid-ureeolate,” Rolfe),
glabrous or puberulous, scarlet, 5-61 lin. long ; limb short, suberect ;
anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the base, semiovate, 3—2
lin. long, shortly awned ; style included, rarely subexserted ; ovary
villous.

Var. 8, latifolia (Bolus) ; leaves somewhat shorter and broader than in the
type, sublanceolate, more or less open-backed, suberect, pubescence more copious
and more grey ; corolla usually somewhat smaller, 5-54 lin. long, scarlet.

EAsTERN Re@ion: Natal; between Pietermaritzburg and Crocodile River,
Oates! Amajuba Hill, Todd in Herb. Wood, 1638! Mrs. Steinbank in Herb.
Wood, 3640! Buffalo River, McKen, 3! Var. 8: Natal; Amawahqua Moun-
tain, 6000-7000 ft., Wood, 4622! Weenen County, Evans, 399! Cathkin ©
sae 8000-10000 ft., Thode, 62a! Bushmans River, 6000-7000 it., Thode,
62b !

_ Kananart Recton: Orange River Colony; Allanvale Farm, near the
Drakensberg, 5500 ft., Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3005!

This species almost unites the two sections Dasyanthes and Ephebus, and is
placed here on account of its affinity to E. splendens, which, like it, is also a
plant of the higher mountains, though the stations are widely separated. The
variety is not very distinct, and Evans’ 399 connects the two. It may be known
from all forms of EL. cerinthoides by its usually shorter, broader and less hairy
corolla, and the distinct awns of its anther,

[The rosy-purple colouring of the original plate was adapted from the dried
specimens. Collectors state that the flowers are scarlet,—N. E. Brown. ]

77. E. cerinthoides (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 505); erect, 2-3 ft.
high ; branches ascending, often virgate and simple ; leaves 4—5-6-
nate, from erect and closely imbricate to spreading, squarrose or
recurved, linear or linear-lanceolate, blunt, deeply suleate to sub-
open-backed, variably pubescent and mostly glandular, hispid and
ciliate, more rarely glabrous and naked, 3-8 lin. long by }—} lin.
wide ; flowers umbellate ; pedicels glabrous or pubescent, 1—6 lin.
long; bracts approximate, or one subremote, linear-lanceolate, oblong

88 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

or lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, gland-hispid and ciliate, about
2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger, from 2-3} lin. long ;
corolla tubular, more or less inflated, slightly constricted at the
mouth, more or less pubescent, usually both shortly so and also
pilose with longer (sometimes glandular) hairs, mostly erimson, more
rarely rosy, 1-14 in. long; limb spreading or erect ; anthers in-
eluded, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, pallid, about 1 lin.
long, muticous or with very short or rudimentary minute horns;
style included or exserted ; ovary broadish turbinate, villous. Bauer,
Exot. Pl. t. 30; Andr. Heathery, t. 207, and Col. Heaths, t. 11 ;
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 7,9; Bot. Mag. t. 220; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
1679; Herb. Amat. t. 108; Thunb. Diss. Erica, 25, and Fl. Cap.
ed. Schult. 354; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 636. LE. pulviniformis,
Salisb. Prodr. 295. . erinifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi.
367. E. verecunda, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1827? not of Salisb. E.
Meuroni, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 686? E. metulzflora, Klotzsch
in Linnea, xii. 502, not of Andr. nor others.

Var. B, barbertona (Bolus); corolla broadly tubular, slightly inflated in the
middle and constricted at the throat, viscose-pubescent, 6 lin. long. LE.
barbertona, Galpin in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 148.

Coast Resion, frequent on plains and mountains, ascending to 6000 ft. :
Worcester Div., Cooper, 1656! 1746! Drége! Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof,
Drege ; Cape Div. ; around Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 53! 395! 583!
8469! 8536! Niven, 168! Drége! Marloth in MacOwan Herb. Aust.-Afr.,
1489! Ecklon, 100! Wilms, 3443! Caledon Div., Burchell, 7609! 7648! 7695!
7827! 8181! Riversdale Div., Burchell, 6768! George Div.; near Kaymans
River, Burchell, 5794! Knysna Div., Pappe! Uitenhage Div., Cooper, 1486!
Bolus, 1575! Port Elizabeth Div., Burchell, 4474! Albany Div., MacOwan!
Scott-Etliot, 749!

KALAHARI ReGion: Basutoland, Cooper, 758! Transvaal; Waterfall Creek,
McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3036! Macmac Falls and head of Sabie River, Mudd!
oe Wilms, 913! Var. 8: Transvaal! near Barberton, 4500 ft., Galpin,

Eastern Recion: Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, Bawr, 539! Pondoland,
Bachmann, 1003! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 507! near Murchison, Wood, 3042!
Mood Var. 8: Swaziland; Havelock Concession, Saltmarshe in Herb. Galpin,

An extremely variable species, chiefly as to pubescence, leaves, and size of
corolla. With a very large suite of specimens before us we cannot define any
distinct varieties, except that above mentioned ; this is probably a stunted form
caused by burning by grass-fires of which the specimens show evidence; the
corolla is shorter and relatively broader, but there is little else to distinguish it,
and other specimens show corollas as short but relatively narrower. E. Meuroni
(judging from Bentham’s description) can only be a rather more glabrous form
of this species. He himself appeared to be doubtful of it and the garden speci-
meus marked by him, which we have examined, show scarcely any differences.
The species is one of the most widely spread in the genus.

Section VI. CHONA. (Sp. 78.)

78. E. embothriifolia (Salisb, in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 379);
erect, 9-18 in. high; branches slender, ascending or spreading,
glabrous, puberulous or viscid with gland-tipped hairs; leaves
-nate, often subdistant, or shorter than the internodes, erect-spread-

Brica.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 89

ing to squarrose-recurved, linear, acute or obtuse, slender, sub-
terete, sulcate, ciliate and tipped with long glandular hairs, 4-7 lin.
long; flowers umbellate ; pedicels slender, striate, viscid, 5-8 lin.
long; bracts remote, lanceolate, 1 lin. long ; sepals linear to lanceo-
late, subaeute, tipped with a glandular seta, margins involute, gland-
ciliate, viscid, polished, 2-3 lin. long; corolla tubular below, in-
flated above, constricted at the throat, puberulous, rather viseid,
red, about 1 in. long; segments short, broad, recurved-spreading ;
anthers exserted, cohering into a conical tube round the style,
dorsifixed, linear, slender, 13-3 lin. long, aristate; awns very
slender, of variable length; style exserted beyond the anthers;
ovary cylindrical, glabrous. E. Nivenia, Audr. Heathery, t. 76, and
Col. Heaths, t. 112. E. Niveni, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 635,

Var. B, longiflora (Bolus) ; corolla-tube longer and more slender in the lower
portion, 10-12 lin, long ; anthers 3 lin. long. E. Nivenia, var. longiflora, Andr.
Heathery, t. 227, and Col. Heaths, t. 189.

Var. y, subequalis (Bolus); corolla with a less inflated subequal tube,
slightly widening from the base upwards, 7-8 lin, long, 2 lin. wide; awns of

the anther very short; ovary pilose near the top.
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. B: Cape Gov.

Herb. !

Coast Recion: Caledon Div. ; mountain tops near Genadendal and Baviaans
Kloof, Niven, 154 partly! Masson, 39! Burchell, 7749! Bolus, 5399! and in
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 348! Schlechter, 10304! Galpin, 3592! near Appels
Kraal, Zeyher, 3173! Var. 8: mountains of Zoetemelks Valley, Masson, 38!
Niven, 154 partly! Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3300 !

Section VII. BACTRIDIUM. (Sp. 79-80.)

"9, E. fascicularis (Linn. f. Suppl. 219); 2-6 ft. high;
branches long, virgate, slender, terminating in a conspicuous rosette
of large pinkish green-tipped flowers ; leaves G-nate or scattered,
erect-spreading ; petioles capillary, 1) lin. long; blade linear, sub-
terete, blunt, glabrous, the whole }—3 in. long ; flowers 10-25 in
the umbel, sometimes pseudo-lateral owing to new growth ; pedicels
3-4 lin. long; bracts foliaceous, linear, remote or subremote ;
sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, glabrous, rather viscid,
about 8 lin. long; corolla tubular, equal, viscid, glossy, Ly in.
long, rosy below, paler upwards ; segments subdeltoid, incurved,
greenish; anthers oblong; awns straight, shorter than the cells.
Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 6; Wendl. Eric. Te. fase. 14,29; Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 637. -E. octophylla, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 44, t. 3. E.
coronata, Andr. Heathery, t. 109, and Col. Heaths, t. 15. £.
radiiflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. V1. 360.

imperialis (Bolus) ; corolla inflated about the middle; segments a
vieste: Soma ae pee eos "RB. imperialis, Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 289, and

Heathery, t. 266. :
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! ; i
Coast ReGion, ascending to 3 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; in and near
Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8219! 8272! MacOwan Sf Bolus, Herd. Norm. Aust.-
Afr., 15! Hottentots Holland, Thunberg. Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof,
Burcheli, 7670! near Hemel-en-Aarde, Zeyher, 3195! Houw Hoek, Scott-
Elliot ! Genadendal Mountains, Galpin, 3596! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Hagel

90 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

Kraal, Mund! near Elim, Bolus, 6755! near the mouth of the Ratel River,
Boius! near Brand Fontein, Schlechter, 10582! Var. 8, Caledon Div. ; moun-
tains near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3195! and without precise locality, Herb.
Bolus, 6881!

Bentham regarded E. imperialis, Andr., as a garden hybrid between this and
some other species. It has been found at least twice since growing wild, and
exhibited at the Caledon Flower Show in 1897, and is probably an ordinary
form of the present species. Zeyher’s specimens of 3195 are from two stations
cited above, and those in Herb. Berlin are certainly of the var. 8; of the other
we are now somewhat uncertain,

80. E. Massoni (Linn. f. Suppl. 221); erect, 1-11 ft. high;
branches spreading ; leaves 4—G6-nate, closely crowded and densely
imbricate, erect or subspreading, oblong, obtuse, flat, long-ciliate,
2 lin. long ; umbels 5-10-flowered ; pedicels lanate, 4 lin. long ; bracts
subremote, long-haired, 2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate or oblong,
blunt, sulcate, glossy, very viscid, more or less long-hairy, 2-22 lin.
long; corolla tubular, asymmetrically inflated, subglobosely swollen
below the mouth, extremely viscid, red or orange with a green limb,
about 1 in. long; stamens subincluded; filaments capillary,
thickened and curved at the insertion of the oblong dorsifixed
muticous anther. Thunb. Diss. Erica, 27, t.3; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t.
20; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 26,6; Bot. Mag. t. 356; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 1069 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 638. E. Massonia, Andr.
Heathery, t. 128, and Col. Heaths, t.36. E. lycopodiifolia, Salish.
Prodr. 294, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 361.

Var. 8, minor (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 638); corolla shorter and less in-
flated ; bracts and sepals linear and less ciliate. £. gemmifera, Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t. 457; Bot. Mag. t. 2266.

Sour AFRIca: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. B: cultivated
specimen!

Coast REGION, on mountains, 1000-3500 ft.: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots
Holland, Thunberg! Niven, 170! Zeyher, 3180! Bolus, 4171! and in Herb.
Norm, Aust.-Afr., 16! Caledon Div.; near Palmiet River, Burchell, 81731
Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 169! Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8155!
Guthrie, 2298 !

Very distinct from the preceding by its habit and its hairy, usually close-
pressed leaves; the anther is also different. The var. 8 is unknown to us except
from the figures quoted. As the large-flowered form is related to E. squarrosa,
so is this variety to our E. Gysbertii, of the same section.

Section VIII. EURYLOMA. (Sp. 81-95.)

81. E. Gysbertii (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect; branches slender,
subvirgate ; leaves 4-nate, erect or slightly spreading, imbricate,
obtuse, thick, glabrous, sparsely ciliate with thickish white caducous
hairs, and tipped with a long brown bristle, including the longish
petiole 13-2} lin. long ; umbels 3—4-flowered ; pedicels slender, dark,
2 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, linear, ciliate and_bristle-
tipped with hairs much longer than themselves; sepals linear,
ciliate and tipped like the bracts, 12 lin. long, hairs sometimes
3} lin. long ; corolla tubular, only slightly inflated, suddenly con-
stricted at the throat, viscidulous; tube 4 lin. long, rosy; throat

Hrica.} ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 91

purple; limb paler; segments ovate, acuminate, 1 lin. long; fila-
ments capillary, dilated towards and near the anther; anthers
semiovate, subacute, curved or subcrescent-shaped, prognathous,
bilobed at the base, pallid, muticous, little exceeding + lin. long;
ovary elongate, shortly stipitate.

Coast Reacion : Stellenbosch Div.; on the western foot of the Hottentots
Holland Mountains, 200 ft., Guthrie, 3654!

Allied to E. squarrosa but the corolla has a different shape, the anthers dis-
tinctly prognathous, and the leaves not squarrose. Also allied to E, Massoni,
var. minor, judging by the figures of the latter, but seems distinct.

82. E. squarrosa (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 380); leaves
sub-4-nate, squarrose or spreading, more or less erowded, oblong,
obtuse, thickish, somewhat thinly ciliate with long spreading rusty
hairs, 2-3 lin. long; umbels many-flowered ; pedicels slender, viscid,
4-5 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, ciliate like the leaves, 1} lin.
long; sepals lanceolate, acute, barbed with long hairs at the
apex, keeled, 13 lin. long; corolla narrow-ovoid-urceolate, viscid,
glabrous, 5-6 lin. long; tube rosy; throat purple; segments
subacute, apparently white; filaments capillary, dilated near the
anthers; anther dorsifixed, oblong, slightly bent, scarcely progna-
thous or bilobed at the base, 2 lin. long, muticous; ovary distinctly
stipitate, glabrous. J. ferruginea, Andr. Heathery, t. 162, and Col.
Heaths, t. 168.

Coast Reaion: Paarl Div.; French Hoek Kloof, Niven, 151! Caledon
Div.; mountains near Zondereinde River, Masson, 40! Also cultivated speci-
mens !

A distinct and apparently rare species, no specimens having been collected, so

far as we know, during the last 100 years. It is closely allied to E. Gysbertii,
and has a curious resemblance in its leaves, authers and ovary to E. Massoni.

83. E. aristata (Andr. Heathery, t. 152); erect, glabrous;
leaves 4-nate, squarrose-recurved, narrow-oblong, acute, glabrous,
rigidly ciliate, 2}—-3 lin. long ; floral leaves more erect, longer and
bract-like ; umbels 4-flowered ; pedicels viscid, 3 lin. long; bracts
remote or subremote, linear-lanceolate, rigid, coriaceous, viscid, 5—4
lin, long; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, viscid,
3-5 lin. long; corolla tubular-inflated, only slightly narrowed
above the middle, a little constricted at the throat, viscid, rosy,
with 8 darker red veins; tube 1 in. long; throat dark purple ; limb
white; segments spreading, oblong, retuse, wider than long, 1} lin.
long ; filaments slender, mueh dilated and darker coloured at the
apex near the anther, with a distinct dark central nerve; anthers
subcrescent-shaped, deeply bilobed, and subprognathous at’the base,
ever 11 lin, long, muticous; style equalling the stamens ; stigma
capitellate, very small ; ovary elongate, not or scarcely stipitate,
3 lin. long. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 147; Bot. Mag. t, 1249; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 73 (the two last excellent) ; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii.

643.
Coast Recion: Riversdale Diy.; amongst shrubs, Platte Kloof, in the Cape

92 ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

Gov. Herb.! Caledon Div. ? locality unknown, exhibited at the annual show of
wild-flowers at Caledon, Sept., 1895, Herb. Guthrie, 3770!

We have seen no authentic specimens of this species, nor had Bentham, but
the excellent ones from Caledon (certainly wild) quoted above and from which
we describe, agree so exactly with the figures of Loddiges and the Bot. Mag.
that we have no doubt as to their identity.. It is the more interesting as leading
to the supposition that it is a genuine species and not, as Bentham thought
probable, a hybrid. Andrews’ t. 152 is not quite so representative of
the wild plant as known to us, as are the others. His t. 203, cited by Bentham,
appears to belong to E. retorta, Linn. f., and the two species have been confused
in herbaria.

84. E. retorta (Montin, in Kongl. Vet, Acad. Handl., 1774, 297,
t. 7); erect, subglabrous, 12-15 in. high ; branches many, straggling,
closely leafy ; leaves 4-nate, mostly revolute or squarrose-recurved,
crowded, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute, tipped with a long bristle,
ciliate, thick, rigid, about 2 lin. long; umbels 4—8-flowered ; pedicels
slender, glandular-viscid, 3 lin. long; bracts remote, oblanceolate,
acute, with a terminal bristle of their own length, scarious, softly
pubescent, ciliate, 2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, otherwise like the
bracts but more foliaceous, 2-23 lin. long; corolla ampullaceous,
attenuate above but variable and the neck sometimes almost absent,
throat contracted, viscid, of almost hyaline texture; tube }—1 in.
long, pale rosy, throat and limb darker coloured; segments
ovate, acute, 1-12 or even 2 lin. long; filaments slender, only
slightly widened towards the anther; anther suberescent-shaped,
acute, bilobed and slightly prognathous at the base, $—Z lin. long,
more or less irregularly woolly with short white hairs, pallid; ovary
elongate, on a thickish stipe of nearly its own diameter. Linn. /.
Suppl. 220 ; Andr. Heathery, t. 144, and Col. Heaths, t. 54; Bot.
Mag. t. 362; Wendl. Eric. Ic. 15, 45,t.18; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
804; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 644. E. aristata, var. minor, Andr.
Heathery, t. 203, and Col. Heaths, t. 219,not of Linn. f. E. gorteria-
— Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 381. H. eaimia, Lodd. l.c. t.
1105.

Sourtn Arrica: without locality, Mund! Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast ReGion: Stellenbosch Div.: Hottentots Holland, Thwnberg. Caledon
Div.; Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 152! Zeyher, 3196! southern slopes of
Great Houw Hoek Mountaius, 2800 ft., Bolus, 6954! 6955!

In habit and external appearance this much resembles FE, aristata ; but the
leaves and corolla are somewhat differently shaped, and the corolla-segments
afford an immediate means of distinction. It is apparently rare, or at least very |
local ; and only once have we seen some dozens of plants together. Specimens
with large and small corollas of either extreme in size, were found growing
intermixed.

85. E. lageneformis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 382);
erect, glabrous ; branches flexuous; leaves 3-nate, erect-recurved,
oblong-linear, obtuse, 3-4 lin. long ; bracts subremote; sepals broad-
lanceolate, bluntish, coloured, about 23 lin. long; corolla elongate-
ampullaceous, or inflated at the base, gradually narrowing to the
apex into an elongate neck, viscidulous; tube rosy with darker red

Erica. | ERIcCACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 95

veins, 12-14 lin. long ; segments ovate, subobtuse, spreading, 4—5 lin.
long; anthers narrow-subereseent-shaped, somewhat prognathous,
bilobed at the base, muticous; ovary subsessile (in the figures
cited), stipitate (Bentham). EE. jasminiflora, Andr. Heathery, t. 26,
and Ool. Heaths, t. 29, not of Salisb.; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 27,
12; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 644. EF. pulcherrima, G. Don in
Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 3, 434.

Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div.; Platte Kloof, Masson in Herb. Salisbury !
Roxburgh. Also cultivated specimens !

86. E. jasminifiora (Salisb. Prodr. 293); erect, glabrous, 2 ft. or
more high; branches few, subvirgate or flexuous, slender, closely
leafy ; leaves 8-nate, adpressed, imbrieate or scarcely longer than the
internodes, linear, obtuse, mucronulate, thick, gland-ciliate, 3-5 lin.
long; flowers 2-3-nate, erect; pedicels slender, glandular, 4 lin,
long; bracts remote, linear, erect; sepals linear-oblong, acute,
concave, sulcate, viscid, gland-ciliate, } in. long; corolla-tube
cylindrical, nearly equal, 15-16 lin. long, 11 lin. wide, slightly
enlarged at the throat, white or pale rose with deeper red veins ;
segments spreading, ovate, obtuse, white or striped, about 5 lin.
long by 3 lin. wide; filaments slender, dilated at the anther;
anthers suberescent-shaped, acuminate, acutely bilobed and progna-
thous at the base, pallid, muticous, about 1} lin, long; ovary
cylindrical, subsessile. Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 382. LE.
Aitonia, Masson in Bot. Mag. t. 429; Andr. Heathery, t. 102, and
Col. Heaths, t. 1; var. B recta, Klotzsch in Linnea, x. 348, HE.
aitoniana, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 144; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 645.
E. Aitoni, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 398.

Coast Rrcion: Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg, near the warm baths,
Paterson, Masson! Niven! Also cultivated specimens !

A very distinct and handsome species; now, apparently, so rare, that we
have heard of no collector since Niven’s time, about the early part of the
19th century. Bentham placed it in a special section, Platyloma, but the
grounds for separation from § Ewryloma appear insufficient.

87. E, Junonia (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 234) ; erect, glabrous,
1-2 ft. high; branches spreading and ascending; leaves 3-nate,
erect-spreading, imbricate, linear, 2-82 lin. long; umbels copious,
3-6-flowered ; pedicels 4-7 lin. long ; bracts remote, linear, 23-3}
lin. long; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, red with a green
nerve, 3-52 lin, long; corolla subampullaceous, much inflated below,
with a very long much attenuate neck, dilated in the throat, dry or
slightly viscid, bright red, ribbed with 8 darker red veins; tube
9—20 lin. long; segments ovate, acute or acuminate, stellato-patent,
92-5 lin. long ; filaments very narrow at the base, widened upwards
but not dilated towards the anther ; anthers oblong, nearly straight,
bilobed, not prognathous at the base, pallid, about 1 lin. long or less,
aristate; awns very short, not reaching to the base of the anther;
ovary on a broadish, longer or shorter stipe, glabrous.
Var. 8, minor (Bolus) ; flower smaller in all parts; corolla-tube 8-10 lin,
long, with a smaller and shorter neck.

94 ERICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). [Frica.

Coast Reaion: Ceres Div.; rocky ridges of the Skurfde Berg, near
Ceres, 5000 ft., Bodkin, Bolus in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1309! Var. B:
Worcester Div. ; on Matroos Berg, 6000 ft., Marloth, 2208!

CenTRAL Ree@ion: Var. 8: Ceres Div.; Table Mountain, in the Cold Bok-
keveld, 6200 ft., Schlechter, 10100!

88. E. shannonea (Andr. Heathery, t. 239); erect, glabrous ;
branches somewhat flexuous ; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, curved,
linear-trigonous, acute, somewhat concave on the upper surface,
ciliate or naked, 4-9 lin. long (in our wild specimens not exceeding
z in.); pedicels slender, 7-9 lin. long; bracts remote, linear ;
sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, keeled, thick, red, 5—7 lin, long ;
corolla subampullaccous or oblong-tubular, inflated, tapering upwards
(but not into a long thin neck), contracted at the throat, viseidulous,
white with a rosy tinge (not apparently red-veined); tube 12-14 lin.
long ; segments spreading, ovate, subacute, white, 2-3 lin. long;
filaments slender, dilated at the anther, crumpled and bent; anthers
subcrescent-shaped, acute, prognathous and bilobed at the base,
pallid, nearly 12 lin. long, muticous ; ovary subturbinate, enlarging
gradually above the short stipe. Andr. Col. Heaths, t.273. FE.
Shannoni, Lodd, Bot, Cab. t. 168. E. shannoneana, Spreng. Syst.
ii. 185. EH. Shannonia, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 261. E. shan-
noniana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 644. EE. obesa, Tausch in Flora,
1839, 628, not of Salish. E. dianthiflora, Tausch in Flora, 1834,
594. FE. muscicapa, Tausch, Ic, 595.

_Coasr Reeion: Caledon Div., rather rare; near Klein River, Masson, 42!

mountains near Hartebeest River, King in Herb. Bolus! Bredasdorp Div. ;
Klands Kloof, 1200 ft:, Schlechter, 9753! Also cultivated specimens !

We describe chiefly from King & Schlechter’s excellent specimens which agree
well with Masson’s, and with Andrews’ figure. The species is very near to
E. lagenxformis, differing chiefly in its smaller corolla-limb and narrower leaves,
ri ve scarcely know the last-named well enough to warrant us in uniting
them here.

89. E. ampullacea (Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 303); erect, glabrous,
1-1} ft. high; branches of straggling habit, rigid; leaves 4-nate,
adpressed at the base, erect-recurved to subsquarrose, oval to lanceo-
late, blunt, thick, ciliate, 2-4 lin, long, the floral more or less
(sometimes much) dilated ; umbels 3-4-flowered ; pedicels stout,
3-4 lin. long; bracts approximate, oblanceolate or lanceolate,
_ ciliate, reddish, 3-4 lin. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliate, crimson,
3-4 lin. long ; corolla ampullaceous ; tube ovoid or subglobose below,
more or less gradually narrowed to the neck, then slightly dilated
at the throat, viscidulous, 9-12 lin. long, pale rose with darker red
veins ; segments spreading, broad ovate, very obtuse or subreniform,
erenulate, white (or spotted or edged with red), 2-3 lin. long ;
filaments widened at the anther; anthers subcrescent-shaped, acute,
slender, prognathous and bilobed at the base, pallid, 1-12 lin. long,
muticous; ovary subsessile or on a short broad stipe. Andr.
Heathery, t. 103, and Col. Heaths, t. 3; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 23,
169, ¢.64; Lodd. Bot Cab. t. 508; Tratt. Archiv. t. 285; Benth.

Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 95

in DC. Prodr, vii. 644. E. ampulleformis, Salish. in Trans. Linn.
Soc. vi. 881. EF. andrewsiana, Tausch, and EF. ampullacea, Tratt. ex
Tausch in Flora, 1834, 594 ?

Var. 8, obbata (Bolus); floral leaves usually more dilated than in the
assumed type; corolla with a somewhat thicker neck and throat; limb-
segments sometimes shorter, subreniform (and variously spotted or margined ?).
E. obbata, Andy. Heathery, t. 32, and Col. Heaths, t. 118; Benth. in DO.
Prodr. vii, 644, and var. umbellata, Andr. Il. cc. tt. 182; 190. E. capaa,
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331. E. pregnans, Soland. ex Salisb. l.c.

Coast Reeion: Caledon Div., somewhat rare; dry rocky places on the Zwart
Berg, Niven, 153! Bolus, 7405! Bodkin, in Herb. Bolus, 6953! Genadendal
Mountain, 2500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Guthrie, 3610! Var. 8: Stellenbosch Diy. ;
Hottentots Holland, Masson in Herb. Salisbury! Caledon Div. ; Klein River
Kloof, Zeyher, 3198! Zwart Berg, Zeyher, 3197! Bredasdorp Div. ; frequent
on hills near Elim, Bolus, 6757! and in Herb. Aust.-Afr ,1628! Also cultivated
specimens of type and var. ! :

The var. obbata is scarcely separable by any constant characters, and. is noted
chiefly for convenience of reference to the old figures. It is merely a maritime
form, and specimens occur between Caledon and the sea which are intermediate
in one or the other character. We have not seen any wild plants coloured
as in Andr. J.c. tt. 32 and 132, and have little doubt that these are merely

horticultural variations.

90. E. irbyana (Andr. Heathery, t. 219); erect, glabrous, 1-12 ft.
high ; branches straighter, more slender and longer than in £#.
shannonea ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or erect or subadpressed, linear,
subtrigonous, acute, mucronate, 2—4 lin. long (or in Andrews’ figs. 6-9
lin.) ; umbels 3-8-flowered; pedicels 5-7 lin. long; bracts remote,
slender ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, transversely wrinkled, viscid,
“deep red, 21-4 lin. long; corolla somewhat variable, suburceolate,
not much inflated, or subampullaceous with a thin neck, viseid, pale
flesh colour, 4—7 (or, in eultivated specimens, 10) lin. long ; segments
ovate, acute or obtuse, 14-3 lin. long; filaments and anthers as in
E. shannonea, the latter about 1 lin. long; ovary elongate, sub-
stipitate. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 176; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 816
(probably a garden hybrid with a more slender corolla).

Sourn AFRIcA: without locality, Masson, 43! and cultivated specimens !

Coast REGION, on mountains 500-3500 ft. : Caledon Div.; Babylons Tower,
Guthrie, 4093! Vogel Gat, near Klein River mouth, Schlechter, 9552! Zeyher !
Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, Bolus, 6753! near Koude River, Sehleciter,
9620! 9729! (the latter a short-flowered form with corollas 4-5 lin, long) !

Very like E. shannonea in miniature, but the habit and set of the leaves is
different, and the corolla with its relatively wider neck tends more towards an

urceolate than an ampullaceous shape.

91. E. curvifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 380) ; erect,
s_]1 ft. high; branches few, slender, ascending; leaves 3-nate,
curved and spreading, a little longer or a little shorter than the
internodes, linear, blunt, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, thick, 2-3 lin.
long ; umbels 3-5-flowered ; pedicels slender, 21—3 lin. long ; bracts
subremote, slender, small ; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, sulcate,
viscid, 2-23 lin. long; corolla tubular-inflated below, attenuate

above, or tubular-urceolate, glabrous, viscid, tube rosy, throat purple,

96 ERIcCACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica.

4 lin. long; segments spreading, white, under 1 lin. long; anthers
oblong, pallid, dorsifixed, straight or slightly curved at the base, but
not crescent-shaped nor prognathous, slightly bilobed at the base,

about + lin. long, muticous; style at length shortly exserted ; ©

ovary " stipitate, glabrous (“minutely hairy,” Salisbury); cells

several-ovuled. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642. E. comptoniana,
Andr. Heathery, t. 2551, and Col. Heaths, t. 224 1%. EE. terminalis,
Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 509. FE. angusticollis, Bartl.in Linnea, vii.
638.

Var. 8, Zeyheri (Bolus) ; flowers larger, 7-8 lin. long. HE. Zeyheri, Spreng.
Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 12; Benth. l.c. 643.

Soutu AFRICA: without locality, Roxburgh! Thunberg.

Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mulder ! Caledon
Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Niven, 148! Bodkin in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 346!
Genadendal Mountain, Bolus, 5401! Swellendam Div.; Tyger Hoek, Masson,
33! Var. B: Caledon Div.; tops of mountains near Genadendal, Burchell,
9750! Zeyher, 437 (ex Sprengel)! Bolus, 5400! and in Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr.,
845! Schlechter, 103221

Chiefly variable in the size of the flowers. Salisbury appears to have founded
the species on the smaller size (corolla 4 lin. long) and Sprengel, his E. Zeyheri,
on the larger (7-83 lin.). E. comptoniana, Andr. Heathery, t. 255, figured from
a cultivated specimen, only differs slightly in the corolla,

92. E. pectinata (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 509, not of Bartl.) ;
erect, 14-2 ft. high; branches slender, ascending, subvirgate ;
leaves 3-nate, about as long as the internodes, erect, adpressed, tips
slightly recurved, linear or narrow-elliptical, blunt, glabrous, pecti-
nate-ciliate, thick, about 2 lin. long; umbels 4—6-flowered ; pedicels
glandular-hispid, 2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, sublinear, small,
viscid, gland-ciliate; sepals linear or linear-spathulate, glabrous,
foliaceous, dark purple, 1-14 lin. long; corolla elongate-elliptic or
tubular-ureeolate, mouth contracted, viscid, tuberculate-hispid, red,
5-6 lin. leng; segments short, suberect, searcely stellate-patent ;
filaments capillary; anthers oblong or cuneate, prognathous and
bilobed at the base, about 2 lin. long, decurrent-aristate ; awns
about 2 the length of the celi; ovary eylindrical, glabrous, on a
long slender stipe from 1-2 times its own length; cells 4-ovuled.
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642.

Coast Reaion : Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 7241! Caledon
Div.; mountains near Grietjes Gat, between Palmiet River and Steenbrass River,
Zeyher, 3203! Klein River Mountains, 2000 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Guthrie,
4110! 4

93. E. trichroma (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642); erect, about
1 ft. high; branches slender, irregularly spreading, 6-8 in. high ;
leaves 3-nate, erect and adpressed, or spreading, somewhat imbricate,
or only as long as the internodes, linear, acute or obtuse, glabrous,
ciliate, about 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, gland-ciliate, small ;
sepals linear, obtuse, margins incurved and gland-eiliate, foliaceous,
subviseid, red, 1-14 lin. long ; corolla tubular-ovoid, inflated below the
middle, attenuate above, very minutely tubereulate-hispid, viscidulous,

ee en nae ee a

Erica.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 97

rosy and purple, 3-4 lin. long ; segments erect, scarcely (in the dried
state) stellate-spreading ; filaments, for the greater part of their
length, adherent to the corolla-tube ; anthers dorsifixed, semiovate,
straight, not prognathous and scarcely bilobed at the base, pallid,
3-3 lin. long, subdecurrent-aristate, or free aristate; awns much
shorter than the cell, spreading; style ineluded; ovary on a stipe
of variable length, glabrous, cells 2-4-ovuled. , tricolor, Niven ex
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642.

Var. 8, imbricata (Bolus); leaves more constantly imbricate and adpressed,
not spreading at the apex, and wider ; corolla somewhat more inflated.

SoutH AFrica: without locality, Masson !
Coast REGIon: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, 2000 ft., Niven, 147! Schlechter,
10278! Var, 8: Tulbagh Div. ; New Kloof, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 7580 !

Bentham describes the cells of the ovary as 2-ovuled. This is not constant.
An examination of Niven’s type 147, showed 12 ovules in the 4 cells, of Masson’s
17 ovules; of Schlechter’s 10278, 17 ovules, and in his 7530, 6 and 7. In
Schlechter, 10278, the corolla frequently has one or more short shred-like
blunt processes, which have not been seen upon the other specimens, This is
possibly insect-work.

94. E. tubercularis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vi. 330);
apparently a dwarf shrub, glabrous; branches slender, subflexuous,
spreading; leaves 3-nate, imbricate, adpressed, linear-oblong, acute,
glabrous, thick, concave above, cartilagineo-serrulate, 1 lin. long;
flowers 2—3-nate, or more rarely subumbellate ; pedicels 3 lin. long,
downy ; bracts 3, minute ; sepals Janceolate-linear, about 2 lin. long ;
corolla ovoid, subacute at the diseoloured apex, more or less covered
with minute wart-like tubercles, rosy, about 2 lin. long; segments
erect and connivent (in the dried state), very short; anthers dorsi-
fixed, ovate, muticous, about + lin. long; ovary on a slender stipe
exceeding it in length ; ovules 2 (or sometimes by abortion 1) in each
cell. H. notabilis, Wendl. in Spreng. Syst. ii. 184. Eremia
tubercularis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 700.

SoutH Arrica: without locality, Rowhurgh!
Coast Rre@ton: Stellenbosch Div., Zeyher !

Like the preceding and the next species, this appears to be irregular in the
number of the ovules in each cell. Bentham apparently found flowers with one
only, and placed it in Hremia. But besides the fact of there being undoubtedly
two ovules present, it has very little resemblance to the other plants of that
genus, while it is very similar to the preceding species, than which it is generally
smaller in all parts.

95. E. rhodopis (Bolus); much branehed, 4-8 in. high; branches
ascending, flexuous, slender, glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, adpressed,
broadly linear, glabrous, somewhat shorter than the internodes,
14 lin. long; flowers usually terminal, or sometimes by the abortion
ot lateral branchlets pseudo-lateral, 2—3-nate; pedicels very slender,
& lin, long; bracts remote, minute ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, ubtuse,
glabrous, about } the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid, glabrous,
dry, rosy, 2-22 lin. long; segments deltoid, connivent in the dried
state, about 1 the length of the tube; anthers ovate-oblong, about

VOL. IV.—SECT. I. H

98 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). | Brica.

1 lin, long, aristate ; awns spreading, a little longer than the cells ;
style included ; stigma capitate; ovary on a thick stipe about as
long as itself, cells 2- (or sometimes 1-?) ovuled. Hremia rhodopis,
Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 239.

Coast Rreion: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Pappe, 36! Guthrie, 2210!
Schlechter, 7548! near Bot River, Schlechter, 9440! Babylons Tower Mountain,
Zeyher, 3230 !

This has the aspect of the § Orophavies, from which it is separated by its
distinctly stipitate ovary and some other characters.

Section IX. CERAMUS. (Sp. 96-100.)

96. E. incarnata (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 50, not of Andr., nor of
Benth.) ; erect, a foot or more high; branches virgate, subflexuous,
thinly villous ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed or slightly spreading, narrow-
ovate, obtuse, somewhat concave on the upper surface, glabrous,
11-12 lin. long; flowers usually 3-nate, more rarely in 5—6-
flowered umbels, erect or suberect ; pedicels slender, glabrous, about
3 lin. long; bracts leaf-like, narrow-lanceolate, acute, the two upper
approximate, adpressed, the lowest at or near the base, larger and
more spreading ; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, margins
naked, 12 lin. long; corolla inflated-urceolate, not tapering but
suddenly contraeted at the neck, or narrow-ovoid, 8—42 lin. long ;
limb spreading, small; segments rounded; anthers oblong, some-
what incurved, slightly prognathous, a little over 3 lin. long; pore
about tof the cell; cristate at the base ; crests lanceolate, acuminate,
dentate on the outer margin, about 4+ the length of the cell; ovary
upon a stipe of about its own length, or in some specimens longer,
and about 2 of its own diameter. H. amana, Salisb. Trans. Linn.
Soe. vi. 329, not of Wendl.

SoutH AFrRica: without locality, Thunberg !

Coast Rxecion: Clanwilliam Div.; on the Cederberg Range near Sneeuw
Kop and Wupperthal, 3500-4500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8630! Leipoldt,
621!

We have compared this with Thunberg’s type, which Bentham does not appear
to have seen. The plants so named by him, or distributed by others under this
- name, are forms of E. Savilea, trom which this differs by the position of its
bracts, by the shape of its sepals, anthers and their appendages, and by the
longer and narrower stipe of the ovary. The pedicels, bracts and sepals, and
in some specimens the flower-buds, are uniformly deep red.

97. E. Savilea (Andr. Heathery, t. 238); about 1 ft. high,
much branched; branches pubescent; leaves 4-nate (or sometimes
3-nate, Bentham), linear, subtrigonous, acute, glabrous, ciliate,
especially the younger, with long soft hairs, 1-3 lin. long; umbels
3--4-flowered ; pedicels slender, puberulous, 3-4 lin. Jong; bracts
remote, linear, small; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious-
edged ; corolla urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, throat much contracted,
glabrous, dry, 4—5 lin. long; limb broad, under 1 lin. long; anthers
broad-cuneate, purple, 4-} lin. long, very minutely cristate or
aristate, the appendages not reaching below the base of the cells;

Evica.] ERICACE (Guthrie & Bolus). 99

pore about 4 the length of the cell; ovary subsessile or broadly
short-stipitate. #. Savileia, Andr. Ool. Heaths. ¢. 205. E.
Savillie, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.96. E. savileana, Sweet, Hort. Brit.
ed. i. 261; Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii. 641. E. Behen, EH. Meyer ex
Benth. lic. 642 partly. E. delecta, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 633.
Ei. tristis, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 519 4

Var. 8, grandiflora (Bolus) ; corolla 6-7 lin. long.

Coast Rre@ion: Tulbagh Div.: Mosterts Hoek Mountain, Bolus, 6479!
Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Miss Liesching in Herb. Guthrie, 3367! Paarl Div. ;
near Wellington, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 17! Worcester Div. ;
Dutoits Kloof, Drége ; Matroos Berg, Cook in Herb. Bolus, 6887! Swellendam
Div.; near Swellendam, Borcherds in Herb. Bolus, 6266! Also cultivated
specimens! Var. B: Paarl Div.; around French Hoek, MacOwan, 2920!
Worcester Div. ; Matroos Berg, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3947!

98. E. precox (Klotsch in Linnea, xii. 517, not of Lodd.) ; erect,
6-8 in. high ; branches ascending, mostly curved ; branchlets pubes-
cent, and, as ate the leaves, pedicels, bracts and sepals ciliate or
more or less pilose with soft white hairs, sometimes nearly glabrous,
or becoming so; leaves 4-nate, ereet-spreading or slightly incurved,
linear, subacute, 3-4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, sometimes by
abortion of the lateral branehlets appearing axillary and clustered ;
pedicels slender, 3-4 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, small;
sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious-edged, 21 lin. long;
corolla ovoid-urceolate ; tube pale or bright red, about 4 lin. long;
throat purple ; limb red; segments ovate, acute, 8-1 lin. long;
anthers oblong or subeuneate, 1—} lin. long, purple, muticous; pore
about + the length of the cell; ovary stipitate. Benth. in DC.
Prodr, vii. 641. H. Behen, E. Meyer ex Benth. l.c. 642 partly.

Coast Rrcion: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 ft., Drége !
Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Le Roux, in Herb. Bolus, 5950! Caledon Div. ; Houw
Hoek, Kennedy, 28! near Palmiet River, Schlechter, 7455!

Chiefly distinguished from the preceding by its longer leaves, narrower and
muticous anthers with larger pore, and more evidently stipitate ovary; the

pubescence on the younger parts is also generally more copious. Our material,
though good, is not copious enough to afford good evidence that these small

differences are constant.

99. E. inflata (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 41, t. 2); erect, 1-3 ft. high ;
branches slender, erect, often virgate, leafy, terminating in dense
clusters of flowers; leaves 4-nate or scattered, suberect or incurved,
not crowded, often subsecund, very slender, narrowly linear, acute,
mucronate or aristate, glabrous, flat above, convex and faintly sulcate
below, petioles long and very slender, the whole 5~10 lin. long ;
flowers in dense many-flowered corymbose umbels ; pedicels slender,
pubescent, red, 6-7 lin. long; bracts subremote, slender, red,
aristate ; sepals lanceolate or subulate, acuminate, glabrous or pubes-
cent, crimson or pallid, aristate, 1-1} lin. long ; corolla ovoid-
urceolate; throat contracted, dry ; tube pale rose, 3-4 lin. long,
throat and limb darker red; segments about } lin. long; anthers
semiovate or broad, subcuneate, + about 2 lin. long, aristate ;
ay * ER

100 nricacez (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

pore 2—2 the length of the cell; awns inserted above the middle of
the eell and equalling or exceeding it in length, capillary, much
involute; style subexserted; ovary on a distinct, broad, shortish
stipe. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 641. EH. amabilis, Salish. in
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 885. E. sainsburyana, Andr. Heathery. t.
287, and Col. Heaths, t. 270. E.carniula, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 926.
E. carinula, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 570. H. ollula, Andr.
Heathery, t. 275, and Cot. Heaths, t. 251; Lodd. l.c. t. 1646.

Sourm Arrica : without locality, Thunberg. Also cultivated specimens f

Coast REGION, ascending from 1000-2500 ft. : Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg
Range, Drége, 7737! Leipoldt,62! Mader, 68! Piquetberg Div. ; foot of Twenty-
four Rivers Mountains, Zeyher, 1091! Tulbagh and Ceres Div. ; Mitchells Pass,
Bolus, 6923! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 385! Schlechter, 9967! Guthrie,
2178!

Distinct in the section by its very long leaves, but with a curious resemblance
to EB. obliqua, Thunb., in the § Pachysa (which also has a stipitate ovary) and
might be placed with it, but that the sepals and anthers are so different ; the
pedicels and leaves also are longer. The leaves are very like those of E. vestita,
Thunb., but far fewer. We have not seen any wild specimens with flowers
either so long, or so short, as those represented in the figures of Andrews and
Loddiges.

100. E. ventricosa (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 27, t. 1); erect, 2-6 ft.
high; branches stout, rigid ; leaves 4-nate, spreading or squarrose,
sometimes undulate, crowded, linear-subulate, acuminate, margins
white, pilose, rarely subglabrous, 6-8 lin. long; flowers in dense
umbels at the ends of the branchlets, sometimes forming close
pyramidal masses ; pedicels pubescent, 3-4 lin. long ; bracts remote,

"small, linear, ciliate ; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious-
edged, glabrous, 3 lin. long; corolla ovoid-ureeolate, attenuate up-
wards and constricted at the throat, glabrous, dry, white, rosy, or
red; tube 6-8 lin. long; segments ovate, acute, sometimes mealy,
11 lin. long; anthers cuneate-oblong, purple, about 2 lin. long,
minutely crested; crests not reaching to the base of the cell;
style ineluded, stigma subsimple ; ovary turbinate, stipitate. Andr.
Heathery, t. 197, and Ool. Heaths, t. 65; Bot. Mag. t. 350; Wendl.
Eric. Ie. fasc. 83,11; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 481; Herb. Amat. t. 62;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642. H. pregnans, Andr. Heathery, t.
231, and Col. Heaths, t. 202; Lodd. Lc. t. 945. E. venusta, Salish.
Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 385, not of Sinclair, nor
Klotzsch. E. densa, Andr. Heathery, t. 212, and Col. Heaths, t.
163. LE. glabra, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 362. FE. translucens,
Wendl. ex Spreng. Syst. ii. 186, in syn. ?

Soutn ArricA: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens |

Coast REeGion, ascending from 1000-5200 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits
Peak, Marloth, 2416! Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, Schlechter,
9236! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 939! Stellenbosch Div. ; hills about

False Bay, Musson and Niven (ex Bentham). Caledon Div.; near Amandel River,
Bolus, 5172!

Chiefly variable in the size of its flowers and the degree of copiousness or
density of the inflorescence. But we cannot discover any constant characters on

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 101

which to form varieties. The smaller flowered forms verge towards E, Walkeria
in § Callista. Andrews’ t. 231 looks distinct, but is possibly merely a garden
hybrid ; this species having been much in cultivation. From the great number,
and the porcelain-like texture of its delicately coloured flowers, it is one of the
most beautiful of heaths, and a fine pyramidal bush of 6 ft. high was once seen
by the writer, covered from base to apex with thousands of flowers. HE. ventri-
eet var. bothwelliana, Carr. in Rev. Hort, 1882, 363, probably belongs
ere.

Section X. CALLISTA. (Sp. 101-111.)

101. E. Lawsonia (Andr. Heathery, t. 267); erect, 1-2 ft. high ;
branches slender, subvirgate; leaves erect, acute, keeled, puberu-
lous, ciliate, 14—2 lin. long ; flowers mostly solitary on short lateral
branchlets, forming a pseudo-raceme (or rarely 4-nate, ex Bot. Mag.',
subsessile; bracts approximate, leaf-like, scarious-edged, 1-24 lin.
long ; sepals lanceolate-linear, acuminate, scarious, about 3 lin. long;
corolla-tube cylindrical (or when old, somewhat inflated at the base
round the swollen capsule), mouth not contracted, dry, puberulous or
glabrous, red, 5-7 lin. long, 2 lin. broad; segments ovate-lanceolate,
acute, about 2 lin. long; anthers oval, 1-1 lin. long, muticous.
Andr. Col. Heaths, t.242. EE. lawsoniana, Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 646. £. Lawsont, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1720; Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t. 488. EF. infundibuliformis, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 638, not of:
- Andr., and E. leptocarpha, Spreng. f. Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 18,
Jide Klotasch in Linnea, xii. 519.

Coast ReGion: Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Masson, 30! near Caledon,
Ecklon §& Zeyher! mountains near Genadendal, 3200 ft., Bolus, 5407! and in
Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 344! Bodkinin Herb. Guthrie, 3612! Zwart Berg, near
Caledon, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 10363!

102. E. pavettefiora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 382) ;
erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches spreading, slender, glabrous,
8—9 in. long; internodes on the ultimate branchlets becoming much
elongated ; leaves erect, linear, acute, 2-3 lin. long; flowers sessile ;
bracts approximate, linear, 2-3 lin. long; sepals linear to linear-
lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, rigid, ciliate, 3-4 lin. long; corolla-
tube narrow-eylindrical, slightly and gradually widened at the throat,
glabrous, dry, red, 8-10 lin. long, }—} lin. broad ; segments ovate,
subacute, about 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad ; anthers semiovate, } lin.
long, muticous or (according to Salisbury and Andrews) minutely
aristulate; pore 1 the length of the cell; style subincluded. Benth.
in DC. Prodr. vii. 645. E. infundibuliformis, Andr. Heathery, t.
218, and Col. Heaths, t. 240; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 589. H. hypocra-
teriformis, Tausch, Flora, 1837, 492.

Soutn AFrica: without locality, Rowburgh! Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated

specimens ! j
Coast REGION: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Peak, 4200 ft., Marloth, 2414!

Caledon Div.; Klein River, Masson! Houw Hoek, 2500 ft., Niven, 81!
Schlechter, 7422!

The specimens last cited have a more slender corolla-tube than others, and
also longer than those described by Bentham. There is, however, no doubt of
their identity. :

102 ERIcAcEx (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hriea.

103. E. cylindrica (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 24, not of Wendl. nor
Andr.) ; erect, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous in all parts; branches sub-
virgate with elongating internodes; leaves erect, subacute, 2-22 lin.
long; pedicels slender, over 3 lin. long ; bracts approximate, linear,
1-1} lin. long; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious,
ciliolate, 25 lin. long ; corolla-tube cylindrical, mouth slightly con-
tracted, glabrous, dry, yellow or white, 5-6 lin. long, about * lin.
broad; segments ovate, subacute, 3 lin. long; anthers narrow-
oblong, slightly under } lin. long, muticous; pore * the length of
the cell; style included; ovary elongate, somewhat contracted at
the base. JL. tenuiflora, Andr. Heathery, t. 146, and Col.- Heaths,
t. 210 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1717. EH. tenuiflora, var. alba, Andr.
Heathery, t. 194, and Col. Heaths, ¢t. 211. #. cliffordiana, Lodd.
Lc, t. 34, 2. fistuleflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 883. E.
stenantha, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 340.

SourH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg in Herb. Salisbury! Also culti-
vated specimens !

Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, 1500 ft., Niven,
82! Masson! Bolus, 5461! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1306!

Allied to and resembling E. pavetteflora, but quite distinct by its more equal
corolla-tube, smaller limb, and different anthers. It appears to be very local.
Rach, who examined Thunberg’s herbarium, in Linnea, xxvi. 777, identified this
with E. tenuiflora, Andr., and the descriptions agree well.

104. E. fastigiata (Linn. Mant. 66, not of Andr.); erect, 1-14
{t. high ; branches flexuous or subvirgate ; internodes elongating on
the upper branches; leaves erect or spreading, crowded below,
incurved, linear, acute, glabrous, about 3 lin. long; flowers sub-
sessile ; bracts approximate, lanceolate-linear or subulate-linear,
acute, keeled, scarious, 3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but some-
what longer, 8-6 lin. long; corolla-tube cylindrical, sometimes
slightly inflated below, sometimes at the throat, glabrous, red or
rosy, about 5 lin. long; limb subovoid, mealy, white, dark-centred,
1} lin. long, 13-2} lin. wide; anthers oblong or suboval, pallid,
zz lin. long, muticous; pore 1-1 the length of the cell; style
included. Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 19, 103, t. 839%; Bot. Mag. t.
2084; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 646 ; var. ciliata, Rach in Linnea,
xxvi. 778% E. fasciformis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 382.
E. mundula, Andr. Heathery, t. 273, and Col. Heaths, t. 249; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 114. EH. humeana, Lodd. 1.c. t. 389.

Var. 8, coventryana (Bolus); leaves straighter, more acute, 5 lin. long;
bracts and sepals ciliate, 4-6 lin. long; corolla-tube slightly inflated below,
tetragonous, about 6 lin. long, throat contracted, limb without any dark centre,
segments ovate, acute, 3 lin. long by 2 lin. broad, red below, white and some-
what mealy above; anthers nearly } lin. long, pore 4 the cell. E. Coventrya,
Andr. eat t, 210, and Col. Heaths, t. 226. E. coventryana, Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. : :

Vag. y, immaculata (Bolus) ; branches less virgate, more spreading ; leaves
stouter, longer, inore distinctly suleate below and more spreading, 4—5 lin. long ;
sepals mostly longer, equalling und often exceeding the corolla-tube, 5-6 lin.
long; corolla-tube more inflated, subviscid ; segments oblong or ovate, bluntish,

Erica.) © ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 108

white without a dark centre; anthers oblong or elliptical, sometimes very
minutely aristate, 1,4 lin. long; ovary subelongate.

Sours Arrica: without locality, specimen from Herb. Linneus in
Herb. Salisbury! Thunberg, sheet 8. Also cultivated specimens of type and
var. B!

Coast Reeron, ascending from 1500-3500 ft.: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus,
9811! Worcester Div. ; near Worcester; Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3887! Paarl
Div.; French Hoek, Thunberg, Guthrie, 3238! Cape Div.; Table Mountain,
Schlechter, 983! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mund, 16! Thwnberg.
Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 3875! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Bolus, 5455!
Schlechter, 5885! Guthrie, 3874! Riversdale Div.; Platte Kloof, Masson (ex
Salisbury), Thunberg. Var 8: Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, Zeyher,
3199! mountains near Vogel Gat, Schlechter, 9549! and near Hermanus,
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6484! Var. y: Paarl Div.: mountains around French
Hoek, Bolus, 9183 ! Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4974!

This species has been much confused in herbaria. In Salisbury’s herb. at
Kew is a branchlet marked ‘‘from Linneus’s type.” We have dissected a flower
and compared it with the specimens first cited above as the typical form. Our
var. 8 was regarded by Bentham asa hybrid from E. pavetteflora. It does not
seem to be a hybrid, but a maritime form; very local, its stations being within
five, or possibly three, miles from each other. Var. yy, in aspect, resembles
E. hyacinthoides, but the leaves are larger and the sepals very different. Wend-
land’s fig. in Eric. Ic. fase. 19, can only be cited with doubt. Its sepals are
broader and shorter than in the wild specimens before us.

105. E. transparens (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 108, not of Andr. nor
Lodd.) ; erect, about 1 ft. high; branches many, dense, slender,
fastigiate, villous or finely tomentose, becoming glabrous; leaves
suberect to spreading, crowded, linear, keeled, ciliate or naked, about
12 lin. long; flowers very numerous and densely clustered, sub-
sessile; bracts, 2 approximate, the lowest remote, linear, ciliate,
under 2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acute, scarious, softly
ciliate, usually red, more rarely pale rosy, 1-1} lin. long; corolla
tubular, slightly inflated, glabrous, white; pale rosy to deep red,
2-21 lin. long; segments ovate, acute, 1-1} lin. long ; anthers
oblong or subovate, about + lin. long, shortly aristate near the base ;
style included. F. comosa, Linn. Mant. alt. 234; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t.
18; Andr. Heathery, t. 10, and Col. Heaths, t. 80; Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 650; var. rubra, Andr. Ul. ec. tt. 11,81. #. galitflora,
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 383. :

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Bergius in Herb. Salisbury! Also culti-
vated specimens !

Coast Reaion, mountains at 2000-4000 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof,
Drége! Bolus, 5174! Paarl Div.; near French Hoek Pass, Mann in Herb.
Bolus, 6391! Schlechter, 9290! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Thuwnberg!
Burchell, 6241 Wolley Dod, 796! Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, Burchell,
7727! Bolus, Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 356! Zwart Berg, Schlechter, 9781!
Swellendam Div.; Tradouw Mountains, Bowie! Riversdale Div.; Kampsche
Berg, Burchell, 7082! Platte Kloof, Thunberg.

106. E. Vallis-Gratie (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, branching,
probably 1-12 ft. high; leaves suberect, incurved, imbricate, linear-
trigonous, acute, ciliate, 4-5 lin. long, 4 lin. broad; flowers
4-nate, generally densely clustered into heads; pedicels about 1 lin.
long; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, eiliate, 4-5 lin.

104 pricacez (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

long; sepals ovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, somewhat suddenly
narrowed to an acuminate point, keeled above and pubescent on the
keel, scarious, ciliate, 5-51 lin. long, 12 lin. broad, somewhat
coloured ; corolla-tube subcylindrical, slightly larger at the base and
more or less narrowed to the throat, glabrous, red-purple, 53—73 lin.
long, 2-23 lin. broad ; segments broad-ovate, acute, 2-8 lin. long,
more than 2 lin. broad, white, sometimes with red bands below;
anthers included, oblong, dark, 2—% lin. long, muticous ; pore about
2 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted ; stigma small,
capitellate. 2. ventricosa, Thunb., var. grandiflora, Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 642.

Coast Reeion: Caledon Div. ; on the summit and upper part of the great
mountain of Baviaans Kloof near Genadendal, 4700-4800 ft., Burchell, 7724!
Schlechter, 9833! Galpin, 3599!

A fine and well-marked species, perhaps nearest to EZ. Walkeria, but larger
in all parts, and especially distinguishable by the straighter, more erect, longer
leaves. It is also near to E. fastigiata, var. coventryana, but the sepals and the
anthers are very different.

107. E. prenitens (Tausch in Flora, 1834, 596); erect, 1-2 ft.
high; branches stout, densely flowered; leaves erect to patent,
subflexuous, linear-trigonous, subacute, glabrous, over 2 lin. long;
flowers subsessile; bracts approximate, unilateral, linear-subulate,
glabrous, 21-8 lin. long; sepals narrow-lanceolate, long-acuminate,
keeled, scarious, very shortly lacerate, 3 lin. long; corolla-tube
cylindrical, very slightly inflated, glabrous, dry, 7 lin. long, about
11 lin. broad; segments ovate, scarcely mealy, 13 lin. long ; anthers
oblong, dark, 1 lin. long, muticous; pore + the length of the cell;
style at length exserted. H. walkeriana, var. 6% grandiflora,
Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 647.

Coast Region: Swellendam Div. ; Tyger Hoek, Masson, 26!

This can hardly be a variety of EZ. Walkeria. It is indeed nearer to 2.
Sastigiata, but seems to be sufficiently distinct. Bentham, to whom Tausch’s
species, was, apparently, unknown, quoted it with doubt, and says “ an species
propria?” In general appearance it has some resemblance to LZ. denticulata,
var. grandiflora, but is immediately distinguishable by the different sepals,
besides the less inflated corolla.

108. E. Walkeria (Andr. Heathery, t. 50); erect, 1-11 ft. high ;
branches mostly slender, densely leafy and flowered; leaves usually
spreading and incurved, linear, subacute, keeled, about 2 lin. long;
flowers subsessile; bracts approximate, subequal, lanceolate, scarious;
sepals oblong, lanceolate, or sometimes suboblanceolate, acute, searious,
minutely ciliate-lacerate, thickly keeled at the apex, 2-3 lin. long,
bracts and sepals often uncinately-incurved ; corolla-tube urceolate,
rosy or red, 3—4 lin. long; segments ovate or suborbicular, rarely
mealy above, about 1 lin. long ; anthers oblong, about 2 lin. long,
muticous ; pore 1 the length of the cell. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 72.
E. walkeriana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 647. E. Walkeria, var-
rubra, Andr. Heathery, t. 100, and Col, Heaths, t.144. E. fastigiata,

AS Sere a eee

es

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 105

Andr. Heathery, t. 62, and Col. Heaths, t. 90; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
207, not of Linn. E. Walkeri, Lodd. lc. t. 256. H. juliana,
Lodd. l.e. t. 799. EH. pulehra, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 384.

Var. 8, prestans (Bolus); corolla-segments larger, about half the length
of the tube. E, prestans, Andr. Heathery, t. 2382, and Col. Heaths, t. 257;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 647.

Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Drége! Herb. Salisbury! Also cultivated
specimens !

Coast REGION: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus im Herb. Guthrie, 2366!
Paarl Div.; on the Drakensteen Mountains near Wellington, 1000 ft., MacOwan,
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 18! Swellendam Div.; without precise locality, Herd.
Huguenot Seminary, 84! Var. 8: Tulbagh Div.; mountains near Tul-
bagh, Ecklon & Zeyher and Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drége (ex
Bentham).

We have not seen specimens of var. £.

109. E. daphniflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 884, in an
extended sense); erect, 1-2 ft. high; leaves erect or spreading,
straightish (seldom or never uniformly spreading-incurved), linear,
2-3 lin. long; flowers in scattered clusters, sometimes congested
into large dense masses towards the ends of the branches ; pedicels
1-23 lin. long; bracts approximate, or subremote and lax ; sepals
very variable, from lanceolate-linear, lanceolate, narrow-ovate or
subelliptical, never widest above the middle, long-acuminate to
acute, always scarious, shortly ciliate, denticulate or naked, equalling
or half as long as the corolla-tube ; corolla urceolate, narrow-ovoid-
urceolate or subconical, red or rosy; tube 3-7 lin. long; segments
obtuse or acute, variable in size, concolorous or white; anthers
oblong, about 3 lin. long, or rarely longer, minutely aristate or
muticous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 646. E. daphneflora, Wendl.
Erie. Ic. fase. 26, 3. EH. daphneflora, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 5438.
E. bartlingiana, and E. incerta, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 621. EE.
indigesta, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 523.

Var. 8, pedicellata (Bolus) ; branches virgate, slender, the floriferous often or
always with long internodes, the barren closely leafy ; leaves about 2 lin. long;
pedicels 2 lin. long or less; sepals oblong, acute or acuminate, denticulate,
24 lin. long; corolla narrow-ovoid-urceolate; tube 6-7 lin. long, white or pale
rose ; segments ovate, acute or acuminate, 2 lin. long; anthers (sometimes at
least) very minutely aristate. E. pedicellata, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 525;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 646. LE. distans, Benth. l.c. 646.

Var, y, Muscari (Bolus) ; branches usually virgate and slender; leaves erect,
mostly straightish and slender; inflorescence often lax, flowering branchlets
clustered, clusters more or less remote; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; sepals narrow-
to broad-lanceolate, usually somewhat less than half the corolla-tube; corolla
commonly narrow-ovoid-urceolate, usually ochreous or yellow, more rarely white
(or rosy ?) ; tube 3-4 lin. long. E. Muscari, Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 40, and
Heathery, t. 180; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 18, 85, t. 32; Benth.in DC. Prodr,
vii. 648. E. fragrans, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 383; not of Andr.
E. Bonplandia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 345. E. bonplandiana, Bot. Mag. t. 2126?
E. scoliostoma, Klotzsch in Linnea, x. 322, fide Benth, E. moschata, Lodd, Le.
t.614? E. nidiflora, Salisb. l.c., and E. denticulata, Roxb. ex Salis. lc. ( fide

Index Kew.
Var. 5, ae (Bolus) ; habit of var. y; leaves mostly shorter, 1}-2 lin.
long ; flowers subsessile ; bracts and sepals broader, broad-lanceolate or oblong,

106 ERIcACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

acute, subdenticulate or slightly and shortly lacerate; corolla mostly shorter
and broader, 3-4 lin. long, ovoid or broad-ovoid-urceolate, often but not always,
much contracted at the throat, bright yellow. E. retusa, Tausch in Flora,
1834, 598.

This variety connects this species with E. denticulata, which it approaches
almost as nearly as it does this species.

Var. ¢, latisepala (Bolus) ; branches somewhat flexuous ; leaves broader and
shorter than in other vars., obleng to elliptical, obtuse, 1-1} lin. long; in-
florescence somewhat lax; pedicels 4 lin. long; sepals (in the fully developed
flowers) somewhat spreading at the apex, broad-lanceolate or elliptical, acute,
thickly-keeled, orange below, red towards the apex, about 2 lin. long, 1 lin.
wide ; corolla urceolate, red or rosy; tube 4 lin. long; segments broad-ovate,
very obtuse, short, red,

Var. ¢, Leipoldtii (Bolus) ; habit of the type, but sepals somewhat broader,
ovate-lanceolate, 2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, red or rosy; tube 4 lin. long 5
segments suboblong, tapering to the apex, not imbricating at the base but with
somewhat open sinuses.

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1094! Herb. Salisbury! and
cultivated specimens of vars. B and y! Var. y, Herb. Salisbury !

Coast REGION, on mountains at 1500-6000 ft. : Clanwilliam Div. ; between
Ezelsbank and Dwars River, Drége, 7739! near Oliphants River, Zeyher,
1095! Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh waterfall, Niven, 77! Witsen Berg,
Burchell, 8668! Ceres Div. ; near Ceres, Bolus, 5499! and Herb. Norm. Aust.
Afr., 601! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Burchell, 7299! 7390! Niven,
75! Mund, 14! near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3201! Zuurbraak Moun-
tain, Galpin, 3600! Var. 7: Tulbagh and Ceres Div.; near Tulbagh, Guthrie,
2079! Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5291! Schlechter, 8934! 9953! near Ceres, Bolus,
7447 | 8482! Tyson in Herb. Norm. Aust,-Afr.,996! Paarl Div. ; near Wellington,
MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr.,19! Cape Div. ? Zout River, Masson (ex Salis-
bury). Swellendam Div. ; Grootvaders Bosch, Mund ! Var. e, Worcester Div. ;
Matroos Berg, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4417! Var. ¢, Clanwilliam Div. ; Kerskop
Flats on the Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 1382! Pakhuis Berg, Schlechter, 10813.

CENTRAL Ruecion: Var. B: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Masson! near
Wagenbooms River, Schlechter, 10158! Var. 8: Ceres Div.; Skurfdeberg
Range, near Gydouw, Martin tn Herb. Bolus, 7344! Bodkin in Herb. Bolus,
7553! Gydouw Mountain, Schlechter, 10044! Var. ¢: Ceres Div.; Gydouw,
Schlechter, 10004! Wagenbooms River, Schlechter, 10168 ! ;

We have endeavoured to characterize the varieties named above, but fear
that some of them are mere forms, which seem to run into each other.

110. E. pellucida (Soland. ex Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi.
384, not of Andr.) ; erect, with numerous, spreading branches, 6—12
in. high ; leaves close-set, spreading to squarrose and most usually
incurved, linear, subacute, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, often in
dense masses at the ends of short branchlets; bracts approximate,
linear-lanceolate, keel-tipped, lacerate, somewhat shorter than the
sepals ; sepals obovate or obovate-cuneate, with a long sublinear
foliaceous cusp, scarious, lacerate or fimbriate-lacerate, about 3 lin.
long ; corolla-tube subinflated, bright rose, 5-6 lin. long; segments
ovate, subobtuse, about 2 lin, long; anthers nearly square, a little
over i lin. long; pore 4 the length of the cell; style at length
_exserted. EH. Parmentierti, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 197. E. venusta,

Sinclair in Hort, Eric. Wob. 27% not of Salish.; Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 647. : eciea decal eatiid

Erica.] EkIcAcEm (Guthrie & Bolus). 107

Coast Raion: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Masson in Herb.
Salisbury ! Caledon Div. ; summit and upper part of the mountains of Baviaans
Kloof near Genadendal, 3300-3500 ft., Burchell, '7706! Bolus, 5402! and in
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 350! Bodkin in Herb. Guthrie, 3611! Schlechter,
9811! Zoetemelks Valley, Burchell, 7591!

Near to E. denticulata, but sepals less decidedly pectinate-lacerate, always (as
to our specimens) with a long cuspidate point (not present in that species), with
a longer, brighter-coloured corolla, and a smaller anther-pore. Specimens in
herbaria have been named EH. hyacinthoides, Andr., but that, according to
Andrews’ figure, has very different sepals. Bentham regarded the latter as a
garden-hybrid, and we have seen no wild specimens like it. With Bentham’s
short description our specimens agree, though he does not mention the cuspidate
sepals. This plant is at least an entity, with fairly constant characters, and
must be distinguished.

111. E. denticulata (Linn. Mant. Alt. 229, in a wider sense) ;
erect, branches spreading or virgate, glabrous, striate ; leaves suberect
or spreading, linear, acute, trigonous or round-backed, 3—32 lin. long ;
flowers 4-nate, subsessile; bracts approximate; sepals and bracts
variable in outline, from sublinear to obovate or spathulate, almost
invariably broadest above the middle, sometimes unguiculate, scarious,
more or less deeply pectinate-lacerate or fimbriate-lacerate, 2-3 lin.
long, not cuspidate; corolla urceolate to tubular, dry, glabrous,
white or rosy ; tube 3—4 lin. long, 14% lin. wide ; limb variable, some-
times half as long as the tube, mostly mealy above ; segments 1] lin.
long or less, suborbicular; pore of the anther almost as long as the
cell. Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 25, 5, t.2; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1090;
Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 647. H.dentata, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 28 ;
Lam. Eneycl. i. 485% £. pavetteflora, Salisb. Prodr. 297, not
elsewhere. E. denticularis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe, vi. 884. L.
venusta, Hort. ex Benth. l.c. 647.

Var. 8, longiflora (Bolus); subvirgate; leaves about 2 lin. long; bracts
(shorter than in the type) and sepals obovate-cuneate, not unguiculate, keel not
prolonged into a linear cusp; corolla-tube 6-7 lin. long; segments broad-ovate
and very obtuse, or narrower, longer and subacute, 14-17 lin. long; anther-
pore nearly 2 the length of the cell. E. dentata, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 19, 101,
t. 38, not of Thunb. ‘ 2

Var. y, grandiloba (Bolus); leaves erect, incurved, usually very caducous
(the branches being for the greater part naked), narrow-lanceolate or linear,
3 lin. long; sepals subobovate or oblanceolate, slightly lacerate ; corolla-tube
34-44 lin. long, somewhat inflated; segments broad-ovate, obtuse, large, half as
long as the tube or more, 2-24 lin. long; anthers less than } lin. long; pore
% the length of the cell.

Sourn ArFRIcA: without locality, Bergius and Thunberg (both in Herb,
Salisbury) ! :

Coast REGION, on mountains at 800-2400 ft.: Paarl Div.; French Hoek,
Schlechter, 9231! Bolus, 6990! Caledon Div.; tops of Baviaans Kloof Moun-
‘tains, Burchell, 7702! Zwart. Berg, near Caledon, Zeyher, 3200! Bolus, 6756!
between Villiersdorp and French Hoek, Bolus, 5173! near Lowrys Pass, Guthrie,
2023! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; Genadendal Mountain, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus,
6485! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Guthrie, 2501! Bolus, 6956! Var. y:
Tulbagh Div.; above Tulbagh Waterfall, Bolus, 5460! and in Herb. Norm.
Aust.-Afr., 1307! mountains of Tulbagh Kloof, Guthrie, 2075!

E. macutosa (Tausch in Flora, 1839, 629), is probably a garden-hybrid between
E. denticulata and E. Walkeria. It has the habit and spreading leaves of the

108 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica,

latter, while the sepals (oblong-linear, slightly wider above the middle and lacerate)
and the corolla approach our var. y of the former,

Section XI. PLATYSPORA. (Sp. 112-117.)

112. E. astroites (Guthrie & Bolus) ; entirely glabrous; branches
pallid, longitudinally wrinkled (in the specimen before us 8-9 in.
long); leaves 4-nate, spreading or reflexed, irregularly curved and
bent round the branches, linear, acute, sulcate, glaucous ; younger
petioles ciliate, 6~7 lin. long, much exceeding the internodes; in-
floreseence axillary, flowers spreading at the ends of the branches,
corolline ; pedicels slender, 4-51 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceo-
late-linear, acuminate, 1-2 lin. long ; sepals broad-lanceolate, acumi-
nate, scarious, pallid, with a darker keel on the upper half, 3 lin.
long ; corolla somewhat salver-shaped ; tube narrow-ovoid, dry, rosy,
_4} lin. long; segments large, stellate-spreading, elliptic-oblong,
obtuse or subacute (like those of § Hwryloma), paler than the tube,
33-4 lin. long, 12 lin. wide; filaments capillary, 43 lin. long ;
anthers broad-oblong, very obtuse, smooth, a little over 4 lin. long,
minutely aristulate; pore $ the length of the cell; awns situated
above the middle of the cell, linear or tooth-like; style included,
slender, thickened at the apex; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous ;
ovules obovate, with a white papery wing or margin.

Var. 8, minor (Guthrie & Bolus) ; smaller in all parts; leaves 3- or 4-nate, 4-5
lin, long ; pedicels 1} lin. long ; corolla-tube 4 lin. long ; segments more acute,
14 lin. long ; anthers just as in the type, but % of the size. H. albens, var.
longijlora, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 649.

Coast ReGion : Oudtshoorn Div. ; Meirings Poort, on the right side of the
road to Oudtshoorn, near the Waterfall, Stoney! (in the Cape Gov. Herb.)
Var. 8: George Div.; on mountains at Barbiers Kraal, Niven, 136! mountains
near George, Alewander, 18, and without collector's name or number in the
Cape Gov. Herb. !

The larger-flowered form is very distinct in this section; there is, however,
a certain resemblance in the flower to E. Vallis-Gratie and E. Alfredii, but the
sepals and bracts in each of these are much wider and longer, besides other
differences. Our var. 8 most resembles E. heliophila, but has a larger corolla
and the anther is somewhat different in shape, and has the peculiarly high and
small appendages of the type (which seem to indicate a close relationship),
while that of the species last named is muticous, Possibly, however, that also
may prove to be another form of the present species,

113. E. albens (Linn. Mant. Alt. 231) ; erect, glabrous, 1-12 ft.
high; branches virgate, somewhat slender, the younger subangular,
but not deeply channelled by the leaf-cushions, closely leafy above,
naked below ; leaves 3-nate, nearly erect, imbricate, internodes
elongating, linear-trigonous, acute, sulcate, finely ciliolate, 5-7 lin.
long; inflorescence axillary, in sub-3-nate tufts, forming a lax,
mostly subsecund, false raceme, 2—4 in. long ; flowers subealycine,
from erect to nodding ; pedicels about 2 lin, long ; bracts remote,
lanceolate, scarious, small; sepals obovate or ovate, acute, distinctly
imbricate, concave, keeled, searious, pallid, about 2 lin. long, reaching
from }—{ the length of the corolla-tube ; corolla ovoid-urceolate,

Hrica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 109

much narrowed to the mouth, white or pink-tinged, about 3 lin.
long; segments spreading (at least slightly), connivent in age,
oblong and obtuse, or lanceolate and acute, about 1 of the tube in
length ; filaments capillary; anthers longitudinally broad-semiovate,
obtuse, smooth, brown, $ lin. long, minutely aristate ; pore about 4
the length of the cell ; awns subulate, spreading, not reaching below
the base of the cell; style slender, clavate at the apex; stigma
minute, capitellate or subconical ; ovules flat, winged. Wendl. Eric.
Ie. fase. 6,3; Andr, Heathery, t. 2, and Col. Heaths, t. 2; Bot.
Mag. t. 440; Lodd. Bot. Cab. ¢. 95. E. viminalis, Salish. Prodr.
298, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 387.

Coast Region: Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Niven, 133! Swellendam
Div.; Riet Kuil, Niven, 134! mountains near Swellendam, Borcherds in Mac-
Owan & Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1310! Burchell, 7845! Zeyher, Tradouw Pass,
near Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3604! Riversdale Div. ; summit of Kampsche Berg,
0 7121! George Div. ; Cradock Berg, near George, Burchell, 5912!

Usually recognizable in the section by its exceptionally elongate inflorescence,
and more calycine flowers, the sepals being longer in proportion to the corolla
than in the other species.

114. E. georgica (Guthrie & Bolus) ; 1 ft. or more high, entirely
‘glabrous; branches virgate below, sometimes spreading near the
apex, the younger deeply channelled by the decurrent leaf-cushions ;
leaves 3-nate or sometimes scattered, erect to spreading, linear,
acuminate, incurved, concave above, suleate below, somewhat glau-
cous, 4-6 lin. long ; inflorescence axillary ; flowers corolline, verti-
cillate in elose ovoid or oblong heads or false spikes, }~2 in. long,
2 in. in diam., spreading in every direction ; pedicels slender, 12 lin.
long ; bracts remote, small, pallid ; sepals broad-lanceolate, acumi-
nate, concave, keeled towards the apex, cartilaginous, pallid, only
slightly imbricate at the base, about 2 lin. long; corolla-tube ovoid,
3-4 lin. long, throat contracted, rosy ; segments stellate-spreading
or reflexed, narrow-ovate, acute, somewhat paler than the tube, 1} by
1 lin.; anthers exactly elliptical, broadly rounded at either extremity,
about + lin. long, muticous; pore 4 the length of the cell; stigma
eapitate, just manifest in the throat; seeds with a wide suborbiecular
membranous margin.

Coast Reeion: George Div.; mountain slopes, Montagu Pass, 4500 ft.,
Schlechter, 5852 !

115. E. macilenta (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1-1} ft. high;
branches virgate, slender, few, sometimes quite simplé, not promi-
nently channelled between the leaf-cushions, naked below, leafy
above, white-pubescent, glabrescent; leaves 4-nate, the lower erect
and more distant, sometimes only slightly exceeding the internodes,
the upper more spreading and more closely imbricate, linear, acute,
suleate, ciliate, 3-43 lin. long ; inflorescence axillary (or sometimes
terminal, on very short arrested branchlets?) forming a dense ovoid
pseudo-raceme, about 9 lin. long and wide, situated shortly beneath

110 ERIcACcEx (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

the ends of excurrent branches; flowers corolline, spreading hori-
zontally ; pedicels slender, 3-1 lin. long; bracts remote, linear,
sepal-like, about 1 lin. long; sepals linear from a short ovate
scarious ciliate base, leaf-like, keeled, acuminate, about 22 lin. long,
reaching to 3 the length of the corolla-tube ; corolla tubular-inflated
below; tube about 3 lin. long, red or rosy; segments spreading,
ovate, acute, from a narrow minutely unguiculate imbricating base,
about 14 lin. long; anthers as in EH. georgica, but slightly smaller ;
stigma minutely capitellate ; ovules membranous-margined.

Coast Reeron: Swellendam Div. ; moist places on the Lange Bergen, near
Zuurbraak, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 2043!

The corolla is almost exactly that of H. steinbergiana, but the leaves, in-
florescence and sepals differ, the latter being, in this, narrower and more
foliaceous.

116. E. tetragona (Linn. f. Suppl. 223); erect, glabrous ;
branches virgate, slender, somewhat channelled by the decurrent
leaf-eushions, 6 in. or more long ; leaves erect or spreading, imbri-
cate, slender, linear, acute, keeled, 4-6 lin. long; inflorescence
axillary, in a somewhat lax pseudo-raceme, 1-2 in. long, situated
shortly beneath the ends of excurrent branches; flowers corolline,
spreading in every direction ; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts approxi-
mate, linear, subfoliaceous, 1-2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate or linear-
lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, the lower part scarious, foliaceous
upwards, 21 lin. long; corolla narrow-ovoid or tubular-inflated,
more or less contracted at the throat, tetragonous, pale yellow,
3-4 lin. long; segments spreading-recurved, ovate, obtuse or sub-
acute, 3-1 lin. long; anthers oblong, obtuse at either extremity,
pallid, 2 lin. long, muticous; pore + the length of the cell; stigma
capitellate, sometimes minute; ovary substipitate, or at least con-
tracted at the base; seeds oblong, with a narrow wing. Thunb.
Diss. Erica, 14, t. 4; Andr. Heathery, t.95, and Col. Heaths, t.
212; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 23, 163, t. 61; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
1239; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 649. E. pugiontfolia, Salish. in
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 387.

. Soura Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Masson! Herb. Lamarck! and
culivated specimens ! =

Coast Racion: Swellendam Div.; Tradouw, Mund § Maire! Riet Kuil,
Niven, 185! Humansdorp Div.; mountains near Kromme River, Drége !

117. E. heliophila (Guthrie & Bolus); branches slender, virgate,

white-pubescent, not prominently channelled between the leaf-
cushions, 9 in. or more long ; leaves 3-nate, the upper crowded,

imbricate, erect, the lower more distant and subspreading, linear- _

trigonous, acuminate, ciliate on the blade and on the petiole, about
3 lin. long; inflorescence axillary, laxly pseudo-racemose below the
ends of excurrent branches, flowers corolline; pedicels pubes-
cent, 13 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, 1 lin. long or less; sepals
somewhat spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, concave, scarious, —
ciliate, about 2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate; tube not angled, —

Erica.) ERIcAcE®# (Guthrie & Bolus). ill

contracted at the throat, about 3 lin. long, 14 lin. wide; segments
spreading-recurved, ovate, acute, about 3 lin. long; anthers oblong
or subcuneate-oblong, truncate at the base, very obtuse at the apex,
4 lin. long, minutely aristulate ; pore about 4 the length of the cell;
awns spreading, not reaching below the base of cell; ovary sessile,
seeds elliptical, with a rather wide margin or wing.

Coast Rrecion: Swellendam Div. ; marshy places on the Lange Bergen, near
Zuurbraak, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 2112 !

This has the aspect of E. tetragona, but differs by its floral characters. It
also resembles somewhat EL. astroites, var. minor.

Section XII. MYRA. (Sp. 118-122.)

118. E. glandulifera (Klotzsch in Linnwa, x. 333) ; erect, 1-12 ft.
high ; branches slender, rusty brown, together with the leaves,
pedicels, bracts and sepals more or less densely covered with gland-
tipped hairs ; lower leaves 3-nate, upper scattered, erect or spreading,
imbricate, linear-subulate, obtuse, suleate, 2-3 lin. long; flowers in
the axils of the upper leaves on one or more branchlets, forming a
racemose panicle 4-5 in. long, or often simply racemose; pedicels
11—2 lin.long ; braets, two sometimes approximate, sometimes remote,
the third basal, oblong, obtuse, foliaceous ; sepals oblong or oblanceo-
late, subobtuse, suleate, 13-2 lin. long ; corolla tubular, more or less
(but never much) inflated below the middle, somewhat contracted
at the throat, viscid, puberulous; tube 3—4 lin. long; limb short,
erect-spreading ; anthers included, cuneate-linear, acute, $ lin. long ;
crests ovate, acute, about 1 the length of the cell; ovary sessile,
not contracted above the disk, glabrous.

Coast Rrcion: Ceres Div.; Witsen Berg or Skurfde Berg, Mund S Maire ;

Zeyher, 1092!
CrentTRAL Reoton: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, near Wagen Drift, 5000 ft.,

Schlechter, 10069 !

This and the next species are interesting as exhibiting a truly racemose in-
florescence, and constituting, in that respect, the only exceptions we have
observed in the genus,

119. E. irrorata (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches
decumbent from the base, ascending, subvirgate, rusty brown, covered
(as are the leaves, pedicels, bracts and sepals) with gland-tipped
hairs ; leaves 3-nate or scattered and crowded on the lower parts
of the branches, solitary on the upper parts, spreading, linear,
bluntish, sulcate, puberulous as well as gland-hispid, 3-4 lin. long,
the axils gemmiferous ; inflorescence axillary ; flowers solitary, with
lengthening internodes, forming a long loose raceme, 4-7 in. long ;
pedicels slender, 4-6 lin. long ; bracts two only, remote, small, about
12 lin. long; sepals oblong or lanceolate, subacute, 2-23 lin. long ;
corolla tubular, wider at the base, gradually but slightly attenuated
upwards, again widened below the throat and constricted above it,
pubescent, dry ; tube rosy, from 6-8 lin. long, by 2-2} lin. wide in
- the widest, and 1} lin. wide in the narrowest part; throat purple ;

112 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

segments cordate-reniform, spreading, twice as wide as loug, white or
pallid; anthers included, cuneate, acute, 1 lin. long ; crests crimson,
ovate, acuminate, lacerate, about 3 the length of the cell; style
shortly exserted ; ovary subglobular or turbinate, substipitate, or at
least constricted above the disk, glabrous.

Coast Reoton: Tulbagh Div.; Lower Winterhoek Mountain, 4000 ft.,
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 5906! Great Winterhoek Mountain, 3500 ft., Bolus in
Herb. Guthrie, 4172!

120. E. rufescens (Klotzsch in Linnea, x. 332); erect, about 1 ft.
high ; branches virgate, rusty brown, more or less thickly beset (as
are the leaves and pedicels) with gland-tipped hairs ; leaves alternate,
erect-spreading, densely crowded below, more distant above, linear,
suleate, 3-6 lin. long; flowers “ panicled” (Klotzsch) or in 4-6-
flowered umbels ; pedicels slender, flexuous, 5-7 lin. long ; bracts
remote, erect, small; sepals ovate or oblong, acute, concave, keeled,
glabrous, viscid, green or reddish, 13-2 lin. long ; corolla tubular-
inflated below, or subampullaceous, either attenuated to a short
narrow neck, thinly pubescent with fine soft hairs, rosy below,
darker at the throat; tube 7-12 lin. long; segments rounded, wider
than long, white or pallid, about 1 lin, long; anthers included,
narrow-cuneate, subacute, pale brown, membranous, nearly 1 lin.
long, crested ; crests about } the length of the cell, darker-coloured ;
pore 2 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted; ovary
cylindrical, elongate, glabrous, shortly stipitate. Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 640.

Var. 8, minor (Bolus); umbels simple, 4-6-flowered ; corolla 7-8 lin. long,
suddenly contracted to the throat.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher!

Coast ReGion: Var. 8: Caledon Div.; mountains near the River Zonder-
einde, 5400 ft., Bolus, 6480 !

We have seen Klotzsch’s type in Herb. Berlin, and it is certainly conspecific
with the plants cited under var. 8. The difference in size of the inflorescence
and flowers might easily be accounted for by a greater luxuriance of growth ;
yet, as the material is scanty, it is better to distinguish them. A far greater
difficulty is the question whether either should be separated from E. glutinosa.
On this point there are grave doubts, the solution of which, since our material is
scanty, may be left to future workers.

121. E. glutinosa (Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap. 98, not of Andr.) ; erect,
generally under 1 ft. high; branches ascending, together with the
leaves and pedicels more or less densely covered with viscid hairs ;
leaves sub-4-nate below, irregularly scattered on the upper parts,
recurvo-patent, somewhat crowded, linear, obtuse, suleate or some-
what open-backed, puberulous and gland-ciliate, 2-3 lin. long ;
umbels many-flowered, subracemoso-corymbose at the ends of the
branches; pedicels slender, 3-6 lin. long; bracts remote, small;
sepals lanceolate, thick, glabrous, glossy, red, about 1 lin. long;
corolla urceolate, sparsely pubescent, viscid; tube rosy, 4-5 lin.
long; throat contracted, purple; segments very short, rounded,

;
;

Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 118

stellately spreading; anthers included, cuneate-oblong, slender, pale
brown, membranous, a little over } lin. long, narrow-cristate, crests
less than 3 the length of the cell; ovary glabrous, substipitate.
Bauer, Exot. Pl.t.17; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 22, 157, t. 60; Benth.
in DC. Prodr, vii. 641. EH. droseroides, Lam. Encycl. i. 489; Andr.
Heathery, t. 18, and Col. Heaths, t. 21; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1685.
Andromeda droseroides, Linn. Mant. 239.

Var. f, parviflora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 641); flowers under 3 lin. long;
anthers cuneate, crests Jonger than the cells. E. droseroides, var. minor, Andr.
Heathery, t. 259, and Col. Heaths, t. 229.

Coast KxrGion, between 1000 and 4500 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof,
Prége! Cape Div.; mountains around Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 629!
Drége! Guthrie, 1006! Bolus, 4170! 8030! Ecklon, 280! Wolley Dod, 862!
Paarl Div. ; French Hoek, Schlechter, 10277! Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass,
Burchell, 8198! 8271! Schlechter, 7234! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Niven,
159! Bolus/ near Palmiet River, Bolus, 4170! Genadeudal Mountain, Bolus!
Also cultivated specimens! Var. B: Herb. Salisbury!

CENTRAL ReEGIon: Ceres Div.; near Schoongezigt, in the Cold Bokkeveld,

Schlechter, 10191 !

122. E. armata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 672, not
of Spreng.) ; erect, the whole, except the essential organs, more or
less densely hispid and viscidulous, with stiff rigid gland-bearing
hairs ; leaves 4-nate, spreading, imbricate, subulate, acute, flat above,
convex and sulcate beneath, puberulous as well as gland-hairy, 23-3}
lin. long ; flowers 4—7 at or near the ends of the branches, suberect ;
pedicels 11 lin. long; bracts remote, small, foliaceous ; sepals
narrow-ovate, acute, puberulous, 13—2 lin. long; corolla suburceolate
or tubular-inflated, viseose-puberulous, red, the whole 3} lin. long ;
limb very small, somewhat spreading but scarcely stellate ; anthers
subincluded, oblong, slightly curved backwards at the base, about
3 lin. long, aristate; awns 3-1 the length of the cell; ovary
subturbinate, thinly puberulous.

Var. B, breviaristata (Bolus) ; uppermost leaves subscattered, or arranged in
unilateral pairs, not opposite nor 4-nate; inflorescence somewhat more elongate ;

pedicels longer; bract sometimes 1, or wholly absent ; corolla finely velvety, or
subglabrous; limb suberect ; awns of the anther very minute, scarcely reaching
to the base of the cell.

Coast REGION, on mountains between 2000 and 5000 ft.: Worcester Div. ;
Datoits Kloof, Drége, 1148! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Niven, 158! Var. B:
Caledon Div. ; near Genadendal, Bolus, 5413! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr.,
606! Schlechter, 9821! Masson, 37!

This species was placed by Bentham in the § Ephebus, to which, without
doubt, it is allied, and to which it affords a transition; but it seems better
included here. It has also affinities with E. tumida, Ker. ;

Section XIII. EPHEBUS. (Sp. 123-175.)

123. E. nivalis (Andr. Heathery, t. 274) ; erect, branched, 1 ft.
or more high; leaves 3-nate, from subpatent to squarrose, linear,
obtuse, glabrous, straight, 2~3 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate, subcernuous ;
pedicels about 2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate,

acute, about 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, mouth much
eek I

22 Gi. 1V.—<ex0T. 1.

114 ERIcACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

contracted, covered with soft hairs, white, 2} lin. long; limb very
small; segments erect or subconnivent ; anthers included, oblong-
cuneate, aristate; style included; stigma capitellate. Andr. Col.
Heaths, t. 250; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 674.

Soutn Arrica: Locality unknown.

The specimens’ we have seen under this name belong to E. Peziza, Lodd. We
have seen no authentic specimen of this species, but accept Andrews’ t. 274;
with its accompanying description as the type. The shape of the corolla is
there so different from that of E. Peziza, that it is quite impossible to regard the
two as one species.

124. E. Peziza (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 265); erect, densely flori-
ferous, 1-11 ft. high ; branches ascending or nearly erect, tomentose ;
leaves 3-nate, erect or subspreading, linear, obtuse, sulcate, glabrous,
mostly shining, 11—2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate ; pedicels tomen-
tose, 12 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, small; sepals ovate-lan-
ceolate, acute, sulcate and keel-tipped, pubescent, 3 lin. long;
corolla cyathiform to obeonic, not contracted but often widened at
the mouth, densely long-tomentose, white, mostly about 2} lin. long ;
limb from nearly half, to as long as the tube; segments rounded,
erect or slightly reflexed at the tips only ; filaments bent at the apex ;
anthers included, ovate, dark brown, less than } lin. long, aristate ;
awns affixed near the middle of the cells, subulate with roughened
margins, nearly as long as the cell; style included ; ovary minutely
tomentose.

Coast REGION, on mountains between 800-1000 ft.: Caledon Div. ; near
the Zondereinde River, Schlechter, 5637! near Caledon, MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-

Afr., 1492! Robertson Div. ; near Montagu, Tyson, 3033! Bolus, 3992! 6387!
6720! Swellendam Div. ; near Hessaquas Kloof, Zeyher, 3242!

This species was included by Bentham (DC. Prodr. vii. 674) as a synonym of
E. nivalis, Andr. We have numerous specimens, agreeing well with Loddiges’
figure, but not, as to the shape of the corolla, with Andrews’ fig. of E. nivalis
(t. 274). So great a difference in the shape of the corolla we have not seen in
any species; and we feel bound to maintain both as distinct, although Andrews’
species appears to be known only from his figure.

125. E. ovina (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 674) ;
stout, erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches straight or flexuous, densely
grey-woolly, becoming naked below; leaves 3-nate, spreading,

linear or subfiliform, suleate, obtuse, very slender, puberulous, —

glabrescent, 2-23 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent,
1-11 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceo-
late, acute, keel-tipped, pubescent, 8-1 lin. long; corolla ovoid or
ovoid-oblong, mouth slightly contracted, densely but not very closely
lanate with somewhat long twisted hairs, white, 3 lin, long; limb
erect, short, about + as long as the tube; anthers included, sub-
cuneate-oblong, dark-brown, less than + lin. long, aristate; awns
narrow, about 2 the length of the cell; style included, compressed ;
stigma capitate; ovary turbinate, somewhat truncate, hispidulous.
Var. B, purpurea (Bolus); habit more branched; corolla cyathiform, equal
or perhaps slightly widened to the mouth, pale purple, 2-2} lin. Sonige ;

Erica.) ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 115

Coast Rre@ron: Caledon Div.; mountain ridges along the lower part of
Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3210! Var. 8: Caledon Div. ; near Zoetmelks Vlei,
Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3284!

126. E. tomentosa (Salisb. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 327) ; erect,
about 1 ft. high; branches numerous, paniculate, tomentose-pubes-
cent, densely many-flowered ; leaves 3-nate, suberect, linear, obtuse,
sulcate, puberulous, glabrescent, 1-1} lin. long ; flowers sub-3-nate ;
pedicels pubescent, 1-1} lin. long; bracts small, remote; sepals
narrow-lanceolate to ovate, pubescent, coloured, about + lin. long ;
corolla urceolate or narrow-urceolate, mouth slightly contracted,
densely and shortly pubescent, almost velvety, dull red to lilac,
19 lin. long; limb very short ; segments spreading; filaments

capillary, bent at the apex; anthers included, dorsifixed near the

base, broad oblong, very obtuse, about } lin. long, aristate; awns
short, subulate, sometimes recurved upwards, the apices touching
the back of the anther ; style subexserted, stigma capitate; ovary
from pubescent to subglabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 673.
E. velutina, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 645.

Coast Raion, between 1000-2000 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots
Holland, Mulder, ex Salisbury! Caledon Div.; mountains of Baviaans Kloof
and near Genadendal, Burchell, 7611! Drége, 7770a! Galpin, 3659! moun-
tains near Zoetmelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3295! at the foot
of Babylons Tewer, Ecklon (ex Bartling). Also cultivated specimens, Herb.

Salisbury !

127. E. pubigera (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 372) ; ereet,
6-10 in. high ; branches slender, erect, tomentose ; leaves 3-nate (or
4-nate, Bentham) ; erect-spreading, or squarrose below, narrow semi-
terete, sulcate, obtuse, glabrous, under 2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ;
pedicels bent, 1 lin. long ; bracts 3, remote, median, one foliaceous,
the others shorter, coloured ; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, acute,
sulcate, glabrous or pubescent, foliaceous, 1 lin. long; corolla urceo-
late, mouth contracted, densely hispid, subviscid, white, about 2 lin.
long ; segments ovate, recurved, dark purple, short ; filaments capil-
lary, curved at the apex ; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base,
broad-oblong, very obtuse, about 4 lin. long, aristate; pore half the
length of the cell ; awns subulate, about the length of the cell;
style included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary pilose-pubescent. Benth.
in DG. Prodr. vii. 673. E. preusta, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 645,

Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; Voormans Bosch, Ludwig ¥ Beil (ex

n, near Swellendam, Niven, 224! Borcherds in

Bartling); on the Lange Berge |
Herb. Bolus, 63261 Schlechter, 5678! Galpin, 3664! Ecklon & Zeyher.

128. E. Constantia (Nois. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 672) ;
branches erect, rigid, the younger tomentose; leaves 3-nate, erect-
spreading, incurved, oblong, sulcate, obtuse, naked above, below
furnished with 2 rows of rigid tuberculate-setose hairs, 2-2} lin.
long ; flowers subumbellate ; pedicels stout, pubescent, about 1 lin.
long ; bracts approximate, one large almost exactly like the leaves,
the two smaller like the sepals ; goes small, narrow-ovate, acute,

| I

116 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica,

2
contracted, coarsely and rigidly pubescent, of thick and tough texture,

2-21 lin. long; limb small; segments spreading or recurved,
rounded; filaments narrow, nearly equal, slightly bent; anthers
included or subincluded, laterally basifixed, oblong, subobtuse,
slightly eurved, muticous; pore about 4 the length of the cell,
2 lin. long; style exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovary pubescent.

Coast Rreeion: Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, 5200 ft., Marloth,
1960!

This number was erroneously cited as E. oresigena, Bolus, in Journ. Bot.
1894, 238, 239. ]

The specimens of Dr. Marloth agree excellently with those of the type in
Herb. Berlin marked “ex horto Kennedy, 1816,” which we have seen and dis-
sected. Bentham calls the bracts remote, but the type shows them clearly
approximate. This rare species is well marked by the one large bract, the
minute sepals, and thick rough corolla. Its rediscovery is very interesting. It
has a geueral resemblance to E. trichadenia.

129. E. albescens (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 678) ;
prostrate, much branched, more or less tomentose with shorter and
longer hairs intermixed ; leaves 3-nate (or 3-4-nate, Bentham), from
subpatent to squarrose, rather close-set, incurved or straight, linear,
obtuse, sulcate, thick, puberulous or subglabrous, ciliate or naked,
pale green, 1-2 lin. long; flowers fasciculate-racemose, 3-nate ;
pedicels puberulous, 1-11 lin. long; bracts remote, two small, one
larger and foliaceous ; sepals from an ovate base, sulcate-keeled, and
foliaceous in the upper part, thick, ciliate, subglabrous, 1-14 lin.
long; corolla suburceolate, mouth not (or very slightly) contracted,
puberulous, white, 1} lin. long; limb erect, 4 to 4 the length of the
tube, sinuses sometimes rounded ; filaments slender, straight ; anthers
subincluded, oblong, obtuse or subacute, a little over 4 lin. long,
cristate ; crests with a lacerate margin or subaristate and closely
ciliolate, about + the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma
capitate ; ovary sparingly villous.

Var. 8, erecta (Bolus); branches erect, virgate. 1 ft. or more long; leaves
sometimes lanceolate and somewhat open-backed, tuberculate-hispid and rough :
sepals linear to linear-lanceolate; anthers obtuse, subaristate ; awns closely
ciliolate.

Coast Reeron, from 1700-2500 ft. : Swellendam Div.; Tradouw or Kanna-
land, Mund § Maire in Herb. Berlin! Var. B: Piquetberg Div.; Piquetberg

Mountain, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6336! Guthrie, 2657! Tulbagh Div.; moun- —
tains near Saron, Schlechter, 10654 !

We have seen some leaves and dissected a flower from a specimen in Herb.
Berlin, which is probably that which Bentham used for his description. The
plants we have placed under var. 8 agree in the most important characters with
this type, and we think are too near to make it advisable to separate them
specifically. The greatest difference isin the habit. Kannaland is a dry tract
behind the Lange Bergen, and we may conjecture that the specimens found since
- Mund’s time, further to the west, are more luxuriant forms due to a moister and
less severe climate. ;

pubescent, ciliate, 2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth slightly

180. E. oxyandra (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 1 ft. or more high 5
branches thinly tomentose, also with sparsely scattered long hairs;

Erica.) rricace& (Guthrie & Bolus). 117

leaves 3-nate, spreading-incurved, linear, obtuse, deeply sulcate, or
the lower somewhat open-backed, setaceous-pilose, with long spread-
ing tubercle-based hairs, glabrescent but the tubercles persistent,
2-83 lin. long ; flowers sub-3-nate; pedicels pubescent, about 23 lin.
long; braets remote, subbasal, minute; sepals like the younger
leaves, setose-pilose and ciliate with mostly very long hairs, 1} lin.
long; corolla suburceolate-cyathiform, with only a slight contraction
at the throat, sub-4-gonous at the base, setaceous-pilose, white, 2}—3
lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, broadly rounded ;
filaments bent at the apex; anthers included, cuneate-oblong, acute,
brown, about % lin. long, cristate; erests short, ovate, lacerate ;
style exserted ; ovary thinly hispidulous.

Coast Reeron : Swellendam Div. ; slopes of the Lange Bergen near Swellen-
dam, about 3000 ft., Bolus, 8088 !

The long hairy indumentum gives some resemblance to E. fausta and E.
setosa ; but it may be known from both by its less expanded leaves, and
especially by its sharply cuneate acute anthers.

131. E. dysantha (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 674); branches
straggling, slender, 12 in. or more long, red, shortly pubescent and
also pilose with longer hairs ; leaves 3-nate, squarrose, linear, sulcate
below, hispid, ciliate, over 1 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels less
than 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, one foliaceous, the others
small, linear, pilose; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, pilose, 1} lin.
long; corolla urceolate, mouth only slightly contracted, pilose with
long stiffish hairs, nearly 2} lin. long; limb erect, 4 the length of
the tube; segments rounded ; filaments widened below the anthers,
straight; anthers just included, oblong, very obtuse, less than } lin.
long, with two very short squarrose tooth-like appendages at the
base; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary villous with long
hairs.

Coast Reraron: Riversdale Div.; on the slopes and summit of Kampsche
Berg, Burchell, (093! 7119!

A well-marked species which seems to have evaded observation before
Burchell’s time (1814) and since. Except for its almost shaggy corolla it
might go into § Ceramia.

132. E. dilatata (Wendl. fil. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 656) ;
erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches spreading, flexuous; leaves
3-nate (3-4-nate, Bentham), erect or spreading, linear, acute, sulcate,
puberulous, ciliate, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels much
longer than the flowers, pubescent ; bracts remote, small ; sepals
lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, coloured, 1-1} lin. long; corolla
urceolate, mouth slightly contracted, silky pubescent, 2} lin. long ;
limb short, erect ; filaments slender, bent below the anther; anthers
included, shortly aristate; style included ; stigma capitate ; ovary
puberulous. E. hirta, Wendl. Eric. Ie. fasc. 27, 16? not of
Thunb. '

- Sovru Areica: without locality or eollector’s name in the Berlin Herbarium.

118 prrcacem (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

Bentham’s description is based on what is probably a garden plant in Herb.
Berlin. There is also a specimen in Herb. Kew, labelled “ Koenig,” from
Salisbury’s Herbarium with the name ‘‘ E. dilatata, Wendl.,’’ added by Bentham.
These may or may not be the same as the figure of H#. hirta in Wendland’s Eric.
Ic. fase. 27, quoted by Bentham. This last is a good figure, and much resembles
E. afinis and E. propinqua, near which Bentham doubtfully placed this species.
But the sepals of this species are not like those of § Trigemma, nor does the
presence of an indumentum on the corolla agree. Bentham suspected this
might be a hybrid. We have endeavoured to draw up a description embracing
both Wendland’s and Bentham’s, but have relied chiefly on the excellent figure
of the former.

133. E. Alopecurus (Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 31, t. 48); 1 ft. or more
high ; branches virgate, imbricate throughout their whole length with
small and short or minute erect branchlets, pubescent and also setose-
hirsute ; leaves 3-nate, incurved-ascending, linear, obtuse, sulcate,
midrib visible beneath, coarsely pubescent or hirsute, 2—3 lin. long;
flowers 3-nate, crowded on very short branchlets towards the ends
of the branches into a cylindrical false spike from 1-3 in. long,
3-5 lin. wide; pedicels under 4 lin. long; bracts remote, small or
sometimes larger and foliaceous; sepals linear-subulate, pubescent
or setose, setose-tipped, ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla broad-
oveid or suburceolate-ovoid, mouth much contracted, pubescent,
about 1 lin. long, or rarely longer; limb very short; segments
spreading ; filaments capillary ; anthers included, broad ovate, pale
brown, less than + lin. long, aristate; awns rough, nearly as
long as the cell; style included, curved; stigma capitate; ovary

villous. .

Var. B, glabriflora (Bolus); corolla glabrous,

Coast ReGion: Cathcart Div.; Bontebok Flats, Kennedy, 106! King
Williamstown Div. ; Perie, Sim, 101! Stutterheim Div. ; Dohne Mountain,
8000 ft., Sim, 172! Kaffraria, Brownlee /

CENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div.; summits of Bruintjes Hoogte and Bosch
Berg, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 1550! and in Herb. Norm. 34!

Katanart Reoion: Basutoland, Cooper, 756! Transvaal; Gemsbok Spruit,
Nelson, 389! Komati, Mrs. Stainbonk in Herb. Wood, 3652! Var. 8: ‘Trans-
yaal; Witwatersrand, Mrs, H. Hutton, 875!

_ Eastern Region, from 7000-8500 ft.: Griqualand East; Luhana Pass,
Drakensberg Range, Galpin, 2321! summit of Ingeli Mountain, Tyson in Mac-
Owan & Bolus, Herb. Norm., 457! Natal; Rovelo Hills, Sutherland! Mooi
| River, Gerrard, 731; Kar Kloof, Rehmann, 7365! near Van Reenen, Schlechter-
ae Var. 8: Pondoland; Murchisons Plain, in Fakus Territory, Suther- _
and! é

This is very distinct by its peculiar inflorescence, which resembles that of
Stabe cinerea, Thunb., and by its very small broad anther.

134. E. emula (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 11-2 ft. high; branches
flexuous or nearly straight, pubescent with pallid spreading hairs;
leaves 3-nate, spreading, not crowded, linear, subacute, rounded at
the back and channelled, shining, glabrous or pilose with spreading
hairs, 21~3 lin. long; flowers umbellate or 3-nate; pedicels puberu-
lous, about 1 lin. long; braets remote or subremote, small; sepals —
lanceolate, acute, varying to linear-subulate from a broader —

Erica.| Ericace® (Guthrie & Bolus). 119

base, 2-1 lin. long; corolla obconic, with a wide mouth, minutely
puberulous or pubescent, white or pale ochraceous, 2 lin. long;
segments erect, rounded, + the length of the tube ; anthers included,
cuneate-oblong, pale brown, + lin. long, aristate; awns about 2 the
length of the cell, rough; style included; stigma capitate ; ovary
glabrous. f

Var. 8, pubescens (Guthrie & Bolus) ; all parts, including the corolla, more
copiously pubescent.

Coast Region: Worcester Div.; Bains Kloof, Miss Cummings in Herb.
Huguenot Seminary, 171! Stellenbosch Div. ; Fish Hoek, Gordons Bay, 100 ft.,
Guthrie, 3108! Var. 8: Clanwilliam Div.; in wet places, on Sneeuwkop,
Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 613!

In general appearance and floral structure, this much resembles Z. subdivari-
cata, Berg. But, besides its 3-nate and more laxly set leaves, it has larger
flowers, somewhat different sepals, an obconic corolla, and never (so fur as our
specimens go) quite glabrous.

135. E. auriculata (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 6-9 in. high ;
branches ascending, somewhat straggling, sparingly leafy, with long
internodes, puberulous, greyish; leaves 3-nate (rarely 4-nate ?)
ereet or subpatent, mostly distant, narrow-oblong, obtuse, sulcate,
thick, closely hispidulous, the younger shortly gland-ciliate, about
3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ?; pedicels pubescent, about 12 lin. long;
bracts approximate, unequal, linear, foliaceous, glandular-pubescent,
the longest about 14 lin.; sepals like the longer bract, 1)~2 lin.
long ; corolla urceolate, mouth contracted, pubescent, apparently
white or whitish, 2 lin. long; limb erect, } the length of the tube
or less ; filaments gradually much expanded and wider at the apex
than the anther, furnished at the apex with two erect free adpressed
ear-like lobes, slightly coloured, thickened and fringed with short
hairs on the outer margin, and covering the base of the anther at its
back ; anthers included, lateral, inserted on the filament above the
~ base of the cells, oblong, subacute, nearly ,'; in. long, strictly
muticous, but apparently cristate by the filamentary processes above
described ; pore 2 of the cell; ovary softly woolly.

Cenrrat Recon: Ceres Div.; on the Skurfde Bergen, near Klein Valley,
5800 ft., Schlechter, 10207!

A very distinct species, with a filamentary appendage different from any other
known tous. This appears like an anther-crest, arising in the more usual way
from the cells, but on dissection it is plainly found to come away with the
filament. Our material is poor in respect of flowers; but the species is in every

way well marked.

136. E. siceefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 326) ; suberect,
straggling, slender, with scanty foliage, 4-8 in. high; branches
ascending, glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, spreading-erect, linear, acumi-
nate, setose-mucronate, mostly curved, sulcate, glabrous, shining,
. “22-5 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels viscid, puberulous, mostly
curved, about 2 lin. long; bracts subapproximate or remote, small ;
sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, viscid-pubescent, dark-coloured,

120 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

4-2 lin. long ; corolla broad-cyathiform, mouth wide, pubescent, sub-
viscidulous, about 2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, dark purple ; limb short,
rounded ; segments ciliolate, about + the length of the tube ; anthers
included, oblong, about + lin. long, aristate; awns subulate from
i—2 the length of the cell; style exserted ; ovary glabous. Benth.
in DC. Prodr. vii. 672. EH. pygmea, Andr. Heathery, t. 279, and
Col. Heaths, t. 259. HE. sanguinolenta, Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 468;

Bot. Mag. t. 2263.

Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; mountain tops of Baviaans Kloof, near
Genadendal, Masson, 9! Burchell, 7746! Bolus, 5404! and in Herb. Norm.
Aust.-Afr., 353! Also cultivated specimens !

Andrews’ figure does not well represent the wild plant; the others are
better.

187. E. podophylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 681); ‘‘a small
alpine plant about 6 in. high” (Niven); branches rigid, pubescent ;
leaves 3-nate, erowded on short branchlets as if fascicled, spreading,
long-petioled ; petioles ciliate, 1 lin. or more long; blade broadly
linear, thick, rigid, hispid, shining, obtuse, callous and recurved at
the apex, the whole 2}~31 lin. long ; flowers terminal (or “ irregu-
larly axillary and terminal, subracemose,” Bentham), subcalycine,
solitary, on short branchlets; pedicels pilose with spreading or
reversed hairs, 13-2 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, linear,
ciliate, scarious; sepals ovate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thick and
leathery, glabrous, smooth, shining, coloured, ciliate, 1 lin. long;
corolla rather broad urceolate-campanulate, mouth only slightly con-
tracted, 4-gonous, texture thick, densely puberulous, about 2 lin.
long ; limb subpatent, more than } the length of the tube ; segments
ovate, rounded; filaments bent at a right angle at their apex;
anthers included, suboblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, cristate ; pore 2 the
length of the cell; crests ovate in outline deeply incised at the
apex, with linear lobes, in length % of the cell ; ovary hispidulous.

Coast Reaion : Swellendam Div. ; Grootvaders Bosch, Masson! moist rocky
places at Riet Kuil and near Swellendam, Niven, 30a! 297! summit of the great
meuntain near Swellendam, Burchell, 7328! ;

_ A very distinct and well-marked species. Bentham placed it in § Leptoden-
dron ; but it seems to fit better here. Like £. setosa and HL, fausta, the species
has escaped all recent collectors.

138. E. Atherstonei (Diels MSS.) ; a small, probably procumbent,
creeping, branched shrub, a few inches high; branches flexuose,
rather stout, the younger (as also the pedicels and margins of the
sepals) densely covered with short white floccose hairs; leaves
3-nate, erect-spreading, crowded, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, concave,
with a prominent mid-nerve above, convex and sulcate below, ciliate

en the margin and on the dorsal reflexed edge, becoming glabrous
and glossy, 13-2 lin. long; flowers both terminal and _ axillary,”
solitary at or near the ends of the branches; pedicels decurved,
23-4 lin, long ; bracts remote, thick, very small ; sepals narrow-

Brica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 121

lanceolate to oblong, subacute, upper margins recurved and thickened,
foliaceous, subcoriaceous, ciliate, 13 lin. long, or more than half as
long as the corolla; corolla tubular-campanulate to obconic, the
middle of each petal strongly nerved, and hence appearing sub-
tetragonous, minutely pulverulent, becoming glabrous, 13-22 lin.
long, 1-14 lin. wide at the apex; limb erect; segments oblong,
blunt, about 2 the length of the tube, at length splitting nearly to
the base; anthers subexserted, narrow-oblong, nearly straight,
scaberulous, nearly 2 lin. long, cristate at the base ; pore nearly
1 the length of the cell; crests lanceolate, acuminate, dentate,
curved, about 4 the length of the cells; style exserted, rather stout,

decurved at the apex; stigma capitate; ovary pubescent.

Katanart Reeron: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Devils
Kuuckles, near Spitzkop, Wilms, 904!

Allied to E. podophylla, which is somewhat remarkable from the fact that
their native localities are so far apart. The strongly-nerved corolla of the
present species would alone serve to distinguish it, and is very unusual in the
genus. This species affords a transition to the § Gypsocallis, and might almost
equally well have been placed there on account of its partially axillary in-
florescence, but the anthers are not fully exserted, and it has hardly the
appearance of that section.

139. E. propendens (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 122); erect, 12-18 in.
high; branches nearly straight, the younger pubescent; leaves
4-nate, erect-spreading, imbricate, linear-trigonous, ciliate, glabrous
or hairy, 1-12 lin. long; flowers 1—4-nate; pedicels j—% lin. long;
bracts approximate, scarious, coloured; sepals obovate, scarious,
keel-tipped, sometimes with a long excurrent point, lacerate, coloured,
11 lin. long; corolla broad-campanulate, pubescent, red, 4—5 lin.
long ; segments large, erect or spreading, rounded, about 1 lin. long ;
filaments slightly thickened below the anther; anthers included,
dorsifixed near the base, oblong, a little over } lin. long, dark
coloured, muticous; style straight, included; stigma capitellate ;
ovary 4-8-celled, glabrous, rough. Andr. Heathery, t. 141; Bot.
Mag, t. 2140; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 63; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.

682. .

Coast Reeton: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 800 ft., Grisbrook in Herb.
Guthrie, 2363 1 near the mouth of the Palmiet River, Bolus, 9935! and without
precise locality, Bolus, 5926! 6311! Guthrie, 4579! Niven! Also cultivated
specimens ! ;

This much resembles E. chrysocodon in habit and general appearance ; but is
perhaps nearer to E. perspicua. Like the latter it has often an 8-celled ovary,
though some specimens are 4-celled. One specimen before us with the corolla
5 lin. long may be a hybrid between E. perspicwa and some other species; but

the calyx is very different.

140. E. pyramidalis (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, iii. 491);
erect, 1-2 ft. high; branches mostly virgate; leaves 4-nate, erect,
subineurved, linear-trigonous, slender, glabrous or puberulous,
21-32 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, abundant, on short branchlets ;

4

122 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hriea,

pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts minute, remote; sepals linear-acuminate
from an ovate scarious base, foliaceous, 11—12 lin. long; corolla
campanulate-obconie, glabrous or minutely puberulous, rosy-red,
31-5 lin. long; segments ovate, slightly spreading, 1} lin. long;
anthers included, dorsifixed considerably above the base, oblong,
about 2 lin. long, muticous; ovary glabrous, Bauer, Exot. Pl.
t. 27; Andr. Heathery, t.142, and Col. Heaths, t. 51; Wendl. Eric.
Te. fasc. 5, 3; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 319; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
682. E. transparens, Thunb. Prodr. 71, not of Berg. E. obpyrami-
dalis, Salish. Prodr. 298, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 356. £.
campanulata, F. W. Schmidt, Neue und Selt. Pf. 47.

Var. 8, vernalis (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 682) ; flowers much smaller in all
parts, sepals 1 lin. long, corolla subcampanulate-cyathiform, 2}-3 lin. long, the
limb shorter and more spreading, anthers about 4 lin. long. EH. vernalis,
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1608. E. pyramidiformis, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 24, 181,
t. 68.

South ArRicA: without locality, Sieber, 169! Herb. Salisbury! and
cultivated specimens! Var. 8: cultivated specimens !

Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Zwart River near Rondebosch, Masson ! Niven,
100! between Wynberg and Muizenberg, Werner! (in Cape Herb.). Cape
Flats, Bolus, 2953! 8019! Paarl Div.; Drakensteen Mountains, Thunberg.
Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Thunberg.

There can be no question of the identity of Wendland’s EL. pyramidiformis, and
of Loddiges’ E. vernalis ; Bentham held the latter as a variety of this species,
and maintains the former as distinct. We have seen a specimen marked JL.
pyramidiformis in the Berlin Herbarium, but it has clearly nothing to do with
this species, and is probably E. pusilla, Salisb.

141. E. chrysocodon (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1-11 ft. high ;
branches rather slender, virgate or spreading, the upper hirsute, the
lower glabrescent ; leaves 4-nate, erect, imbricate, linear or subulate,
acute, keeled, hairy on the keel and ciliate, 14-2 lin. long; flowers
on short branchlets, mostly solitary, or in pairs, usually forming a
long dense cylindrical pseudo-raceme from 3-6 in. long at the
ends of the branches; pedicels 3—% lin. long; bracts remote,
subbasal, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped,
subfoliaceous, thin, hirsute and ciliate, 14 lin. long; corolla funnel-
shaped, lower half of the tube distinctly contracted, upper half
widened to the mouth, variable between obconic and subcampanu-
late, thinly pilose with longish hairs, bright yellow, 3-34 lin. long ;
limb ample ; segments rounded or oceasionally acute, mostly spread-
ing at maturity, occasionally recurved, less than } as long as the
tube; anthers manifest, just reaching beyond the corolla-tube, dorsi-
fixed a little above the base, cuneate-oblong, subacute, minutely
seaberulous, about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore narrow, 1—} the length
of the cell; style shortly exserted, slender ; stigma small, capitellate ;
ovary spherical, small, glabrous. .

- Coast ReGron: Paarl Div.; mountains around French Hoek, Bolus in Mac-
Owan Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1629! Caledon Div.; in wet places at the foot of
the French Hoek Pass on the eastern side, 1200 ft., Fair in Herb. Bolus,
6334! rae a

Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 123

142. E. trichophora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 673) ; erect,
12-14 in. high or more; branches virgate, pubescent, with longer
setose hairs intermixed ; leaves 4-nate, suberect or spreading, linear,
obtuse, slender, keeled, hirsute, 1-1} lin. long; flowers usually
solitary in the specimens seen, but occasionally 2-nate and probably
normally 4-nate; pedicels rather stout, } lin. long; bracts sub-
basal, one long linear, two very short; sepals linear, acuminate,
keeled, foliaceous from an ovate searious denticulate-edged coloured
base, pubescent, 1-14 lin. long; corolla tubular-obeonie or sub-
urceolate-cyathiform, widened to the mouth, more or less copiously
clothed with coarse white hairs, about 3 lin. long; limb erect;
segments rounded, about 4 the length of the tube ; anthers included,
dorsifixed shortly above the base, cuneate-oblong, barely } lin. long,
muticous; pore about + the length of the cell; style included,
slender; stigma very small, subsimple; ovary oblate-spheroidal,
glabrous. LE. pilifera, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 505, not of Thunb.

Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, 1000-3000 ft.,
Ecklon § Zeyher (in Herb. Berlin). Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Puspas
Vley, 1000-4000 ft., Ecklon §° Zeyher (in Herb. Trin. Coll., Dublin).

Somewhat intermediate between E. chrysocodon and E. setulosa, differing
from the former by its sepals and corolla, and from the latter by its leaves and
corolla. It seems possible that all three may be states of one variable species ;
but the evidence is scarcely strong enough at present.

143. E. setulosa (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682); dwarf;
branches straggling, setaceous-pilose ; leaves 4-nate, narrow-oblong to
oblong, obtuse, minutely puberulous, and sparsely setaceous-ciliate
with long pallid hairs, 1} lin. long including the pubescent petiole ;
flowers 4-nate; pedicels puberulous, under 1 lin. long ; bracts
approximate, small ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-
ciliate, pubescent, foliaceons, coloured, } lin. long; corolla obconie,
widened to the mouth, puberulous or somewhat tomentose, about
11 lin. long ; segments erect, subobtuse, 2—} the length of the tube ;
filaments slender, nearly straight ; anthers included, dorsifixed near
the base, oblong, obtuse, about 3 lin. long, muticous ; pore about
1 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted ; stigma capitellate ;
ovary subspherical, glabrous.

Sovtn A¥FRIcA: without locality, Niven! in Herb. Kew.
We have dissected and examined flowers from the type, which consists of a
branch 6 in. in length.

144, E. pusilla (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 374); erect,
1-2 ft. high; branches spreading or subvirgate, puberulous, and
also pilose (intermixed with longer hairs) ; leaves 4-nate, from sub-
erect to spreading, linear, slender, faintly sulcate, roughly hirsute,
12-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate ; pedicels hirsute, }-1 lin. long;
bracts remote, small, sometimes one, or two, wanting; sepals from
ovate to linear, hirsute, }-1 lin. long; corolla subcampanulate,
cyathiform or obconic, wilened to the mouth, hirsute, pale rosy,

124 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Erica.

about 1 lin. long; limb ample, slightly spreading or erect, from
equal to the tube to about 2 its length; filaments capillary, bent
below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base,
oblong, about + lin. long, about 21 times as long as broad, aristate;
awns slender, rough-edged, straight or divaricate, nearly as long as
or a little longer than the cells ; style included or rarely just visible,
slender; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DO. Prodr.
vii. 675. H. villosiuseula, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1844. E. canescens,
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 23, 171, t. 65%

Var. 8, micranthera (Bolus); anther-cells somewhat divaricate, broad-oblong,
narrower towards the apex but very obtuse, truncate at the base, 4, lin. long,
about twice longer than broad; pore 2 the length of the cell; awns spreading
outwards and backwards, longer than the cell; in all other respects like the type,
or the corolla a little narrower than is commonly the case in that.

Coast Recion, ascending from 20 to 5000 ft.: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits
Kloof, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4669! Cape Div.; mountains and flats around
Cape Town, Burke! Bolus, 4749! 4011! Guthrie, 127! Pappe! Ecklon, 93!
Stellenbosch Div. ; Bottelary Hill, Burchell, 8364! south-west cascade, Niven, 2 !
Caledon Div.; near Caledon, Bolus, 9153! Klein River Mountains, Zeyher,
3226! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Ratel River, Schlechter, 9713! Var. 6, Caledon
Div.; near Papies Vley, Schlechter, 10705 !

145. E. distorta (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 644); mostly dwarf,
diffuse, under 1 ft. high; branches numerous, ascending or divaricate,
hirsute ; leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved or spreading, linear, sulcate,
thick, hirsute, 13-2} lin. long; flowers clustered, subcapitate ;
pedicels 3—1 lin. long or less; bracts remote, small ; sepals linear to
cuneate, acute, foliaceous, hirsute, under } lin. long; corolla urceo-
late-broad-cyathiform, pubescent, sometimes prominently veined,
not widened to the mouth in the living state (when dried and com-
pressed appearing widened), white turning brown, pale rose or
crimson, 1-17 lin. long, and about as broad ; limb usually spreading
at maturity, broad and rounded, rarely subacute; anthers included,
dorsifixed above the base, oblong, subobtuse, about lin. long, sub-
cristate; pore 3 the length of the cell; appendages from a broader
ciliolate base narrowed to subulate-acuminate, about 4 the length of
the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. EH.
murina, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 679. E. setacea, E.
Meyer ex Benth. l.c. 679. . persoluta, var. hispidula, Benth. l.c.
679, partly.

Coast Reeron, at 1500-2500 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drage.
Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon ! Bolus, 4924! Constantia Berg, Bodkin in

Herb. Bolus, 8061! Marloth! Paarl Div.; Drakensteen Mountains near Bains
Kloof, Bolus, 4052! French Hoek, Guthrie, 3739 !

The shape of the corolla is nearly that of E. pusilla; but the habit (usually
more divaricately-spreading), inflorescence, size of the anthers, and the shape of
their appendages, are different. The latter closely resemble those of E. pubescens
and HE. hirtijlora. The species does not seem to occur frequently.

: 146. E. caterveflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. S72)
arborescent, 8-12 ft. high; branches hirsute, the older glabrescent ; —

Erica.] ERIcACEa (Guthrie & Bolus). 125

leaves 4-nate, suberect or spreading-incurved, stout, semiterete,
sulcate, hirsute, glabrescent or glabrous, 21—31 lin. long; flowers
terminal and lateral, congested in clusters at the ends of the branches;
pedicels usually hirsute, 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote and small;
sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, keel-tipped, ciliate, hirsute, under
1 lin. long; corolla oblong-tubular, or clavate-tubular, mouth not
(or very slightly) contracted, subtetragonous, ribbed, roughly hirsute
with tuberculate hairs like those of H. hirtiflora, white or pale rose,
21 lin, long; segments generally spreading, short, rounded; fila-
ments eapillary, bent below the anther ; anthers included, dorsifixed
shortly above the base, broadly oblong or subelliptical, very obtuse,
1 lin. long, subcristate ; pore very wide, more than } the length of
the cell; appendages from a broader denticulate base suddenly
narrowed to subulate-acuminate, about 2 the length of the cell ;
style included, slender ; stigma small, capitellate; ovary glabrous.
Benth. in DQ. Prodr. vii. 673. E. caterveefolia, Pers. Syn. i. 421.
E. pubescens, var. villosa, Thunb. Diss. Lirica, 39," t. OF
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 5,11. E. compacta, Bartl. in Linnea, Vii.
644.

Var. B, glabrata (Benth. l.c. 673); all parts, including the corolla, glabrous.
E. corymbosa, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 648. E. sieberiana, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c.
673. E. corymbosa, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 618.

Sour Arrica: without locality, Masson! Hesse! Mund! Lehmann!
Var. B: Sieber, 167!

Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Clanwilliam Div., Letpoldt! hills below Table
Mountain, Thunberg, by the Hout Bay stream, 2000 ft., Marloth in MacOwan
& Bolus, Herb. Norm., 848! Swellendam Div. ; locality and collector unknown,
Cape Herb. !

A very distinct species and generally recognizable at once by its clustered
flowers and rather large, coarse leaves. The anther-crests are almost exactly
those of E. pubescens, L., and HE. distorta, Bartl. It appears to be somewhat
rare.

147. E. parviflora (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 506); erect, 1-3 ft.
high ; branches ascending or slender and diffuse, usually with long
and short hairs intermixed ; leaves 4-nate, spreading to squarrose,
linear, sulcate, closely or sparsely hairy, 1-21 lin. long; flowers
3-nate; pedicels 3-1} lin. long ; bracts remote and small; sepals

base, oblong, obtuse, aristate, rarely muticous; pore about > the
length of the cell; cell from } to over 4 lin. long; awns linear,
rough-edged, from 3 the length of the cell to about as long as it,

126 ERICACEHZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

Sinclair, Hort. Erie: Wob. 26; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1157. #£.
tardiflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 373.

Var. 8, exigua (Bolus) ; corolla cyathiform or cyathiform-obconic, mostly
narrower and shorter than in the other varieties; mouth scarcely contracted ;
anthers aristate ; ovary glabrous. H. exigua, Salisb. l.c. 373.

Var. y, inermis (Bolus); characters as in 8, but anthers muticous. E.
inermis, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 505.

Var. 6, puberula (Bolus); characters of the type, but differing in having
long internodes and tufted foliage, pubescence rough and hispid. £E. tardiflora,
Salish. Herb., scarcely of Trans. Linn. Soc, vi. 373. E. puberula, Bartl. in
Linnea, vii. 644, not of Klotzsch. E. grisea, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 674,

Var. ¢, hispida (Bolus) ; characters of the type, but corolla broader and ovary
hispid.

Var. ¢, ternifolia (Bolus) ; leaves 3-nate; corolla narrow-ovoid-urceolate or
narrow-ovoid, puberulous (or perbaps sometimes cyathiform-conical and villous) ;
anther suboblong, broader than usual in other varieties, less than } lin. long.
EL. angustata, Bartl. in Linnea, vii, 651 ?

Sour Arrica: without locality, the type and vars. 8 and 5, Drége! Herb.
Salisbury ! and cultivated specimens! Var. ¢: Bolus, 4174 !

Coast Reeion: Worcester Div.; near Worcester, Rehmann, 2527! Cape
Div.; hills and flats around Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 70! 100! 312!
817! 8440! Niven, 28! Zeyher, 1099! Bolus, 3707! Sieber, 75! 198! Caledon
Div.; Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 3206! near the Palmiet River, Bolus, 4174!
Zwart Berg, Bolus, 6748! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Mund, 51!
near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3225! Var. 8: Paarl Div.; near Paarl,
Burchell, 9511 Caledon Div. ; near Villiersdorp, Bolus, 5179 ! Bredasdorp Div. ;
between Elim and Napier, 8458! Schlechter, 7692! Var. y: Caledon Div. ;
near Grietjes Gat, Ecklon & Zeyher (ex Klotzsch). Var. 8: Worcester Div. ;
Breede River Valley, near Bains Kloof, Bolus, 2958! Guthrie, 2076! Cape
Div. ; Cape Flats, Ecklon (ex Bartling). Var.¢: Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys
Pass, Schlechter, 7809! Var. ¢: Paarl Div.; near Bains Kloof, Bolus, 4050!

-Tulbagh or Ceres Div.; Mitchells Pass, Schlechter, 8954!

Somewhat resembling E. pusilla but with longer and narrower corollas ;
also in some of its forms approaching EL. intervallaris.

148. E. intervallaris (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vi. 375); erect, _

1-1} ft. high; branehes many, virgate, slender, pubescent or pilose ;
leaves 4-nate, incurved-ereet to squarrose, narrow-linear, sulcate,
pubescent, glabrescent, 1-1} lin. long; flowers 4-nate, mostly densely
erowded on short branchlets along the branches, forming a pseudo-
raceme ; pedicels very short; bracts remote, small; sepals linear-
lanceolate or lanceolate, rarely broad-ovate, acuminate, glabrous,
ciliate, or sometimes naked, usually smooth and glossy, coloured,
1-1} lin. long ; corolla narrow-cyathiform, or suburceolate-cyathi-
form, mouth searcely contracted, tetragonous, glabrous or more
rarely with a fine and scanty pubescence, bright rosy-red, 11-2 lin.
long; segments erect or spreading, rounded, 1-1 the length of the
tube ; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, narrow-oblong,
obtuse, about % lin. long, aristate ; awns slender, rough-edged, 1 the
length of the cell; style included ; stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous
or puberulous. . alopecuroides, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 20, 119,
t. 45, not of Lodd.

Var. 8, grandiflora (Bolus); corolla suburceolate-oblong, about 2 lin. long,

over 1 lin. in diam, ; anthers nearly 4 lin. long; style 4-angled,

{
;
q

Lrica.| ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 127

Coast Region, at 1000-4800 ft.: Cape Div. ; near Wynberg, Niven, 27!
Stellenbosch Div.; mountains of Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8211! Niren, 26!
MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1773! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains,
Burchell, 8141! Schlechter, 7780! Hottentots Holland Mountains, eastern side,
Guthrie, 2018! Bolus, 5549! Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook! near Appels Kraal,
Zeyher, 32058! Genadendal Mountain, Galpin, 3704! Bredasdorp Div.; near
Elim, Guthrie! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; near the Palmiet River, (uthrie,
3548 |! ;

This species is so near to some forms of E. parviflora that we admit it with
some doubt. Yet even as a variety of that species it would be well marked by
its usually larger and more membranous sepals, its much less hairy leaves, sepals,
and (usually quite glabrous) corolla, its pseudo-racemose inflorescence, and its
more virgate graceful habit. It is usually found, and often in abundance,
growing along the margins of streams, or watercourses which are streams in
winter, in which respect also it differs from the preceding. Our var. B looks
different in habit from the ordinary form, and seems to connect with £.
cyrillefiora. But the anther is exactly that of this species, and as we have
only a single specimen we do not venture to make a species of it.

149. E. cyrilleflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 357) ; dwarf,
diffuse, under 1 ft. high; branehes very slender, numerous, pubes-
cent, red when young; leaves 4-nate, spreading-incurved, slender,
linear-subterete, puberulous or glabrescent, 23-3 lin. long; flowers
1—3—4-nate, on short branchlets ; pedicels red with white pubeseence,
very short; bracts remote, minute; sepals linear from an ovate
ciliate membranous base, acuminate, foliaceous in the upper part,
1 lin. long; corolla subtubalar or tubular-campanulate, mouth not
(or slightly) contracted, pubescent, red, 3 lin. long, about 1 lin.
wide ; segments small, spreading or erect, rounded ; filaments long,
flexuous; anthers just included, dorsifixed above the base, oblong,
obtuse, 2 lin. long, muticous; style included; stigma very small,
capitellate; ovary glabrous. £. palustris, Andr. Heathery, t. 77,
and Col. Heaths, t. 114; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t, 4.

: ne Div. ; marshy plain on Simons Bay Mountains, Niven
381 99 | Bilal Aoeare Moreh, Grey! ‘Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland,
Mulder (ex Salisbury)! Also cultivated specimens !

A very distinct species approaching nearest to the preceding, but of very
different habit. It is probably now very rare: no records of any more recent
collectors are known to us.

150. E. algida (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 238); erect, 1 ft.
or more high; branches erect, rigid, pubescent, sometimes (as also
the pedicels and the ciliate hairs of the leaves) with compound
subplumose or floccose hairs; leaves 4-nate, erect, incurved, imbri-
cate, linear to lanceolate or oblong, sulcate, the lower sometimes
slightly open-backed, puberulous and ciliate with branched or sub-
plumose hairs, the older glabreseent, 1-2 lin. long ; flowers sub-
4-nate ; pedicels hairy, 1-1} lin. long ; bracts approximate, lanceo-
late, villous, viscid, nearly as large as the sepals ; sepals ovate, obtuse,
subfoliaceous, viscid, villous, glandular-ciliate, nearly 1 lin. long;

corolla broadly oval or oval-cyathiform, mouth not much contracted,

128 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

coarsely pubescent, pale red or dull purple, nearly 2 lin. long ;
segments suberect, broad, rounded, about } lin. long ; filaments
slender, straight ; anthers subincluded (just visible above the tube),
dorsifixed close to the base, obovate-oblong, obtuse, scaberulous,
dark-coloured, slightly over 3} lin. long, aristate; awns subulate,

rough, less than 3 the length of the cells; style subexserted ; stigma
capitate ; ovary densely woolly with white hairs.

KatanArRi Recion: Orange River Colony; on the higher slopes of Mont-aux-
Sources, 8000-9000 ft., Flanagan, 2030! Thode, 33! Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 854!
Basutoland; Machacha, Bryce.

Eastern Reaion, at 7000-10000 ft.: Griqualand East; summit of Mount
Currie, Tyson, 1193! 1769! Natal(?); near the source of the Umtjesi River,
Thode, 63 !

151. E. turgida (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 345, not of
Link); erect, 12-18 in. high ; branches many, spreading, hirsute,
reddish, somewhat slender; leaves 4-nate, incurved-erect, equalling
or often shorter than the internodes, linear, blunt, sulcate, hirsute,
1-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, subcapitate ; pedieels 3 lin. long ;
bracts subapproximate to remote, one long and leaf-like on a slender
petiole, long hirsute ; sepals linear, long ciliate, 2 lin. long ; corolla
urceolate to cyathiform, mouth contracted or only slightly so,
hispidulous, red, 1} lin. long ; segments erect or subpatent, rounded,
2 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, straight ; anthers
exserted, dorsifixed above the base, ovate-oblong, with a sharp
anterior point at the base, over + lin. long, cristate-aristate; awns
from a broader denticulate base narrowing to subulate, acuminate,
rough-edged, 2 the length of the cell; style exserted, slender;
stigma large, capitate; ovary hispidulous. Benth.in DC. Prodr. vii.
675. E. mellifera, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 370. E. fusco-
rubens, Roxb. ex Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 345.

Sout Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh! Harvey, 174! 187! Herb.
Salisbury ! and cultivated specimens!

Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, near Wynberg, 60 ft., Niven, 47!
Bolus, 7100! 7100b ! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1802! (erroneously marked
“F. fimbriata, Andr. ?”’).

Allied by its exserted anthers to § Pyronium, and by its capitate inflorescence
to § Pseuderemia ; but best placed, #s by Bentham, in this section.

152. E. nidularia (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 764); branches slender,
puberulous, reddish ; leaves 4-nate, spreading or incurved, linear-
oblong, obtuse or subacute, widely sulcate, or occasionally open-
backed, pubescent or (according to Bentham) subglabrous and some-
what hoary, 2 lin. long; flowers in elusters of 6-8 ; pedicels slender,
j-12 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, rather long; sepals linear-
subulate or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, puberulous, 1-12 lin. long ;
corolla urceolate-campanulate or cyathiform, mouth little or not at
all constricted, finely puberulous, white, 11~2 lin. long ; limb erect
or slightly spreading ; anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the
base, cells deeply parted, longitudinally semiovate, the dorsal edge

Erica. _ ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 129

straight, smooth, somewhat membranous and pallid, nearly 2 lin.
long, aristate; pore about 1 the length of cell; awns somewhat
subulate, rough, about + the length of the cell; style included;
stigma capitate ; ovary (according to Bentham) puberulous. Benth,
in DC. Prodr. vii. 678. £. nidicularia, G. Don, Gen, Syst. iii. 799.
E. nudiflora and E. marioides, Hort. ex Benth. le. E. multum-
braculata, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 635.

Soutn Arrica: ex Loddiges; cultivated specimens !

This species has been founded upon garden specimens, from which alone it is
known tous. It may be allied to E. turgida or E. distorta, but it seems so
distinct that we are unable to find a close connection with any species. Bentham
thought it allied to EZ. persoluta; and also suggested that it might be a garden
hybrid. Our description is drawn partly from: Bentham’s, partly from a garden
specimen named by him, and partly from Loddiges’ figure ; and even these do
not well agree. We have also seen specimens at the British Museum marked
“Hort. Reg. Bot. Berol.”’? The type of E. multuwmbraculata, Tausch, isa garden
specimen in Herb. Royal Bot. Inst. Prague, kindly sent us for examination, and
which we find almost identical.

153. E. oresigena (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 238) ; erect, rigid,
branched, more or less hoary-pubescent in most parts; branches
stout; leaves 4-nate, from suberect to subpatent, imbricate,
narrow-obovate-oblong, very obtuse, sulcate, thick, cano-puberulous,
glandular-ciliate with short rigid hairs, 23-3 lin. long; flowers
4-nate ; pedicels glandular-pilose, 3-4} lin. long; bracts remote,
unilateral, oblong, cano-pubescent, rigidly glandular-ciliate, or more
rarely ciliate with plumose hairs, 11-2 lin. long; sepals like the
bracts but more lanceolate and longer, 2-24 lin. long ; corolla urceo-
late, mouth not very much contracted, minutely puberulous, reddish,
23-4 lin, long; segments erect, broad and rounded, about 1 the
length of the tube; filaments tapering upwards, slightly bent at the
apex ; anthers included, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, cuneate-
oblong, obtuse, over 2 lin. long, cristate ; pore 4 the length of the cell ;
crests broad and lacerate at the base, with a terminal subulate lobe, the
whole about 3 the length of the cell, nearly white ; style included ;
stigma capitate or clavate; ovary thinly hispid on the top, or
glabrous. .

: ° id-

Var. 8, intermedia (Bolus); leaves and sepals as in the type; corolla ovoi
urceolate, glabrous js nearly so; mouth very much contracted; segments
rounded, spreading, short. : ‘

VaR. ; elite (Bolus) ; leaves and sepals ciliate with soft subplumose hairs ;
corolla urceolate, glabrous, or nearly 80 ; mouth not much contracted ; ea gered
erect, about 4 the length of the tube, subacute; or, corolla pubescent, wit
short and spreading segments as in var. B.

Coast Reeron, at 5500-6000 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; amongst rocks on Winter-
hoek Mountain, Vanloth; 1645! Talhdae ot Ceres Div.; on Mosterts Hoek
Mountain, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4259! Var. y, Worcester Div.; on the
Matroce Berg, Bolus! Clanwilliam OE ip cad Kop, Cederberg Range, near

u in ¥ », Bolus . ’ . .

Cuntaan Recon? Ver. A; Ceres Div.; Table Mountain, in the Cold
Bokkeveld, 6200 ft., Schlechter, 10086! :

VOL, IV.—SECT. I. >

130 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

A somewhat variable species, yet well-marked in its chief characters. It is
quite confined to the higher mountains.

154. E. modesta (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 352) ; erect,
dwarf ; stem stout and woody, probably under 1 ft. high; branches
numerous, flexuous, sometimes intricate, covered with persistent
leaf-cushions, the younger (also the pedicels) floccose with small
subplumose or minutely barbellate hairs, younger leaves, bracts and
sepals similarly ciliate ; leaves 3-nate (also 4-nate, according to
Bentham), erect-spreading, closely imbricate, sexfarious, oblong, sub-
obtuse, thick, round-backed, sulcate, the younger ciliate and incano-
pulverulent, glabrescent, 1-12 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels
floccose, 14-2 lin. long; bracts closely approximate, ovate, keel-
tipped, cartilaginous, pubescent, ciliate, very concave, pale rosy,
about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but somewhat larger,
11-2 lin. long, about 3 the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid-
urceolate, tapering somewhat gradually to the contracted throat,
or tubular-urceolate, and then only very slightly contracted at the
throat, pubescent, pale rosy, 3-4 lin. long ; segments spreading,
rounded, about 11 lin. long; filaments slender, sigmoid below the
anther; anthers included, lateral, dorsifixed well above the base,
cuneate-oblong, subobtuse, dark-coloured, scaberulous, a little over
1 Jin. long, aristate; pore 2 the length of the cell ; awns narrow-
subulate, ciliolate, about 1 the cells in length ; style included, or at
length manifest; stigma capitate; ovary very pale, glabrous.
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 655. Raspalia angulata, E. Meyer in
Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 215; and see Harv. § Sond.
Fl, Cap. ii. 320.

Coast Reeton: Caledon Div.; tops of the mountains of Baviaans Kloof,
near Genadendal, 2200-5000 ft., Niven, 58! 212e! Masson, 14! Burchell, 7711!
Drege, Bolus, 5425! Bodkin in Herb. Guthrie, 3620! and in Herb. Bolus,
6957! Schlechter, 9859 !

Bentham quotes E. leucophylla, Klotzsch, with a sign of doubt, as a synonym
for this species. We have not seen it (nor had Bentham), but from the
description it seems to be nearer to EH. oresigena, and may possibly be our
var. B of that species, yet there are differences which prevent identification.

155. E. Flanagani (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 2388); erect,
stout, rigid, branched, 2—3 ft. high ; stem 3 lin. in diam.; branches
subflexuous, pubescent, densely leafy ; leaves 4-nate, erect, crowded,
linear, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, 4-5 lin. long; flowers 4-nate,
subcernuous ; pedicels thick, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, broad-
linear, thinly pubescent, coriaceous, thick, pallid, 3-34 lin. long;
sepals like the bracts, 3 lin. long; corolla urceolate or ovoid-ureeo-
late, mouth contracted, densely white-pubescent, white, about 4 lin.
long; segments erect, rounded with imbricate margin, scarcely } the
length of the tube; filaments rather broad, bent at the apex ; anthers
ineluded, affixed above the base, narrow-oblong, slightly curved, pale
brown, over 1 lin. long, cristate-aristate; awns from an oblong
denticulate base, suddenly contracted to subulate-acuminate, 3 or }

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 131

the length of the cell ; style stout, included ; stigma simple; ovary
deeply lobed, pubescent.

Karanart ReGion: Orange River Colony; on the landward slopes of the
Mont-aux-Sources, above Elands River Valley, 8000 ft., Flanagan, 2031!

A very distinct species, somewhat resembling E. ¢riflora in external appear-
ance, and unlike any other in this section.

156. E. hirtiflora (Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 481); erect, 1-2 ft. high;
branches stout, hirsute; leaves 4-nate, ineurvo-patent to squarrose,
linear, obtuse, sulcate, hirsute and rough with minute whitish
tubercles at the base of the hairs, 1-2 lin. long; petiole somewhat
long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels hirsute, 13-21 lin, long; bracts
remote, small; sepals lanceolate, hirsute, foliaceous, 3-1 lin. long;
corolla ovoid-ureeolate, or more rarely broad-urceolate, throat con-
tracted, roughly tuberculate-hirsute (as the leaves), pale purple,
usually darker at the apex, 13-2 lin. long; segments spreading,
about 1 or more rarely 1 the length of the tube ; filaments slender ;
anthers included, dorsifixed, ovate-cuneate, subacute or obtuse,
sparsely hispidulous below, + lin. long, aristate or subcristate ; pore
narrow-elliptical, less than } the length of the cell; awns broad-
linear, pale brown, ciliate with long thiekish hairs, as long as or
longer than the cell; style ineluded, slender; stigma capitate ;
ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 674. E. pubescens,
Andr. Heathery, t.37, and Col. Heaths t.48 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 167,
not of Linn. E. pubescens, var. pilosa, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 15,
41,¢.16. E. pubescens, var. hispida, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 39, and of
his Herb. (according to Rach). E. mitreformis, Salish. in Trans,
Linn. Soc. vi. 372. E. tardiflora, Salisb. Herb., but scarcely of his
descr. l.c. 378 (according to Benth.). E. puberula, Baril. in Linnea,
vii. 644, not of Klotzsch. E. grisea, Klotzsch, ex Benth. l.c. 674. E.
minima, Pritz, Ic. Bot. Ind.i. 417. HE. ovata, Lodd. Bot, Cab. t.
417. .

: esbury Div.; Saldanha Bay, Niven, 24! Cape Div. ;
babel gone beg er Weonbery, Ecklon, 291! Burchell, 627 t 8407 t
Bolus, 3298 ! 3718! and in Herb. Norm. Aust-Afr., 33! Guthrie, 1450! 1177!
Wolley Dod, 588! 824! Simons Bay, Milne, 110! MacGillivray, 447! age
Div. ; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8142! Swellendam Div. ;
near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 1098 ! : ba Svneil
F is. This is the cnly heath known to us which, by its sud-
an Gronipeivel = some favourable vens0ni a colouring to the eastern ie
of Table Mountain which may be seen at a considerable distance, like that of the
similar E. cinerea, L., on the Scottish mountains. Bentham makes two varieties,
dependent on the size of the flower; but we find intermediate sizes. The
synonymy, as Bentham observes, is very confused. We have done our best to
unravel it, but have been obliged, in great part, to follow him.

157. E. mollis (Andr. Heathery, t. 272) ; erect, 1-1} ft. high, all
parts more or less hirsute with rather long hairs; leaves 4-nate,
from suberect to squarrose, linear, subterete, obtuse, obscurely sulcate,
somewhat rough from the tubercles at the base of the hairs, about
23 lin, long; flowers 4-nate, ig nl pedicels scarcely 1 lin. long ;

K

132 ERIcACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica.

bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, hirsute, long-ciliate, coloured,
under 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, contracted at the throat,
coarsely hirsute, dull red, 13 lin. long ; segments spreading, rounded,
less than 2 the length of the tube; filaments slightly bent at the
apex; anthers ineluded, laterally basifixed, trigonous, sparsely
hispidulous, about + lin. long, aristate ; pore orbicular, about } the
length of the cell ; awns straight, linear, closely serrulate, as long as
the cell ; style mostly included, rarely subexserted ; stigma large,
subpeltate ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 247; Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 674. EH. ramosissima, Wendl. Hric. Ic. fase. 18, 93,
t. 36. E. modesta, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 15, not of Salisb.
E. albiflora, Klotzsch in Herb. Berlin. E. pubescens, Sieber ex Benth.
l.c., not of Linn.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thwnberg, Sieber, 171! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast Reeton: Cape Div.; Devils Peak, Niven, 30! Table Mountain,
3000 ft., Bolus, 4618! Constantia Mountain, Wolley Dod, 3427 !

A species very easily recognized by its stigma being unusually large for the
section, and its rather wide flowers, which, in drying, commonly lie flattened
from above, so that the mouth is exhibited open,

158. E. ribisaria (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, about 11 ft. high ;
branches many, weak-growing and slender, sparsely hirsute, glabres-
eent, reddish; leaves 4-nate, spreading, narrow-linear, subterete,
blunt, sulcate, hispidulous, 1-2 lin. long; internodes usually becom-
ing much longer than the leaves; flowers 4-nate; pedicels very
slender, 2-2} lin. long; bracts remote, infra-median, very small ;
sepals linear from a broader base, foliaceous at least in the upper
portion, pubescent, }— lin. long ; corolla ovoid to globose-urceolate,
contraeted at the mouth, thinly puberulous, dry, 11—2 lin. long,
bright crimson; segments erect, connivent, broad and rounded,
very short, darker than the tube; filaments slender; anthers in-
cluded, dorsifixed, ovate-cuneate, very obtuse, about as broad at the
base as their length, sparsely hispidulous, about + lin. long, aristate ;
pore wide, about } the length of the cell; awns linear, straight,
somewhat long ciliate, about as long as the cells (the anther much
resembling that of E. mollis, but slightly larger and with longer

hairs on the awns) ; style included, straight; stigma small, capitel-
late ; ovary hispidulous.

Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3227! in
Herb. Berlin, Guthrie, 2283! Schlechter, 7360!

This species occurs in a well-searched locality, and has probably only escaped
_ examination on account of the resemblance of its flowers to those of E. ramentacea,

from which in some other respects (especially its habit) it is very different. It
appears to be very local.

_ 169. E. oophylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 672); 3-5 in. high;
branches puberulous ; leaves 4-nate, spreading, ovoid or subterete,

Erica. ] ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 133

very thick, obtuse, obscurely sulcate, densely hispidulous, seareely
1 lin. long; flowers 3-nate? or umbellate?; pedicels puberulous,
11-2 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, about 1 lin. long; sepals
lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, puberulous, viscid, coloured, 1 lin. long ;
corolla urceolate (“ovate,” Bentham), throat somewhat contracted,
pubescent, viscid, about 11 lin. long; segments erect or perhaps
spreading, shortly acuminate, darker coloured, about 4 the length of
the tube ; filaments rather broad, bent at the apex; anthers included,
dorsifixed, oblong, obtuse, over 3 lin. long, crested ; pore less than
1 the length of the cell; crests ovate, ciliolate, about 3 the length
of the cell; style included; stigma subsimple; ovary short, turbi-
nate, pilose chiefly towards the summit.

Coast Region: Swellendam Div.; on the slopes and summit of the great
mountain peak near Swellendam, Burchell, 7326! 7347! (not 1347 as quoted
by Bentham) 7403!

It seems strange that this species, so well-marked by its leaves and peculiar
corolla-limb, should have escaped all collectors but Burchell. But the locality

has not been well explored.

160. E. trichadenia (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 183);
erect, much-branched, rough, 2-3 ft. high; branches flexuous or
divaricate, pubescent and glandular-setose ; leaves 3-nate, spreading
or squarrose, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, suleate to open-
backed, puberulous and ciliate with rigid gland-tipped hairs, 23-34
lin. long ; flowers umbellate, 3-7-flowered ; pedicels glandular-pu-
bescent, 2-21 lin. long; bracts remote, mostly very small, sometimes
one larger and foliaceous, or solitary ; sepals linear-oblong, acute,
pubescent and gland-ciliate, 1 lin. long ; corolla narrow-campanulate,
mouth slightly widened, sparsely and very minutely hispidulous,
pale flesh-coloured, 13-21 lin. long; segments rounded, about $—3
the length of the tube; anthers included, subterminal, oblong,
tapering much to the filament at the base, 3 lin. long, subulate-
aristate ; awns smooth ; style exserted, rather stout, curved over to
an angle of 90°, red; ovary pubescent.

Coast Rearon: Ceres Div.; mountain slopes above Mitchells Pass, near

Ceres, 2000 ft., Bolus, 5297!

161. E. eriocodon (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 186) ; erect,
somewhat robust, about 1 ft. high ; branches virgate, pubescent and
also pilose with longer and sometimes glandular hairs ; leaves 3-nate,
spreading, crowded, linear to lanceolate, from suleate tocpek Nr ,
pubescent and sparsely glandular-setose, ciliate, grey, 1}-2 lin. long ;
flowers 3-nate ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate,
minute ; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pubescent and glandular-
ciliate, foliaceous, about } lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, mouth
neither contracted nor much widened, pubescent, somewhat viscidu-
lous, 1 lin. long and a little wider; segments broad, nearly flat,
erect or at length incurved, about } as long as the tube; filaments
capillary ; anthers included, obovate (in front view nearly orbicular),

134 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

about $ lin. long, muticous ; style shortly exserted ; stigma eapi-
tate ; ovary hirsute. WL. eriopodon, Ind. Kew. Suppl. i. 156.

Coast REGion: Tulbagh Div.; on the slopes of the Winterhoek Mountain,
1500 ft., Bolws, 5190!

This has somewhat the habit and appearance of FE. bicolor, but the flowers
are usually fewer and less prominent. It is very distinct in this section by its
anthers: none of those which are muticous being so small and few even of
those which are appendiculate.

162. E. patens (Andr. Heathery, t. 133); erect, ‘*2 ft. high”;
branches pubescent and pilose; leaves 3-nate, spreading, elliptic-
oblong, acute, open-backed, puberulous, sparingly gland-ciliate,
1} lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 11 lin. long;
bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate-ovate, acute, foliaceous,
pubescent, gland-ciliate, less than 1 lin. long; corolla broadly
obconic, mouth widened, puberulous, rosy red, 2 lin. long; segments
subacute or rounded and obtuse, erect or spreading, about equal to
the tube ; anthers included, semi-ovate, sublateral, lobed above the
base, dark-eoloured, scabrid, under 3 lin. long, aristate ; awns sub-
decurrent, subulate, ciliolate, short ; ovary densely villous with long
hairs. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 115; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 26, 7;
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1228; Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 686. E.
expansa, Hort. ex Benth. l.c.

SourH Argica: without locality, Niven (ex Loddiges), cultivated speci-
mens !

This species is only known to us from the descriptions, figures, and several
garden specimens in Herb. Kew. It is very distinct and peculiar, having the
corolla-form of § Ewrystoma, but in every other respect the characters of this

section. The anther is unusual in shape, tapering very much to the base, but
scarcely subterminal,

163. E. perlata (Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 18); erect, 1-2 ft.
high ; branches ascending, often straggling, tomentose and glandular-
pilose ; leaves 4-nate, squarrose, narrow-oblong, or the shorter
subovate, open-backed, obtuse, gland-pilose, 2—3 lin. long; flowers
umbellate ; umbels 4—10-flowered, often clustered ; pedicels 2-3 lin.
long ; bracts remote ; sepals lanceolate-oblong, pubescent and gland-
ciliate with long hairs, about 1 lin. long, pedicels, bracts and sepals
all glandular-pilose ; corolla oblong or cyathiform-campanulate, mouth
not contracted, pubescent, yellowish, about 12 lin. long; segments
spreading, more than 4 as long as the tube ; anthers subexserted, oblong,
narrowed to the base, minutely aristulate or sometimes muticous (‘) ;
awns not reaching beyond the base of the cell, or sometimes with a
minute tooth on either side of the filament near its apex; style
exserted ; stigma clavate-eapitate; ovary lanate. Benth. in DOC.
Prodr. vii. 670. EE. barbata, var. minor, Andr. Heathery, t. 5, and
Col. Heaths, t. 78. E. barbata, Drege in Linnea, xx.187. EE. pura,
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 72% E. procumbens, Lodd. lc, t. 19932 LE.
ephemera, Tuusch, in Flora, 1839, 635,

Erica.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 135

Coast Reeton: Caledon Div.; near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher,
ae Schlechter, 5642! mountains near Genadendal, 1500 ft., Drége, Galpin,
3663

E. pura, Lodd., and E. procumbens, Lodd., were described and figured from
garden specimens, and may have been hybrids, No wild specimens have been
seen. They are clearly closely related here; and the garden specimens pre-
served show this even more fully than the plates.

164. E. barbata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 671); characters of
E. perlata, but anthers crested, crests curved and about 3 the length
of the cell; whole plant somewhat more robust, and larger in all its
parts ; indumentum longer, coarser and more copious ; stamens more
included, though sometimes visible ; the lower bract sometimes want-
ing. EE. barbata, var. major, Andr. Heathery, t. 4, and Ool. Heaths,
77; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 124. H. pannosa, Salish. in Trans. Linn.
Soc. vi. 339.

Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Masson! Niven! Bowie. Also cultivated
specimens !

Coast Region: Caledon Div.; mountains near Genadendal, Burchell, 7775 !
Bolus, 5483! Schlechter, 77521 near Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb.
Guthrie, 3282 ! 3283!

The only absolute character distinguishing this from the preceding is the
anther-crests, which can hardly be regarded as of specific value. The plants
have, however, a somewhat different aspect, and we follow Bentham, though with
doubt, in keeping them separate.

165. E. fausta (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 326) ; branchlets
rather straight, finely pubeseent intermixed with long coarser white
hairs, the pubescence said by Bentham to be subviscid; leaves
3-nate, spreading, ovate-elliptical to narrow-lanceolate, acute, open-
backed, puberulous, setose-ciliate with long hairs, 2-3 lin. long ;
flowers 3-nate; pedieels 1} lin. long; bracts approximate, small and
slender; sepals subulate, acute, densely setose-hispid, coloured on
the lower part, foliaceous above, 12 lin. long; corolla urceolate-
campanulate, puberulous, mouth wide, scarcely contracted at the
throat, about 2 lin. long; segments somewhat spreading, about } as
long as the tube ; anthers included, longer than the corolla-tube and
manifest, dorsifixed well above the base, oblong, obtuse, about § lin.

long, cristate; crests sublanceolate, acuminate, distantly toothed on

the outer margin, incurved about % the length of the cell; style

subexserted; stigma capitellate ; ovary densely hispid.

Sourn Arnica: without locality, Masson ! Niven! Roxburgh! Herb.

Salisb ! :
Coser Rwatow: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mulder (ex Salis-

bury). !

Said by Bentham to resemble in habit
more branched. It is aka allied to
the single exception of E. Lerouvie,
satisfactorily whether or not they should
be maintained as distinct.

E. marifolia, but to be more rigid and
the three next ; but our material, with
is too scanty to enable us to decide
all be regarded as varieties of this, or

136 ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hriea.

166. E. setosa (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 646); a somewhat strag-
gling small shrub; branches pubescent and setose with long white
hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, broad-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong,
acute, very open-backed, the margin only recurved, puberulous,
paler beneath, margin ciliate with distant rather long white hairs,
and apex similarly tipped, about 2 lin. long, less than 1 lin. wide ;
flowers 4-nate or umbellate; pedicels over 1 lin. long; bracts
approximate or one subremote, linear, ciliate ; sepals subulate, acute,
adpressed, flat, not keeled, ciliate with long coarse hairs, 1 lin. long;
corolla urceolate-campanulate, mouth wide, scarcely contracted at
the throat, puberulous, 18 lin. long; segments wide, rounded and
frequently reflexed, 3 as long as the tube ; filaments slightly eurved ;
anthers included, manifest, oblong, widened and rounded at the
apex, over 3 lin. long, crested ; pore wide, over 3 the length of the
cell; crests lanceolate, acuminate, toothed on the outer margin, not
spreading, about 2 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma
capitellate ; ovary pubescent. Benth. in DC. Prod. vii. 671.

Coast Rxeion: Stellenbosch Div. ; near Somerset West, Ecklon § Zeyher,
167! in Herb, Berlin ; Hottentots Holland, Ecklon (ex Bartling).

Closely allied to the preceding, differing chiefly by its more slender habit,
umbellate or 4-nate flowers, much smaller sepals, and less hairy ovary. The
habit is that of § Ceramia; the corolla somewhat that of § Eurystoma. Eckjou
& Zeyher’s specimens are mixed (at least as to one sheet, which seems to be E.
barbata), but we take that numbered 167 to be the type.

167. E. straminea (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 27, 19); erect, 1-2 ft.
high; branches brown, silky; leaves 3-nate, spreading, ovate or
elliptical, flat, the margin only revolute, silky, ciliate, dark green
above, pale green below, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate ; pedicels
2;—8 lin. long ; bracts subremote (about median), like the sepals but
narrower and smaller; sepals ovoid, almost exactly like the leaves,
but smaller, about 2 lin. long; corolla between globose-ureeolate and
urceolate, throat moderately contracted, pubescent with rather long
fine silky hairs, straw-coloured, about 2 lin. long; segments
slightly spreading, rounded, less than + the length of the tube;
anthers included, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong-cuneate, cells
deeply parted, scaberulous, about 3 lin. long, subcristate; crests
narrow, ciliate, about 3 the length of the cell ; ovary silky.

SourH AFrica: without locality, ex Wendland.

Not having seen any specimen, we have drawn up the description from the
excellent one of Wendland, modified or supplemented by his good figure.

The species has been entirely overlooked by all other writers so far as we
know.

168. E. Lerouxie (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiy. 182) ; erect,
stout, branched, 2-3 ft. high; branches puberulous and sparsely
pilose; leaves 3-nate, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, open-
backed, puberulous above, velvety or nearly glabrous, and often paler,
beneath, long ciliate or naked, 3-4 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate, sub-

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 137

calycine ; pedicels pubescent, 2 lin. long; braets subapproximate ;
sepals lanceolate, acute, pubescent, coloured, 2 lin. long; eorolla
broadish-ovoid-suburceolate, mouth moderately contracted, pubescent,
white, about 21 lin. long; segments suberect, obtuse, about $ the
length of the tube; filaments broad-sigmoid below the anther,
sparsely pilose and ciliate ; anthers included, oblong, not tapering to
the base ; cells bipartite, dark-coloured, 3 lin. long ; crests spreading,
ovate in outline, acute, deeply incised, about + the length of the cell;
style exserted; stigma bluntly conical, rather large; ovary silky-
pubescent.

Coast Rr@ion: Paarl Div.; mountains near Beukenhout Kloof, French
Hoek, 1000-1200 ft., Miss FE. Le Roux in Herb, Huguenot Seminary, 303! Bolus,
6986! and in Herb. Norm. Aust,-Afr., 605 !

The species differs from the three preceding by its more robust habit, larger,
coloured, and finely pubescent sepals, ciliate filaments, and somewhat larger
anthers which do not at all taper towards the filament. The large size of the
sepals, although they are coloured like the corolla, give the flower a somewhat
more calycine aspect than is usual in the section.

169. E. caffra (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 353, not of Salisb. nor of
others) ; erect, 4-12 ft. high, greyish in all parts; branches virgate
or spreading, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, subereet to squarrose, usually
spreading, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, open-backed, greyish-
pubescent, occasionally subglabrous, commonly 4—6 (sometimes 7) lin.
long ; flowers 3-nate or umbellate; pedicels tomentose, about 2 lin.
long; braets remote, minute, adpressed ; sepals lanceolate, acumi-
nate, margin reflexed at the apex, pubescent, 1-2} lin. long ;
corolla long-persistent, ovoid-tubular-urceolate, throat contracted,
laxly villous, or rarely finely pubescent, most usually white or
yellowish-white, 23-3 lin. long; segments very small, spreading ;
filaments broader at the base, tapering upwards; anthers included,
oblong, somewhat wider at the base, pallid, under > lin. long,
aristate; awns subulate, about 3} as long as the cell ; style just
exserted ; ovary shortly villous or strigose. 4. urceolaris, Berg.
Deser. Pl. Cap..107; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 16; Salish. Prodr. 292 :
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 9, 11; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1894; Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 671. E. pentaphylla, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,506, £.
lamellaris, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 327.

Var. 8, auricularis (Bolus) ; leaves shorter ; corolla smaller, more glabrous ;
awns of Ate anther Hiee E. auricularis, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 327.
E. urceolaris, var. auricularis, Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 671.

Coast REGION, on mountains, usually near streams, 1000-6000 ft. : Clan-
william Div., Leipoldt, 215! Tulbagh Div. ; near streams below Winterhoek,
Thunberg ; Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 2614! Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountain, Drége,
7727a! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Marloth in Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr.,
401! Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, Drége! Swellendam Div. ; near Puspas River,
Thunberg. George Div. ; between Malgat River and Great Brak River, Burchell,
6140! Aibany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3560! 3605! Zeyher, 3204!
MacOwan, 802, 1230! Stutterheim Div.; near Klaklazele River, Cooper, 72!
Queenstown Div. ; Andries Berg, near Bailey, Galpin, 2165! oo.

CENTRAL REGION: Molteno Div. ; Broughton, Flanagan, 1611! Aliwal North

138 gricace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica.

Div.; Kraai River, Drége. Var. 8: Willowmore Div. ; Aasvogel Berg, Drége,
7727a!

Eastern Reoion: Tembuland; near Gat Berg, Baur, 240! Pondoland ;
Egossa Forest, Sim, 2517! Natal; Umbilo Falls, Wood, 1723! 1961! Fieids
Hill, Rehmann, 8018!

Var. B scarcely seems worthy of note. The species is widely distributed, and
. one of the very few which straggle into the Central Region. It is noticeable by
its persistent flowers.

170. E. pubescens (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 506, not of others) ;
erect, 1-11 ft. high ; branches clothed with a close greyish tomentum,
and long scattered hairs ; leaves 3-nate, upper suberect, lower spread-
ing, linear, blunt, sulcate, or sometimes lanceolate and open-backed,
pubescent, pale green, about 1 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate to sub-
umbellate ; pedicels pubescent, 8 lin. long ; bracts subapproximate or
remote, foliaceous, less than 1 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, subobtuse,
margins recurved, foliaceous, densely velvety-puberulous, ciliate or
naked, 1-12 lin. long, reaching from 3 to nearly } the height of the
corolla; corolla narrow- or broadish-oveid-urceolate, not, or slightly,
contracted at the throat, velvety-pubescent, white or pale rosy, mostly
21 or rarely 2 lin. long; segments erect, obtuse, 1—} the length of
the tube ; filaments broadest at the base, bent at the apex; anthers
included, oblong, obtuse, somewhat tapering to the base, the cells
subdistant, about 3% lin. long, subcristate; pore about + the length
of the cell; appendages oblong and denticulate below, subulate-
acuminate towards the apex, about 4 as long as the cells, or subulate-
aristate throughout, eiliolate, and only + the length of the cells ; style
stout, just exserted; stigma capitate; ovary villous. HE. pubescens,
var. pilosa, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 39. E. incana, Wendl. Eric. Ic.
fase. 18, 89, t. 834 (good /). FE. pallida, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe.
vi. 326; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 673. EH. purialis, Hort. ex
Sinclair, Hort. Erie. Wob. 20; Benth. l.c.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Sieber, 174! Herb. Salisbury!

Coast Reeron, from 800-2800 ft.: Clanwilliam Div. ; Middle Berg, Ceder-
berg Range, Leipoldt, 742! Cape Div.; mountains around Cape Town, Thun-
berg, Niven, 20! 127! Bolus, 2959! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 32!
Guthrie, 13878! Wolley Dod, 2336! Ecklon, 290!

Allied to E. tomentosa, but easily distinguished by the size and relative pro-
portions of the sepals and corolla, Also near to HE. Lerouwia, differing, however,
in several characters. Leipoldt’s specimens agree in al! substantial characters,
but the flowers are a little smaller than the others, either from their not being
fully developed, or from their station in a drier climate. They were distributed
as E. hirta, Thunb., which may possibly prove to be a form of the present
species.

171. E. hirta (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 36, t. 2); branches viscous-
pubescent and setose ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, from linear (margins
revolute and approximate) to lanceolate and open-backed, acute, sub-
_viseous-puberulous, the younger setose, 2-3 lin. long; flowers
terminal, 3-nate; pedicels puberulous, 2} lin. long (in Salisbury’s
specimen, probably from Roxburgh), to 5-7 lin. (in Thunberg’s
figure); bracts remote, small; sepals somewhat lax and spreading,

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 139

foliaceous, linear or narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent and
setulose, 11—2 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, not much contracted
at the throat, pubescent, 21-3 lin. long; segments spreading, about
1 the length of the tube ; filaments narrow-linear; anthers included,
lateral, oblong, tapering slightly to the apex, subobtuse (but in front
view acuminate), smooth and submembranous, about } lin. long,
aristate ; pore 3 the length of the cell; awns ciliolate about % the
length of the cell; style included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary hispid.
Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii.672. E. urceolaris, Salish. in Trans. Linn.
Soc. vi. 326, not of Berg. EH. dura, Soland. ex Salisb. in Trans.
Linn, Soc. vi. 326.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Niven! Roxburgh!

We have seen Thunberg’s type, and the specimens of Niven and Roxburgh
agree in floral characters. We suspect that the two neighbouring and more
recent species (EZ. globosa and E. aggregata) are nothing more than forms of
this. But all, with the exception of E.globosa, are poorly represented in the
herbaria to which we have had access, and we are compelled therefore to follow

the older authors.

172. E. aggregata (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 13, 11); erect, 2 ft.
high ; pubescence soft and short, not rough or glandular ; branches
spreading-erect, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate (or “* 3-4-nate,” Wendland)
like those of E. urceolaris, but greener and about 3 lin. long ; flowers
umbellate, or the terminal umbellate, the lower axillary, more or less
densely clustered or crowded at the ends of the branches ;_ pedicels
2 lin. long; bracts rernote, foliaceous, at the base of the pedicel ;
sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, pubescent and ciliate, less than
$ lin. long; corolla urceolate, puberulous, rosy red, 15-2 lin. long ;
segments spreading, very small; filaments narrow, widened at the —
apex; anthers included, dorsifixed, oblong, narrowed to the apex,
dark-coloured, about 2 lin. long, minutely aristulate ; style exserted ;
stigma capitate ; ovary hirsute. Lodd. Bot. Cub. t. 1678; Benth. in

DC. Prodr. vii. 671.

Sour Arica: according to Wendland and Loddiges ; but only known from
garden specimens and the figures above cited.

Bentham compares this with E. urceolaris (E. caffra, Linn. ), and suggests
that it may be a garden hybrid. This may be; but it seems distinct from the
last named by its corolla, which is smaller and much broader in proportion
to its length. It appears to be much more closely allied to E. hirta and E.

globosa.

173. E. globosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 116); erect, strong-growing,
1-12 ft. high; branches rather long, glandular-setose, or closely
pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, mostly squarrose or spreading, longer than
the internodes, oblong or lanceolate and open-backed with reflexed
margins, puberulous or glabrous, 3-5} lin. long ; flowers terminal, and
axillary towards the ends of the branches ; pedicels slender, puberu-
lous or glandular-pubescent, 23-4 lin. long ; bracts subapproximate
to remote, rather long or short, slender ; sepals narrow-lanceolate,

pubescent, viseid, gland-ciliate, foliaceous, §~1} lin. long ; corolla

140 ERIcACEm (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica,

globose-urceolate or ovoid-urceolate ; mouth more or less contracted,
viscid, puberulous, or nearly glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; segments
erect, rounded, about + the length of the tube; anthers subexserted,
rarely exserted, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, linear, obtuse or
subacute, nearly straight, nearly 1 lin. long, 4-5 times longer than
their width in the middle, aristate ; pore +—} the length of the cell ;
awns rather rough, about 1 the length of the cell; style exserted,
slender ; stigma capitellate; ovary varying from villous to glabrous.
Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 170; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 672. E.
perlata, Lee ex Benth. l.e. 672, not of Forbes.

Var. 8, subterminalis (Bolus); leaves linear, sulcate, glabrous, margins
revolute; bracts remote, nearly basal; sepals rather thick, 4—? lin. long;

anther-pore + the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. E. subterminalis, Klotzsch
ex Benth, l.c. 670.

Soutnu Arrica? Var. B, in Herb. Berlin.

Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Niven,
157! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm., 31! Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 7800 !
Bolus, 6494! Knysna Div.? without precise locality, Buchanan /

A somewhat variable species, especially as to the size of the leaves and flowers.
It has a strong resemblance to E. hirta, but seems to have a more spreading
habit, broader leaves, and a usually larger and more globose corolla; also to
E. aggregata, but has larger flowers and differently shaped anthers. The corolla
in Andrews’ figure is more globose and the mouth more contracted than any
shown in our specimens, which is probably (partially at least) a result of com-
pression in drying.

174. E. marifolia (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 15) ;
of straggling diffuse habit, under 1 ft. high ; branches spreading and
divaricate, puberulous and sparsely setose ; leaves 3-nate, spreading,
ovate or oblong, subacute, open-backed, pubescent above, paler and
velvety or shortly hoary-tomentose beneath, 21—3 lin. long; pedicels
21-3 lin. long; bracts subremote, slender, spathulate-linear ; sepals
linear, or subspathulate-linear, apex slightly widened by a foliaceous
tip, pubescent, 14 lin. long; corolla from narrow-ovoid-urceolate to
urceolate, mouth contracted, pubescent, white, about 3 lin. long;
segments erect, ciliolate, small; filaments tapering upwards; anthers
included, narrow-oblong, pale brown, over 2 lin. long, aristate; awns
subulate about 1 the length of the cell; ovary hispid. Andr.
Heathery, t. 127, and Col. Heaths, t. 34; Bauer, Ezot. Pl. t. 14;
Wendl. Erie. Ic. fase. 11,9; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 671. E.
helianthemifolia, Salish. in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 328.

Soutm Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Niven, 16 (9)! and
cultivated specimens !

Coast Reeton: Cape Div.; at about 1400 ft.; rocky places and near the
Waterfall on the Devils Peak, Niven, 38! Mund, 169! Bolus, 2960! Guthrie,
1491! Wolley Dod, 785! rocks above Tokay Plantation, Wolley Dod, 450!

This species appears to be confined to the Cape Peninsula. E. marifolia
var. longifolia, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 26, 4, is almost certainly ZF. triflora, L.

175. E. argyrea (Guthrie & Bolus); habit straggling and diffuse,
with a general silvery aspect, a few inches high; branches pubescent,
a few inches long ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, narrow-ovate to

Friea.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). bigs

oblong, subobtuse, open-backed, copiously but shortly pilose, paler
beneath, 14-21 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate; pedicels puberulous,
11-2 lin. long; bracts very remote, sometimes basal, very small ;
sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, glandular-pubescent and ciliate,
viscidulous, about 2 lin. long; corolla cyathiform to suburceolate-
cyathiform, mouth not (or very slightly) contracted, puberulous,
white to pale rosy, 2-21 by 1} lin.; segments erect, rounded, small ;
filaments tapering upwards; anthers included, semiovate or sub-
cuneate, dark-coloured, } lin. long, narrow crested ; crests cuspidate
and only slightly denticulate on the margin; style well exserted,
curved above ; ovary villous.

Coast Recion: Stellenbosch Div.; mountain slopes near Jonkers Hoek,
about 1000 ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4767!

Allied to E. marifolia and resembling it in miniature; but differing in the
sepals, corolla, and the anthers, the latter being both shorter and broader; also
to E. hirta, to the flowers of which (especially the short-sepaled form) it
is very near; but the habit, pubescence and anthers are different. The
pubescence appears to be more silvery than in either of the two species above
named,

Section XIV. CERAMIA. (Sp. 176-207.)

176. E. cymosa (E. Meyer ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 670) ;
diffuse, weak and straggling, a few inches high ; branches slender, as
thick as a stout hog’s bristle, glabrous or thinly hairy ; leaves 3-nate,
distant, spreading, elliptical, obovate or suborbicular, very obtuse,
mucronulate, gland-ciliate, membranous, veined, 1-3 lin. long;
flowers both terminal and axillary; pedicels capillary, 5 lin. long ;
bracts remote, minute, inframedian ; sepals broad-ovate, cuspidate,
foliaceous, } lin. long ; corolla oblate-spheroidal or globular-cyathi-
form, subglabrous, the mouth contracted, 1 lin. long, 13 lin. wide;
segments broad, rounded, incurved ; filaments tapering upwards from
the base; anthers included, dorsifixed a little above the base, sub-
obovate, very obtuse, about } lin. long, aristate; pore about 2 the
length of the cell; awns somewhat thick and rough-edged, about 2
the length of the eell ; style included, short, stout ; stigma capitate ;
ovary globose, glabrous.

Coast Reaion: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 2000-3000 ft., Drége,
1185 !

A well-defined species, allied to E. owycoccifolia. Bentham remarks that he
found no cymose inflorescence, nor have we. ;

177. E. oreophila (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, about 6 in. high ;
branches from a stout short stem, filiform, spreading, flexuous,
puberulous, reddish, the older with small but prominent scars of
leaf-cushions ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, oblong some-
what widened upwards, or lanceolate, acute, the older open-backed
with reflexed margin, the younger smaller, thicker, and only sulcate,
gland-ciliate, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, terminal (? sometimes
lateral), subcorolline ; pedicels slender, viscid, 2} lin. long; bracts

142 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

remote, small, 2 inframedian, 1 subbasal ; sepals ovate, subeordate,
acute, glabrous, viscid, nerved, subscarious, about 1 lin. long, equal
to the corolla-tube ; corolla oblate-urceolate or suburceolate-cyathi-
form, mouth somewhat contraeted (in the dried state appearing
scarcely so), glabrous, viseid, pale rose below, darker tinted above,
12 Jin. long, 2 lin. broad; segments more than 3 as long as the tube,
deltoid, subacute ; filaments tapering upwards, bent below the anther ;
anthers included, lateral, short-cuneate, dorsifixed at or near the
base, about 1 lin. long, aristate; awns subulate, rough-edged, as
long as the cell; style included; stigma capitellate or subsimple;
ovary turbinate, very pallid, hispidulous.

Coast Recion: Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, 2400 ft.
Schlechter, 9261!

178. E. planifolia (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 508); diffuse, much
branched, 6-12 in. high ; branches pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, spread-
ing, ovate to lanceolate, acute, open-backed, margins revolute, midrib
thickened upwards into a smooth prominent callosity, puberulous,
ciliate, 13-2 lin. long; flowers axillary, solitary or usually so;
pedicels slender, hispidulous, 2-21 lin. long; braets 2, remote,
foliaceous, -shortly petiolate; sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous,
gland-ciliate, margins revolute, about 1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform,
mouth neither contracted nor widened, hispidulous, viscid, 12 lin.
long ; limb suberect, less than 4 as long as the tube; filaments from
a short dilated base tapering upwards; anthers included, lateral,
dorsifixed close to the base, oblong, 2 lin. long, aristate; awns seti-
form, about } as long as the cell; style included ; stigma capitate ;
ovary hispidulous. Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap. 100; Benth. in DO.
Prodr. vii. 669. E. thymifolia, vars. a and B, Salish. in Trans.
Linn. Soc. vi. 325, ace. to Bentham. EE. thymifolia, Andr. Heathery,
t. 195, and Col. Heaths, t. 136, not of Wendl. EE. distans, Spreng.
jil., Fl. Tent. Suppl. Syst. 13, not of Benth.

Var. 8, calycina (Bolus); sepals about as long as the corolla, 14 lin. or more
long; corolla puberulous, about 1 lin. long, 14 lin. wide; filaments equal ;
son of the anther about as long as the cell, minutely notched ; ovary white

irsute.

a Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specis
mens

Coast Reaton, at 2000-3000 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drége!
Bolus, 5178! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Schlechter, 9239 | Cape Div, ; on
mountains around Cape Town, Thunberg, Roxburgh! Niven! Burchell, 602!
8435! Bolus, 3334! Schlechter, 223! Guthrie, 557! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hotten-
tots Holland, Zeyher, 334 (ex Sprengel). Var. B: Caledon Div. ; moun-
tains near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3215! (in Cape Govt. and Berlin
Herbaria).

Most nearly allied to E. cryptanthera, and E. thymifolia. It is more robust
than the former and distinguished from the latter by its shorter corollas and
- included anthers.

_ 179. E. heterophylla (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, 6 in. or more
high ; branches flexuous, straggling; hirsute, laxly leafy ; leaves

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 143

3-nate, spreading or squarrose, as long as or often shorter than the
internodes, from lanceolate and acute to broadly elliptical and obtuse,
or suborbicular, thinly hispid and hispid-ciliate, or nearly glabrous,
1-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels slender, 14 lin. long ; bracts
remote or subapproximate, setaceous to spathulate, glandular, hairy ;
sepals linear to oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, long gland-ciliate,
2-1 lin. long; corolla urceolate-campanulate to subeyathiform, mouth
scarcely contracted or widened, puberulous, 14-1} lin. long; limb
12 the length of the tube; segments spreading or recurved ; fila-
ments equal; anthers subexserted, nearly as long as, or slightly
exceeding the corolla-limb, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, oblong,
incurved, about 2 lin. long, cristate-aristate ; pore $ the length of
the cell; awns sublinear, curved outwards, and deeply toothed on
the outer side only, about } the cell in length; style exserted ;
stigma capitellate ; ovary hirsute.

Coast Rector: Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Puspas Vlei Grootvaders-
bosch, &c., Zeyher, 165! in Cape Govt. Herb.

180. E. cryptanthera (Guthrie & Bolus) ; somewhat diffuse, drying
a pale yellowish hue, 4-6 in. high; branches very slender, sparsely
pubescent, the ultimate subcapillary; leaves 3-nate, spreading,
shorter than the internodes, lanceolate, acute, open-backed, strongly
revolute-edged, ciliate and awned at the apex, $14 lin. long ; flowers
axillary, solitary or binate ; pedicels slender, bent, 13~2 lin. long ;
bracts 2, remote, basal, foliaceous, small ; sepals lanceolate or oblong,
acute, 1—§ lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, not widened at the
mouth, puberulous, ochraceous yellow, about 1; lin. long; segments
semiorbicular, erect, about 4 as long as the tube ; filaments slender,
equal; anthers ineluded, oblong, dorsifixed a little above the base,
under + lin. long, aristate ; awns slender, upeurved, less than $ the
length of cell; style included ; stigma subsimple upon the slightly
dilated and truncate apex of the style; ovary hispidulous.

Coast Rearon: Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, 1800 ft.,
Schlechter, 9357! Caledon Div. ; mountains by the Zondereinde River, near
Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 2297 !

‘ : A t

In general appearance, and in the flowers, resembling E. myriocodon, bu
distinct by its constantly 3-nate and broader leaves, and its larger oblong anthers.

Also very near to E. planifolia.

181. E. tenuipes (Guthrie & Bolus) ; laxly straggling, suberect,
or perhaps twining; stouter branches up to 2 lin. in diam., glandular-
pubeseent, subviscid, very pallid ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, shorter
than the internodes, oblong or more rarely lancevlate, obtuse, thin
or submembranous, thinly puberulous on both sides, gland-ciliate,
margin only slightly recurved, midrib prominent but not large,
2-3 lin. long, up to about 1 lin. wide; flowers terminal, 3-nate! or
umbellate? (most flowers dropped from the specimens) ; pedicels
very slender, pubescent, viscidulous, persistent and elongating, 6-9
lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, minute; sepals lanceolate,

,

144 ERIcACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

scarious, coloured, viscid, $—1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform or short-
and wide-suburceolate, mouth neither contracted nor widened, dia-
phanous, viscid, glabrous, lilac, about 1} lin. long; segments recurved,
subdeltoid, obtuse, about + the length of the tube ; filaments slender,
equal, pallid; anthers included or just manifest, dorsifixed just
above the base, oblong or dorsally curved and semiovate, 2 lin, long,
muticous; pore + as long as the cell; style exserted, compressed ;
stigma capitellate; ovary pubescent, chiefly at the apex.

Coast Recion: Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, 2500 ft.,
Schlechter, 10601 !

Recognizable by its pallid branches, oblong leaves, long pedicels and muticous
anthers.

182. E. physophylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682); procum-
bent or prostrate, probably growing on rocks; branches sometimes
ceespitose and intricately matted, sometimes more straggling, shortly
gland-hispid, reddish ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, ovate,
appearing inflated or bladder-like on account of the recurved margin,
glabrous, ciliate with many long spreading white hairs longer than
the leaf itself, 14-2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate ; pedicels
about 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, one spathulate, about 1 lin.
long, 2 smaller; sepals lanceolate, subscarious, viscid, sulcate-keeled,
shortly gland-ciliate, coloured, about 1 lin. long; corolla broad-
eyathiform, mouth widened, glabrous, scarcely 14 lin. long; limb
erect, a little shorter than the tube; anthers included, lateral, dorsi-
fixed close to the base, cuneate-ovate, pale brown, diaphanous,
2 lin. long, aristate ; pore + the length of the cell; awns slender,
upeurved, about } the length of the cell; style included, short;
stigma simple; ovary glabrous.

Coast Reaion: Caledon Div. ; tops of the mountains of Baviaans Kloof at
Genadendal, Burchell, 7745! Bolus, 5414! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 610!
Schlechter, 9827 !

The peculiar leaves, which are apparently inflated, distinguish this species from
any other.

183. E. oxycoccifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 324) ;
dwarf, straggling, procumbent or decumbent in clefts of wet rocks ;
branches numerous, spreading, glandular-hispid, 8 or 10 in. long ;
leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, elliptical, orbicular or subovate,
very obtuse, thin, flat, with reflexed margins, ciliate, otherwise
nearly glabrous, 1-1} lin. long ; flowers usually axillary ; pedicels
slender, hispid, 2-3} lin. long ; bracts remote, minute; sepals ovate,
ciliate, pubescent, }—$ lin. long; corolla obconic-cyathiform, mouth
widened, puberulous, 1} lin. long; segments erect, broad, rounded,
more than } the length of the tube; anthers included, lateral,
dorsifixed close to the base, very nearly semiorbicular, about + lin.
long, muticous (or minutely aristate, Bentham); style included ;
stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous.

Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 145

Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 3000 ft., Ecklon 5° Zeyher ;
Niven, 119! Milne, 207! Bolus, 4541! Wolley Dod, 2120!

Closely allied to E. physophylla, of which it may be regarded as a Table
Mountain representative. This is one of those species which has only been
found on one mountain, and which it may be feared will probably soon, like
E. sexfaria and some others, become extinct. It is of very slow growth, bears
but few flowers, and is often subjected to fires.

184, E. tenuicaulis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 669) ;
diffuse, almost entirely glabrous; branches few, straggling, slender,
2-3 in. long; leaves 3-nate, spreading or deflexed, usually longer
than the internodes, broadly linear, subacute, slightly curved, flat
above, sulcate below, somewhat rigid and coriaceous, 3—4 lin. long ;
flowers axillary, racemoso-umbellate, often reduced to 1 or 2 in each
axil; pedicels slender, 2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, minute;
sepals lanceolate, keeled, ciliolate, coloured, rigid, about % lin.
long; corolla obconic-campanuloid, mouth widened, glabrous or
minutely puberulous, 1 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, from
about 2 the length of the tube to a little longer than it; filaments
scarcely exceeding the anther; anthers included, lateral, dorsifixed
near the base, narrow-ovate, about 1 lin. long, muticous; pore about
2 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitate ; ovary
sparsely hispid, glabrescent (or villous, Bentham).

Coast Ree@ton: Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Niven,
244! near the Zondereinde River and Eksteens, Zeyher! in Herb. Berlin.
Riversdale Div. ; clefts of rocks on the Lange Bergen near Riversdale, 2000 ft.,
Schlechter, 1844!

This species has more external resemblance to those of the
this section; but the floral structure is different. The leaves are pec

unlike those of § Ceramia generally.

185. E. myriocodon (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, 6-10 in. high,
densely and intricately branched, with numerous flowers ; branches
slender, puberulous, dark red ; leaves usually 4- oceasionally Pure
spreading, incurved or recurved, linear, blunt, sulcate, hispid, 1-11
lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate to solitary ; pedicels pubescent,
about 1 lin. long ; bracts remote, minute ; sepals lanceolate or linear,
coloured or greenish, under 1 lin. long ; corolla campanulate-cyathi-
form, mouth scarcely widened or contracted, hirsute with short
squarrose hairs, about 1 lin. long; segments erect or spreading,
rounded, 1-2 the length of the tube; filaments capillary; anthers
included, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, ovate-cuneate, about
2 Jin. long, aristate ; pore about 3 the length of the wa pri
slender, rough-edged, more than 3 the length of the cell; style
included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary hirsute.

: iv.; mountains about French Hoek, 2000 ft.,
Pere geree hate ene places on the mountains near Appels
Kraal, Zeyher, 3225!

This is in many respects like FE. cryptant

§ Desmia than to
uliar and

hera; but differs by its usually

4-nate and sulcate leaves, terminal inflorescence and shorter but proportionately

broader anthers. ‘S
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146 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

186. E. brachycentra (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 688); diffuse,
dwarf ; branches intricate, rather rigid, and, together with the leaves,
pedicels, bracts and sepals glandular-pilose ; leaves 3-nate, recurved-
squarrose, usually shorter than the internodes, oblong to ovate, acute,
subopen-backed with broad thick margins, rigid, rather thick, gland-
ciliate, glabrous on the upper, velvety on the lower surface, —% lin.
long ; flowers terminal, 3-nate ; pedicels slender, about 1 lin. long ;
bracts closely approximate, elliptical, thick ; sepals ovate, foliaceous,
less than 3 lin. long; corolla subcampanulate-cyathiform or broad sub-
ureeolate, mouth scarcely widened, glabrous, viscidulous, about 1 lin.
long; segments very short, almost truncate ; filaments slender, equal ;
anthers exserted, dorsifixed half-way between the base and the
middle, very shortly ciliolate on the front margin, 2 lin. long,
aristate ; pore about 4 the length of the cell; awns very short
scarcely reaching to the base of the eell ; style long-exserted, slender ;
stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast ReGion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 56! and Niven,
84! in Herb. Kew.

This obscure species, quite distinct from any other, does not fit very well into
any of the sections. Bentham placed it, with doubt, in § Polycodon, and it
might almost equally well go into § Pyronium. Its spreading open-backed
leaves, its straggling habit, and general viscidity, induce us to place it
here.

187. E. leptoclada (Van Heurck & Muell. Arg., Obs. Bot. et
Deser. Pl. Nov. 34) ; diffuse, proecumbent, 3-10 in. high; branehes
glandular-hispid, slender ; leaves 3-nate (rarely some 4-nate on the
same branch), spreading, linear, linear-lanceolate or broad-lanceolate,
acute, sulcate, hispid and ciliate with glandular hairs, 11 lin. long,
margins revolute; flowers 3-nate, axillary towards the ends of the
branches ; pedicels very slender, about as long as the leaves ; bracts
remote, basal, foliaceous, hispid ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, folia-
ceous, hispid, gland-ciliate, distinctly cohering at the base, sometimes
with obtuse sinuses, about 8 lin. long; corolla broadly funnel-
shaped, expanded from a point below the middle, minutely puberu-
lous, 13-2 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, broad and rounded,
from 4 to } the length of the rest of the corolla; anthers included,
dorsifixed Just above the base, semiovate, dark-coloured, 1 lin. long,
muticous; pore about 4 the length of the cell; style slender,
exserted, often bent below the stigma; stigma capitellate; ovary
glabrous. —

Var. 8, aristata (Bolus) ; leaves broader than in the type, commonly open-
backed ; sepals linear or subulate, aristate; corolla-limb mostly spreading or
reflexed ; anthers aristulate; awns 4 the length of the cell or less.

Coast Recton: Piquetberg Div. ; on the Oliphants River ( Kardouw) Moun-
tains, Zeyher, 1108! Var. 8: Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek,
2700 ft., Bolus, 9996! Guthrie, 4701! Caledon Div.; mountains near Gena-

dendal, 2000 ft., Pappe! Galpin, 3655 !

This species, like the next, is well-marked by its very distinctly funnel-shaped
corolla, with a rather large limb, It appears to be rare and our material is

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 147

somewhat scanty; but we have availed ourselves of the full and careful descrip-

tion of the authors. Galpin’s specimens are small plants of one year’s growth

and look more luxuriant than the others, but they differ little in floral

oer They exhibit a few whorls of 4-nate leaves above those which are
-nate. :

188. E. trichoclada (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, dwarf, the whole
plant viscidulous ; branches decumbent, divaricate, roughly hispid,
rusty-brown ; branchlets set at nearly a right angle from the stem ;
leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, elliptical or lanceolate, acute,
sparingly hispid above or glabrescent, glabrous below, margins
recurved, open-backed, ciliate with gland-tipped hairs, 1-14 lin.
long ; flowers axillary, 1-2-3 in the whorls of the uppermost leaves ;
pedicels slender, hispid, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous ;
sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, ciliate with long gland-tipped
hairs, 2 lin. long; corolla funnel-shaped, abruptly widening above
the middle, glabrous, dry, “pink,” 124 lin. long; segments erect,
broad-oblong, obtuse, from 3 the tube to equal to it in length ;
anthers subincluded (shorter than the whole corolla but manifest),
lateral, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, pale brown, } lin. long,
aristate; pore about 1 the length of the cell, awns rough, about
1 the length of the cell; style slender, included, a little shorter
than the stamens; stigma subsimple, very small; ovary subglobose,
glabrous.

Eastern Recion: Natal; in a ravine at Liddesdale, 4000 ft., Wood,
3933 !

A species singularly interesting as being an outlier from the great central
home of heaths; and as curiously resembling EZ. leptoclada, from the station of
which it is separated by some 800 miles, while both appear to be rare. It is
distinguishable from that species by its broader leaves, its approximate (not
basal) bracts, and its apparently stouter and stronger habit; yet the shape of
the corolla, and the shape and size of the anthers are almost exactly the

Same,

189. E. Marlothii (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 237); diffuse,
under 1 ft. high ; branches sometimes rather stout, divaricate, rigid,
pilose ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, close-set, ovate, open-
backed, margins reflexed, pubescent, sparsely ciliate, 1 lin. or less
long; flowers terminal, solitary ; pedicels about 1 lin. long ; bracts
remote, small ; sepals broad-ovate, thick, viscid, villous, $ lin. long ;
corolla ovoid in bud, becoming oblate-urceolate-depressed ; upper
part of the tube falling in; segments about 7 the length of the
tube, connivent with upturned apices closely surrounding the
exserted filaments and style, with 4 depressions at the base as in
E. baccans, mouth much contracted ; after the swelling of the
ovary, the eorolla assumes the ordinary urceolate shape, pubes-
cent, 2 lin. long, about the same in width ; filaments rather broad,
equal, bent inwards over the ovary, about 2 lin. long, far exserted ;
anthers terminal or subterminal, oblong, or (from the pore being
nearly the length of the cell) somewhat earshaped ; cells deeply
partite, about 2 lin. long, muticous; style far exserted, hooked

_

x.

148 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). | Erica.

and thinly pubescent near the apex; stigma capitate; ovary
pubescent.
Soutn AFRIca: without locality, Marloth, 2244!

Coast Reeion: Worcester Div. ; shady places between stones on the Matroos
Berg, 5200 ft., Marloth, 1956!

A very distinct species, its nearest ally being apparently Z. oligantha. The
peculiar corolla in which the apex falls in occurs also in some species of §§ Lam-
protis and Geissostegia, but is very rare in the genus.

190. E. oligantha (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, twining amongst
low shrubs, under 1 ft. high ; branches slender, straggling, pubescent ;
leaves usually 3-nate (occasionally 4-nate on the main stem), spread-
ing, not crowded, ovate to oblong in apparent outline according to
the degree to which the margins are reflexed or revolute, open-
backed or suleate, pubescent and ciliate with long white hairs, some
as long as the leaves, 1-14 lin. long; flowers usually terminal and
solitary, occasionally 2—3-nate, very rarely axillary ; pedicels }—1
lin. long; bracts remote, small ; sepals broad-ovate, viscid, pubes-
cent, coloured, about % lin. long, margins reflexed ; corolla oblate-
spheroidal, pubescent, viscid, the summit slightly falling inwards,
red, about $ lin. long and wide; segments in full flower horizontally
connivent, becoming more erect; filaments straight, dilating up-
wards; anthers exserted, sublateral, dorsifixed close to the base,
oblong, but curved on the dorsal edge, minutely ciliolate, over
2 lin. long, muticous ; pore 2 the length of the cell; style exserted,
slender ; stigma subsimple ; ovary pallid, pubescent.

Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Div.; mountain slopes near Elim Mission Station,
1400 ft., Bodkin, in Herb. Bolus, 6735 !

191. E. debilis (Guthrie & Bolus); apparently a low growing
diffuse shrub, with slender, scareely puberulous branches; leaves
3-nate, spreading, broadly ovate, obtuse, glabrous above, pallid and
concave below, 1 lin. long and wide; flowers terminal, 3-nate ;
* pedicels, bracts, sepals and the white corolla minutely glandular-
puberulous ” (Bentham) ; pedicels 2 lin. long; bracts remote, small ;
sepals 2 ovate, 2 narrower oblanceolate, subacute, membranous,
coloured, 14 lin. long; corolla subconical oblate-urceolate, mouth
somewhat contracted, 1} lin. long; limb very short, slightly spread-
ing; filaments straight, equal, nearly as broad as the anther ; anthers
exserted, lateral, dorsifixed close to the base, suboblong, subacute,
about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore as long as the cell; style exserted,
generally bent; stigma capitellate; ovary coarsely villous. JZ.
lycopodioides, Lodd. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 619, not of Horne-
mann. -E. suaveolens, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 24%

SoutH AFRICA: cultivated specimen !

In Herb. Kew are two branches marked “ 209-a Hort. Bot. Edinb, 18 June
788” and below ‘‘ Graham, 1839,’’ which are those described by Bentham.
From those and from the description, we have drawn up the above. Nothing
more seems to be known of the species, which is chiefly distinguished by the shape __
of its corolla. We are compelled to give it a new name because it is impossible ©

EBrica.] pricacea& (Guthrie & Bolus). 149

from Hornemann’s very brief description to come to the conclusion that this is
even probably the species so named by him at an earlier date (Hortus Haf-
niensis, i. (1813) 374). He describes the leaves of his plant as 4-nate, while
on Graham’s specimens they are clearly 3-nate; nor does the shape of the
corolla seem to agree.

192. E. thimifolia (Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 48); diffuse, 1 ft.
or more high; branches numerous, straggling, puberulous and also
sparsely pilose, glabrescent, red; leaves 3-nate, spreading, not
crowded, linear-laneeolate to ovate, acute, open-backed, margins
recurved or often almost flat, midrib prominent, thickening upwards
as a smooth callosity, sparsely glandular-hairy and ciliate, 1-2 lin.
long; flowers terminal, 3-nate, sometimes also axillary ; pedicels
slender, pilose, about 2 lin. long; bracts 2, remote, basal, linear (or
sometimes a third, foliaceous?) ; sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous,
margins revolute, long glandular-ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla
urceolate-campanulate or tubular-campanulate, mouth scarcely
widened, glabrous, 12 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spread-
ing, 1! the length of the tube ; filaments much dilated at the base,
tapering upwards ; anthers exserted, dorsifixed above the base, oblong,
about % lin. long, aristate; pore } the length of the cell; awns
small, ciliolate, scarcely reaching to the base of the cell; style ex-
serted, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary pubescent. EH. thymzfolta,
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 325, var. y only; Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 669. . planifolia, Wendl. Eric. Ie, fase. 16, 59, t. 23 ;
Andr. Heathery, t. 185% and Col. Heaths, t. 201% 4. distans,

Spreng. f. Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 13, not of Benth.

Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Sieber, 146! 181! Herb. Salisbury / and
cultivated specimens ! z 3

Coast Re@ion: Tulbagh Div.; Witsenberg Range, Pappe! Cape Div.;
foot of Table Mountain, east side, 300 ft., Bolus, 4487! near Hout Bay Nek,
800 ft., Guthrie, 145! Orange Kloof, Wolley Dod, 2176! Constantia Berg,

Wolley Dod, 461! ‘ wens -
Closely allied to E. planifolia, from which it differs chiefly in its longer a

d it rted and slightly different anthers. There has been

aoe ween 0 en aasibly due to hybridization under

fusion between the tw ) n un
coleivuiion. fie “E. thymifolia” of Andr. Heathery, t. 195, is, there is little
doubt, E. planifolia, L. ; while *‘ E. planifolia” of Andr. l.c, t. 185, is either a

fo “thimifolia, Wendl., or a hybrid between the two. We have seen no
pai aneeae fei present species as it occurs wild. The best is that of Wendi.
Eric. Ic. fase. 16, where, while the analytical figure of the corolla is not very
incorrect, the shape of those on the branches, is very much so; the corollas not
being much contracted at the mouth as there represented. The species is not
s0 common as E. planifolia ; we have seen six different gatherings, and amongst
them none which are not clearly distinguishable by the characters above

stated.

193. E. filiformis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 345, not of
Bartl.); procumbent, sometimes almost prostrate, much branched,
spreading 6-8 in. from the stem in every direction ; branches puberu-
lous, leafy; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, usually shorter than the

internodes, linear-subterete, sulcate, hirsute or glabrescent, mostly

with a tuft of white hairs at the apex, 13-3 lin. long ; flowers

150 ERICACEEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

terminal, 3-nate or in clusters of 3-6 ; pedicels slender, about 1 lin.
long; bracts closely approximate, small; sepals linear-subulate or
narrow-laneeolate, acute, foliaceous, hirsute, shortly gland-ciliate,
about 1 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, tubular-urceolate or ovoid-
urceolate, more or less contracted at the throat, usually tetragonous,
viscid, glabrous, 11-14 lin. long; segments more or less spreading or
suberect, semiovate, rounded, from 4-3 the length of the tube;
stamens usually 8, but often 4-7; filaments narrow, a little dilated
and dark-coloured below the anther; anthers exserted or subexserted,
lateral, sublateral or rarely subterminal, narrow-oblong, 3—2 lin.
long, muticous; pore about $ the length of the cell; style slender,
exserted ; stigma small, subsimple ; ovary globose, glabrous. Benth.
in DC. Prodr. vii. 670. E. humilis, Benth. l.c. 615, not of Neck.
nor Salisb. E. divergens, Wendl., E. flavida, Klotasch, and E.
connivens, Klotzsch, ex Benth, l.c. 670.

VaR. 8, maritima (Bolus) ; leaves somewhat longer and more distant than
usual ; flowers somewhat smaller, 1}—1} lin. long; stamens 4; anthers narrow-
elliptic, subcuneate at the base; cells approximate, pallid, 4 lin. long; pore 4-4
the length of the cell.

Var, y, longibracteata (Bolus) ; bracts slender, but longer, one foliaceous and
reaching to the top of the corolla ; ovary pubescent.

SoutnH AFRICA: without locality, Roxburgh! Herb. Salisbury! Drége!

Coast Rxreion, from 800 to 2000 ft.: Caledon Div. ; Klein Houw Hoek,
Zeyher, 3217! Nieuw Berg, near Palmiet River, Zeyher, 3332! hills near
Grabouw, Bolus, 4177! 4178! Guthrie, 4169! Houw Hoek, Bolus, 7369!
6958! Schlechter, 9425! Var. 8: Bredasdorp Div.; bills near Cape Agulhas,
250 ft., Schlechter, 10559! Var. +: Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, 1500 ft.,
Schlechter, 7247 !

This is a curiously variable species in respect of the number of its stamens.
We have found them 4 to 8. Those specimens with 4 stamens (Bolus, 4178, and
Zeyher, 3332) are so in most, if not all, the flowers. They are then technically
Bleria and not Erica. Even if these stood alone it would seem a forcing of
nature to separate them from E. filiformis, with which they agree in all other
respects. But intermediate forms appear to indicate at once an unstable
condition, which induces us to abandon (for systematic purposes in this
particular case) a character based upon stability in the number of the stamens.

194. E. Tysoni (Bolus in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxiv. 181); diffuse,
decumbent, a few in. high ; branches numerous, straggling, slender
but woody and rigid, scabrid-hispid or glabrescent, 6-12 in. long ;
leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear or narrow-lanceolate, suleate,
viscidulous, scabrid-hispidulous, sometimes glabrescent, about 1 lin.
long; fiowers axillary, 3-nate; pedicels + lin. long ; bracts approxi-
mate, oblong or obovate, foliaceous; sepals oblong or lanceolate,
obtuse, foliaceous, gland-ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla tubular-
campanulate, slightly widened to the mouth, generally more or less
(sometimes strongly) tetragonous, viseidulous, purple (Hvans), 14-2
lin. long; segments broad, erect-spreading, from 2—% the length of
the tube; anthers subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed shortly above the
base, oblong, scaberulous, ciliolate, about + lin. long, aristate ; pore
3-4 the length of the cell; awns ciliolate, eurved, about 4-2 the
length of the cell; style exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary

Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 151

glabrous. EE. satureioides, Sond. ex Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc.
xxiv. 182.

EASTERN REGION, in rocky places at 6000-7500 ft.: Griqualand East;
summit of Ingeli Mountain, Tyson, 1290! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 469!
Pondoland ; Insizwa Mountains, Schlechter, 6493! Fakus Territory, Sutherland /
Natal; on the Drakensberg Range at Polela, Evans, 673!

Allied to E. filiformis, from which it differs by its fewer flowers in the whorl,
and its appendiculate anthers. The corolla is singularly like it in shape and
texture, except that the limb in this is considerably longer.

195. E. aspalathoides (Guthrie & Bolus in Engl. Jahrb, xxvii.
173); diffuse, very slender, weakly-trailing, almost herbaceous in
appearance; branches spreading, about 4-} lin. in diam. at their
thickest part, 4-8 in. long, closely leafy, thinly hairy, red-brown ;
leaves 4-nate, squarrose or recurved, linear-setaceous, 1-2 lin. long,
1-1 lin. broad, longer than the internodes, with 2-3 obsolete teeth
on either side, each tooth and the apex bearing a long fine white
gland-tipped hair ; flowers few ; pedicels short, about 7-1 lin. long;
bracts approximate, leaf-like and with similar white hairs, but pale
brown coloured, 12 lin. long; sepals leaf-like, coloured like the
bracts, and about as long, reaching to the top of the corolla; corolla
cyathiform, slightly widened at the mouth, glabrous, dry (when
dried, pale brown) 14 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, 5—} the
length of the tube; filaments capillary, dilated just below the
anther; anthers semi-exserted, lateral, dorsifixed close to the base,
narrow-oblong, very pale brown, less than 3 lin. long, aristate ; pore
about 2 the length of the cell; awns about } the length of the cell ;
style exserted, slender, bent; stigma small, capitellate; ovary
puberulous.

Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, at Ezelsbank, near
Wupperthal, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 8812!

Easily recognized by the extreme fineness of its leaves. This species must not
be confused with E. aspalathifolia, Bolus.

196. E. Mundii (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, rigid; branches
puberulous and _ hispid; leaves 3-nate, spreading, not crowded,
oblanceolate or oblong, acute, rarely subobtuse, open-backed with
reflexed margins, sometimes almost flat, ciliate on margins and on
midrib, occasionally hairy below, glabrous above, the upper some-
times oblong, suleate, and apparently subterete, by the more strongly
revolute margins, or even all the leaves so, 13-2 lin. long ; flowers
terminal, 3-nate, or umbellate and 4-6-flowered ; pedicels slender,
3_2 lin. long; bracts remote, small, adpressed ; sepals linear-subulate
or lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, callous-pointed, coloured, viscid,
about 1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, mouth scarcely contracted or
widened, glabrous or minutely hairy, viscidulous, & to a little
over 1 lin. long, and about the same in width; segments erect,
subdeltoid, about 2 the length of the tube ; filaments slender, equal ;
anthers included or subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed shortly above

152 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

the base, cuneate-oblong, 4} lin. long or slightly less, muticous ;
pore } the length of the cell; style shortly exserted, stout, curved;
stigma capitate, somewhat large ; ovary subturbinate, glabrous below,

thinly and shortly hairy above, or entirely glabrous.

Sourn ArRica: without locality, Kennedy in Herb. MacOwan, 1714!
Coast REcIon : Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Voormans Bosch, Zeyher,
8258! Voormans Bosch, Mund, 36! in Cape Govt. Herb.

The different aspect of the broad. or narrow-leaved forms is sometimes
puzzling; but the characters of the flowers are fairly constant. In general
appearance the broad-leaved forms resemble EZ. planifolia, but are structurally
different and easily distinguishable. The narrow-leaved forms are probably the
result of a drier season.

197. E. strigosa (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 17, not of
Wendl.); erect, stout, 2-3 ft. high, by far the largest in this section ;
branches thickish, erect or divarieate, puberulous and also pilose with
glandular hairs; leaves 4-nate, mostly squarrose or spreading,
generally longer than the internodes, linear or linear-lanceolate,
acuminate, puberulous above, velvety and paler beneath, narrowly
open-backed with thick revolute margins, minutely puberulous,
ciliate with setose gland-tipped hairs, 2-3 lin. long ; flowers axillary
and terminal, appearing subracemose on the ends of the branches,
sometimes lax and interrupted, sometimes congested into a short
pseudo-spike ; pedicels from 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote, minute,
or some oceasionally wanting; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate,
acuminate, foliaceous, tipped with a glandular hair, about 1 lin. long ;
corolla short-cyathiform or suburceolate-cyathiform, scarcely con-
tracted or widened to the mouth, glabrous, dry, about 1} lin. long,
rather less in width; segments short, erect; anthers from sub-
included to subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, about 2 lin.
long or less, aristate; pore about 4 the length of the cell ; awns
straight, } the length of the cell or less; style exserted, straight ;
stigma capitate; ovary turbinate, glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 678. £. arborea, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 40, not of Linn. nor of
others, fide Salish. and Rach, LE. axillaris, Salish. in Trans. Linn.
Soc. vi. 325, not of Thunb. EE. precox, Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 1413.
HE. pilulifera, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 19, 107, t. 41? not of Linn.
E. Chametetraliz, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 616? E. lasiophylla,
Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii, 195, fide Benth. E. scabriuscula, Drege ex
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678.

Sovrn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Drége! Herb. Salisbury !

Coast ReaGion, between 1000 and 2000 ft. : Cape Div.; Devils Peak, Burchell,
8465! Guthrie, 1167! Wolley Dod, 1740! Table Mountain, Masson! Bolus,
47521! Kassner, 162! Orange Kloof, Wolley Dod, 3416! Div.? Wilde River,
Niven!

This species is well-marked in the section by its robust habit ; and in this
respect it is certainly exceptional. Bentham placed it in the § Orophanes ;
but by its usually axillary (as well as terminal) flowers, its Spreading and open-
backed leaves, it seems to us more conveniently arranged here.

~ 198. E. flexicaulis (Dry. in Ait, Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 395);

Brica.| ERICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). 153

erect, about 1 ft. high; stem and branches flexuous; leaves 4-nate,
close-set, spreading, squarrose or decurved, broad-linear, acute, open-
backed with revolute margins, thinly gland-ciliate, 2}-3 lin. long ;
flowers terminal, umbellate, cernuous, 4-6 in the umbels; pedicels
2-3 lin. long; bracts, two approximate, third remote, coloured,
gland-ciliate ; sepals lanceolate or ovate, coloured, gland-ciliate, about
11 lin. long, margins revolute ; corolla urceolate or ovoid-urceolate,
mouth contracted, glabrous ?, shining, 31-4 lin. long ; segments erect
or slightly spreading, about } as long as the tube; anthers included,
lateral, oblong ; pore about 3} as long: as the cell, muticous; style
included; stigma small, subsimple ; ovary glabrous? Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 692. E. glandulosa, Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 97, and
Heathery, t. 115, not of Thunb. nor of Wendl.

Soutu AFRICA: without locality, Niven, ex Dryander.

The type of this species is Andrews’ figure first above cited, which is quoted
by Dryander, It is otherwise unknown to us, for we have been unable to recog-
nize it amongst any collections we have seen, A small frustule in Herb. Brit,
Mus., so marked, is certainly not this species, but possibly E. strigosa, which
this certainly resembles, differing in its inflorescence and also in its muticous

anthers. We place it here with some doubt.

199. E. confusa (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches slender, flexuous,
clothed, as are the leaves, pedicels, bracts and sepals, with longish
gland-tipped hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, linear or oblong, obtuse,
‘suleate, minutely puberulous and also long-ciliate, 1-1} lin. long ;
flowers axillary and terminal, 2-3-nate ; pedicels slender, 13-2} lin.
long; bracts 3, remote, median, minute ; sepals broad ovate, with
thick strongly revolute margins, dark-coloured when dry, about
1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, at first not much contracted to
the mouth, afterwards becoming more 80, and also more inflated,
glabrous, very viscid, 13-14 lin. long; segments slightly spreading,
bluntly rounded, short; filaments equal, slender; anthers semi-
exserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, from about
2 to nearly 2 lin. long, aristulate ; pore from $ to $ the length of the
cell; awns short, sometimes extremely minute; style exserted,
slender ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. L£. filiformis, Dréye
in Linnea, xx. 187, not of Salisb.

Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Sweet Melks Valley, Niven, 42! on the
mountains near Appels Kraal, by the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3212! Gena-
dendal, Schultz in Herb. Bolus, 6493 !

200. E. grata (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect or subdecumbent, stout,
branched, with bright green leaves, and pseudo-racemose dense
flowering branches, 1-1} ft. or more high ; branches with a short
tomentum, interspersed with longer hairs; leaves 3-nate, from
spreading to squarrose, close-set or with longish internodes, linear to
narrow-lanceolate, sulcate or more commonly open-backed, roughly
and thiekly or thinly pilose with tuberele-based hairs, 2-3 lin. long ;
flowers terminal, 3-nate, on short branchlets ; pedicels pubescent,

154 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Erica.

sometimes glandular, 1}—2} lin. long; bracts remote, small, scarious,
coloured ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, keeled and keel-tipped, scarious,
coloured, glabrous, shortly gland-ciliate, dry or viseid, 1-11 lin.
long, somewhat shorter than the corolla-tube; corolla broad-urceo-
late, mouth more or less contracted, glabrous, dry or viscid, 11-12
lin. long; segments erect or somewhat spreading, 4-1 as long as the
tube; filaments equal, straight; anthers subexserted, dorsifixed
above the hase, obovate-oblong, very obtuse, ciliolate along the
margins, cells deeply partite and at length subdistant, under + lin.
long, aristate; pore very wide, about 1 the cell in length; awns
subulate, incurved, rough-edged, about 1 as long as the cell; style
exserted, stout, dark red ; stigma capitate; ovary lanate with long
white hairs.

Coast Recion: Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, near the toll-house, 1000 ft.,
Galpin, 3652!

In the general appearance of the flowers this species bears a great resemblance
to E. oreophila. But the habit, and especially the structure and appearance

of the anthers and ovary are very different. The size and Shape of the corolla,
and the texture of the sepals, separate it from E. globosa,

201. E. flacea (E. Meyer ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 670);
erect, slenderly branched, but not diffuse or straggling ; branches
pubescent or glandular-hairy ; leaves usually 3-nate, rarely also
4-nate on the same plant, spreading, not crowded, sometimes distant
and much shorter than the long internodes, linear as if subterete and
sulcate with strongly revolute margins, or in more luxuriant plants
lanceolate or oblong, and open-backed with reflexed margins, acute,
aristate, pubescent or pilose, usually gland-ciliate, 12-22 (oceasionaliy
4) lin. long; flowers axillary, mostly 3-nate in the whorls towards
the ends of the branches ; pedicels slender, 2-23 lin. long ; braets
sometimes, or always (?) one approximate, small, usually two basal,
large, leaf-like ; sepals mostly somewhat loose or spreading, lanceo-
late, acute, foliaceous, pubescent, gland-ciliate, under 1 lin. long,
margins reflexed; corolla subtubular-campanulate, only slightly
widened to the mouth, puberulous, 11-2 lin. long ; segments slightly
spreading, about 4 as long as the tube ; filaments from a short ovate
or obovate base thence abruptly contracted upward ; anthers exserted,
or sometimes long exserted, lateral, dorsifixed shortly above the base,
semiovate, dorsally curved, anteriorly straight, glabrous, mostly pale
brown, about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore less than } as long as the
cell; style exserted, slender; stigma capitellate, small ; ovary
glabrous or pubescent on the top. HH. thymoides, Klotzsch ex Benth,
in DC. Prodr. vii. 670.

Coast ReGion, between 1000 and 3000 ft.: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg
Range, at Hzelsbank, Drege! Blue Berg, Drége! Krakadouw Pass, Leipoldt,

206! Pakhuis Pass, Leipoldt, 624! Tulbagh Div.; Old Kloof, Roode Zand
(near Tulbagh), Niven, 43! Ceres Diy. ; Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5286!

A very distinct species. The shape of the corolla is somewhat like that of
E. filiformis, but other differences are great. The filaments with their wide
spoon-bowl-shaped base are something like those of E, thimifolia.

Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 155

[E. ciliaris, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 19, partly, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 349,
as to sheet a of Herb. Thunb., on which EF, planifolia, var. robusta, Rach in
Linnea xxvi, 783, was founded, is (according to Thunberg’s type specimen, which
I have examined) identical with EZ. flacca, EK. Meyer. The locality where it was
collected is not mentioned by Thunberg.—N, E. Brown.]

202. E. latifolia (Andr. Heathery, t. 72); erect, 1 ft. high ;
branches flexuous, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, laxly spreading or
squarrose, broad-ovate or lanceolate to oblong, acute, open-backed,
margins revolute, densely pilose above, pale below, up to 6 lin. long ;
flowers axillary, umbellate in threes in the middle of the branches,
cernuous ; pedicels decurved, 3-4 lin. long; bracts remote, folia-
ceous, small; sepals broad-ovate, obtuse, leaf-like in shape and
texture, 1-12 lin. long; corolla urceolate-globose, much contracted
to the mouth, glabrous, bright-red, 1}—1$ lin. long and equally wide ;
limb very small, erect ; filaments rather broad ; anthers subexserted,
lateral? narrow-oblong, muticous; style exserted; stigma small,
subsimple; ovary villous with long straight hairs. Andr. Col.
Heaths, t. 105; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 669. £. crassifolia,
Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c., 669, not of Andr. |

Coast Reaton : Swellendam Div., Ecklon S Zeyher, ex Bentham.

This species is known to us only from Andrews’ figure and brief description,
from which we have drawn up the foregoing. Bentham also cites Niven’s 43 ;
we have seen and dissected the flowers of the specimen so marked by him and
find it to be without doubt E. flacca, E. Meyer. Ecklon and Zeyher’s specimen
we have not seen. Bentham cites E. suaveolens, Lodd. Bot. Cab. ¢. 24, as a

synonym; but this figure seems to us nearer to our E. debilis.

203. E. cordata (Andr. Heathery, t. 158); erect, 1} ft. or more
high ; branches more or less slender, sometimes spreading, but not
diifuse, closely pubescent and also densely pilose with gland-tipped
hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, somewhat crowded, from ovate to
lanceolate, acute, open-backed, more or less strongly revolute at the
margins, sometimes subcordate at the base, upper surface hispid with
tubercle-based hairs, becoming seabrid, closely pale tomentose

below, 14-23 lin. long, or, in luxuriant specimens, 4 lin. long;

flowers terminal, 3-nate, more rarely clustered or capitate, 3-6-

flowered, subcalycine ; pedicels pilose, 13-2 lin. long ; bracts remote,
small, scarious ; sepals ovate, acute or acuminate, scarious, subviscid,
- corolla broad-urceolate-campanu-

coloured, ciliate, 1-13 lin. long;
late or globose-ureeolate, mouth not, or very slightly, contracted,

subviscidulous, shining, pale red, 13-1; lin. long ; segments rounded,
mostly spreading, about 3 as long as the tube; filaments rather
broad, dilated just below the anther; anthers subexserted, lateral,
oblong, tapering towards the apex, not quite > lin. long, muticous :
pore over 3 as long as the cell; style exserted 5 stigma capitellate ;
ovary villous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 669 ; Andr, Col. Heaths,

#. 160. E. punctata, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 646.

Masson! Drége, 2315!

- with ] lity, *
Sourn Arrica: without locality ft. ; Swellendam Div.; mountains near

Coast REGIon, between

156 ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

Swellendam, Mund, 47! Shand in Herb. Bolus, 6254! Galpin, 3658! Voormans
Bosch, Zeyher, 3213! Riversdale Div.; mountains near Kaffirkuils River,
Niven, 87! Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7032! Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7077!
mountains near Riversdale, Schlechter, 2196! Uitenhage Div.; Vanstadens
Mountains, Zeyher, 787 !

204. E. hirsuta (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 669, not
of Thunb., nor Salisb., nor Lodd.); erect, 1 ft. or more high ;
branches ascending; branchlets spreading or sometimes divaricate,
hirsute ; leaves 4-nate, or sometimes 3-nate, spreading, not close-set,
ovate and more or less flat with reflexed margins, or lanceolate with
more strongly revolute margins, aeute, open-backed, midrib promi-
nent, pubescent below, glabrous above, setose-ciliate, 2—23 lin. long,
1-1} lin. wide; flowers terminal, sub-4-nate or umbellate (ace. to
Bentham oceasionally axillary); pedicels slender, gland-pilose,
2-4 lin. long; braets remote, lax, small, variable in shape and
position ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, scarious, shining, viscid, coloured,
more or less copiously setose-ciliate with longish subdistant hairs,
rarely almost naked, otherwise glabrous, about 1 lin. long; corolla
urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, mouth much contracted, viscid, 2—22 lin.
long ; limb erect or slightly spreading, 1-1 as long as the tube;
filaments narrow, dilated just below the anther; anthers exserted or
subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, curved,
subacute, about 4 lin. long, minutely aristulate or perhaps sometimes
(as described by Bentham) muticous ; pore narrow, more than 3 as
Jong as the cell; awns scareely reaching below the base of the
cell; style slender, well exserted ; stigma capitellate; ovary
hispidulous.

South Arrica: without locality, Mund!

Coast Recion: George Div.; on the mountain near George, Alezander,
12! Montagu Pass, 1200-1500 ft., Young in Herb. Bolus, 5524! Schlechter,
5736 |

205. E. Lehmannii (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 618) ;
erect, 2-3 ft. high ; branches ascending, subvirgate, pilose ; leaves
3-nate, suberect, imbricate, ovate to lanceolate, acute, open-backed,
margins revolute, roughly ciliate with longish tubercle-based hairs,
cano-puberulous below, glabrous above, 13-2 lin. long; flowers
terminal, 3-nate, subcalycine ; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts approxi-
mate, lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, ciliate, larger than usual in
the section, 1j-2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, subulate-acuminate,
searious, ciliate, 11-2 lin. long; corolla suburceolate-campanulate,
mouth scarcely or not at all contracted, glabrous, dry, about 2 lin.
long; segments slightly spreading, about s 48 long as the tube;
filaments broader at the base, tapering upwards; anthers exserted,
terminal or subterminal, narrow-oblong or subobovate-oblong, in-
curved, about % lin. long, muticous; pore less than + as long as

_ the tube; style slender, exserted ; stigma very small, subsimple or
capitellate ; ovary glabrous, ;

~~ Coast Region: George Div. ; on the Post Berg (now Cradock Berg) near

Erica. | Ericacr& (Guthrie & Bolus). 157

George, Burchell, 5908! 5981! mountains near George, Drége, 7784! Mont
Pass, 1200 ft., Tyson, 3163! Be, ge, ontagn

Placed by Bentham in § Geissostegia ; but the bracts are not those of that
section, and sublateral anthers, approaching these, occur elsewhere in this
section, to which its open-backed leaves seem to indicate a natural alliance.

206. E. macrophylla (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vit.
669) ; procumbent or sometimes suberect ?; branches stout, ngid,
villous; leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, ovate, acute, open-
backed, margins revolute, bullate-convex, and densely villous with
long hairs on the upper surface, closely pale tomentose below,
21-31 lin. long including the rather long petiole ; flowers terminal,
clustered or sometimes (ace. to Bentham) also axillary; pedicels
stoutish, 1—1 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 very small, 1 larger; sepals
oblong, in opposite pairs, 2 longer and 2 shorter, or ovate-lanceolate,
obtuse, viscid, coloured, about > lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate,
mouth contracted, viscid, minutely puberulous or glabrous, 23~3 lin.
long ; segments suberect, 11 as long as the tube; anthers sub-
exserted, sublateral, broad-linear, about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore
about 2 as long as the cell; style exserted, decurved; stigma capi-
tate; ovary densely and closely white-woolly.

Coast Recon: Swellendam Div. ; summit of a mountain peak near Swel-
lendam, Burchell, 7380! Grootvaders Bosch, Masson ! Riversdale Div. ; moun-
tains near Kafferkuils River, on moist rocks, Niven, 36! summit of Kampsche
Berg, Burchell, 7118! George Div.; Cradock Berg, Burchell, 5909!

A distinct species, not found by any recent collector. We have chiefly
described from Burcheli’s 7330! ;

207. E. ocellata (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect ; branches of medium
thickness, not slender, nor diffase, pilose ; leaves 3-nate, spreading,
the older distant, the younger imbricate, ovate or lanceolate, open-
backed, margins recurved or revolute, rough and ciliate with tubercle-
based hairs, upper surface somewhat concave, glabrous, shining,
nd pale below, from »—4 lin. long, 1-2 lin. wide;

closely tomentose a : :
flowers capitate; heads 6-10-flowered ; pedicels stoutish, under

1 lin. long; bracts remote to subapproximate, small, glandular-
pilose ; sepals lanceolate or oblong, viscid, pale, very inconspicuous,
1-2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth contracted, glabrous, viscid,
12 lin. long, 1} lin. wide, limb and generally also a small portion of
the upper part of the tube recurved or revolute; segments about

1 as long as the tube, broad, shortly subacute ; filaments broadish,

slightly dilated below the anther; anthers subexserted, sublateral,

basifixed at the dorsal side, or Jateral and dorsifixed near the base,
g somewhat to the apex, about } lin. long, muticous ;

oblong, taperin
pore a 1s long as the cell; style exserted, at length decurved ;

stigma clavate-capitate; ovary loosely white-woolly.

Coast Reeion: Swellendam Div. ; Tradouw Pass, Borcherds in Herb. Bolus,
6496! Zuurbraak Mountain, 2500 ft., Galpin, 3657!

The anthers do not seem quite constant, some being distinctly lateral, others
affixed at the very base of the cell, though dorsal,

158 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus), | rica,

Section XV. DESMIA. (Sp. 208-210.)

208. E. conferta (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 83); erect, entirely
glabrous, 1-2 ft. high; branches slender, 4-sulcate from the
long prominent deeurrent leaf-cushions; leaves 4-nate, spread-
ing or reflexed, crowded or distant, linear, acuminate, sulcate,
aristate, 6-11 lin. long; flowers capitate, corolline; heads 6-20-
flowered ; pedicels about 1 lin. long ; bracts approximate, lanceolate,
a little longer than the sepals; sepals lanceolate, acute, about 2 lin.
long, coloured; corolla subglobose-urceolate, constricted at the
throat, white (Andrews), 14-12 lin. long ; segments short, broad,
rounded, revolute, 1—1 as long as the tube; anthers exserted or sub-
exserted, narrow-elliptical, subobtuse, acute at the base, smooth,
pale brown, about # lin. long, muticous; pore # as long as the cell;
seeds foveolate, the pits oblong. Heathery, t. 59; Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t. 1335 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 615.

Sour Arrica: without locality, Masson ! and cultivated specimens !

Coasr Rucion: Riversdale Div.; alpine shady places, near the Kaffer-
kuils River, scarce, Niven, 104! and at Riet Kuil, Niven, 104!

209. E. polifolia (Salisb, ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 615) ;
weakly diffuse and probably trailing amongst other shrubs or in long
grass, or stouter and erect; branches up to 12 in. long, slender,
pale, the younger furrowed by the deeurrent leaf-cushions, distantly
leafy with internodes 1—1 in. long, ultimate flowering branches
sometimes pedunculoid, with leaves reduced to small (3-nate)
bracts ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or recurved, linear, acute, aristate,
flattish, sulcate, 6-11 lin. long, mostly 3 lin. in width, but sometimes
reaching 1} lin.; flowers subcorolline, in 3~—6-flowered umbels ;
pedicels 1—2 lin. long; bracts all approximate, or 1 remote, basal,
ovate, acuminate, about 2 lin. long, the lower very caducous;
sepals ovate, cuspidate, acuminate, or aristate, often gland-ciliate,
13-2 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, slightly contracted at the
throat, 23-22 lin. long; segments broadly rounded, spreading or
recurved, about 3 lin, long; filaments narrow, or broader than the
anther (in front view); anthers exserted, narrow-elliptical, dark-
brown, scaberulous, about lin. long; pore 2 as long as the cell,
Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 615. E. caduca, Thunb.? Prodr. 71;
Flor. Cap. ed. Schult. 356; Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 769. E.
cuspidata, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 615. E. aqualis, Benth., l.c.
615.

Var. 8, angustata (Bolus); sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, tapering
gradually to the aristate apex.

SoutH Arrica: without locality, Masson !

Coast ReGion: Var. 6, Swellendam Div. ; trailing slender plant, watery
places among long grass, alpine situations near Swellendam, Niven, 232! Voor-
mans Bosch, Zeyher, 3247! Langeberg Range, near Zuurbraak, 3000 ft.,
Schlechter, 2046! 5673! Galpin, 3532!

Masson’s specimens, being the earliest known, were doubtless Salisbury’s
type. The sepals in it are somewhat differently shaped from most of the others

Erica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 159

we have examined, being more ovate and shorter; but we can find no other
differences, nor can we in any way separate E. equalis by definite characters.
The habit of the plant varies according to the locality,—specimens from drier
open places being more erect, those from moist grassy spots more diffuse, and
there are intermediate forms, such as Ecklon & Zeyher’s 3247 and Galpin’s
3434, from mountains near Swellendam. Thunberg’s EL. cadwca, above cited,
must remain, a very doubtful species: it was collected on Table Mountain,
near Cape Town. His specimen is without flowers and his: description is quite
inadequate. It may be either this, or possibly E. obtusata, Klotzsch.

210. E. obtusata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 615);
erect ; branches many, divaricately spreading, puberulous or glan-
dular-scaberulous; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, linear or
subterete, rarely flattish, obtuse, thick, sulcate, subviscidulous,
shining, minutely gland-scabrous, 3-5 lin. long, leaf-cushions short
and crescent-shaped, not decurrent; flowers subcorolline, 3-6 in
short umbels or subcapitate; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; bracts sub-
remote, small, scarious, like the pedice's, sepals and corolla viscidu-
lous ; sepals lanceolate, acute, subscarious, nerved, margins reflexed
and minutely gland-ciliolate, 1-1} lin. long; reaching to the height
of the eorolla-tube or less; corolla globose-urceolate, viscid, white,
about 12 lin. long; segments spreading, about ¢ the length of the
tube; filaments broad, eurved; anthers exserted or subexserted,
broadly elliptical, very obtuse, light brown, smooth, about # lin. long ;
pore very wide and large, occupying nearly the whole of the cell;
style shortly exserted ; stigma capitate, large.
een 2000 and 5000 ft.: Cape Div.; Table Mountain,
ones Pesci a 1 of Waai Vley, 3000 ft., Wolley Dod, 3257 ! Caledon
Div. ; mountains near Genadendal, Drége, Galpin, 3533! Houw Hoek,
Schlechter, 5467! Klein River, Niven, 238 !
Niven marks his ticket “ glutinous plant, 2-3 ft. high.”

Section XVI. GYPSOCALLIS. (Sp. 211-218.)

211. E. racemosa (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 31, t. 5); erect, 6-12 in.
high; branches somewhat slender, pubescent, and hirsute with
longer often gland-tipped hairs; leaves 4-nate, the upper erect-
spreading, the lower often subsquarrose, crowded, linear, sulcate,
rarely narrow-lanceolate and subopen-backed, pubescent and ciliate
with gland-tipped hairs, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 3-4 in each whorl
of the leaves at the ends of the branches, generally forming a more
or less dense pseudo-raceme (not truly racemose) ; pedicels puberu-
lous, 13-91 lin. long; bracts remote, small ; corolla urceolate, mouth

ewhat ¢ i (when young subtubular or cyathiform, mouth

somewhat contracted ‘a

not or scarcely contracted), glabrous, 1}-1} lin. long ; segments
1-1 as long as the tube; filaments very slender, equal ; esl
commonly subexserted, occasionally exserted, lateral, suboblong,
distinctly ineurved at the back, scabrid, a little more than $ lin.

long, muticous; pore about 4 as long as the cell; style exserted

beyond the anthers, straight; stigma capitellate; ovary hispid.

160 ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica.

Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 668; Wendl. Fric. Ie. fasc. 10, 3. #.
flexilis, Salisb. Prodr. 296, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 342. £.
hispida, Andr. Heathery, t. 69, and Col. Heaths, t. 100, not of
Burm. f. ?, nor of Thunb.; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1982.

Soutn ArFrtca: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and eulti-
vated specimens !

Coast Rreion, between 300 and 1500 ft.: Caledon Div.; mountains of
Baviaans Kloof near Genadendal, Burchell, 7808! Niven! Drége, 7755! Zoete-
melks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3542! near Villiersdorp, Bolus, 5177!
near the Zondereinde River, Schlechter, 9890! Swellendam Div. ; near Swel-
lendam, Mund, 46! near Grootvaders Bosch, Burchell, 7215! mountains near
Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 3235! near Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3654! Langeberg
Range, Schlechter, 5668! Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7049! near
Riversdale, Schlechter, 1777 !

Bentham remarks that in cultivation the leaves become more open-backed,
showing an affinity with § Ceramia. Following our predecessors we cite
Thunberg as the author, though it is most probably the H. hispida, Burm. f.
Prodr, Fl, Cap. 11 (1768). It is, however, unlikely that any certainty is
attainable, and Burmann’s brief description of seven words is almost as useless as
a bare name, .

212. E. aghillana (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, apparently 6-8 in.
high; branches subglabrous, channelled, pale brown; leaves 4-nate,
the upper erect and adpressed, the lower spreading or squarrose,
linear, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate, 2-3 lin.
long; flowers 1-2 in each whorl of leaves towards the ends of the
branches, forming a pseudo-raceme; pedicels about 1+ lin. long;
bracts remote, minute, hairy; sepals narrow-lanceolate, obtuse,
pubescent, foliaceous, reddish, about 8% lin. long; corolla broad-
urceolate-campanulate, mouth slightly, or not at all, contracted,
the younger tetragonous, the older becoming round, glabrous, red,
13-1} lin. long; segments erect, obtuse, rounded, 1—1 the length of
the tube; anthers exserted, lateral, oblong, slightly incurved, seabrid,
nearly 2 lin. long; pore 1 the length of the cell, muticous; style
well exserted, stoutish ; stigma eapitate; ovary glabrous, lobed,
pale.

Var. 8, latifolia (Guthrie & Bolus); leaves oblong, obtuse, 1} lin. long,
3 lin. wide, thick, closely adpressed to the branches (at least the upper ones) ;
pedicels longer, 4-54 lin. long.

Fett Arrica: without locality, Var. 8: Mund! in the Cape Govt.
ero,

Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; Rhenoster Kop, near Cape Agulhas,
400 ft., Schlechter, 10571!

213. E. petrea (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 668); erect, 1 ft. or
more high; branches ascending but somewhat spreading or straggling,
stoutish, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbri-
cate, obovate-oblong, subacute, the upper face concave with a thick
nerve, the lower sulcate, thick, glabrous, smooth and shining, margin
cartilaginous, 2-2} lin. long ; flowers terminal and axillary towards

_the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, pubescent, 14 lin. long ;
bracts 2, closely approximate, small, foliaceous; sepals lanceolate,

Erica. | ERIcCACEm (Guthrie & Bolus). 161

acute, keel-tipped, ciliolate, rigid, thick, $ lin. long; corolla ovoid,
glabrous, 11-12 lin. long ; segments erect, short, rounded ; anthers
exserted, lateral, oblong, slightly incurved, bifid, minutely scaberu-
lous, pale brown, nearly % lin. long, very shortly aristulate ; pore
over 1 as long as the cell; style straight, exserted beyond the
anthers; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Rraion: George or Uniondale Div. ; dry stony places, Kamanassie
Mountains, Masson, 66!

214. E. dumosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 213, not of Salisb.) ; erect,
6-12 in. high; branehes slender but rigid, mostly spreading and
flexuous, the younger glandular-pubescent; leaves 3-nate, erect-
spreading, imbricate, more rarely distant, linear, narrow-oblong or
linear-lanceolate, generally tipped with a rigid white callosity, thiek
and deeply sulcate, with strong revolute margins, or more rarely
subopen-backed, somewhat bullate, tomentose- pubescent, occasionally
with gland-tipped hairs towards the apex, at length somewhat glab-
rescent, 11-21 lin, long; flowers 1-2 in each leaf-whorl towards
the ends of the branches, mostly somewhat lax and distant; pedicels
capillary or slender, ascending, straight or curved, persistent, elon-
gating after flowering, 2}-6 (sometimes even 9) lin. long; bracts 3,
basal, foliaceous; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, folia-
ceous, with revolute margins, dark-coloured, gland-pubescent, 1-1}
lin. long, generally about } the length of the corolla; corolla
varying from ovoid to tubular-ovoid, with contracted mouth,
glabrous, rosy to darker red, 3-34 lin. long ; filaments slightly
dilated at the base and tapering upwards, ciliate or naked; anthers

exserted, lateral, oblong or linear, nearly straight, 1-1} lin. long,
muticous; pore }—} as long as the cell; style exserted ; stigma
capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 230; Benth. in
DG. Prodr. vii. 668. E. longipedunculata, Lodd. Bot. Cab.

t. 103.

Var. 8, intermedia (Bolus) ; leaves with an apical callosity only; corolla

urceolate-campanulate or campanulate-cyathiform, mouth slightly widened, or
rarely a few ores ovoid or tabular-ovoid, with contracted mouth, as in the
type, glabrous, 14-2 lin. long; filaments wider at the base than o the type,
sometimes distinctly ovate at the base and more abruptly narrowed Upwards ;
anthers exserted or subincluded, but manifest, carved, smaller, 4-g lin. long;

ovary pubescent. i é . :
Van y, setifera (Bolus); leaves tipped with an apical white callosity produced
into a longish white bristle, tapering to a fine point; sepals bristle-tipped i
pedicels somewhat shorter and capillary ; corolla like the campanulate forms o
var. 8, but smaller, 14 lin. long, pubescent or sometimes glabrous; filaments
ovate-lanceolate at the base, ciliate ; anthers exserted or subincluded, curved,
about 3 lin. long ; ovary pubescent or villous with longish hairs.
. * s 4
Sovran ArRica : without locality, cultivated specemens °
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. 5 ecg near Wupperthal, Schlechter,
iv. 3 res, Bolus, 8480:
eos He Neca a0bo-5500 ft. : Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter,
8920! Var B- Cores Div. ; Gydouw Mountain, Schlechter, 10224! pees Klein

VOL. 1V.—SECT. I.

162 ERICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). | Erica.

Vlei, Schlechter, 10068! Var.y: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, near Sand fontein,
Schlechter, 10148!

A very variable yet well-marked species. To Bentham it was only known by
Andrews’ figure and by two cultivated specimens in Herb. Kew. With these,
the specimens of Bolus, 8480 agree very well, due allowance being made for
the effects of cultivation. The agreement of the other specimens is not obvions,
but only revealed upon search. Regarding only extreme forms, the propriety
of uniting them might be doubtful. One character is common to all and serves
to distinguish the species from its allies, viz., the presence of a callous white
point to the leaves, which is seldom wanting. The difference in the shape of the
corolla is the real crux ; and here the specimens of Schlechter, 10068, solved the
difficulty, since they exhibit, in some cases, corollas like those of the type, and
in others, of a form nearly like those of var. y.

215. E. fucata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 667, not
of Thunb.) ; ereet or procumbent, glabrous in all parts, 6-12 in.
high ; leaves 3-nate, gemmiferous in the axils, erect-incurved, linear,
subobtuse, flat above, round-backed, faintly sulcate, 2-3 lin. long;
flowers subsolitary and somewhat distant or crowded towards the
ends of the branches, subcalycine ; pedicels slender, erect-decurved,
red, 3-51 lin. long; braets remote, minute; sepals lanceolate, acute
or obtuse, concave, cartilaginous, margins hyaline, keel-tipped, red,
1-14 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform or subglobose-urceolate,
1-11 lin. long, and as wide, mouth slightly widened ; segments
rounded, spreading or erect, 4+ the length of the tube; anthers
exserted or subexserted, from sublateral to subterminal, oblong or
semilanceolate, subacute, tapering towards the base, }—% lin. long,
muticous; pore nearly 4 the length of the cell; style exserted,
stoutish, decurved, red; stigma subsimple or capitellate; ovary
hemispherical, truncate above, glabrous, dark red.

Var. 8, cespitosa (Bolus); procumbent on rocks, subcespitose; corolla
subtetragonous towards the base, 14 lin. long; segments a little smaller,
2-4 the length of the tube.

Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; mountains of Klein River Kloof, Zeyher,
3341! Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6739! Var. B:
Bredasdorp Div.; on rocks near Elim, 250 ft., Bolus, 8507! Schlechter,
9709 !

There has been some confusion as to the type of this species, and some
specimens in herbaria thus marked do not well agree. Bentham unfortunately
does not quote Zeyher’s number. We have described from a specimen with fully
developed flowers in the Kew Herb., marked as coming from the Berlin Herb.
(but not bearing any number) and which no doubt, as it agrees well with his
description, was what Bentham described. We have also seen a specimen
in the Cape Govt. Herb., numbered 3341 and marked “ stony places in Klein
Rivers Kloof, Aug.” with quite undeveloped flowers but which no doubt belongs
to this. The species is allied to E. scytophylla, from which it is distinguished
by its generally longer leaves and pedicels, larger flowers, and muticous anthers.
Var. 6 has scarcely any differences from the type beyond its habit, and somewhat
_ paler flowers.

216. E. scytophylla (Guthrie & Bolus) ; except the branches,
entirely glabrous; branches erect or spreading, few, subvirgate, rigid,
very little divided and leafy above, soon naked below, downy,
glabrescent, 9-10 in. long ; leaves 3-nate, erect, incurved, imbricate,

Erica. | ERIcACE& (Guthrie & Bolus). 163

the younger elliptical or oblong, subobtuse, callous-denticulate, the
older and lower narrow-oblong, somewhat longer and naked, all
sulcate, round-backed, thick, leathery, rigid, smooth, 2—3 lin. long ;
flowers corolline, or subcalycine, solitary in the axils of the leaves,
with 3 minute bract-like leaves above and at the base of each
pedicel ; pedicels slender, coloured, downy, 2—3 lin. long; bracts
remote, minute, 2 infra-median, 1 nearly basal ; sepals adpressed,
linear, thick, rigid, red, 11-14 lin. long, reaching to about the top
of the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate-campanulate, scarcely con-
tracted at the throat at full maturity, subtetragonous, thick, sub-
fleshy, rosy, 11 lin. long; segments spreading, ovate, from } of the
tube in length to nearly equal to it; filaments lanceolate ; anthers
subexserted or just manifest, subterminal, oblong, tapering to the
dorsal margin; cells bipartite, approximate, dark-coloured, about
2 lin. long, denticulate at the base, teeth short, squarrose ; pore less
than 1 the length of the cell; style exserted ; stigma small, capitel-
late ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Reaton: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Mier Kraal, 300 ft., Schlechter,

10526 !
This bears some resemblance to E. curtophylla.

217. E. capillaris (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 647); erect, entirely
glabrous, 6-12 in. high; branches numerous, erect, corymbose :
leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate, slender, linear, acute, straight, 1-1}
lin. long ; flowers axillary, pseudo-racemose towards the ends of the
branches ; pedicels slender, about | lin. long ; bracts remote, small,
sometimes one or more wanting ; sepals linear-lanceolate, sulcate,
glabrous or ciliate, foliaceous, rigid, about $ lin, long; corolla tubular-
eampanulate or obconie-campanulate, commonly widened to the
mouth, rarely equal, subtetragonous, 1+ lin. long ; segments spread-
ing, 1-1 the length of the tube ; anthers exserted, lateral, ov
oblong, bipartite, slightly curved, pale brown, from under } vk
to nearly 2 lin. long, muticous ; pore about 1 the length of the cell ;

style exserted, slender ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous.

elliptic, i nm shorter
, Bolus); leaves oblong or elliptic, incurved, often sh

Plage nie eu Bu corolla somewhat shorter and broader than in the
type ; flowers more closely crowded at the ends of the branches; anthers less

than 4 lin. long, more curved. 4
va 1; pnlietel (Bolus); habit stronger and somewhat taller, 1-14 ft. high,
general colour ashy-grey ; branches esse a wit en ccntave chore
and petioles longer, oblong to elliptical, thick and ‘
éonivax below, the younger ciliate, 1-14 lin. long; inflorescence mostly lateral

but sometimes also terminal ; anthers curved as in var. 8 and about as long, but
somewhat broader.

i i ! Cape Flats,
0) : Div.; plains near Wynberg, Niven, 10! Cape E
Bone siete <a De Bolus, 4614! Harvey, 161! Var. 8: Caledon

Div. ; Klein River, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 7607 ! Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 300 ft.,
Schlechter, 700! y: Ceres Div. Mountains near Klein Vlei, in the

_ Centrat Reason: Var. ap
Cold Bokkeveld, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 10056 !

The type is a neat little shrub, very uniform in character. Until quite lately
m 2

164 ERIcACEs (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Frica.

it had only been found on the Cape Peninsula. Recently Mr. Schlechter has
discovered what seems another form further eastwards,—our var. 8, which we
cannot separate by any tangible characters, though it looks somewhat different
on account of its shorter and more distant leaves, &c. It is intermediate between
the typical form and our var.y. But for it we should probably have made a
species of Schlechter, 10056, the flowers on which are, however, mostly unde-
veloped; one or two show an almost exactly identical corolla, and only the
anther is shorter and broader in shape.

218. E. nudifiora (Linn. Mant. Alt. 229); erect, 6-18 in. high ;
branches numerous, erect, subcorymbose or subvirgate, hirsute ;
leaves 3-nate, erect to wide-spreading, linear-subulate or linear-
semiterete, subacute, flattish and glabrous above, round-backed,
sulcate, generally more or less hispid below, ciliate, hairs tuberele-
based, sometimes almost entirely glabrous, 2-4 lin. long; pedicels
slender, puberulous, 11-21 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals
lanceolate, sometimes united for a short distance above the base,
acute, ciliate, rigid, keeled, 3— lin. long; corolla subcampanulate-
cyathiform, mouth not contracted, sometimes varying to tetragonous-
tubular, narrow-ovoid, or even ovoid with contracted mouth, glabrous,
usually bright red, rarely pale rose, 11—2 lin. long; segments slightly
spreading or erect, 11 the length of the tube; filaments capillary,
subequal ; anthers wholly exserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the
base, oblong or slightly wider above, scaberulous, rounded, very
obtuse, sometimes longitudinally semiobovate, tapering very much
to the base and thus appearing subterminal, about + lin. long, muti-
eous ; pore 1—1 the length of the cell ; style slender, exserted ; stigma
subsimple ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 668. £.
floribunda, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 14, 19, not of Lodd. EH. alopecu-
roides, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 874, not of Wendl. EE. microstoma, Berg.
ex G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 801. #. sertiflora, Salisb. in Trans.
Linn. Soe. vi. 342.

Sourn Arica: without locality, Thunberg; Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast REGION, on mountains from 400 to 2500 ft.: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ceder-
berg Range, Letpoldt, 131! Tulbazh Div. ; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 86741 Roode
Zand, Niven, 9; Mitchells Pass, MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm., 30! Paarl
Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drége! Drakensteen Mountains, Bolus, 4057! French
Hoek, Guthrie, 34351 Cape Div.; Burchell, 816! Sieber, 182! Drége! Bolus,
3713! MacOwan, 23001 Guthrie, 816! 817! Wolley Dod, 1009! Stellenbosch
Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8209! Schlechter, 4811! Caledon Div.; near Genu-
dendal, Burchell, 76101 77941 8620! Donkerhoek Mountain, Burchell, 7998!
Hemel-en-Aarde, Schlechter, 10375 !

Chiefly variable in the shape of the corolla; but generally recognizable by its
numerous flowers and well-exserted stamens, The pedicels are always shorter
and the corolla generally longer, both absolutely and relatively to its width, than
in EB. fucata,

Section XVIL PYRONIUM. (Sp. 219-232.)

219. E. nutans (Wendl. Eric. Ic. et Descr. fasc. 3, 5); erect,
3-4 ft. high; branches slender, pubescent; leaves 3-nate (or 3-4- —
nate), erect-spreading, linear-filiform, glandular-ciliolate, scabrid, —

Erica.| ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). 165

2-3 lin. long; flowers terminal, sub-3-nate, cernuous; bracts sub-
remote, foliaceous, small; sepals narrow-ovate, acuminate, keel-
tipped, foliaceous, pubescent, slightly over 3 lin. long; corolla
urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, more or less contracted at the mouth,
viscid, white or rosy, 13-21 lin. long; segments nearly erect, +1 of
the length of the tube ; anthers well exserted, subterminal, obovate,
or (according to a specimen in Herb. Berol.) oblong, very obtuse,
scaberulous on the margins, 2 lin. long, muticous ; pore about 4 the
length of the cell; style slender, exserted ; stigma capitellate, small ;
ovary pubescent, seated on a largish dark-coloured disk. Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 618. E. pudibunda, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc.
vi. 8345. LZ. padibunda, Pers. Syn. i. 431,

South Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimen from Herren-
hausen !

Closely allied to E. deliciosa, from which it is chiefly distinguishable by its
relatively smaller sepals and broader anthers ; and we are by no means sure that
it should not be regarded as a variety of that species. Our description is drawn
from Wendland’s, as well as from his figure, and from the specimen we have
seen,

220. E. deliciosa (Wendl. fil. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 666) ;
erect, 2-3 ft. high; branches white-pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect-
spreading, imbrieate, slender, linear, blunt, sulcate, glabrescent,
13-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, abundant ; pedicels 13-25 lin. long ;
bracts approximate or sometimes subremote, foliaceous ; sepals from
broadish- to narrow-lanceolate, subacute, sometimes foliaceous,
greenish and dry, sometimes subscarious, coloured and slightly
viscid, 2-11 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth very slightly con-
tracted, or ovoid with a narrower mouth, glabrous, white or rosy,
13-21 lin. long; segments erect, very short, about + the length of
the tube; anthers subexserted, subterminal, or sometimes strictly
terminal, suboblong or oblong-obovate, dorsally curved, very obtuse,
about 2 lin. long, quite muticous, or very minutely toothed on the
cells above the base, or with a single projecting tooth between the
cells at their base in front; pore 1-2 the length of the cell ; style
exserted; stigma clavate-capitellate, small; ovary hispid-puberu-
lous. E. umbellata, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 647? not of Linn.

Coast Rearion. between 500 and 1500 ft.: Riversdale Div. ; near Garcias
Pass, Burchell, 7155 ! Langeberg Range, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 1729 ! George Div. ;
Montagu Pass, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 5799! Oudtshoorn Div. ; Olifants River,
Gill! Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Niven, 12! Humansdorp Div.;
Kromme River, Masson, 55! near Clarkson, 500 ft., Galpin, 3653! Uiten-
hage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, MacOwan, 1034! Holland in Herb: Bolus, 1209!
pitas f h The white-

i ies is si variable in respect of its anther. e whi
iverch bnesta Setaele Berg has usually the curious single basal free
tooth. The red-flowered forms from the stations further west are occasionally
either quite muticous, or with the single basal tooth adnate to the filament,
or with two very minute teeth upon the cell, distant from the filament and some-
times hardly visible. They are constant m being very obtuse and scaberulous
on the front margin. mc

166 ERIcACEEy (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

221. E. drakensbergensis (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, usually
1-2 ft., sometimes 3 ft. high ; branches erect or spreading, pallid,
puberulous; leaves 3—4-nate, often varying on the same plant, mostly
erect and imbricate, or sometimes shorter than the internodes, more
rarely spreading, linear, semiterete, glabrous, pallid, 1-2 lin. long ;
flowers 3-4—6-nate; pedicels straight or decurved, puberulous,
1-2 lin. long; bracts linear, remote, small ; sepals ovate to lanceo-
late, keel-tipped, acute or obtuse, ciliate, subscarious or subfoliaceous,
mostly glabrous, sometimes pubescent, 1—% lin. long; eorolla sub-
urceolate-eyathiform, not (or very slightly) constricted at the throat,
glabrous, white, 11-2 lin. long, 3—1 lin. wide ; segments broad, ereet,
sometimes erosulate, about + the length of the tube; filaments
straight; anthers subexserted, rarely exserted, sublateral, dorsitixed
very close to, but above, the base, obliquely oblong or narrow-
elliptical, sparsely ciliate on the front margins, 2-1 lin. long;
aristate ; pore about 3 the length of the cell; awns curved, subulate,
acuminate, ciliate, 1—2 the length of the cell; style exserted, some-
times decurved ; stigma peltate-capitate ; ovary glabrous.

Katauari REGIonN: Transvaal; widely distributed in the eastern part of
the colony, Bolus, 7677! Roe in Herb. Bolus, 2643! 3136! Schlechter, 4115!
Wilms, 902! 905! 910! 911! 912! Nelson, 362! Rehmann, 6573! 6621!
Wood, 1639! Galpin, 453! Thode, 66!

Eastern ReGion, from 2000 to 6000 ft.: Griqualand Hast; Pumagwan
Mountain, 3000 ft., Tyson, 2976! Natal; near Richmond, Wood, 1857!
Little Noods Berg, Wood, 4125! and without precise locality, Gerrard,
1777!

This species is perhaps best placed in this section (as first suggested to us by
Mr. N. K, Brown of Kew), as an ally of both the preceding species and of E.
decipiens, Spreng., while quite distinct from either. The number of leaves in
the whorl is very variable, some plants exhibiting only 3-nate, others ouly 4-nate
leaves, others with both forms.

222. E. decipiens (Spreng. fil. Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 13);
erect, 1-1} ft. high; branches straggling or virgate, cano-pubescent ;
leaves 3-nate, erect to spreading, linear, blunt, suleate, glabrous,
glossy, 2—3 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels 3—1 lin. long; sepals
narrow-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, subscarious, 2-1 lin.
long; corolla at first narrow-cyatbiform, ultimately ovoid-subureeo-
late, mouth slightly contracted, glabrous, white (or rarely pale rosy)
13-1} lin. long ; segments erect, 4-1 the length of the tube ; anthers
exserted or subexserted, lateral, narrow-oblong, acute, % lin. long,
muticous, scaberulous, mostly muticous; pore about 1 the length of
the cell; style exserted, slender; stigma clavate-capitate, lobed,
large ; ovary cano-pubescent. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 666.

Var. 8, trivialis (Bolus); corolla suburceolate-cyathiform or cyathiform-
campanulate ; anthers broad-oblong or elliptical, very obtuse, generally muti-
cous, 4~4 lin. long. E. trivialis and E. atroviridis, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 666, ( :

Var. y, tetragona (Bolus); corolla cyathiform, tetragonous, 14 lin. long;
anthers subexserted (? whether mature), oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. Ket aikabess ;
awns about 4 the length of the cell, ns

Erica.| ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 167

Coast REGION: Uitenhage Div.; without exact locality, Zeyher, 75 (ex
Sprengel), but in Herb, Berlin without a number, stated to be the type! Var. 8:
Uitenhage Div. ; between Galgebosch and Melk River, Burchell, 4783, probably,
and without precise locality, Alevander, 9? Miss Kensit in Herb. Bolus, 6467 |
Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, Cooper, 1480! Bolus, 1675!

CentRaL Rxeaqion: Somerset Div.; on the Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan,
1231! Div.? Drége, 7799! Var. y: Humansdorp Div.; Clarkson, 900 ft.,
Galpin, 3711!

The type of this species (of which a portion bas been kindly sent us by Prof.
Engler, from Berlin), exhibits an anther so unusually different from the speci-
mens hitherto associated with it, that we have hesitated whether to separate
them or not. Besides, the leaves upon the specimen are clearly 3-nate, though
Sprengel describes them as 4-nate. Finally, the specimen standing alone, and
our material being a fragment merely, we have decided to leave them as they
were, for the present. Further, our var. y (Galpin, 3711), does not well agree
with either the type or var. 8, and may hereafter be separated. x

The species is closely related to E. paniculata, but the inflorescence is usually
less dense, the flowers larger, the anthers more generally muticous; also to E.
demissa. é

223. E. demissa (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 666) ;
erect, much branched, probably under 1 ft. high ; branches puberu-
lous or shortly floccose, glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect to spread-
ing, or sometimes recurved, somewhat crowded, linear to oblong,
subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, glossy, ciliate, 11-2} lin. long ; flowers
terminal, or by partial abortion of floriferous branchlets sometimes
apparently lateral ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; bracts two approximate,
or nearly so, third remote and longer, or all subapproximate ; sepals
lanceolate, acute, keeled, rigid and somewhat scarious, glabrous,
about % lin. long ; corolla narrow-cyathiform to subovoid, the mouth
in the latter case contracted, minutely hispidulous, rarely (perhaps
only in age) glabrous, 1-1} lin. long; anthers exserted, lateral,
oblong, subobtuse or acute, a little under or over 2 lin. long,
muticous; pore less than } the length of the cell; style exserted,
stoutish ; stigma peltate-capitate ; ovary puberulous, rarely sub-
glabrous. E. globuliflora, Klotesch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
667.

: nsdorp Div.; near the Gamtoos River, Masson, 58!
bbe Rrcnie Miiste Burokell 4838! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Moun-
tains, Zeyher, 780! 785! 3224! Burchell, 4709! Albany Div.; near Grahams-
town, Burchell, 3576! Guthrie, 2370!

There are two forms, or perhaps three, of this species so far as we know it.
The two first differ chiefly in ae leaves, the one being broader and somewhat
recurved, the other narrower and suberect. These are connected by Masson's
specimens. The third form is from Grahamstown; the habit is somewhat
different, the branches ternate and more slender, the flowers paler in colour, the
anthers a little longer, and more acute. Guthrie's specimens gathered a the
same month, 78 years after Burchell’s, almost exactly agree with the —
In floral characters very much like E. decipiens, but looks different ; w “4
brauches more rigid; leaves usually longer, stouter, and more glossy : pedice

twice as long.

224, E. paniculata (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 508, not of Wendl, nor
Thunb. nor Lodd.); erect, 1-1} ft. high; branches numerous,

168 ERIcACcEz (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

virgate or fastigiate-paniculate, densely long-pilose or shortly floccose,
covered with abundant corolline or subcorolline flowers, in close
subcylindrical panicles; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate or at least
close-set, linear or subulate, sulcate, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; flowers
sub-3-nate on short branchlets ; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts
approximate or subremote, small; sepals lanceolate, keeled, sub-
scarious, glabrous or puberulous, about 2 lin. long; corolla cyathi-
form or obconie-cyathiform, mouth more or less widened, straight,
not curved upwards from the base, about 11 lin. long; segments
generally continuous, about + the length of the tube or more, usually
red, more rarely pallid or white; anthers subexserted or rarely
exserted, lateral, obliquely oblong or subcuneate, or semiovate, about
1 lin. long, aristate; pore about + the length of the cell; awns
variable, sometimes very minute or even wanting, sometimes nearly
2 the length of the cell; style exserted ; stigma broad-capitate,
truncate and often lobed above; ovary mostly glabrous, very rarely
(in only one specimen of many examined), slightly puberulous.
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 690. . milleflora, Berg. Descr. Pl.
Cap. 96. LE. sodalis, Klotzsch ex Benth, l.c. 690.

Coast Rereion : Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh, MacOwan, 2442! Paarl Div. ;
near Wellington, Herb. Hugwenot Seminary, 9! Cape Div.; frequent on the
lower mountain slopes near Cape Town, from 200 to 700 ft., Drége, 7781!
Bolus, 2946! 3691! Guthrie, 1174! 1219! Wolley Dod, 176! Stellenbosch
Div., Niven, 1! Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 2505! Hottentots Holland Mountains,
Mund, 33! Caledon Div.; near Caledon, Bolus, 8498!

225. E. bicolor (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 36); erect, 1-2 ft. high;
branches generally virgate, the upper part laden with numerous
flowers, cano-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, crowded,
mostly linear, sulcate, puberulous, 1-13 lin. long, more rarely broad-
linear, slightly open-backed and from 13~21 lin. long; flowers
3-nate ; pedicels 1-12 lin. long; bracts remote, small ; sepals broad-
ovate, blunt, keeled, viscid-puberulous or shortly tomentose, folia-
ceous, 3—% lin. long, reaching from 4-3} the height of the corolla;
corolla cyathiform, broad-cyathiform or subcampanulate-cyathiform,
mouth a little widened or sometimes not at all so, the outline always
curved, not tapering direct from the base, glabrous, dull red, 1-14
lin, long; segments erect or slightly spreading, 1-2 the length of
the tube; anthers usually subineluded and manifest, more rarely
subexserted, lateral, curved-oblong, very obtuse, seaberulous, 2 lin.
long; pore 2 the length of cell; awus curved, subulate, ciliolate,
3-8 the length of tke cell; style slender, well-exserted; stigma
capitellate, small; ovary pubescent. Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 688 ;
Wendl. Erie. Ie. fase. 21,189, t. 53. E. calathiflora, Salish. in
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 328. E. concava, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1384?
and Bot. Mag. t. 21491 E. canaliculata, var. minor, Andr.
Heathery, t. 157, and Col. Heaths, t. 158. gs :

Sovrn AFrica: without locality, Mund! and cultivated specimens!
Coast Rxcion, from 800 to 3L00 ft. : Clanwilliam Div.; Krakadouw Pass,
Leipoldt, 214 partly | Tulbagh and Ceres Div.; on the Witsen Berg, Pappe!

Erica.| ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 169

mountains near Tulbagh, Guthrie, 2734! Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5298!
Schlechter, 8948! 8962! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Paarl Div. ;
French Hoek Mountains, Thunberg, Paarl Mountain, Drége. Stellenbosch Div. ;
Lowrys Pass, Bolus, 5558! Caledon Div. ; Zwarte Berg, Schlechter, 5588!
Knysna Div. ; between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay, Cape Govt. Herb.
Generally recognizable by its numerous smull, well-rounded flowers, bowl-—

shaped to t he base, and its slender long-exserted style. The shape of the corolla
is somewhat variable, the limb sometimes not at all spreading, at others dis-
tinctly though shortly spreading. But we have not seen any wild specimens
resembling in this respect those named E. concava, cited above, with very wide-
spreading campanulate corollas and figured from garden specimens. We follow
Bentham in quoting them, though we are uncertain whether this character
be only an effect of cultivation or hybridization, or whether it represents a
distinct species. Schlechter’s 8948 looks like a species of the § Ceramia, but a
careful examination shows it to belong here. This species also connects with the
§ Eurystoma, and does not entirely agree with this group, owing to its usually
half-included stamens. Andrews’ fig. l.c, ¢. 157, represents the plant in its wild
state very well, except that we find the sepals more foliaceous, always greenish
and pubescent. :

226. E. dioteflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 342) ; erect,
1-11 ft. high ; branches many, suberect, often flexuous, somewhat
slender, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, suberect to spreading, not crowded,
slender, linear, subacute, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin, long; flowers
3-nate; pedicels slender, 13-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small;
sepals lanceolate, puberulous, subfoliaceous, coloured, about } lin.
long; corolla from campanulate-cyathiform with the mouth slightly,
or not, contracted, to ovoid-suburceolate with a moderately contracted
mouth, glabrous, minutely pulverulent or impressed-punctate, dry,
rich ruby-red or purple, 14-14 lin. long; segments 5—} the length
of the tube; anthers usually included, about equal to the corolla,
sometimes subexserted, sublateral, attached to the filaments dorsally
at the base, longish oblong, wider at the base, from 4 to 7 times as
long as the width in the middle, over > lin. long, muticous ; pore
11 the length of the cell; style exserted, decurved ; stigma capi-
tate; ovary hispidulous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 667. £.
pistillaris, Soland. ea Salisb. l.c. 342.

Sovrn Arrica: without locality, Masson or Niven, 44! : ;

Coast Rxaron: Caledon Div.; mountains about the Zondereinde River,
near Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3298 (or 3278) ! and MacOwan
Herb, Aust.-Afr., 1627!

It is closely allied to the §§ Gypsocallis and Ceramia, and might almost be
placed in either. Our specimens show but little variation.

227. E. opulenta (Wendl. ex Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 499 ?);
branches slender, densely clothed with submatted short grey plumose
hairs; leaves 8-nate, erect, imbricate, linear, subobtuse, suleate,
glabrous, about 1 lin. long; flowers numerous, densely clustered ;
pedicels slender, less than 1 lin. long ; bracts, 2 subapproximate,
1 remote, small ; sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, scarious, glabrous,
coloured, about 3 lin. long; corolla tubular-eampanulate, slightly
widened at the mouth, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; segments about
2 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, lateral, oblong, obtuse,

170 gRIcace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

slightly incurved, $ lin. long, aristate ; pore varying from nearly
orbieular 1—1 the length of the cell, to elliptical }—} the length of

5 4

the cell; awns about 3 the length of the cell, recurved ; style
exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 667. Microtrema opulentum, Klotzsch, l.c. 499.

SourH AFRICA: without locality, Hesse.
Coast Reeion: George Div.; between Touw River and Kaymans River,
Burchell, 5774! near George, Alexander, 1!

There is a little uncertainty about this species which was made the type of a
new genus by Klotzsch, as having a l-celled, l-ovuled ovary, 6 stamens and
anthers with a minute pore. Bentham noted on Hesse’s ticket in the Berlin
Herb.: ‘‘I have examined 2 flowers,—in one I found 7 stamina and in the other
8; in both 4 cells and 2 ovules in each.” With it he identified Burchell’s 5774.
Possibly Hesse’s plant was variable; we have been able only to see a single
flower of it, in which the ovary was imperfect; it had 7 stamens and though
the anther-pore was unusually small, it was closely connected as regards size with
some of Burchell’s specimens, which are also variable. The species is probably
a true Erica, with somewhat the habit of E. paniculata.

928. E. harveiana (Guthrie & Bolus) ; apparently a small shrub ;
branches slender, densely covered with rather long, straight, squar-
rose simple hairs; leaves 8-nate, very crowded, suberect, imbricate,
slender, linear, subobtuse, flat above, convex and sulcate below,
glabrous, ciliate, shortly aristate-apiculate, 1 lin. long ; flowers
3-nate; pedicels about 4 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous,
minute ; sepals foliaceous, lanceolate, united a little above the base,
glabrous, about 3} lin. long ; corolla broadish cyathiform when young,
mouth neither widened nor contracted, when older becoming some-
what broadly-ovoid with the mouth slightly contracted, glabrous,
about % lin. long; segments broadly deltoid, slightly spreading,
1-1 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, lateral, longitudinally
semilanceolate, subacute, slightly curved at the back, straightish in
front, glabrous, smooth, 2 lin. long, aristate ; pore about 4 as long as
the cell; awns less than 3 as long as the cell, incurved (? always) ;
style exserted, slender, decurved ; stigma capitate, lobed or punctate
above, somewhat large; ovary white-pubescent, 4-celled, cells several-

ovuled.

; oy ren Recon : Uitenhage Div.; on the Van Stadens Mountains, Zeyher,

999. E. parvula (Guthrie & Bolus) ; dwarf, decumbent, 6-12 in.
high ; stem stout and woody, 21-31 lin, in diam. at the base;
branches many, much-spreading, glabrous, red when young ; leaves
3-nate, erect, adpressed, about equalling the internodes, oblong or
elliptical, blunt, sulcate, ciliate, glabrous, glossy, thick, 3—3 lin, long;
flowers 3-nate, not numerous ; pedicels at length deflexed, slender,
under 1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals from ovate to
lanceolate, connate at the base, foliaceous, keeled, about lin. long ;
corolla tubular-campanulate, distinctly widened at the mouth, 1} lin,
long, glabrous, white; segments spreading, rounded, about } the
length of the tube ; anthers subexserted (possibly at length exserted),

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 171

subterminal, longitudinally semiobovate, nearly } lin. long, dark-
coloured, decurrent-aristate at the base; pore 4 the length of the
cell; awns rough, with only a short free tooth-like point; style
exserted, slender, straight ; stigma small, capitellate or subsimple ;
ovary glabrous.

Coast Recion: Stellenbosch Div. ; on a rock near the mouth of the Steen-
brass River, 20-30 ft. above the sea, Guthrie, 3710!

230. E. unilateralis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 667) ;
erect, 6-12 in. high; branches puberulous, slender, straight or
flexuous; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear, keeled, suleate,
glabrous, 2-22 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate (rarely 4-nate?) ; pedicels
puberulous, about 2 lin. long; bracts approximate or sometimes
subremote, subscarious, small ; sepals obovate or ovate, acute, keeled,
glabrous, scarious, 3—{ lin. long; corolla variable, subtubular,
tubular-campanulate and not contracted or widened at the mouth,
suburceolate and slightly contracted in the throat, or subovoid and
more contracted at the mouth, glabrous, dry, 1-2 lin. long;
segments erect, }—} the length of the tube; anthers subexserted,
subterminal or sometimes sublateral, linear-clavate, obtuse, about
2 lin. long, decurrent-aristate ; pore about 1 the length of the cell;
awns very narrow, dark-coloured, connate with the filament for a
length somewhat greater than that of the cells and terminating in
short spreading free points; style exserted, slender; stigma sub-
simple ; ovary puberulous.

Coast Region: Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Mountains, Zeyher, 791!
8192! Albany Div.; on the rocks in Zwartwater Poort, north of the Zuurberg
Range, Burchell, 3376! 3422!

There has been some confusion in herbaria between this species and Z.
inconspicua, Bartl., of which we have not seen a type specimen, and place
amongst the imperfectly known species.

231. E. brachysepala (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, of stunted ap-
pearanee, 6-8 in. high ; branchlets flexuous, rigid, roughly pubescent,
or glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect, often adpressed, subimbricate or
sometimes not exceeding the internodes, from linear to oblong or
elliptical, blunt, sulcate, glabrous, distantly gland-ciliate, thick,
$—]1 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, or in clusters of 5-6 ; pedicels viscous-
pubescent, }—1 lin. long; bracts from subapproximate to subremote,
small; sepals like the bracts and leaves, oblong, thick, obtuse,
glandular, subviscid, 3-5 lin. long ; corolla cyathiform or broad-
cyathiform-campanulate, mouth widened or not contracted, glabrous,
subviseid, dull-yellow or rosy, 1-14 lin. long; segments erect or
slightly spreading, broadly rounded, about 3 the length of the tube ;
anthers well-exserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong,
obtuse, from a little over 5 to nearly } lin. long, muticous ; pore
2 the length of the eell, style exserted, slender, unusually straight
(in this group); stigma subpeltate-capitate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Recon: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 7789!
Hemel-en-Aarde, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 16377 !

172 ERIcACExX (Guthrie & Bolus). [Prica,

A distinct species, although it is difficult of location. In general appearance
and in its small inconspicuous dull-coloured flowers, it resembles species of the
§ Arsace, but is separated by the exserted anthers. It approaches E. demissa, but
is smaller and more slender in habit and the corolla and sepals are quite different.
There appear to be two forms: one, with yellowish flowers, and paler and
shorter anthers, is Schlechter’s 10377 ; the other, with rosy flowers, darker and
longer anthers, is his 7789.

232. E. kraussiana (Klotzsch in Walp. Rep. ii. 728) ; branches
everywhere plumose-puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, short, thick, glabrous,
densely imbricate, evanescent, plumose-denticulate on the margin ;
bracts approximate, lanceolate; sepals lanceolate, lilac, glabrous,
shortly ciliate; corolla oblong-globose, small, contraeted at the
throat ; limb very short, straight; anthers exserted, muticous; style
exserted ; ovary glabrous,

Coast Recaion: Caledon Div.; mountain-sides near Genadendal, 1000-
2000 ft., Krauss, 957 !

Section XVIII. OROPHANES. (Sp. 233-259.)

233. E. pilulifera (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 355); erect, virgate,
1-1} ft. high, simple and naked below, branched and leafy above,
surmounted by umbels of red flowers ; branches slender, channelled,
glabrous ; leaves 4-nate (or sometimes 3-nate ?) or scattered, crowded,
suberect, linear, subacute, sulcate, pubescent, glabrescent, ciliate on
the edge and on the folds at the meeting of the margins, 21—4 lin.
long; flowers 4-nate or more commonly umbellate with a few axillary
immediately below the umbel ; pedicels glabrous, 3-31 lin. long;
bracts 2, remote, linear, scarious, over 1 lin. long (the third appears
to be wanting) ; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
keeled, scarious, glabrous, red, 14-12 lin. long; corolla suburceo-
late-cyathiform, very little constricted at the throat or widened at
the mouth, about 2} lin. long; segments erect or subspreading,
4-3 the length of the tube; anthers included, oblong-cuneate,
smooth, glabrous, Jess than } lin. long, aristate; pore about 2 the
length of the cell; awns minutely ciliolate, about equal to the cell;
style included ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. EH. nudicaulis,
Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 113. . piluliformis, Salisb. in Trans.
Linn. Soc. vi. 378. E. umica, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 188. ZL.
pedunculata, Andr. Heathery, t. 229, and Col. Heaths, t. 252.
LE. pilulaformis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 680.

SoutH AFRica: without locality, Rowburgh! Bowie! Miller! Herb. Salis-
bury / and cultivated specimens !

Coast Rxreion: Cape Div. ; moist or marshy places on the Lower Plateau of

Table Mountain, about 2500 ft., Niven, 221! Zeyher, 5003! Bolus, 37121
Wolley Dod, 138721 mountains between Cape Town and False Bay, Thunberg.

234. E. subulata (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 20, 123, t. 47); erect,
rigid, much branched, 1-21 ft. high; branches puberulous, with
long hairs sparsely intermixed; leaves ereet or spreading, always

Hrica.] Ericace® (Guthrie & Bolus). 1738

rigidly curved, linear, acuminate, subpungent, sulcate, pallid,
glabrous, 4—7 lin. long; flowers usually 4-nate, sometimes clustered
on short branchlets in heads 3 in. in diam.; pedicels about 1} lin.
long; bracts approximate, linear, tapering into a long bristle,
nearly 14 lin. long; sepals linear from a broad scarious somewhat
toothed base, and tapering upwards into a longer and finer bristle
than that of the bracts, 13—2 lin. long; eorolla tubular-suburceolate,
slightly asymmetrical, nearly equal at the mouth, more orless pale rosy,
2-21 lin. long; limb short, ereet or very little spreading; filaments
bent below the anther; anthers included, oblong, obtuse, scabrid on
the margins, 3-31 times longer than the width at the middle, about
2 lin. long, aristate; pore 2 the length of the cell ; awns setaceous,
smooth, about 1 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma
capitate; ovary elongate, glabrous, Benth. in DOC, Prodr. vii.
675.

Coast Reeron, at 1300-3250 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; on the Witsen Berg, near
Tulbagh, Burchell, 8666! Ceres Div. ; rocky places at the foot of the mountains
near Ceres, Bolus, 67261! Guthrie, 3177! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége !
Marloth, 603! Puarl Div. ; hills near the Berg River, Drége.

235. E. scabriuscula (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 517); erect, virgate,
with many ascending, densely glandular-hispid branches, 2-3 ft.
high; leaves spreading or squarrose, crowded, linear, margins
revolute, just touching, or oblong or narrow-linear and more or less
open-backed, obtuse, somewhat thickly glandular-hispid, dark green,

1-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, sometimes clustered ; pedicels
sparsely hairy, 2-2} lin. long; bracts subremote to remote, small ;
sepals oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, tipped with a greenish-keel,
subsearious, coloured, pubescent, about 1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-
urceolate, throat more or less (but not much) constricted, pale rosy,
about 2 lin. long; segments short, erect or very slightly spreading ;
filaments bent below the anther; anthers ineluded, rarely just
manifest, subcuneate or longitudinally subsemiovate, rounded or
somewhat narrowed at the apex, cells minutely papillose, ciliate on
the front margin, 2 lin. long, aristate ; pore 2 the length of the eell ;
awns straightish, deflexed or spreading, ciliolate, about equal to the
cell; style exserted; stigma capitate ; ovary hispid, chiefly at or
towards the apex. Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 372? not of
Drége’s Exsicc.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678.

Sourn ArFrica: without locality, Mund! and cultivated specimens !

Coast REGION, between 200 and 1200 ft.: George Div. ; between Touw
River and Kaymans River, Burchell, 5773! Barbiers Kraal, Niven, 46! near
George, Burchell, 5995 ! Schlechter, 2242! 5772! Bolus, 8670! Montagu Pass,

Y in. Herb. Bolus, 5525! Knysna Div. ; near Knysna, Tyson in MacOwan
y Bolus, Herb. ‘Norm. keke 995! Humansdorp Div.; Storms River,

Schlechter, 5960!

236. E. gibbosa (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678) ;
ereet, reaching 5 ft. high; branches puberulous and also beset with
glandular-setulose squarrose hairs ; leaves spreading to squarrose,

174 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

linear-oblong, obtuse, thick, sulcate or subopen-backed, hispid with
eoarse shortish tubercle-based, frequently gland-tipped hairs, 1-1}
lin. long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels glabrous, 1 lin. long; bracts 2
approximate, 1 remote, small; sepals ovate or subovate, acute, keel-
tipped, lacerate, subscarious, } lin. Jong; corolla subcyathiform
(when young) to urceolate, mouth equal or slightly widened when
young, contracted after flowering, 1-13 lin. long ; segments erect or
spreading, short ; filaments much bent below the anthers; anthers
included or just manifest, obtusely-cuneate, minutely papillose,
ciliolate, a little over 1 lin. long, aristate; pore 3—% as long as the
cell; awns setaceous, ciliolate, about + the length of the cell;
style exserted ; stigma capitate; ovary hispidulous, chiefly at the
apex.

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Mund! Drége, 7785a !

Coast Recion : Oudtshoorn Div.; between Oudtshoorn and Zwartberg Pass,
Kolbe in Herb. Bolus! George Div. ; near the west end of Lange Vlei, Burchel/,
5698! near George, 600 ft., Schlechter, 5861! Knysna Div.; between Knysna
River Ford and Goukamma River, Burchell, 5560! near Forest Hall, Miss
ee 68! Humansdorp Div.; near Storms River, 600 ft., Galpin,

237. E. bergiana (Linn. Diss. de Erica, n. 6); erect, 1-3 ft.
high; branches mostly virgate, hirsute ; leaves generally spreading,
linear, obtuse, sulcate, or subopen-backed, rough with tubercle-
based hairs, or sometimes smooth and subglabrous, ciliate, 14-3
lin. long; flowers 4-nate ; pedicels pubescent, red, 13-3 lin. long;
bracts remote, small; sepals from a broad ovate scarious lacerate ciliate
base, tapering into a shorter or longer foliaceous green cusp, 3-14 lin.
long ; corolla urceolate-globose, or in smaller specimens subovoid, red,
13-31 lin. long ; segments erect or slightly spreading, ovate to semi-
orbicular, imbricate at the base, 1-1 as long as the tube; anthers
included, dorsifixed mostly rather high above the base, subovate, very
obtusely rounded at the top, smoothish, ciliate or naked, 1 to nearly
1 lin. long, cristate or subaristate, the appendage broad-lanceolate,
lacerate or subulate and fringed ; pore 2—1 as long as the cell; style
included or slightly exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovary on a broad disk,
glabrous. Amen, Acad. viii. 55; Mant. Alt. 235; Wendl. Eric. Ic.
fase. 2, 29; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 9389 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 662 ;
var. glabra, Wendl. l.c. fase. 24, 189, t. 72. E. lacuneflora, Salish.
Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 377. E. quadriflvra,
Andr. Heathery, t. 41, and Col. Heaths, t. 125. E. florida,
Thunb. Diss. Erica, 40. E. campylophylla, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii.
190? LE. turrigera, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 377. E.
cupressina, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 7. E. incurva, Andr.
Col. Heaths, ili. t. 175, and Heathery, t. 169. EH. quadrifolia,
Pritz. Ic. Ind. i. 421. . nitens, Lee ex Steud. Nomenel: ed. 2, i.
576?

Soutu Argica: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated

specimens ! :
Coast Reeion, 1000-4000 ft.: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, Drége, 7769!

Brica.] gricace® (Guthrie & Bolus). 175

Pakhuis Berg, Schlechter, 10815! Tulbagh Div.; Roode Zand, Thunberg;
Tulbagh Kloof, Zeyher, 1097! Guthrie, 2187! Drége; Tulbagh Waterfull,
Niven, 23! Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5176! Nelson, 34! Worcester Div. ; Dutoirs
Peak, Marloth, 2413! Dutoits Kloof, Drége. Paarl Div.; French Hoek,
MacOwan Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 935! Stellenbosch Div.; Jonkers Hoek,
Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4957! Caledon Div.; mountains near Zoetemelks
Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3296! Zeyher, 3218! Zwart Berg,
Pappe!

This species is easily recognized from all others in this section by its reflexed
sepals, These specimens, which we have carefully examined, appear to show
a gradation of difference in almost every organ, which renders even a distinction
of varieties with constant characters, apparently impossible.

238. E. aspalathifolia (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc, xxiv. 182) ;
diffuse, sometimes weak-growing, with a few long subsimple erect or
subdecurrent branches, 12-18 in. long, and a few short branchlets
above, more or less setulose in all parts ; leaves 3—4-nate or scattered,
spreading or squarrose, crowded, very narrow-linear, acute, flattish
and faintly suleate below, ciliate with long white hairs, minutely
puberulous, 1-1} lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate, crowded on very
short close branchlets and forming a dense pseudo-spike 6-8 in.
long, 1 in. in diam., sometimes (in poorly grown specimens) 3—4
flowers simply terminal; pedicels puberulous, 4-1 lin. long; bracts
subapproximate, foliaceous, 1 lin. long; sepals linear, acute, folia-
ceous, long-ciliate, 3-1 lin. long ; corolla subampullaceous-tubular
(somewhat inflated below) to tubular, sometimes gradually tapering
to the apex, sometimes nearly equal and little or not at all contracted
at the mouth, of thin texture, white (Wood), mostly 24-25 lin.
long ; segments erect, rounded, 5-4 the length of the tube ; filaments
only slightly curved below the anther; anthers included, broad-
cuneate-oblong, widely rounded at the apex, scaberulous, { lin. long,
aristate; pore about } the length of the cell ; awns capillary, + the
length of the cell; style included, slender; stigma capitellate ;
ovary hispidulous, chiefly on or towards the apex.

Van. 8, Bachmannii (Bolus) ; sepals lanceolate, ~ lin. long ; corolla tubular
or subelavate-tubular, 5 lin. Jong; anthers nearly 3 lin. long, inserted on the
filament higher above the base of the cell.

Eastern Reoion: Eastern Pondoland; Egossa Forest, Sim, 2454! Natal,
1000-4000 ft., Inanda, Wood, 693! 7519! damp stony places on Great and
Little Noods Berg, ft., Wood, 911! Var. B: ‘Pondeland ; probably
near the mouth of St. Johns River, g00-1600 ft., Bachmann, 359! (Herb.
Berlin). awe : 4

isti ies, with the aspect of plants 0 ermes, from whic
it paphecbeceg es its strictly sein PL Wvod’s 693 appears to be

a short-stamened form of the species.

939, BE. adequata (Tausch in Flora, 1839, 634); branchlets
slender, subglabrous or minutely hispidulous; leaves spreading,
narrow-linear, subobtuse, faintly sulcate, glabrous, remotely and
shortly ciliolate, 14 lin. long; flowers terminal, (“ and also lateral ”
Tausch), sub-4-nate, cernuous ; pedicels slender, straight, puberu-
lous, over 1 lin, long ; bracts narrow-linear, upper subremote, small,

176 ericace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

lower median; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious-edged,
and sparsely subdenticulate, 1 lin. long; corolla obconic (“ campanu-
late,” Tausch), widened at the mouth, 1} lin. long; segments erect,
continuous, less than 2 the length of tube; filaments not very
slender, straight; anthers subexserted, cuneate-oblong, straight,
glabrous, 2 lin. long, cristate-aristate at the base ; pore 2 the lengrh
of the cell; awns subulate, curved, denticulate or slightly lobed,
fringed, less than 4 the length of the cell; style straight, tapering
upwards, about equalling the anthers; stigma simple; ovary thinly

hispidulous. LZ. flexicaulis, Hort. ex Tausch, l.c., not of Dryander.
Sout ArFrica: without locality, cultivated specimens !

We insert this species with some hesitation, but having seen and dissected
Tausch’s type (by the courtesy of the authorities of the Royal Bot. Inst. of
the Univ. of Prague), it gives us the impression of being a good and distinct
species. The anthers are only very little exserted, or for about half their
length.

240. E. rubens (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 49, not of others); erect,
almost entirely glabrous, about 1 ft. high; branches numerous,
slender, reddish, glabrescent; leaves erect or suberect, imbricate
below or on the upper branchlets, often shorter than the internodes,
linear or narrow-oblong, acute, sulcate, the uppermost sometimes
pubescent, about 2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate or umbellate,
3—6-flowered, at length usually cernuous ; pedicels slender, glabrous,
crimson, 3-7 lin. long; bracts remote, slender, linear, adpressed ;
sepals lanceolate, sulcate, glossy, dark red, about 1 lin. long;
corolla urceolate-ovoid to urceolate-globose, mouth much contracted,
bright red, 23-3} lin. long; segments very short, suberect or con-
nivent; filaments bent ; anthers included, cuneate-oblong, thinly
hairy chiefly at the base, about } lin. long; pore §—% the length of
the cell; connective produced backwards at a right angle near the
base and carrying a broad pale lacerated papery crest, winged
laterally, with a linear terminal lobe, the whole about as long as the
cell; style included; stigma capitellate, very small; ovary obovate,
on a distinct stipe + lin. or more long. . peduncularis, Salisb.
in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 329; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 676.

Soutu ArFrica: without locality, Thunberg!

Coast Rea@ion : Clanwilliam Div.; on the Cederberg Range, Shaw in Herb.
Bolus, 56651! Honig Valei, near Krakadouw, Leipoldt, 1386! 208! MacOwan,
Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1917!

CxzNnTRAL REGIoN : Ceres Div.; mountains in the Cold Bokkeveld, Masson !

Of this species we have seen Thunberg’s type and also poor specimens of
Masson’s in the British Museum. These were almost certainly Salisbury’s types
of his BE. peduncularis, and the latter quotes Thunberg’s E. rubens as a synonym.
As to the specimens marked a and 8 in Thunberg’s herbarium this is confirmed by
Rach; and the species is indeed so distinctly marked that the descriptions alone
would have sufficed. Our other specimens agree well, and the only variable
character is the length of the pedicel.

241. E. leta (Bartl. in Linnwa, vii. 648) ; a glabrous erect shrub,
6-12 in. or more high ; leaves mostly erect, imbricate, linear, acute,

Erica.] ERICACEa (Guthrie & Bolus). 177

sulcate, keeled, 2-3} lin, long; flowers 4-nate, or shortly umbellate ;
pedicels slender, 2-4 lin. long; bracts remote; sepals subulate, or
linear-acuminate from a wide base, or lanceolate-acuminate, keel-
tipped, 1-1} lin. long; corolla urceolate to ovoid-urceolate, mouth
more or less contracted, sometimes subtetragonous, usually bright
red, 2-2} (rarely 3) lin. long; limb erect, 1—1 the length of the
tube; anthers included, oblong, obtuse, naked on the margins,
$ lin. long; pore }-% the length of the cell; connective produced
backwards at a right angle from above the base of the cells, bearing
a broadish ovate or subfalcate-ovate, acute, serrulate, but not
fimbriate, white, papery crest, as long as or longer than the eells;
style included or shortly exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovary sessile,
glabrous, smooth or seabrid.

Var. 8, incisa (Bolus) ; habit and leaves somewhat stouter, corolla somewhat
larger than in the type; crests of the anthers more or less deeply inciso-lobulate.
E. rubens, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 676; Andr. Heathery, t. 48? and Col.
Heaths, t. 127? Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 15, 43, t. 17, not of Thunb. nor of
others.

Coast Reeion, between 200 and 3000 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; between
Gordons Bay and Hanglip, Guthrie, 3723! Caledon Div.; sandy places between
Great Houw Hoek and Bot River, Zeyher, 3228! Klein River Mountains,
Zeyher, 3232! Vogel Gat, Schlechter, 10413! Var. 8, Cape Div.; Simons Bay,
Niven, 16! Muizenberg Mountain, Bolus, 4474! near Simons Town, MacOwan,
2285! on the Steen Berg, Fair! Smitswinkel Viey, Wolley Dod, 792! Klaver
Vley, Wolley Dod, 805!

Our variety 8 is based upon Niven’s 16, which served as the plant for
Bentham’s description of E. rubens, Andr. (not of Thunb.). But there is very
little difference between the two, as Bentham himself observed, and amongst
humerous specimens we have sought in vain for any distinctive characters of

specific value.

242, E. turbiniflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 377); erect,
glabrous, about 1 ft. high ; branches corymbose, channelled, reddish ;
leaves erect or subereet, imbricate, narrow-linear, acute, round-
backed, faintly sulcate, 3-4 lin. long ; flowers 4-nate, sometimes
clustered ; pedicels slender, 1-2 lin. long; bracts subapproximate
to subremote, rather long, linear; sepals narrow-linear, sometimes
with a short broad searious-margined base, 1-2 lin. long, generally
longer than the corolla-tube ; corolla broad-eyathiform ; tube turbi-
nate, 4-angled (8-angled, Salisbury) or 8-nerved, mouth widened,
red, about 11 lin. long ; segments erect, about $ the length of the
tube; anthers included, oblong, very obtuse, membranous, smooth,
pallid, 1 lin. long; pore about § the length of the cell; connective
produced at the base backwards at nearly a right angle to the cell,
and bearing faleate-lanceolate crests, which are free for the greater
part of their length; style subincluded, usually just equal to the
corolla ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii,
GiBe 5... :

Var. 8, aristata (Bolus) ; anthers aristate ; awns nearly as long as the cells,
decurrent along the connective for the greater part of their length.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Niven, 77! Roeburgh! Herb. Salisbury /

‘VOL. 1V.— SECT. I. eee N

178 ERIcAcERe (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

Coast Recion : Var. 8: Stellenbosch Div. ; by the foot-path from Gordons
Bay towards Cape Hanglip, 200 ft., Guthrie, 3723b !

243. E. viridipurpurea (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 353); erect, grace-
ful, not much spreading, 1-2 ft. high ; branches subvirgate, pubes-
cent; leaves more or less erect or ineurved, imbricate, linear, round-
backed, ciliate or naked, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate,
often clustered; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, very
small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, keel-tipped, ciliate or naked, usually
rosy, 1% lin. long; corolla obeonic-campanulate, slightly widened
at the mouth, red, 1-12 lin. long; segments slightly spreading,
_nearly equal to the tube, with the interstices rounded at the base,
open and obvious in bud; anthers almost exactly those of £.
cyathiformis, but slightly larger (.018 in. long); style ineluded ;
stigma peltate-capitate; ovary glabrous. E. mauritanica, Linn.
Syst. ed. 10, 1002, Diss. Erica, n. 9, with fig. of fl.. and Amen.
Acad. viii. 59, n. 9. E. pelviformis, Salish, Prodr. 298, and im
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 376. E. persoluta, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 342, —
and Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 14, 27, not of Linn. LE. regerminans,
Andr. Heathery, t. 235, and Col. Heaths, t. 265, not of Linn. £.
leucantha, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 792. E. virescens, Thunb. Diss.
eee 37? EL multumbellifera, Hort. ea Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7760! Herb. Salisbury! and culti-
vated specimens !

Coast RxGion, from 100-2800 ft.: Worcester Div., Cooper, 1596! Cape
Div. ; common on the mountains and Flats around Cape Town, Burchell, 85641!
Bolus, 1203! 2956! Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 758! Wolley Dod, 175! Caledon
Diy.; mountains of Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3260!

244. E. sitiens (Klotzsch in Linnma, xii. 505); erect, 1-2 ft.
high; branches stout, ascending, subvirgate, pubescent or puberulous ;
leaves generally erect, straight and imbricate, sometimes flexuous or
squarrose-patent, linear, acute, keeled or round-backed, ciliate or
naked, glabrous, 11-4 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, or oecasionally
3-nate or solitary; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote or sub-
approximate, small; sepals lanceolate, acute or acuminate, with a
long tapering point, keeled, subscarious, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long ;
corolla most commonly oblong-urceolate, asymmetrically inflated in
the middle, constricted at the throat and distinetly oblique at the
mouth, sometimes varying to shortly tubular with nearly equal
sides and but little constricted or oblique, white to red, limb when
red often white-edged, 3-4 lin. long; segments short, usually
spreading; filaments bent below the anther; anthers included,
broadly euneate but with a more or less rounded apex, in some
examples nearly as broad as long, in others longer, rough with small
papille, about 2 lin. long, cristate-aristate ; pore about 3 the length
of the cell; appendages subulate, entire or occasionally lobed,
closely ciliate, spreading, about 2~% the length of the eell; style
included; stigma capitate; ovary generally turbinate, glabrous.
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 677.

Erica.] ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). 179

Coast REaGron, between 1000 and 3000 ft.: Stellenbos i
e oe ch Div.; Lowrys Pass
pos onhat 7226! Galpin, 4940! Caledon Div. ; mountains near *Palmict River,
: eyher! Guthrie in MacOwan Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1722 | Schlechter, 7453! Bolus,
175! mountains near the mouth of Bot River, Bolus, 8490!

245. E. Blandfordia (Andr. Heathery, t. 154); branches stout,
erect, puberulous, 10 in. or more long; leaves mostly squarrose or
spreading, the uppermost only suberect, narrow-linear, acute, keeled,
glabrous, about 2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate to solitary; pedicels
glabrous, under 1 lin. long; bracts remote (subbasal), small; sepals
ovate, shortly acuminate, strongly keeled the whole length, scarious,
glabrous, 11 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, yellow, 3}-4 lin.
long ; throat slightly constricted; tube symmetrically or sometimes
somewhat asymmetrically inflated and the mouth then somewhat
oblique ; segments short, rounded, spreading ; filaments slightly
bent below the anther; anthers included, longitudinally semiovate,
the posterior margin straightish, obtuse, rough with small papille
and ciliolate on the margin, about 3 lin. long, aristate ; pore about
2 the length of the cell; awns nearly setaceous, spreading, smooth
or minutely ciliolate, about 2 the length of the cell; style included ;
stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 153. E.
blanfordiana, Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1793; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 115;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 648.

Coast Region: Worcester Div.; near Breede River, Niven, 268! Bains
Kloof, 2000 ft., Miss Cummings in Herb. Bolus, 5854!

246. E. lateralis (Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 380); erect, 1; ft. or more
high ; branches stout, pubescent; leaves from erect to spreading,
usually incurved, linear, subacute, stout, keeled or obscurely sulcate,
ciliolate or naked, glabrous or rarely slightly puberulous, glossy,
2-4 lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate, sometimes umbellate, some-
times pseudo-racemose; pedicels 1}-4 lin. long; bracts remote,
small; sepals lanceolate to ovate, subacute, glabrous and glossy, or
puberulous, keeled, scarious-edged, ciliate, mostly deeply-coloured,
1-11 lin. long; corolla urceolate, ovoid-urceolate or suburceolate-
eyathiform, more or less (sometimes only very slightly) contracted
at the throat, rosy, 2-3 lin. long ; segments small, erect, or slightly

spreading; anthers included, more rarely just manifest, oblong,

subobtuse, dark-coloured, }—3 lin. long, crested shortly above the
of the cell; crests lanceolate or

base; pore about 3 the length
ovate, lacerate, lobed or serrulate, }—$ the length of the cells, rosy ;
style exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 676; Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 30, and Heathery, t. 71.
E. gutteflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 374. EH. incarnata,
Andr. Heathery, t. 1682 and Col. Heaths, t. 28; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 1655% not of Thunb. E. rubens, var. humilis, Wendl. Eric.
Ic. fase. 3, 18, not of Thunb. E. peduneulata, Wendl. l.c. fase.
23, 173, t. 66% not of Andr. LE. pendula, Lodd. lc. t. 9021 #.
nutans, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iit. oe E. arbuscula, Lodd. l.c.
we

180 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

t. 8432 E.-.Fibula, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 368 (fide
Benth.).

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated spect-
mens !

Coast Reeton, between 1000 and 4000 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; Mitchells Pass,
MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 37! Bolus, 5354! Ceres Div.; near Ceres,
Guthrie, 2286b! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége, 7763! Paarl Div. ;
French Hoek Mountains, Schlechter, 10270! Caledon Div.; Palmiet River,
Guthrie, 3872! Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3207! mountains near Gena-
dendal, Burchell, 7714! 7756! Bolus, 5423!

247. E. verecunda (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 379) ;
erect, reaching 3-5 ft. high; branches ascending, cano-puberulous,
glabrescent ; leaves erect, incurved-erect or spreading, imbricate,
linear, rather blunt, suleate, glabrous, 2-8 lin. long; flowers in
many-flowered umbels, sometimes shortly pedicelled and appear-
ing subcapitate or subspicate, usually cernuous at maturity ; pedicels
pubescent, crimson, 2—4 lin. long ; bracts small and quite remote,
or two small and approximate, one median, long and foliaceous ;
sepals ovate, acute, sulcate, ciliate, about } lin. long, or lanceolate,
acuminate and about 1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-ureeolate, mouth
contracted, 13-3 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, white or
very pale rose; anthers ineluded, cuneate, subacute from 2 to nearly
% lin. long, crested ; pore about % the length of the cell ; crests
ample, lobed and erosulate at the base, linear above, white, sub-
diaphanous, about equalling the cell in length; style slightly
exserted or just manifest ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth.
in DQ. Prodr. vii. 676. E. cernua, Andr. Heathery, t. 9, and
Col. Heaths, t=. 12; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 822, not of Linn. f.; var.
lanceolata, Wendl. Eric. Ic, fasc. 8,13, EH. ignorata, Klotzsch ex
Benth. l.c. 676. é

South Arrica: without locality, Drége! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens ! :

Coast Region: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; by rivulets on Wind Hoek Mountain,
Niven, 21! 22! Clanwilliam Div., Mader in Herb. MacOwan, 2184! Leipoldt,
133! Cederberg Range at Pakhuis Pass, 2300 ft., Schlechter, 8607! Bolus,
8682! Marloth, 2639! 2691! Div. ? Pinaars Kloof, Burke /

: Pca ome Recion: Ceres Div.; Gydouw Mountain, 6000 ft., Schlechter,

The occasional closeness of the inflorescence is sometimes misleading.
Schlechter’s 10221 is a smaller-flowered form from a much higher elevation. ©
The three figures cited are all good, but being from garden plants they are better
grown than wild specimens.

248. E. tenella (Andr. Heathery, t. 94); ereet, 1-11 ft. or more
high, generally more slender than any of the four preceding species;
branches ascending, grey-pubescent ; leaves erect or spreading, linear,
acute or subobtuse, keeled, glabrous or sparsely hairy and becoming
so, mostly about 2 lin. long ; flowers crowded on short branchlets at
the ends of the branches, mostly forming a pseudo-raceme; pedicels —
puberulous, red, 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals mostly

Frica.] ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 181

ovate-lanceolate, rarely subovate, acute or acuminate, keeled,
glabrous, glossy, usually dark red, $1 lin. long; corolla ureeolate
or ovoid-urceolate, constricted at the throat, but always somewhat
wide-mouthed, white or pale rose, 2-3 lin. long; segments mostly
rather large and well-spreading, more rarely erect, sometimes darker-
coloured than the tube, from 1—1 the length of the tube; anthers
included, somewhat variable in shape and length, from transversely
semiovate-cuneate to oblong-cuneate, minutely ciliolate on the
margin, the width at the base sometimes equal to the length, some-
times a little narrower, from 1—2 lin. long, erested ; pore 1-2 the
length of the cell; crests always immediately deflexed close to the
cells, subulate to lanceolate, or lanceolate-faleate, finely fimbriate,
mostly entire or slightly lobed or lacerate, }—2 the length of the
cells, rarely even a little longer than them; style mostly included,
rarely subexserted ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. <Andr. Col.
Heaths, t. 135; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 22, 155, t. 59; Benth, in
DC. Prodr. vii. 677. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 3751 E. umbellifera,
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 25, 13, t. 6. . lactiflora, Lodd. Lc. t. 991.
E. lactea, Lee ex Klotzsch, and E. kennedyana, Klotzsch in Linnea,
xii. 506. E. lasiandra, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 677. E. Sprengelii,
Sweet ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 580.

[E. pulchella, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 379, according to the type
specimen, belongs to this species. —N. EZ. Brown.]

Var. 8, gracilior (Bolus); branches leaves and pedicels more slender ; leaves
mostly spreading or squarrose and more distant; pedicels more spreading ;
bracts minute; anthers as in the type, but the crests often here and there lobed,
as well as finely fringed.

Sourn AFrrica: without locality, cultivated specimens !

Coast Raion, from 300 to 3000 ft. : Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland,
Mulder ! Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8269! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains,
Zeyher, 3207! Bolus, 5858! Guthrie, 2286! Zondereinde River Mountains,
Guthrie, 3280! Onrust River, Schlechter, 10384! mountains near Hermanus,
Guthrie, 4653! Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Elim, Bolus, 67321! Schlechter,
7638! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; mountains near the mouth of the Klein River,

Zeyher, 3229 |

Our variety 6 ‘has a very different look, but the shape and size of the sepals,
corolla and anthers are so similar that we cannot venture to separate it asa
species. We have only Zeyher’s specimen found ‘in shady places,” to which
unusual circumstance its vegetative differences are probably due.

249. E. chionophila (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 6-7 in. or more
in height ; branches glabrous ; leaves erect-incurved, densely imbri-
cate, linear, subobtuse, sulcate, pubescent, ciliate, 2-2} lin. long;
flowers terminal, 3-nate, on short elustered branchlets; pedicels
red, under 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, small, ciliate, red ;
sepals lanceolate, acute, subglabrous, softly ciliate, red, } lin. long ;
corolla subglobose-urceolate, contracted at the throat, glabrous, deep
red, 12 lin. long; segments rounded, erect, $—-{ the length of the
tube; filaments broad; anthers included, obliquely ovate, very
obtuse, between 3—} lin. long, cristate ; pore about } the length of
the cell; crests broad-subulate to cuneate, subentire or lobed, ciliate,

182 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

about 1 the cell in length; style included, short, thickened towards
the apex ; stigma clavate-capitate, large; ovary glabrous.

Coast Rearon: Worcester Diy. ; on Sneeuwkop Mountain, near Bains Kloof,
Marloth in Herb. Bolus, 6497!

A very well-marked species, if its characters are constant ; we have only one
small specimen from the single station cited. It verges towards the Subgenus
Platystoma, and is distinguished in the present section by the combination
of a corolla-limb rather large for this section, with a very small cristate
anther.

250. E. quadrangularis (Salisb. Prodr. 297, not of Andrews) ;
erect, 12-18 in. high; branches mostly much spreading or divari-
cate, rarely subvirgate, puberulous; leaves usually spreading, or
only the younger erect, linear, glabrous, the younger ciliate, $-1} lin.
long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels slender, about 1 lin. long; bracts
remote, minute; sepals ovate or lanceolate-ovate, acute, subsearious,
ciliate or naked, keeled, glabrous, }—% lin. long; corolla generally
broad-cyathiform, more rarely subcampanulate-cyathiform, or the
tube sometimes obeonic (“ poculiform,” Salisbury), mostly widened
at the mouth, sometimes tetragonous, 1-14 lin. long, white to rosy ;
limb erect, variable in shape and length, 1—3 the length of the tube,
the interstices of the limb-segments acute at the base; anthers
included, from obliquely cuneate-oblong, 3 lin. long, in Salisbury’s
type to subtriangular with very rounded angles, } lin. long and
proportionately broader (the front view of the anthers showing 4
greater width than their length), in most other specimens quite
smooth and glabrous, aristate ; pore 3—2 the length of the cell; awns
narrow, rough-edged, but not fringed, about 3 the length of the cell ;
style straight, included; stigma capitellate, mostly small; ovary
glabrous. EH. quadreflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 375;
ane 3 DC. Prodr. vii. 679. E. corusca, Lichtenst. ex Benth.
.c. 679.

Sout Arrica: without locality, Rorburgh! Herb. Salisbury !

Coast ReGion, between 150 and 1500 ft. : Clanwilliam Div.; near Clan-
william, Leipoldt, 211! Worcester Div.; Matroos Berg, Marloth / Paarl Div.!
French Hoek, Bolus, 6983! Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 5353 5
Caledon Div. ; near Zoetemelks Vlei, Guthrie, 3285! near Caledon, Bolus,
6749 ! Schlechter, 5604! Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, Bolus, 6734! Swellendam
Div. ; Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3673! Riversdale Div.; near Riversdale, Schlechter,
1932! Knysna Div. ; Millwood, Tyson!

Salisbury says “the flowers are inconspicuous, but in the whole genus very
distinct,” neither of which statements are intelligible to us, although we have
seen and dissected his type, from which our specimens differ only slightly in the
anthers. If we are correct in referring them here, of which we have little doubt,
the inflorescence is abundant and conspicuous, though the flowers themselves are
not large, and the corolla greatly resembles that of several other species. Salis- —
bury doubtless described from a single specimen, and possibly a poor one. The
Index Kewensis, i. 870, puts this species down as a synonym of E. denticulata.

251. E. cyathiformis (Salisb, in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 376);
erect, much branched, 1-1} ft, high; branches puberulous, the

Erica.] ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 183

ultimate very slender; leaves erect or spreading, linear, obtuse,
glabrous, slender, often curved, 3}—1 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, some-
times by abortion of branchlets pseudo-axillary ; pedicels slender,
3-] lin. long; bracts remote, very smali; sepals ovate, obtuse,
ciliate, shining, less than 2 lin. long; corolla subglobose-campanu-
late or broad-urceolate-campanulate, not (or hardly) constricted at
the throat, somewhat widened at the mouth, $-1 lin. long;
segments about 2 as long as the tube; anthers included, sub-
triangular, with broadly rounded angles, subscabrid, ciliate at the
base, 1 lin. long, aristate; pore about 3 the length of the cell;
awns spreading, distant, naked on the margins, shorter than the
eell; style included, short; stigma subpeltate-capitate; ovary
glabrous or puberulous. . levis, Andr. Heathery, t. 221 and Col.
Heaths, t. 182; Spreng. Pugill. i. 30? Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 1393.
E. caffra, Lodd. lc. t. 196, not of Linn. nor of others. EH. panicu-
lata, var. alba, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 14, 25% £. paniculata, Wendl.
ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2,1. 577. E. persoluta, var. major, Wendl. Lc.
fasc. 24,187, ¢.71? E. persoluta, var. levis, Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 679. Z stenophylla, Benth. lc. 679. E. odorata, Spreng.

Neue Entdeck. i. 271.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated speci-

mens !
Coast Rr@ion: Worcester Div.; banks of streams in Hex River Valley,

1600 ft., Tyson, 637! Caledon Div.; mountains near Grabouw, Bolus, 4176!
and without exact locality, Thom, 978! Tulbagh or Worcester Div.; Bolus,
5191!

There has been some confusion about this species. Our specimens from several
localities agree well with each other, with the specimen in the Berlin Herbarium
marked E. levis, Spreng., and with Bentham’s type of E. stenophylla. Salisbury
himself saw the resemblance of his species to EL. viridipurpurea, L., though he
observes : “Closely allied to [it], the anthers being almost exactly the same ;
yet on account of the difference in the interstices of the corolla-limb, I can
scarcely regard it as a variety of that.” To this we can only add that the leaves
appear to be constantly smaller,—about half the size, It is much nearer to
E. viridipurpurea than to E. subdivaricata, under which it was also placed by
Bentham. It is also allied to E. quadrangularis, but the habit and general
aspect are different, leaves constantly smaller, and the corolla less wide at the

mouth.

252. E. hemastoma (Wendl. Eric. Icon. fase. 27, 18); branches
few, erect, slender, glabrous; leaves erect to spreading, linear,
sulcate, the younger pubescent and ciliate like the bracts and sepals
with minutely plumose hairs, glabrescent, terminating In a sharp awn,
3-6 lin. long; flowers sub-4-nate ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long; bracts
subremote, two very small, the third longer, foliaceous ; sepals
lanceolate, acuminate, awned, coloured, 1-13 lin. long ; corolla
ovoid to globose-urceolate, mouth much contracted, 2}—3 lin. long or
more ; segments ereet, rounded ; anthers included, subeuneate or
longitudinally semiovate, dorsally curved, 2 lin. long, crested at the
base; pore £ as long as the cell; crests more than } the length of
the cell, lobed, acute, erosulate ; style included or just manifest ;

184 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus), [| Hrica.

stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous. Z. aristifolia, Niven ea Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 676.

Sovrn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7766!
Coast Rreion : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Wind Hoek Berg, Niven, 19!

253. E. velitaris (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 357) ; branches
13 in. long or more ; leaves erect or spreading, linear-trigonous, thin,
acute, subglabrous, 21 lin. long; pedicels 1-11 lin. long; bracts
subremote, the lower long and leaf-like; sepals linear from an
ovate subscarious base, acuminate, upper part foliaceous; corolla
subcyathiform, mouth about equal, ‘‘ pubescent, 21-3 lin. long”
(Salisbury), glabrescent, 2 lin. long; segments about 1 as long as
the tube ; anthers included, oblong, smooth, glabrous, a little over
$ lin. long, with slender rough awns about as long as the cell ; style
ineluded ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 678.

Var. 8, hemispherica (Bolus); branches and leaves somewhat stouter and
more rigid ; upper bracts approximate, lower equal to the pedicel ; sepals narrow-
lanceolate, acuminate, strongly keeled, about 14 lin. long; corolla suburceolate,
slightly contracted at the throat, glabrous, 24 lin. long ; anther-cells cuneate,
obtuse, about 3 lin. long. LE. velitaris, var. B, Benth. in DOC. Prodr. vii. 678.
E. hemispherica, Klotsch e« Benth. l.c.

Sourn ArFrica: without locality, Roxburgh !

Coast Rea@ion: Var. 8: Caledon Div.; about Bot River, 500-2000 ft.,
Zeyher! in Herb. Trin. Coll. Dubl.; near Palmiet River, Zeyher, in Herb.
Berlin (ex Bentham).

A somewhat uncertain species. We have not seen Salisbury’s type, and his
description is too brief to avail, but he cites in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 357, “E.
glabra, Roxb. MS.” If the corolla be usually pubescent, the species would be
better in § Hphebus. But, though we have examined a few flowers from
Roxburgh’s plant, we have only found a microseopic down on one corolla; and

the corolla of the var. B is perfectly glabrous. We leave it in this section where
Bentham placed it.

254. E. gracilis (Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 47) ; a slender branched
erect shrub, under 1 ft. high; branches ascending or spreading,
pubescent ; leaves erect or sometimes incurved or spreading, imbri-
cate, linear, keeled or round-backed, slender, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long;
flowers 4-nate, on rather short branchlets; pedicels 1-21 lin. long ;
bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, ciliolate
or naked, about 3 lin. long ; corolla urceolate, mouth usually slightly —
(rarely much) contracted, rosy, 11-2 (mostly 12) lin. long ; segments
small, erect or spreading (probably always spreading at full maturity);
anthers included, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, margins naked, little more
than 4 lin. long, broad-aristate or subcristate; pore about 21 as long
as the cell; awns deflexed close to the cells, broadish-subulate,
entire or minutely lacerate, from } as long to nearly as long as the
cells; style included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary sessile on a broad
disk, glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 677; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii.
865; Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 375; Andr. Heathery, t. 68 ?
and Col, Heaths, t. 98%; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 8, 9. E. tenuis-

Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 185

sima, Wendl. l.c. fase. 6,9. EH. tenera, Klotesch ex Benth. l.c. 677.
E. imbecilla, Sweet. Hort. Brit. ed. i. 258. H. neglecta, G. Don,
Gen. Syst. iii. 792.

Sour AFRIcA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated spect-
mens !

Coast REGIoN: common from Swellendam Div. eastward to Humansdorp
Div., from 250-8000 ft., Niven, 14! Alewander, 19! Zeyher, 3255! Bolus, 2392 !
5840! 9233! Schlechter, 2228! 2066! 5835! 5991! Galpin, 3674!

In the wild state this species is fairly constant in its characters and is
generally recognizable by its small sepals and anthers. In cultivation, however,
it seems to have varied, and this has given rise to some doubt and confusion as
to the figures. It is very uncertain whether Andrews’ figure is the same as
Wendland’s plant ; we have seen no specimens with such globose corollas; nor
can we cite, as does Bentham, Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 244.

255. E. leucantha (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 371); erect,
somewhat slender, entirely glabrous, 12-18 in. high; branches
mostly virgate, often covered with a white papery semitransparent
and deciduous or separable epidermis ; leaves 4-nate (we have seen
none 3-nate as mentioned by Bentham), mostly erect and imbricate,
rarely spreading, linear, blunt, faintly sulcate, 1)~-2 lin. long ; flowers
4-nate, often clustered; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote,
small; sepals ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, very concave,
searious-edged, 1 lin. long or less; corolla cyathiform, or sometimes
(probably in immature flowers) somewhat obconic, widened or not
contracted at the mouth, subtetragonous, white, about 1} lin. long ;
segments erect or scarcely spreading, about > as long as the tube ;
anthers elliptical or oblong, smooth, glabrous, about } lin. long,
aristate ; pore about 3 as long as the cell; awns subulate, entire or
nearly so, about 2 as long as the cell ; style included, slender ; stigma
eapitellate ; ovary glabrous. Klotasch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
677. E. leucanthera, Andr. Heathery, t. 28, and Col. Heaths, t.
108, not of Linn. (a very good fig. of the wild plant). . lutea, var.
alba, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Woburn. 14.

: wi lity, cultivated specimens / :

Soa mpm Stee Oe: 3 y aoe Hock, Schlechter, 9221! Caledon
Div. : mountains near Grietjes Gat, Zeyher, 3255! near Villiersdorp, Bolus,
51801 near Genadendal, 800-2200 ft., Bolus, 5430! 6959!

Bentham supposed this to be probably a garden hybrid; but from our
numerous wild specimens this seems improbable.

956. E. subdivaricata (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 114) ; erect, much-
branched, 1-2 or even 3 ft. high ; branches generally hirsute ; leaves
spreading or erect, linear, subobtuse, round-backed, glabrous or
sparsely pubescent, about 2 lin. long ; flowers 4-nate on short
branches, becoming clustered; pedicels glabrous, about 1 lin. long ;
bracts remote, linear, ciliolate, small; sepals lanceolate, acute,
foliaceous or subsearious on the margins, keeled, ciliate or naked,
1-2 lin. long; corolla campanulate-cyathiform or subturbinate,
mouth widened, sometimes only slightly so, white, more rarely rosy,

186 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

1-2 lin. long; limb spreading or erect, about 2 as long as the tube,
the interstices between the segments acute, closed ; anthers included,
longitudinally semi-ovate, cuneate or oblong-cuneate, smooth, glab-
rous, a little over + lin. long, aristate ; pore about 2 the length of
the cell; awns curved, slightly rough on the inner edge, mostly
somewhat shorter than the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate ;
ovary glabrous or thinly puberulous. J. persoluta, Linn. Mant. Alt.
230; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678. E. prolifera, Salish. in Trans.
Linn. Soc. vi. 376. £. assurgens, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 372.
E. congesta, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 17, 75, t. 29, not of Lodd. E.
strigosa, Wendl. l.c. fasc. 2, 25, not of Soland. LE. caffra, Andr.
Heathery, t. 7, and Col. Heaths, t. 7, not of Linn, E. exserrens
and EH. pallidiflora, Klotzsch ex Benth l.c. 679. HE. regerminans,
Hort. ex Benth. l.c.

Coast Reeion: frequent near Cape Town, and extending eastward to
Knysna Div. ; ascending to 2500 ft., many collectors, Thunberg, Niven, 93!
Burchell, 699! 702! 737! 766! 6542! 7048! 7581! 8376! 8588! Zeyher,
3245! Sieber, 1741! Drége, 7761! Bolus, 2947! Schlechter, 2041! 7687!
Guthrie, 44! 2281! Wolley Dod, 2269! Knysna Div.; Buchanan! And
without locality, cultivated specimens !

Somewhat variable in habit and in the size of the flowers, and especially so as to
indumentum. E. persoluta, L. var. levis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 679, seems
to be identical with E. cyathiformis and E. persoluta, var. y subcarnea, Benth.
l.c. may be a form of E. curvirostris. The species is closely allied to E. viridi«
purpurea, but is generally at once distinguishable by the acute interstices between
the segments of the corolla-limb ; the flowering season is also quite different.

257. E. margaritacea (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii.
20) ; erect, glabrous, 1-1} ft. high; branches slender, mostly straight
and fastigiate; leaves usually erect and closely imbricate, linear,
keeled, slender, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate or sometimes umbel-
lately clustered ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long ; bracts remote, linear, about
1 lin. long; sepals linear-acuminate or lanceolate from an ovate
denticulate-edged base, sometimes laxly set, 3-1 lin. long; corolla
cyathiform or subureeolate-campanulate, equal at the throat or nearly
so, white, sometimes faint pink, about 2 lin. long; limb short, erect
or very slightly spreading; anthers included, oblong, very obtuse,
glabrous, smooth, nearly } lin. long; pore about # as long as the
cell; crests oblong or ovate, acute, variously lacerate, papery, whitish,
from 3-3 the length of the cell; style subexserted; stigma capi-
tate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 677; Andr.
Heathery, t. 126, and Col. Heaths, t. 35; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc.
8, 11 (all good figures). EE. obesa, Salisb. Prodr. 294, and in Trans.
Linn. Soc. vi. 375, not of Tausch.

Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Burchell, 173! 412! 703! 821!
Ecklon, 72! Mund, 37! Bolus, 2957! 3774! Guthrie, 380! Wolley Dod, 906!
Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Thunberg, Niven, 18! Also without
locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens !

_. 258. E. curvirostris (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vi. 875); ereet,
stout and rigid, 9-12 in. or more high; branches ascending, pubes-

Erica.] ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 187

cent with reversed hairs ; leaves suberect to spreading or squarrose,
broadly linear, subobtuse, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long ;
flowers 3-nate to umbellate ; pedicels slender, 14-2 lin. long; bracts
remote, adpressed, small ; sepals ovate to lanceolate-oblong, acute or
obtuse, subscarious, thick-keeled, glabrous, ciliolate or naked, often
yellowish, 3-1} lin. long; corolla subeampanulate, widened above
the hemispherical tube, 13-2 lin. long ; segments slightly spreading,
from 2-4 the length of the tube; anthers included, cuneate and
subacute, or oblong and subobtuse, ciliolate or naked, 2—} lin. long,
cristate; pore 2—3 the length of the cell; crests either spreading
backwards at an angle or immediately deflexed, lanceolate, acuminate,
lacerulate or fringed or pubescent, sometimes with one or more short
lobes 2 as long as the cells or somewhat longer; style subexserted often
decurved, stoutish; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii.677. E. declinata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1662. E. decwnata,
Steud. Nom. ed. i. 304. , thyrsoidea, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 619.

SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Sieber, 178! Herb. Salisbury! and culti-
vated specimens !

Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 2400 ft., Bolus, 4480! Schoenn-
berg in Herb. Galpin, 4907 ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Niven, 144!
Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8243! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell,
8078, 8079; Bolus, 5855! near Lowrys Pass, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 4827 !

The corolla is represented as white in Loddiges’ fig. and was so in Bolus,
5355; but in other specimens it seems to have been red or rosy. This species
flowers in the autumn and winter. :

259. E. trichophylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 679); erect,
slender, 6-14 in. high; branches chiefly virgate, the ultimate very
slender, hispidulous, rusty red; leaves from suberect and imbricate
above to spreading below, the lowest subsquarrose, linear, semi-
terete, very slender, pubescent, glabrescent, about 1 lin. long;
flowers sub-4-nate; pedicels slender, about }—$ lin. long; bracts
remote, linear, one sometimes exceeding the pedicel ; sepals linear-
lanceolate, long-acuminate, green-keeled, scarious-edged, ciliate,
about 1 lin. long, or little shorter than the corolla ; corolla broad-
eyathiform, nearly equal at the mouth, somewhat hyaline, white,
14 lin. long; segments erect, from } as long to as long as the tube ;
anthers included, very straight, narrow-oblong, pallid, smooth,
glabrous, nearly + lin. long, aristate ; pore 5 the length of the cell;
awns entire, about 2 the length of the cell ; style included, slender ;
stigma capitellate, very small ; ovary glabrous.

SourH AFRICA: without locality, Masson (in Herb. Kew) !

Coast REGIoNn: Caledon Div.; Zoetemelks Vlei, Guthrie, 3301! 3541!

Our specimens agree almost exactly with Masson’s.

Section XIX. LEPTODENDRON. (Sp. 260-268.)

260. E. rupicola (Klotzsch in Linnza, xii. 504) ; erect ; branches
stoutish, ascending, either few and subvirgate, or many, spreading

188 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus), [Hrica.

and subfastigiate, glabrous or puberulous; leaves 3-nate, or
occasionally 4-nate on the same plant, crowded, erect or spreading-
ineurved, narrow-linear, keeled, glabrous, 11-2 lin. long; flowers on
short branchlets along the branches, with a subracemose appearance,
corolline; pedicels $ lin. long; bracts remote, subbasal, minute ;
sepals broad-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, ciliate, coloured, * lin,
long ; corolla ovoid or suburceolate-ovoid, mouth contracted, slighily
oblique, “deep rosy red” (Klotzsch), about 21 lin. or rarely 15 lin.
long; segments slightly spreading, or erect and at length connivent,
about 4 as long as the tube; filaments very slender, sigmoid near
the apex and thickened above the curve, about 2 lin. long ; anthers
oblong, obtuse, scaberulous; cells partite to the base, 2 lin. long,
muticous ; pore 2 the length of the cell; style included, often just
manifest ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vil. 681.

Coast Reaion: Swellendam Div.; mountains along the lower part of the
Zondereinde River, near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3234! 209! (the latter a form
with 4-nate leaves). Bedford Div.; near Bedford, Weale, 1! (in Herb. Albany
Museum, Grahamstown, a specimen with smaller flowers 13 lin. long, not fully
or poorly grown).

261. E. condensata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 681); branches
stoutish, erect, puberulous, 10 in. or more long; leaves 3-nate,
erect or subincurved-spreading, crowded, linear, subobtuse, suleate,
glabrous, about 2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate, corolline : pedicels
about 1 lin. long; braets approximate, all sepal-like, or the lower
sometimes longer and equalling the sepals; sepals broad-ovate or
ovate-rhomboid, acute, cuspidate-keeled, thick, subcoriaceous, some-
what viscid (Bentham), 3-1 lin. long ; corolla subcampanulate-cyathi-
form (or “ovate,” Bentham), equal or slightly widened at the mouth,
or (in Burchell’s type specimens, apparently over mature) con-
tracted towards the apex, 4-foveolate at the base, about 2 lin. long ;
segments variable in length, about 1 the length of the tube ; fila-
ments nearly straight; anthers oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, muti-
cous; cells deeply parted, about 3 lin. long; pore about 1 the
length of the cell; style included ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.

Var. 8, quadrifida (Bolus) ; corolla-limb more deeply cleft ; segments from
4-} the length of the tube.

Coast ReGion: Swellendam Div,; on a lofty craggy peak near Swellendam,
Burchell, 7391! Riversdale Div.; summit of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7112!
Var. 8, Swellendam Div.; on the Langeberg Range, near Zuurbraak, 2500 ft.,
Schlechter, 2146 !

262. E. mira (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680);
apparently erect, 8 in. or more high; branches straggling, slender,
reddish, white-puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, suberect, mostly scanty
with longish internodes, linear-oblong, blunt, suleate, glabrous,
pallid, under 2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, scanty, corolline ; pedicels
puberulous, 1; lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals subulate-

Brica.| ERIcAcEx (Guthrie & Bolus). 189

linear, acute, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; corolla subtubular, marked
with 8 longitudinal lines, a little over 2 lin. long; segments erect,
rounded, about 1 the length of the tube; filaments long and slender,
12 lin. long; anthers sublinear, a little widened towards the apex,
smooth, nearly 1 lin. long, aristate; pore nearly equal in length to
the cell; awns strap-shaped, equal throughout, closely approximate
but free, the points shortly spreading, a little shorter than the cells ;
style exserted; stigma clavellate, small ; ovary globose, minutely
hispidulous or glabrous.

Coast Recion: Worcester Div.; on a mountain, between de Draai and
Driekoppen, Drége, 7724! in Herb. Berlin.

We have seen a good specimen of the type of this apparently rare and little-
known species. It is very distinct and might almost be recognized from
the anther alone, which is not quite like any other we remember to have

seen.

963. E. micrandra (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, entirely glabrous,
except for a slight down on the younger branches, about 1 ft. high ;
branches mostly straggling or subdivaricate, more rarely ascending
or suberect, thinly and distinctly leafy, with naked internodes of
from 1-1 in. long; leaves 3-nate, erect, incurved, never crowded,
nor (except a few of the youngest) imbricate, linear-semiterete,
obtuse or subacute, flat above, round-backed, faintly sulcate, 1;—2
lin. long; flowers 3-nate, corolline ; pedicels slender, about 1 lin.
long; bracts subapproximate, linear, about } lin. long; sepals
adpressed, linear, acute, sulcate, foliaceous, sometimes coloured,
reddish, about $ lin. long, not reaching so high as the corolla-tube ;
corolla broad-cyathiform, flesh-coloured, about 1} lin. long, 2} lin.
wide at the mouth when flattened down; segments continuous,
subsemiovate, broadly-rounded, about equal to the tube; filaments
capillary ; anthers manifest, basifixed near the ventral margin,
semiorbicular, ventral margin straight; cells subdistant and divari-
cate, about ;45 in. long, aristate; pore 3 the length of the cell;

bent downwards and projecting as an acute

connective at length
tooth in front; awns decurrent for less than 2 their length along

the filament, then free, spreading, subulate, acuminate, the whole
appendage nearly 2} times the length of the cells; style exserted,

slender; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Recron: Ceres Div. ; at the foot of the mountains near Ceres, 1700 ft.,

Bolus, 9198!

This very
rangularis, with the corol
peculiar and very small anther alon
species known to us, except E. pusilla,
similar and is even slightly smaller; b
different.

264. E. Vanheurckii (Muell. Arg. in Van Heurck, Obs. Bot. &
Plant. Nov., fase. i. 36) ; erect, about 1 ft. high ; branches slender,
subvirgate, glabrous ; leaves 3-nate, erect or subspreading, mostly

isti ies has the habit and general appearance of E. quud-
cose bth la of the § Eurystoma, but very different sepals. Its
alone distinguishes it at once from every other
var. 8, the anther of which is curiously
ut in other respects the plant is very

190 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

shorter than the internodes on the slender flowering branches, or
sometimes imbricate, linear-elliptic, subacute, sulcate, thickish,
glabrous, 1-1} lin. long; flowers 3-nate or umbellate (4—8-flowered),
corolline; pedicels decurved, slender, glabrous, 11-4 lin. long;
bracts subapproximate to subremote, linear, small, coloured; sepals
narrow-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, ciliate or naked, mostly deep red,
4-1 lin. long; corolla urceolate or obovoid-urceolate, constricted at
the throat, red, 1}—2 lin. long ; segments spreading, rounded, 1—1
the length of the tube; filaments slender, mostly ciliate, with short
or long hairs, about 1 lin. long; anthers oblong or cuneate-oblong,
obtuse, smooth, pale brown, bearded at the base or naked, 1—2 lin.
long, crested at the base; pore 1—2 the length of the cell; crests
ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, variously incised, from 2 as long to
nearly as long as the cell; style mostly included, sometimes just
manifest ; stigma subsimple or eclavellate, small; ovary subturbinate,
constricted at the base, glabrous.

Coast Ruaion: Tulbagh Div.; flats between the Witsenberg and Skurfde-
berg Ranges, Zeyher, 1103! 1103a!

CrntRAL Reeion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Skurfdeberg Range near
Gydouw, 5000 ft. Schlechter, 10006! Gydouw Berg, 6000 ft., Schlechter,
10223! near Wagenbooms River, Schlechter, 10152!

This species has been confused with E. leptopus, Benth., but the corolla is
quite different in shape, The anther, as also the filament, is much more
copiously bearded in Ecklon & Zeyher’s specimens than in Schlechter’s ; but
of these latter only his 10223 appears to have a few fully developed flowers, and
those showing them clearly as described,

265. E. campanulata (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 9); erect, slender,
somewhat variable in habit and appearance, from 6 to probably
24 in. in height; branches numerous, erect or spreading, or when
young and grown in damp places subsimple, virgate, and very
slender with fewer and smaller flowers, glabrous, reddish ; leaves
commonly 3-nate, rarely 4-nate or opposite on the same plant,
erect or subspreading, narrow-linear, acute, keeled, glabrous, 11—22
lin. long; flowers generally solitary, corolline ; pedicels puberulous,
1-1; lin. long ; bracts remote or subremote, rarely subapproximate ;
sepals from ovate and acute to lanceolate and long-acuminate,
scarious, glabrous, margins mostly naked, rarely ciliate, eoloured,
13-1} lin. long; corolla very variable in size and shape, tubular-
eampanulate, cyathiform, broad-cyathiform or suburceolate, bright
yellow, more rarely cream-colour, 21-31 lin. long; segments erect,
more rarely spreading, 1-1 the length of the tube; filaments
nearly straight, about } lin. long ; anthers oblong-cuneate, obtuse,
scaberulous, 3—} lin. long, most generally muticous (said to be
“sometimes minutely toothed at base”); pore about 1 the length
of the cell; style included, sometimes compressed ; stigma capitel-
late, small; ovary glabrous. Andr. Heathery, t. 55 ; Wendl. Eric.
Ie. fase. 13, 3; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 184; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
681. £. campanularis, Salisb. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 330, E.

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 191

tenuifolia, Hort. ex Salisb. lc. 331. EF. flavicans, Klotzsch ex
Benth, l.c. 681.

Coast Rreton: Caledon Div.; mountains near Palmiet River, Ecklon &
Zeyher, 95! in Herb. Berlin; Babylons Tower Mountain, 1200 ft., Templeman
én Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 753! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, MacOwan, Herb.
Aust.-Afr., 2016! between French Hoek and Villiersdorp, Bolus, 6989! Div. ?
Bolus, 6872! Also cultivated specimens !

This is a very variable species, but with numerous specimens before us we are
unable to define even sufficiently well-marked or stable varieties, It has been
ordinarily recognized (from Andrews’ figure) by its somewhat slender habit and
leaves, and solitary yellow flowers. It varies gradually up to stouter forms,
with 4-nate leaves and clustered (3—4-nate) flowers, and these look very different
from the others, but without any differences in the structure of the flowers.
Extreme forms of these are represented in Bolus, 6872.

266. E. lachnwoides (G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 795) ; erect, 1 ft.
or more high; branches numerous, ascending, with short floriferous
branchlets; leaves 3-nate, erect to spreading, crowded, imbricate,
linear, obtuse, suleate or subopen-backed, tomentose-downy and of
“a mealy green,” 11-21 lin. long; flowers corolline, spreading or
cernuous ; pedicels very short; bracts adpressed, broad-lanceolate,
subobtuse, sepaloid, ciliate, coloured, pink, about } the length of the
sepals; sepals like the bracts, from }—} the length of the corolla;
corolla suburceolate-cylindrical, not contracted at the throat,
“ purple-pulverulent,” pink, 3-3} lin. long, 1} lin. in diam. ; seg-
ments spreading, 1—} the length of the tube ; anthers oblong, obtuse,
length not discernible from the figure, cristate ; pore about $ the
length of the cell ; crests lanceolate, acute, serrulate, pallid, nearly
as long as the cells; style included, short; stigma capitellate ;
ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 693. EH. Lachnea, var.
purpurea, Col. Heaths, t. 178, and Andr. Heathery, t. 170.

Sourn AFRica: without locality, ex Andrews.
This is only known from the figures and descriptions cited above.

267. E. polycoma (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 655); dwarf,
probably under 1 ft. high; whole plant silvery-grey ; branches erect,
stoutish; branehlets short and flexuous, these and the leaves,
pedicels, bracts and sepals pilose with short and long simple, some-
what silky, grey hairs; leaves 3-nate, erect, closely imbricate,
adpressed, lanceolate, subobtuse, pubescent, the hairs towards the
apex long and tufted, 1-1; lin. long ; flowers 3-nate, subcorolline ;
pedicels curved, 13-2 lin. long; bracts adpressed, ovate, concave,
keeled, subscarious, long-ciliate, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the
bracts but broad-ovate, obtuse, apiculate, 1-1} lin. long, about }
the length of the corolla ; eorolla ovoid-cyathitorm, or by the con-
nivence of the segments in dried specimens appearing ovoid-inflated,
glabrous, dry (or “‘subviscid,” Bentham), rosy, about 2 lin. long ;
segments erect, or connivent in age (and in dried specimens), semi-
ovate, obtuse, longer than broad, equal or nearly so to the tube in
length; filaments slender; anthers subcuneate-oblong, slightly

192 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

incurved, nearly 2 lin. long, erested; pore 1-2 the length of the
cell; crests narrow-lanceolate, acute, pendulous, long-ciliate, brown,
about § the length of the cells; style ineluded, 4-gonous below,
swollen and terete above; stigma subsimple, small ; ovary glabrous,
or thinly hispid on the apex.

Sourn AFrica: without locality, Masson! Niven !
Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; rocky summit of the Genadendal Mountain,
4800 ft., Bolus, 5421! Schlechter, 9835 !

This species does not come very happily into this or any section. Though
distinct, it is allied to E. lachneoides (E. Lachnea, var. purpurea, Andr., as
figured in Andr. Heathery, t. 170). Scarcely any of the specimens, excepting
Schlechter’s, exhibit fully-developed flowers,

268. E. virginalis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 653) ;
apparently a small slender plant, with filiform, white-tomentulose
branches (“quite glabrous,” Bentham); leaves opposite, erect,
adpressed, oblong, obtuse, keeled, glabrous, glossy, under 1 lin. long;
flowers 2-nate, corolline ; pedicels decurved, nearly 1 lin. long;
bracts subremote, small ; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, adpressed,
round-backed and sulcate, or “keeled,” thickish, under 1 lin. long ;
corolla subtubular, 4-gonous, “red,” 2 lin. long; limb erect or
“ stellate-spreading 1” (Bentham); segments rounded, imbricate at .
the base, 1-1 the length of the tube; filaments slender, tapering to
the apex, about 12 lin. long ; anthers narrow-oblong, obtuse, some-
what rough, under 2 lin. long, crested; pore * the length of the
cell; crests ovate, bluntish, about 4 the length of the cell ; style
apparently included ; ovary sessile, glabrous,

Coast Reeron: Tulbagh Div. ; mountains near Tulbagh, Ecklon ¥ Zeyher!

We have seen and examined a frustule with a flower from a specimen marked
as above, which is very probably the type. We find, however, no trace of a
stellate-patent corolla-limb, a character which is often deceptive and lost in dried
specimens, and which Bentham mentions with a sign of doubt. In other
respects it does not agree well with the § Zamprotis where Bentham provisionally |
placed it, the flowers being distinctly corolline ; but it fits better and fairly well
here. The species is a very distinct one.

Section XX. PACHYSA. (Sp. 269-292.)

269. E. ramentacea (Linn. Mant. 65); erect, 1-1} ft. high;
mostly much branched from shortly above the base; branches usually
much spreading, sometimes erect, puberulous or glabrous; leaves 4-
(rarely 3-) nate, erect or spreading, linear, very slender, glabrous,
15-3 lin, long; flowers terminal, umbellate, with a heavy, somewhat
musk-like odour; pedicels erect or spreading, slender, red, 13-1} lin.
long ; bracts 2 subapproximate, 1 median, linear, red ; sepals lanceo-
late, keeled, glabrous, naked or ciliate, reddish, about 2 lin. long;
corolla mostly subglobose, occasionally ovoid, contracted at the
throat, glabrous, slightly viscid, crimson, 1} to nearly 2 lin. long ;
limb short, erect, darker-coloured ; anthers included, dorsifixed near

Brica.] ERIcACEa (Guthrie & Bolus). 193

the middle of the cell, connivent round the stigma, from elliptical
to bluntly triangular (in front view nearly orbicular) densely covered
and the crests ciliate with longish shred-like hairs, about 3 lin. long;
pore 7 the length of the cell; crests sublanceolate, acute, pale brown,
about as long as the cell; style included ; stigma capitate; ovary
glabrous (or pubescent, Salisbury), sessile on a prominent disk.
Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, ii. 269; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 23; Wendl.
Eric. Ic. fase. 1,17; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 446; Andr. Heathery, t.
143, and Ool. Heaths, t. 53; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 658. £.
granulata, Linn. Mant. Alt. 234. E. multumbellifera, Berg. Descr.
Pil. Cap. 110. E. pilulifera, Berg. le. 111. E. bullularis, Salish.
Prodr, 296, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 377. £. bullaris, Steud.
Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 569. E. multiumbellata, Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 658. HH. pilularis, Benth. l.c. sub E. ramentacea.

Soutn AFRIcA: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and culti-
vated specimens !

Coast ReGion: Paarl Div.; between Paarl and French Hoek, Drége!
Cape Div.; common on the Cape Flats and occasional on the hills near Cape
Town, Burchell, 377! 820! Ecklon, 85! Mund, 40! Sieber, 170! Zeyher, 1104!
Guthrie, 191! Wolley Dod, 946! Bolus, 2962! Stellenbosch Div.; between
Lowrys Pass «nd Jonkers Hoek, Burchell, 8316! Caledon Div.; near Gena-
dendal, Burchell, 7776! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 2300 ft., Bolus, 5429!
Swellendam Div.; mountain peak, near Swellendam, Burchell, 7389! Rivers-
dale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Galpin, 3676!

This has the look of the § Orophanes, but the corolla is viscidulous, Specimens
from eastern stations and growing at a greater distance from the sea exhibit
fewer and somewhat smaller flowers and a laxer habit than those from the Cape
Peninsula.

270. E. mucosa (Linn. Mant. Alt. 232); erect, glabrous in all
parts, commonly from 1-2 (more rarely 3-4) ft. high; branches
erect, spreading or straggling, rigid ; leaves 4-nate, erect or somewhat
spreading, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, linear to linear-
oblong, obtuse, keeled, viscid, ciliate or naked, thick, rigid, 1-3
lin. long; flowers terminal, umbellate ; umbels 3-6-flowered ; pedi-
eels 2-3 lin. long; bracts approximate to remote, searious, or
foliaceous in the upper part, viscid; sepals narrow-ovate or lanceo-
late, viscid, tipped with a thick green keel-like point, scarious,
coloured, 1-12 lin. long; corolla urceolate, or subovoid-urceolate,
very viscid, 13-23 lin. long, dull red or purple ; limb short, erect
or subpatent; anthers included, dorsifixed a little above the base,
cuneate (suboblong in front view) obtuse, glabrous, over 7 lin. long
or somewhat less than 11 times its width at the base; pore 3 the
length of the cell; crests sublanceolate, coarsely serrate, long-
‘acuminate, as long as the cells; style included, short; ovary
glabrous. Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 15; Andr. Heathery, t. 174, and
Col. Heaths, t. 39; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 35; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc.
4, 13; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 658, and var. brevifolia, Benth.
Le. 659. LE. pilularis, Lodd. Bot Cab. t. 15634 EE. ferrea, Berg.
Descr. Pl. Cap. 112. E. mucosoides, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1202. E.
pilulifera, Andr. Heathery, t. 2781 Jide Benth.

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194 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Hrica.

Var. 8, crenata (Benth. I.c. 659); leaves elliptical, minutely glandular-
serrulate. E. crenata, E. Meyer ew Benth, l.c. 659.

SoutH Arrica: without locality; Herd. Salisbury! and cultivated speci-
mens of the type and var. B!

Coast Rreion: Cape Div.; occasional on the Cape Flats and mountains up
to 1100 ft., Niven, 41! Burchell, 698! 8352! 8353! Mund, 41! Drége, 77581
Zeyher, 1100! Sieber, 173! Bolus, 4519! Schlechter, 575! 7301! and in
Herb.: Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1801! Guthrie, 292! Wolley Dod, 463! Var. B:
Cape Div.; sandy plains near Cape Town, Niven, 40!

- 271. E. macra (Guthrie & Bolus) ; dwarf, erect, 6-8 in. high ;
branches ascending, dark-coloured, naked below, leafy above, the
younger cano-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, suberect or spreading,
elliptical, blunt, thick and rounded, sulcate, glabrous, 1-1} lin.
long;-flowers terminal, 3-nate ; pedicels slender, viscid, red, 23-3
lin. long; bracts remote, 2 median, 1 basal, scarious, 1 lin. long ;
sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute, scarious, viscid, glabrous, 1} lin.
long; corolla narrow-ovoid-urceolate, glabrous, viscid, purple,
21 lin. long; limb short, spreading; anthers ineluded, dorsifixed
shortly above the base, cuneate, subacute, 3 lin. long or about
twice the width at the base, glabrous, smooth, subaristate or narrow-
crested ; pore about } the length of the cell; awns lanceolate at the
base, tapering to a long fine point, with (sometimes at least) a single
median: saw-like tooth, the whole about as long as the eell;
style included; stigma capitellate; ovary minutely puberulous or
glabrous. .

Coast Region: Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, 7000 ft., Bolus
in Herb. Guthrie, 3948! rocky places on Dutoits Peak, 6200 ft., Marloth, 2418!

272. E. Schlechteri (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 235) ; erect,
2-3 ft. high ; branches ascending, flexuous, puberulous, glabrescent ;
leaves 4-nate, erect or subspreading, imbricate, linear, bluntish,
suleate, glabrous, dry or the younger subviscid, 13-2 lin. long;
flowers terminal, 3-4-nate; pedicels viscid-pubescent, 1-2 lin.
long ; bracts approximate or remote, linear, viscid-pubescent, 1 lin.
long; sepals lanceolate, glabrous, viscid, coloured, 1-12 lin. long;
corolla urceolate-campanulate, only slightly or not contracted at the
throat, viscidulous, pale rosy, 21-38 lin. long ; segments somewhat
large and well-spreading, rounded, from 1—2 the length of the tube ;
anthers included, dorsifixed at the base, longitudinally subsemi-
ovate, obtuse, glabrous, over 1 lin. long, crested; pore about % the
length of the cell; crests lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, nearly
equal to the cell; style included; stigma capitate; ovary densely
hirsute.

Coast ReGion: Queenstown Div.; Hangklip Mountain, 6000-6300 ft.,
Galpin, 1611! he

EasTERgN REGIoN, from 2500 to 6000 ft.: Natal; by the Umzimkulu River
at Handcocks Drift, Tyson, 3066! by the Mooi River, near Weston, Wood,
5476! 5326! Rehmann, 7357! Schlechter, 3341!

“ono Recion: Orange River Colony; Mont-aux-Sources, 6000 ft.,
us!

Mr, Schlechter describes it as overhanging the streams in Natal.

Erica.) ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 195

278. E. spectabilis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 659) ;
stout, erect; branches straight -or flexuous, cano-puberulous, glab-
rescent ; leaves 3-nate, usually erect-incurved, imbricate, oblong or
obovate-oblong, obtuse, sulcate, thick, glossy or minutely ‘puberu-
lous, gland-ciliolate, 1-23 lin. long; flowers terminal, _ 3-nate;
pedicels spreading, gland-pubescent, 23-3} lin. long; bracts sub-
remote or remote, sepal-like, whitish ; sepals ovate or subobovate,
obtuse, keel-tipped, gland-ciliolate, glabrous, white, reaching to
about 1 the height of the corolla, 1-14 lin. long; corolla globose-
urceolate, moderately contracted at the throat, glabrous, viscidulous
or nearly dry, 14-21 lin. long; segments short, erect, rounded;
anthers included, dorsifixed at the base, subtriangular-cuneate or.
oblong, obtuse, ciliolate or naked, 2 lin. long, decurrent-aristate ;
pore 2 the length of the cell; awns decurrent along the produced.
widened deflexed dark-coloured connective, free for about 3 their
length, ciliate or scaberulous, nearly as long as or somewhat exceed-
ing the cells; style included; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary
glabrous, pallid on a dark disk.

Coast Reaion: Bredasdorp Div.; on the chalk hills between Cape Agulhas
and Potte Berg, below 500 {t., Drége ! Mareus Bay, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 4968 |!
Riversdale Div.; on a ridge overlooking Stil Buy at Milkwood Fontein, 600 ft.,
Galpin, 3625! ‘

- Galpin’s 4968 closely resembles the type which was distributed by: Drége
at E. lachneifolia’”’; his 3625 has larger leaves, but otherwise ; differs
1 .

274. E. flocciflora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660); branches
long and somewhat virgate, the younger cano-pubescent ; leaves
4-nate, erect (at least the younger), oblong-linear, obtuse, keeled,
sulcate, the younger tomentose-lanate, the older glabrous and glossy,
about 2 lin. long; flowers mostly terminal, 3-nate (or “ occasionally
lateral?” Bentham); pedicels tomentose, stout, 4 lin. long; bracts
subapproximate, floceose-lanate ; sepals ovate-oblong, subobtuse,
keel-tipped, densely floccose-lanate, subscarious, 2 lin. long; corolla
urceolate, mouth at maturity much contracted, tomentose, viscid,
thick, 23-3 lin. long; limb short, erect ; anthers “ broadly-crested ””
(Bentham) ; style exserted ; stigma ‘clavate ; capsule nearly as large
as the corolla, with a conical top, smooth, glossy, glabrous.

Coast REcion: Uniondale Div.; rocky hill ‘near Groot River in the Long
Kloof, near the village of Haarlem, Burchell, 4992!
~ Very different from any other species in this section by the peculiar indu-
mentum on its sepals. Unfortunately, Burchell’s specimens are fructiferous,
and we have been unable to find an anther.

975. E. Alexandri (Guthrie & Bolus) ; subdecumbent, 10-13 in.
high ; branches numerous, ascending, weak and somewhat straggling,
leafy, dark red, pubescent and also hispid with long gland-tipped
hairs; leaves 4-nate, spreading or squarrose, linear to broad-elliptical,
blunt, pubescent or glabrescent, ciliate with long glandular hairs,
about 1 lin, long; flowers terminal, sub-4-nate or um bellate ;

eee es

196 -ERIcACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

pedicels slender, red, thinly pilose, 14 lin. long; bracts approximate,
foliaceous, spreading, gland-hairy; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute,
searious, keeled, glandular-pilose on the keel only, ciliolate with
short sessile- brown glands, 1 lin. long; corolla urceolate, well con-
tracted at the mouth, viscid, glabrous, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. wide ;
limb spreading, about + the length of the tube; filaments broad,
subequal ; anthers subexserted, dorsifixed considerably above the
base, oblong, obtuse, smooth, glabrous, about 2 lin. long, crested ;
pore 1—2 the length of the cell; crests semiorbicular, lacerate, very
little longer or wider than the base and sides of the cells; style
slender, long exserted ; stigma capitate; ovary hispid, chiefly on the
apex.

dee REGION : Paarl Div. ; sandy flats below Paarl Mountain, Alexander,

276. E. frigida (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 235); suberect,
decumbent or sometimes at higher elevations densely matted and
procumbent ; branches straggling, slender, the younger thinly pilose,
up to 12 in. long; leaves 4-nate, subrecurved, spreading or squarrose,
elliptical or oblong, thick, sulcate, margins rough with tubercle-
based glandular hairs, rarely subnaked and glossy, 3-1 lin. long;
flowers terminal, sub-4-nate or umbellate (4—5-flowered) ; pedicels
viscid, about 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, glandular-ciliate,
small; sepals broad- to narrow-lanceolate, acute, searious, coloured,
viscid, keel-tipped and gland-ciliate near the apex, about +* lin.
long; corolla urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, gradually contracted
towards. the month and well-constricted at the throat, viscid, glabrous
or rarely very minutely puberulous, 11—1% lin. long, deep red to rosy
and whitish ; segments spreading, short, about + the length of the
tube; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, subcuneate,
obtuse, or subnarrow-ovate, smooth, glabrous, over 3 lin. long,
aristate ; pore nearly } the length of the cell; awns rough, spreading,
about 2 the length of the cell; style included ; stigma subsimple ;
ovary densely villous.

EASTERN ReEGIon, between 6000 and 7000 ft.: Griqualand East; summit of
Mount Currie, Tyson, 1255! 1771! Insiswa Mountain, Schlechter, 6451!
Natal; summit of Amawahqua Mountain, Evans, 675! Wood, 4580! ee

KALAHARI ReGion: Orange River Colony ; summit of the Mont-aux-Sources,
9500 ft., Flanagan, 2029! Thode, 32! 65! Bolus!

277. E. nubigena (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 236); erect, 6-12
in. high; branches usually much-spreading and numerous, stout,
glabrous, brittle ; leaves mostly 3-nate, more rarely 3—4-nate on the
same plant, suberect to squarrose, linear-oblong or narrow-elliptical,
subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, thick, viscid, glossy, sparsely gland-
eiliolate or naked, the younger black-apiculate, rather long-petiolate,
13-22 lin. long ; flowers terminal, 3—4-nate; pedicels slender, viscid,

-eoloured, 4-6 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 median, 1 subbasal, viscid,
adpressed ; sepals lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, viscid, minutely
keel-tipped, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, 1}-2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 197

urceolate, very viscid, glabrous, red or purple, 3-31 lin. long; limb
short, spreading, about ; the length of the tube; filaments rather
narrow ; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, oblong-cuneate,
obtuse, smooth, glabrous, 2 lin. long, aristate; pore nearly 1 the
length of the cell; awns subulate-acuminate from a broadish base,
curved, about 3 the length of the cell; style included; stigma

capitate; ovary deeply 8-lobed, velvety, hispidulous at the apex.

Coast Region: Tulbagh Div.; rocks on the Great Winterhoek Berg,
6100 ft., Marloth, 1630! Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4171! Worcester Div.; on
the Matroos Berg, 5500 ft., Marloth, 2209 !

CENTRAL Reeion: Ceres Div.; on the Tafelberg in the Cold Bokkeveld,
6200 ft., Schlechter, 10092! ;

278. E. formosa (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 49, t. 8); erect, 1-2 ft.
high; branches erect or spreading, hispid or pubescent, somewhat
slender ; leaves 3-nate, the younger suberect, the older spreading or
squarrose, elliptical or oblong, obtuse, thiek, sulcate, glabrous, glossy,
the younger ciliolate, 1-14 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels
slender, pubescent, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, like the sepals
but smaller; sepals spreading or reflexed, ovate or broad-lanceolate,
acute, coriaceous, coloured, subviscid, glabrous, about 1 lin. long;
corolla globose-urceolate, distinctly or suddenly contracted at the
throat, with 8 longitudinal channels, viscid, glabrous, white, about
2 lin. long; segments spreading or recurved, about } the length of
the tube ; filaments bent round the ovary and again contracted round
the stigma; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base upon the
thickened projecting connective, oblong, smooth, ciliate at the base,
nearly + lin. long, aristate or subcrested ; pore nearly as long as the
cell; awns broad linear, densely ciliate, partially decurrent along the
connective which stands out at a wide angle from the cells, with long
free spreading points, the whole about 3 of the cell in length ; style
included, much thickened towards the truncate apex ; stigma sub-
simple ; ovary densely hirsute. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 659. H.
grandinosa, Andr. Heathery, t. 265, and Col. Heaths, t. 238;
Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 627. E. quadrata, Lodd. L.c. t, 1943.

Sour AFRica: without locality, Thunberg, and cultivated specimens !

Coast ReGion : Swellendam Div.; Voormansbosch, Ecklon Sy Zeyher, 136!
George Div. ; Outeniqualand, Masson, 82! Cradock Berg, Mund! Kaymaus
Gat, Drége, 7756! Malgaten River, 400 ft., Young in Herb. Bolus, 5521! Knysna
Div.; near Knysna, Buachell, 5453! 5500! Tyson in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb.

Norm, Aust.-Afr., 994 !

279. E. umbelliflora (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 659) ;
branches cano-pubescent with minutely plumose hairs; leaves 3-nate,
erect or spreading, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, glossy, thick, coriaceous,
mostly 1-14 (occasionally 2-3, Bentham) lin. long; flowers in few-
flowered umbels, more or less viseid ; pedicels floccose with minutely
plumose hairs, 1-1} lin. long; bracts approximate, somewhat spread-
ing, broad-ovate or suborbicular, shortly acute, keeled in the upper
half, coriaceous, matging scarious, concave, horn-coloured, }—$ lin.

b

198 ErtcacEx (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Erica.

long; sepals. like the. bracts, but larger and more distinctly, but
shortly, ciliolate, about 1 lin. long and nearly as wide, not reaching
half the height of the corolla; corolla subglobose, subtetragonous,
shortly tapering to. the apex, scarcely constricted at the throat,
about 12 lin. long; segments (in the dried state) connivent, incurved,
broad, 1-1 the length of the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed
considerably above the base, oblong, obtuse, nearly } lin. long,
muticous; pore about 4 the length of the cell; style well-exserted,
slender ; stigma capitellate; ovary depressed, much wider than its
length, glabrous.

Coast ReGion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Musson, 61! Humans-
dorp Div. ; dry sandy eminences near Gamtoos River, Masson, 60!

CrentRAL Reaion: Prince Albert Div.; on the Great Zwartberg Range,
near Vrolykheid, 4000-5000 ft., Drége, 7757 !

280. E. tragulifera (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 374); some-
what slender, with the habit, general appearance and the leaves of
the preceding; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 1-2 lin. long;
bracts approximate, scarious, viscid; sepals spreading or erect,
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, subscarious, viscid, glabrous, about
1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-ureeolate, tapering gradually to the con-
stricted throat, viscid, glabrous, sometimes with 8 longitudinal
channels, white, 2-21 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spread-
ing, short; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base upon the
thickened projecting connective, oblong, smooth, ciliate below,
aristate ; cells deeply partite and at length separating down to the
connective at the base, nearly 1 lin. long; pore 2—% the length of
the cell ; awns broad-linear, densely ciliate, partially decurrent along
the projecting connective, spreading, as long as in the preceding
species; style included, straight, equal to the apex; stigma small,
subsimple or capitellate ; ovary densely hirsute. EH. nitida, Andr.
Heathery, t. 181, and Col. Heaths, t. 188; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
1131; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 659. E. Gordonia, Forbes,
Hort. Woburn. 81.

Sourn ArRica: without locality, cultiwated specimens !

Coast Reeion: George Div.; near George, Alexander, 13 ; Montagu Pass,
1200 ft., Young in Herb. Bolus, 5523!. Schlechter, 5783! Uniondale Div. ;—
Keurbooms River, in the Long Kloof, Masson, 81! Long Kloof, Mund !

CENTRAL ReGIon: Prince Albert Div.; near Klaarstrom, 8000-4000 ft.,
Drege, 7765.

We have carefully examined only the specimens of Young and Schlechter,
and cannot be certain of the others, though they are probably correctly named.

281. E. glomiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 330) ; erect,
1-12 ft. high ; branches suberect or spreading, floccose with very
short subplumosé ‘hairs, beset with. many short flowering branches ;
leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, crowded, subulate-linear, obtuse,
glabrous and glossy, or puberulous, the younger ecartilagineo-ciliolate,
1-3 lin. long ; flowers terminal, 3-nate; pedicels slender, pubescent.
13-3» lin. long; bracts approximate, coriaceous, coloured, rigid,

Erica.] ERIcacEa (Guthrie & Bolus). 199

sepal-like, sometimes equalling or even exceeding the sepals in length ;
sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thick, coria-
ceous, adpressed or subsquarrose, glabrous, viscid, coloured, {—1} lin.
long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, sometimes slightly narrowed above,
at others into a distinct and somewhat narrow neck, viscid, white or
red, 23-3 lin. long; segments spreading or nearly erect; anthers
included, dorsifixed near the base, narrow-oblong, subacute, 3-3}
times longer than the width at the middle, smooth, ciliate at the
base, 3-2 lin. long, aristate at the base; pore about % the length of
the cell; awns broad-linear, densely ciliate, partially deeurrent
along the filament or connective, which projects at an angle from the
cell, thence free and bent downwards, in total length about equal to
the cells; style included; stigma small, subclavate-capitellate ;
ovary densely hirsute. E. reflewa, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 371;
Andr. Heathery, t. 283, and Col. Heaths, t. 263; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
1787; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 659. HE. vesicaria, Soland, ex
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 330.

Van. 8, canthareformis (Bolus) ; corolla 4 lin. long, with a longer neck than
in the type. E. cantharxformis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1961.

SourH Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens! Var. 8: Masson (in
Herb. Trinity College, Dublin) !

Coast ReGion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 79! Niven, 48!
George Div.; Devils Kop, near George, Masson, 89! Outeniqua Mountains,
Herb. Bolus, 6305! Oudtshoorn Div.; Zwartberg Pass, 4200 ft., Marloth,
2410! Kolbe! Atherstone, 266! Uniondale Div.; near Haarlem, in Long Kloof,
Galpin, 3642!

282. E. physodes (Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. 1002) ; erect, 11-21 ft.
high; branchlets and pedicels puberulous, otherwise glabrous ;
branches strong, rigid, erect, straightish, and, like the branchlets,
densely leafy; leaves 4- (more rarely 3-) nate, ereet-spreading,
imbricate, linear, obtuse, more or less triquetrous, keeled, not sulcate,
shining, about 3 lin. long ; flowers terminal (sometimes sublateral,
Bentham), 3—4-nate, mostly cernuous ; pedicels 4-3 lin. long; bracts
remote or sometimes subapproximate, like the sepals but narrower
and smaller; sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, green-keel-tipped, thick,
coriaceous, viscid, whitish, 1}—2 lin. long ; corolla globose-urceolate
or suburceolate-ovoid, much constricted at the throat, very viscid,
white, 3-4 lin. long ; segments erect or slightly spreading, at length
connivent and almost closing the mouth, }-+ the length of the tube ;
anthers included, dorsifixed at the base, oblong, subacute, glabrous,
smooth, a little over } lin. long ; pore about + the length of the cell ;
crests semiorbicular and crenulate at the base with a long terminal
linear spreading lobe, glabrous, about 7 the length of the cell ; style
included or slightly exserted, equal; stigma capitellate ; ovary
turbinate, on a very short contracted foot, glabrous. Andr. Heathery,
t. 34, and Col. Heaths, t. 45; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 7, 13; Bot.
Mag. t. 443; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 228; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
659. E. sequax, Salish. Prodr. 293, and in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi.
378. .

5

200 ERIcCACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

Soutn Arrica : without locality, cultivated specimens !

Coast RreGion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Thunberg, Ecklon, 12! Simons
Bay, Alexander, 6! Bolus, 3711! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 49! Guthrie,
554! Noord Hoek Mountains, Wolley Dod, 1070!

283. E. Urna-viridis (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 180);
erect, 38-5 ft. high; stem unbranched and leafless below for about
half its height; branches few and spreading, straggling, leafy,
puberulous ; leaves and flowers as in the preceding species ; pedicels
viscidulous, 3-4 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals as in the
preceding; corolla ovoid or narrow-ovoid, subobtuse, viseid, bright
green, 4—6 lin. long; segments erect, connivent; anthers as in the
preceding species, but larger, about 1 lin. long; the rest as in the
preceding.

Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Muizenberg Mountain, Zeyher, 3194! 4997!
Bolus, 3355! MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 42! Guthrie, 350!
Wolley Dod, 573! Cape Flats, Burke!

Dried specimens of this are not easily distinguished from the preceding. In
the living state it is at once known by its habit and green flowers. The pedicels
in this are longer; the corolla larger, with no tendency towards a globular
shape. It is noteworthy that while this species has a flowering season from
September to March, and a zone of growth in altitude of from 600 to 2300 ft.,
E. physodes flowers from June to Sept., and has a zone of from 2300-
2800 ft. So far as is known to us the two species do not: grow on the same
mountain,

284. E. Fairii (Bolus in Journ, Bot. 1894, 236); erect, 1-12 ft.
high, glabrous; branches ascending, sometimes spreading or strag-
gling, stout, leafy, rigid leaves 4~-6- (usually 5-) nate, spreading,
recurved, elliptical or oblong, obtuse, thick, rigid, sulcate, margins
cartilagineo-denticulate, 2-3 lin. long, the floral obovate and some-
what dilated, closely enveloping the pedicels and bracts, and together
with bracts, sepals and corolla, very viscid ; flowers terminal, 4-nate
or subcapitate, subcernuous, subcalycine ; pedicels 4-1 lin. long;
bracts closely approximate, oblanceolate, scarious, keeled and keel-
tipped, denticulate or sublacerate, 3 lin. long; sepals linear, acute,
margins inflexed and glandular, keel-tipped, subscarious, greenish,
about 3 lin. long; corolla tubular-urceolate, only slightly inflated
below and very little constricted at the throat, white, about 4 lin.
long; segments erect or slightly spreading, erosulate, about + the
length of the tube; filaments broad, tapering upwards; anthers
included, dorsifixed at the base, oblong, obtuse, roughish, + lin. long,
aristate ; pore about the length of the cell; awns free, spreading,
rough-edged, about $ the length of the cell; style slender, at length
slightly exserted; stigma capitate; ovary turbinate, pallid, glabrous,

Coast REaton: Cape Div.; rocky ridges on the mountain near Simons
Town, 800 ft., Fair in Herb, Bolus, 719£! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr.,
1308! Wolley Dod, 1118!

285. E. oblongifiora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 632); erect,
2-3 ft. high; branches spreading or straggling, ‘stout, leafy and

Erica.} ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 201

pubescent. above, naked and glabrescent below, dark-coloured and
rough with leaf-scars; leaves mostly 4-nate, occasionally somewhat
scattered, crowded, spreading, recurved, oblong or narrow-elliptical,
obtuse, deeply and widely sulcate, glabrous, thick, shining, margins
cartilagineo-denticulate, 1-2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate;
pedicels 23—4 lin. long; bracts approximate, oblong, thick, scarious,
about 1 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, thick, scarious,
coloured, about 2 lin. long ; corolla narrow-ovoid or suburceolate-ovoid,
viscid, glabrous, of thick consistence, greenish, with 16 faint longi-
tudinal veins, 4-5} lin. long; segments small, erect, semiorbicular,
about =; the length of the tube; filaments broad at the base,
tapering upwards with a sigmoid curve; anthers included, dorsifixed
at the base, linear-cuneate, subacute, smooth, glabrous, * lin. long,
decurrent-aristate ; pore about 2 the length of the cell ; awns adnate
to the filament for about 13 lin., with acute free tooth-like
points; style shortly exserted; stigma clavate-capitate; ovary
glabrous. H. decurrens, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 632.
Li. oblongifolia, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 577.
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Bowie!

Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div.; rocky hill near Bredasdorp and Mier
Kraal, 250ft., Bolus, 8453 ! Guthrie, 3781! Schlechter, 10504!

286. E. odorata (Andr. Heathery, t. 177, and Col. Heaths, t.
191); erect, glabrous, 3-1 ft. high ; branches ascending, not much
spreading ; leaves 3-nate (or also 4-nate, Bentham), squarrose-
recurved, crowded, linear to oblanceolate, obtuse and callous at the
apex, thick, keeled and faintly sulcate, closely ciliate with stiff gland-
tipped hairs, which sometimes extend also to the reduplications on
either side of the keel, including the long pallid petiole (of about
1 lin.) 3-4 lin. long; flowers terminal and lateral, subracemose-
umbellate, 3-4-0 -flowered ; pedicels slender, varying much in length
during flowering, 3-7 lin. (or 1 in. in cultivated specimens) ;
bracts remote and distant from each other, linear-lanceolate; sepals
lanceolate, aeute, subcoriaceous, green-keel-tipped, closely gland-
ciliolate, whitish, 23 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, scareely con-
stricted at the throat, subviscid, white, about 4 lin. long; segments
erect or slightly spreading, broad and short (in cultivated specimens
the throat is more constricted and the segments more spreading) ;
filaments narrow, equal, about 4 the length of the corolla; anthers
included, dorsifixed above the base, oblong-ovate or narrow-elliptical,
obtuse, smooth, about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore about 2 the length
of the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.
Bot. Mag. t. 1399; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 633; Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 660. E. adenophylla, Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxiv. 181.
E. spirans, Hojmansegg, Verz. Pfl. Nachtr. ii, 28.

SovtTH AFRICA: without locality, Niven ! and cultivated specimens !

_ Coast Recron: Caledon Div,; mountains about Houw Hoek, 3000-4000 ft.,
Bolus, 5453! Schlechter, 5446 !
The rediscovery of the wild plant by two recent collectors enables us to describe

202 ERIcacEx (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

it as it grows in its native home, and to perceive that such differences as exist
between it and the figures and descriptions above referred to are almost entirely
those of size and luxuriance due to the effects of cultivation.

287. E. ardens (Andr. Heathery, t. 51, and Col. Heaths, t. 75) ;
erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches stoutish, subvirgate, puberulous or
glabrous ; leaves generally 3- (occasionally 4-) nate, erect to spread-
ing, linear or linear-lanceolate, sulcate, somewhat thick, glossy, rigid,
the younger minutely cartilagineo-serrulate, 3-5 lin. long; flowers
terminal, 3-nate, or sometimes solitary and by arrest of the lateral
branchlets pseudo-lateral ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long; bracts remote or
subapproximate, like the sepals but smaller ; sepals ovate or ovate-
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, keel-tipped, thick, coriaceous, viscid,
coloured, 13~—2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate to globose-urceolate,
thick, very viseid, at length much inflated, coral-red or white,
3-4 lin. long ; segments suberect, broad, from 1—1 the length of the
tube ; filaments more or less dilated, sometimes much so, lanceolate,
much bent below the anther; anthers ineluded, dorsifixed above the
base, oblong, scaberulous, obtuse, * lin. long, crested; pore 3—2 the
length of the cell; crests lanceolate, deeply lacerate, more or less
densely hairy, 1—% the length of: the cell; style included, slender ;
stigma small, capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Bot. Reg. ¢. 115; Lodd.
Bot. Cab.t. 47 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660.

SoutH AFRICA: without locality, cultivated specimens !

Coast Reeion, from 1000-4000 ft.: Swellendam Div.; rocky places above
Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 3208; mountains near Swellendam, Mund, 78 or 98!
Bolus Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 602! Niven, 50! between Sparrbosch and

Tradouw, Drége! Kennedy in Herb. Bolus, 1200! Riversdale Div.; Garcias
Pass, Bain in Herb. Bolus, 2961! Galpin, 3637! Schlechter, 1715!

288. E. blenna (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 379) ; erect,
1-1} ft. high; branches stout, ascending, virgate or flexuous,
puberulous or glabrous ; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect and imbricate or
subspreading, linear, subobtuse, flat above, keeled and sulcate beneath,
glabrous, 4-5 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate (“here and there
sublateral,” Bentham) ; pedicels about 4 lin. long; bracts remote,
lanceolate, about 3 lin. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, keel-tipped,
thickish, subscarious, viscid, coloured or greenish, about 23 lin. long ;
corolla conical-ovoid or suburceolate-conical, much contracted to the
mouth but only slightly constricted at the throat, very viscid, 41-61
lin. long, bright orange-red, the limb and some distance below it
green ; segments spreading or erect, about 1 the length of the tube;
filaments broad at the base tapering upwards, bent below the anther;
anthers included, dorsifixed well above the base, cuneate, subacute,
scaberulous, ciliolate, about 1 lin. long, crested ; pore 3~2 the length
of the cell; crests quite free from the filament, subsemiorbicular in
_ outline, deeply inciso-lacerate, about + the length of the cell; style
ineluded, straight ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. E. vernix
and var. longiflora, Andr. Heathery, tt. 248 and 250, and Col.
Heaths, tt. 214 and 285; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660. E.
resinosa, Bot. Mag. t. 1189; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 679.

EBrica.} eRIcAcEs (Guthrie & Bolus). 203

Var. 8, grandiflora (Bolus); flowers usually solitary, rarely in pairs; corolla
8-10 lin. long; anthers 14 lin. long.

SoutH AFricé: without locality, Bain in Herb. Bolus, 3193! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast Reeion: Swellendam Div.; Grootvaders Bosch, Masson, 47! near
Tradouw Pass, MacOwan Sf Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 603! Zuurbraak,
3000 ft., Galpin, 3639! Riet Kuil, Niven, 51! Var. 8B, Riversdale Div.; exact
locality unknown, Miss Borcherds in Herb. Bolus, 6310! and in Herb. Guthrie,
2364! Bredasdorp Div. ; De Villiers in Cape Govt. Herb.

Our var. B appears to be somewhat rare; there is a striking difference in size,
but in structure it is too close to be specifically distinguished.

289. E. ixanthera (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660); decumbent,
glabrous; branches slender, simple, curved, distantly leafy, 6 in. or
more long; leaves 3-nate, spreading, curved, distant, but mostly
longer than the internodes, slender, linear, obtuse, subcallous at the
apex, flattish above, sulcate below, somewhat thin, shining, 3-5 lin.
long; flowers terminal, umbellate, 5-8-flowered (or sometimes sub-
racemose with the terminal branch continued, Bentham) ; pedicels
slender, spreading, 3-6 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals
lanceolate, subacute, keel-tipped, thick, rigid, viscid, about 1 lin.
long; corolla “ urceolate-globose ” (Bentham) or suboblate-urceolate,
throat slightly constricted, viscid, about 2 lin. long, 2} lin. wide ;
segments rather large, 1 the length of the tube, subereet ; filaments
subequal, bent in a simple semicireular curve round and close to the
ovary ; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base upon a prolongation
of the connective, spreading at nearly a right angle from the cell,
oblong, pubescent, about $ lin. long; pore about $ the length of the
cell; awns deeurrent along the connective with free points (of about
1 lin. long), the whole about as long as, or sometimes much exceed-
ing, the cells; style included; ovary oblate, much depressed, width
twice the length, lobed, glabrous,

Coast ReGion: Riversdale Div.; lower part of the Langeberg Range, at
Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6942!

290. E. carduifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 330) ; erect,
6-12 in. high ; branches ascending or spreading, somewhat flexuous,
roughly hispid; leaves 3-nate, mostly somewhat distant, either longer
or shorter than the internodes, spreading, squarrose or recurved,
linear-oblong, obtuse, convex above and thick, sulcate or open-
backed, long-setose-ciliate, the younger with gland-tipped hairs,
2-4 lin. long; flowers terminal, umbellate, or (by the arrest of
lateral branchlets). sometimes pseudo-racemose ; pedicels slender,
viscid, 4—5 lin. long; bracts remote, small, the lowest basal or nearly
so ; sepals linear-lanceolate to subovate, acute, thick, viscid, minutely
gland-ciliolate, about 1} lin, long ; corolla suburceolate or urceolate-
cyathiform, wide-mouthed, scarcely contracted at the throat, viscid,
red, 3-33 lin. long, 2+22 lin, wide; segments erect, about } the
length of the tube; filaments remarkably short, _broad-lanceolate,
scarcely over 1 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed above the
base upon a prolongation of the connective bent downwards at an

204 ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). { Erica.

angle of about 45° with the cell, oblong, smooth, glabrous, under? lin.
long, aristate ; pore about 2 the length of the cell; awns decurrent
for a short distance along the connective, with longer free spreading
points, the whole about equal to, or shorter than, the cell; style
included; stigma subsimple or clavate, small ; ovary glabrous.
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660. E. aprica, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c.
660.

Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; high on the Baviaans Kloof Mountains, near
Genadendal, Niven, 21! summit of Genadendal Mountain, Galpin, 3636!

Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Bodkin in Herb, Bolus, 6731! Galpin, 3635!
Swellendam Div, ; mountains near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3214 !

291. E. obliqua (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 44, t. 1) ; erect, entirely
glabrous, 1-12 ft. high ; branches few, subsimple, virgate, densely
leafy ; leaves scattered, spreading, crowded, long-petiolate, narrow-
linear, obtuse, slender, sulcate, glabrous, 3-5 lin. long; flowers
terminal and sublateral at the ends of the branches, umbellate ;
pedicels spreading, slender, viscid glandular, 4-8 lin. long; bracts
remote, linear; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, somewhat laxly set,
thick, concave, viscid, 1—% lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, con-
stricted at the throat, thick, viscid, glabrous or often minutely
hispidulous on the, upper part, 31—4 lin. long ; segments erect or
subspreading, large, 1-1 the length of the tube ; filaments dilated at
the apex ; anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the base, linear-
cuneate or semiovate, aeute, smooth, glabrous, 2-1 lin. long, cristate ;
pore 3-5 the length of the cell; crests semiorbicular, coarsely
dentate, about 3 the length of the cell; style included; stigma
capitellate; ovary stipitate, glabrous. Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 3;
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 17, 17, t. 830; Andr. Heathery, t. 33, and
Col. Heaths, t. 42; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 14; Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 661.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! ites

Coast ReGion: Cape Divy.; Muizenberg Mountain, 1400 ft., Bolus, 4518!
Guthrie, 321! MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 25! Table Mountain, Wolley
Dod, 814! near Simons Town, Wolley Dod, 812! Steilenbosch Diy. 3; Hottentots
Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 3211! Thunberg. Caledon Div.; between Palmiet
River and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8184!:Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell,
8032! 8101! Galpin, 3641! Guthrie, 2288!

In structure, and especially by the stipitate ovary, this and the following species
are near to E. inflata, Thunb., and form a link with the § Ceramus,

292. E. macroloma (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 661) ; erect, 12 in.
or more high; branches long, straightish, leafy, minutely gland-
pubescent; leaves 8-nate, rather long-petiolate, imbricate, erect-
spreading, linear-oblong or linear-obcuneate, obtuse, viscidulous,
margins neatly, prominently and shortly gland-ciliolate, 2-3 lin.
long; flowers as in the preceding species; pedicels very slender,
viscid, 3-9 lin. long; bracts remote, small, foliaceous ; sepals folia-
ceous, lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, adpressed to the corolla, viscid,
gland-ciliolate, 14 lin. or more long ; corolla obconie, viscid, glabrous,

Brica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 205

or sometimes scantily pilose on the tube, pale rose, 3-32 lin. long
(dried and pressed specimens 23—3 lin. wide at the apex) ; segments
widened but not curved, oblong or ovate, acute or obtuse “nearly
2 lin. long, or somewhat exceeding the tube, a gibbous thick callus
at the base of each sinus; filaments broadish, equal, only a little
longer than the anther; anthers ineluded, dorsifixed just above the
base, broad-linear, subincurved, smooth, glabrous, $-1 lin. long
cristate ; pore about 2 the length of the cell; crests sublanceolate,
lacerate, with a sharp terminal lobe, more than } the length of the
cell; style manifest, about equalling the corolla; stigma capitate ;
ovary glabrous, somewhat constricted at the base, but scarcely
stipitate.

Coast Rearon: Clanwilliam Div. ; near Clanwilliam, Letpoldt in MacOwan
Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1631! Caledon Div.; Great Houw Hoek Mountains, Masson,

78! mountains near Lowrys Puss, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3028! mountains
near Palmiet River, Guthrie in MacOwan, Herb, Aust-4fr., 1916!

Section XXI. HERMES. (Sp. 293-307.)

293. E. empetrifolia (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 507) ; erect, 6-12 in.
high ; branches erect or spreading, rough with the scars of prominent
leaf-cushions, puberulous or glabrous; leaves 6-nate, ascending,
imbricate, the lower squarrose-incurved, linear, blunt, sulcate, thick,
hispid, the younger ciliate, 2—4 lin. long; inflorescence a dense
pseudo-spike towards the ends of the branches, mostly 1 in. or less
(rarely 2 in.) long, + in. or less wide; pedicels glabrous, straight,
1 lin. or less long; bracts remote, linear, long-ciliate; sepals
narrow-lanceolate, pilose near the apex, long-ciliate, 14 lin. long ;
corolla suburceolate, only slightly constricted at the throat with a
somewhat tapering neck, sparsely pilose or glabrous, red, about
21 lin. long; segments spreading, rounded, }—} the length of the
tube; anthers lateral, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, obtuse,
glabrous, about } lin. long, narrow-crested ; pore } the length of the
cell; crests small, lanceolate-acuminate, lacerate or lobed below,
about 2 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate ;
ovary hispidulous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 663; Bot. Mag. t.
447; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 5, 18; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1875. L£.
malleolaris, Salish. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 370. EH. empetrina,
Linn. Syst. ed. x. 1003. . mollearis, Pers. Syn. i. 422.

’ Sourn ArRrica: without locality, Herb, Salisbury !

Coast Rreton: Cape Divy.; mountains between Cape Town and False Bay,
Thunberg ; near Simons Bay, Milne, 121! Table Mountain, Burchell, 533!

Bolus, 4613! Wolley Dod, 3335!

294. E. pyxidiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 371) ; erect,
1-2 ft. high; branches virgate, glabrous, rough, scarred; leaves
6-nate, densely crowded, erect, imbricate, linear-oblong, blunt,
sulcate, hispidulous, ciliate, about 23-3 lin. long ; inflorescence as in
E. empetrifolia but the spikes longer, up to 3} in.; pedicels 3 lin,

206 ERICACE# (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica.

long ;, bracts subremote, sepal-like, rather large; sepals narrow-lanceo-
late, pilose and ciliate, about 14 lin. long; corolla subcampanuloid,
mouth widened, or the tube obconic, suddenly dilated just below the
limb into a wider bowl, glabrous, about 2 lin, long ; limb. more or less
spreading ; segments very broad and rounded, nearly equal io the
tube; anthers dorsifixed above the base, broadly elliptical, with a
large broad cushion-like hispid base, about 2 lin. long, crested ; pore
nearly equal to the cell exclusive of the cushion; crests unusually large
and broad, semi-orbicular, lacerate, resembling bat’s wings, about as
long as the cells; style exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous.
E. empetroides, Andr, Heathery, t. 19, and Col. Heaths, t. 88; Benth.
tn DC. Prodr. vii. 663 ; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 1758. E. empetrifolia,
var. glauca, Wendl. Eric, Ic. fase. 11, 11.

SourH Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated specimens !

Coast Rxeion, between 800 and 1500 ft. : Cape Div,; Simons Bay, Wright /
on the Muizen Berg, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 27! Guthrie, 671!

near Simons Town, Bolus, 4865! sources of Slangkop River, Wolley Dod,
3256! Ruined Valley, Grey.

295. E. amona (Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 48, not of Salisb.) ;
erect, 12-18 in. high ; branches erect, rigid, subglabrous ; leaves
4-6-nate, subpatent or incurved, crowded with longish narrow pale
petioles, linear, blunt, sulcate, very hirsute, 2-3 Jin. long; flowers
axillary towards the ends of the branches, often somewhat dense or
subcapitate ; pedicels curved, hirsute, red, 23 lin. long; bracts
remote, hirsute, red; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, hirsute,
red, 12 lin. long; corolla broad-campanulate, glabrous, red, 2-21 lin,
long; limb oblong, broadly rounded, about equalling the tube ;
filaments dilated at the apex ;' anthers included, dorsifixed above the
base, oblong, very obtuse, glabrous, dark-coloured, about 2 lin. long,
cristate-aristate ; pore broadly elliptical, about = the length of the
cell; awns broad at the base and subdecurrent along the dilated
filament for + of their length, thence subulate-acuminate, spreading,
the whole equal to the cell; style subincluded ; stigma capitate ;
ovary turbinate, villous with red-tinged hairs. Wendl. Eric. Ic.
fasc. 17, 73, t. 28, E. noleflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi.
371. E. plumosa, Andr. Heathery, t. 36, and Col. Heaths, t, 120;
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1702; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 663, not of
Thunb., nor of Wendl. . scholliana, Lodd. lc. t.538. E. glome-
rata, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 11, fide Ind. Kei.

Var. 8, pusilla (Bolus); smaller in all parts, the virgate subsimple stems

almost filiform, 3-6 in. high, leaves and flowers few at the summit, the corolla
barely 2 lin. long.

Sourn ArFrica: without locality, Masson, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast Reeron, from 800-1400 ft.: Cape Div.; Simons Bay, Wright! by
streams on the Muizen Berg, 1400 ft., Bolus, 4605! and in Herb. Norm, Aust.-
Afr., 191! Steen Berg, Guthrie, 1860! Silvermine River, Wolley Dod, 1926!
Red Hill, Mrs. Jameson. Var. 8: Cape Div.; Cape Point, 800 ft., Schlechter, 7317 1

Var. B may be merely a state of 1 or 2 years old, or grown in an exposed
position, or other more severe circumstances,

Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 207

296. E. Dodii (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 10-12 in. high, glabrous
in all parts ; branches numerous, ‘spreading or straggling, striate with
long prominent linear leaf-cushions, deeply channelled between ;
leaves 4-nate, spreading- or squarrose-incurved, linear, acute, sulcate,
4 lin. long; inflorescence as in EH. regerminans, but the pseudo-
spikes shorter (the longest about 11 in.), narrower and denser, and
the intermixed leaves longer and more prominent ; pedicels decurved,
3-1} lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute,
keel-tipped, searious, greenish with rosy tips, 8-1 lin. long; corolla
13-2 lin. long, campanulate-cyathiform, sometimes subobconic, about
equal at the throat and mouth; tube pale rosy becoming darker
upwards; limb bright red ; segments slightly spreading or suberect,
rounded, 1-1 the length of the tube; anthers dorsifixed near the
base, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 1 lin. long, aristate ; pore about 1 the
length of the cell; awns subsetiform, pallid, about equal to the
cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary oblate-spheroidal,
glabrous.

Coast Rreton: Cape Div.; on rocks at the head of Waai Vlei, on Table
Mountain, 3000 ft., Wolley Dod, 3333! western ledges of Table Mountain,
Galpin, 3647! Caledon Div. ; summit of Genadendal Mountain, 5000 ft., Galpin,
3646 !

Closely allied to the next; distinguishable by its spreading not virgate habit,
its shorter and narrower pseudo-spikes, corolla not at all constricted at the
throat, besides some minor characters.

297. E. regerminans (Linn. Mant. Alt. 232, not of Andr.);
erect, glabrous, 1-2 ft. high; branches long, virgate, the younger
striate with long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves mostly sub-6-nate,
sometimes 3—4-nate or scattered, incurved-erect, linear, acuminate,
slender, 3-6 lin. long; inflorescence a long and mostly dense pseudo-
raceme or spike, 4—5 in. long and } in. or more in diam.; pedicels
slender, 2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate to lanceo-
late, acuminate, keel-tipped, margins scarious, about % lin. long ;
corolla from globose-urceolate to ovoid-urceolate, more or less con-
stricted at the throat, from pale rosy to bright-red, about 2 lin. long;
limb rounded, slightly spreading, about 1 the length of the tube;
anthers narrow-subovate, subacute, smooth, about 1 lin. long, crested-
aristate ; pore a little over 3 the length of the cell; awns subulate,
irregularly lobulate, bearded, about ®% the length of the cell; style
included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vil. 662. #. uncifolia, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 369. £.
smithiana, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1614. £. racemifera, Andr. Heathery,
t. 188, and Col. Heaths, t. 204. H. Lichtensteinit, Klotzsch in
Linnea, xii. 504. EH. juncea, Baril. in Linnea, vii. 648 ? (from
description). E. rosea, Lichtenst. ex Klotasch, l.c.

SoutH ArFrica: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast Re@ion, between 1000 and 5000 ft.: Swellendam Div.; mountains
near Swellendam, Masson, 18! Burchell, 7314! Grootvaders Bosch, Zeyher,

208 ERtcAcExX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica.

8233! on the Langeberg Range, Schlechter, 5663! Zuurbraak Mountain,
Galpin, 3644! 3645! Riversdale Div.; on the Kampsche Berg, Burchell,
7090 !

Generally distinguishable by the virgate habit, and the closely-set inflorescence.
E. regerminans, var. grandiflora, Benth. l.c., founded upon Masson’s 18, is noted
as having broader leaves and a larger corolla (24-3 lin, long).

298. E. pulchella (Houttuyn, Handl. iv. 504, t. 23, fig. 1, not of
Thunb.) ; erect, mostly 1 (rarely 11-2) ft. high; branches many,
erect, subvirgate or flexuous, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect
and adpressed, about equalling the internodes or subimbricate,
broadish-linear or ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, thick, nerved above,
sulcate below, glabrous, mostly 1-2 lin. long, rarely longer; in-
florescenee closely pseudo-racemose at the ends of the branches;
flowers 1—3-nate in the axils of the leaves ; racemes mostly 1-12 in.
long, rarely longer ; pedicels pubescent, about 2 lin. long; bracts
remote, small; sepals oblong, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse,
keeled, very concave, scarious on the margin, ciliate, about 1 lin, long ;
corolla urceolate-campanulate, mouth slightly contracted, sub-
tetragonous, glabrous, rosy or dark red, 11-2 lin. long ; limb slightly
spreading, {—; the length of the tube; anthers included, sublateral,
dorsifixed at or just above the base, narrew-ovate or suboblong ;
cells partite to or below the base, about +4 lin. long, decurrent-
aristate ; pore over } the length of the cell; awns nearly equal to the
cell, the free portion of variable length; style included; stigma
capitate ; ovary glabrous or thinly and minutely puberulous. Andr.
Heathery, t. 40, and Col. Heaths, t. 49; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 307;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 662. E. articularis, Thunb. Diss. Erica,
37, not of Linn., nor Curt. EH. caduceifera, Salisb. in Trans. Linn.
Soe. vi. 370. H. retroflewa, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 8,7. E. phyli-
coides, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 361? EE. fureeflora, Salisb. Prodr.
294.

_ Sours Arrioa: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast Reeion: Cape Div.; on the flats and lower mountains near Cape
Town, common, Masson, 94! Burchell, 826! Ecklon, 86! Zeyher, 1102! Sieber,
197! Harvey, 162! Guthrie, 379! Wolley Dod, 279! Stellenbosch Div. ;
between Stellenbosch and Cape Flats, Burchell, 8353/2! Hottentots Holland,
MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 26! Caledon Div. ; between Palmiet River
and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8171! Guthrie, 2285! Bolus, 2124!

Thunberg appears to have been the earliest to note that in this genus the
appendages (sometimes at least) belong to the filament. He observes ( Diss.
Erica, 37): ‘‘ The anthers in this species are singular, since they seem to be
connate with the filament, so that the latter, rather than the anthers, should be
called aristate.” (Salisbury repeats the remark as if it were original.)

299. E. longiaristata (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 663); characters
of EH. pulchella, except: habit usually more spreading, branches
more slender; corolla from obconic to subcampanulate, mostly con-
siderably widened to the mouth at full maturity, usually rosy, more

Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus), 209

rarely crimson; segments larger, oblong, from 3-3 the length of the
tube ; anthers 3 to nearly 2 lin, long.

Soutrn Arrica: without locality, Mund!

Coast REGION, on mountains from 200-1200 ft.: Caledon Div.; near
Hermanus, Guthrie, 4119! Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, Guthrie, 3787! Bolus,
8454! Schlechter, 7619! near Napier, Schlechter, 9657!

This comes very near to the preceding, and might perhaps be regarded as a
variety of it. The only distinction of importance is in the shape of the corolla,
which seems, however, to be constant.

300. E. flavicoma (Baril. in Linnea, vii. 639) ; erect, 6-10 in. high ;
branches virgate, slender, glabrescent; leaves mostly 3-nate, but
occasionally also 4-nate on the same plant, subimbricate, erect,
adpressed, suboblong, width more than + of the length, subacute,
concave and midnerved above, round-backed and suleate, the younger
slightly pubescent, soon glabrous, about 2 lin. long; flowers axillary
at the ends of the branches, spreading in a somewhat close pseudo-
raceme 1 in. or less long, } in. wide; pedicels 1} lin. long; bracts
remote, small ; sepals oblong-obovate, concave, keeled, subscarious,
ciliate, 11 lin. long; corolla campanulate-tubular, neither inflated
below nor constricted at the throat, pale yellow, 2—2} lin. long ;
segments somewhat spreading, 11 the length of the tube ; anthers
dorsifixed just above the base, oblong-recurved, obtuse and equal at
base and apex, pallid, smooth, about 1 lin. long, aristate ; pore } the
length of the cell; awns squarrose on the upper part of the filament,
short and ascending like cock’s spurs; style included, stout below,
tapering upwards ; stigma simple; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC.

Prodr. vii. 663. i

Coast Raion: Bredasdorp Div. ; near Zoetendals Vlei, Miss Joubert! on
hills near Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6729 !

We have not seen the original specimen (which was probably gathered more
than 70 years ago), nor does the species seem to have been collected again until
1894, But our Elim specimens, found within a few miles of the first, agree so
well with Bartling’s short description, and the species is so distinct, that we have
no hesitation in identifying them and deseribing them more fully. At first sight
they seem as if they might be a small-flowered variety of E. parilis, Salisb., but
the structure of the flowers is quite different. It is not improbable that this
may be either E. fallaw, or E. festa, Salisb., but, in the absence of specimens, the
short descriptions of that author are seldom of use, and we are compelled to leave

it under Bartling’s later name.

301. E. parilis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 371); erect,
1-2 ft. high; branches stoutish, more or less virgate, pubescent ;
leaves 3-4—6-nate or sometimes scattered, incurved, erect or spread-
ing, linear, blunt, keeled or round-backed, sulcate, somewhat rigid,
glabrous, pale green, 21-4 lin. long; flowers axillary, crowded
towards the ends of the branches; pedicels pubescent, 2-3 lin. long ;
bracts more or less remote, one often much longer than the others,
linear, foliaceous; sepals linear, acuminate, foliaceous, 14-2} lin:
long, shorter than (or sometimes even a little exceeding) the corolla-
tube ; corolla from subtubular to campanulate, mouth scarcely con-

VOL. IV.—SECT. I. P

210 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

tracted or widened, viscidulous, glabrous or puberulous, yellow,
2-4 lin. long; segments rounded, slightly spreading, about 4 lin.
long ; anthers ineluded, or sometimes subincluded and just manifest,
subterminal, longitudinally semiovate, very acute or acuminate, or
subobtuse ; cells partite nearly to the base, about % lin. long, either
muticous or decurrent-denticulate along the filament; pore about
% the length of the cell; style included or subexserted; stigma
capitate, largish ; ovary puberulous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 664.
E, festa, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 371, fide Benth. E.

_ flava, Andy, Heathery, t. 64, and Col. Heaths, t. 93; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 882.

Var. 8, parviflora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 664); corolla campanulate,
2 lin. long; anthers subsemielliptical, very obtuse, about 2 lin. long; style
age shortly exserted. E. fallax, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 371, fide

enth,

Coast Reeion, from 1500 to 6000 ft.: Clanwilliam Div. ; Blaauw Berg,
Drége; Sneeuw Kop, Leipoldt, 616! Tulbagh Diy.; Witsen Berg, Burchell,
8669! Mitchells Pass, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 29! Tulbagh Water-
fall, Niven, 1151 near Tulbagh, Niven, 187! Guthrie, 2365 ! Worcester or Paarl
Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Bains Kloof, Bolus, 4053! Var. B: Worcester
Div. ; on the Matroos Berg, 6000 ft., Bolus, 9284!

CENTRAL Reaion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, near Wagen Drift,
Schlechter, 10071!

This species is somewhat variable in the length, though little in the width, of
the corolla, and also in the shape of the anthers. It may generally be dis-
tinguished, when in the living state, from all others of this section, except E.
Jlavicoma, by its yellow corolla. From the latter it may be known by its quite
different leaves and sepals, as well as by its anthers; the corolla only, both in
shape and colour, is very similar. We have not seen any authentic specimen
of Bentham’s var. parviflora ; our specimens above cited agree with his short
description.

302. E. viscaria (Linn. Mant. Alt. 231); erect, 8-18 in. high ;
branches straightly ascending, stout, pubescent ; leaves 4-6-nate,
erect-ineurved, crowded, linear, sulcate to round-backed, glabrous,
about 4 lin. long ; inflorescence pseudo-spicate, 1-2 in. long, 1—® in.
wide ; pedicels puberulo-viscid, usually under 1 (rarely 12) lin. long;
upper bracts at least approximate or subapproximate, foliaceous,
1-2} lin. long ; sepals linear to broad-lanceolate from a broad base,
suleate-keeled, viscidulous, glabrous or puberulous, 1-3 lin. long ;
corolla campanulate or tubular-campanulate, often strongly nerved,
more or less viscid, subglabrous, 2~21 lin. long ; limb erect or slightly
spreading, about } the length of the tube; filaments narrow or rather
broad, dilated below the anther; anthers narrow-oblong, cuneate-
linear or subelliptical, obtuse or acute, subterminal to lateral, glabrous,
% lin. long, muticous or sometimes minutely decurrent-dentieulate ;
pore }~5 the length of the cell; style included ; stigma capitate ;
ovary turbinate, villous. _Andr. Heather, , #. 49, and Col. Heaths, t.
713 Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 12,9; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 726; Benth.
in DO. Prodr. vii. 664. E. viscida, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi.
372. . cubitalis, Linn. Amen. Acad. viii. 51? ;

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 211

Var. 8, decora (Bolus) ; leaves and sepals usually puberulous; inflorescence
pseudo-racemose ; racemes broader and more lax than in the type; pedicels 2 lin.
or more long; corolla 3—4 lin. long ; anthers somewhat longer than in the type.
E. decora, Andr. Heathery, t. 159, and Col. Heaths, t.162; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t.
1385; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 664. E. viscaria, Bauer, Ewot. Pl. t.1. FE.
secundiflora, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 617.

Var. y, hispida (Bolus); characters of var. 8, but the sepals and bracts
usually longer, the former nearly as long as the corolla-tube; corolla 4 lin. long,
densely hispid on the lower part; filaments broader; anthers cuneate-linear,
subacuminate, about 1 lin. long. E. pulchella, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 22, t. 4, not
of Houtt. LE. argutifolia, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 364. E. leeana, var.
pulchella, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 626.

Soutn Arrica: without locality; Var. y: Thunberg !

Coast Reeion: Cape Div.; hills near Cape Town, Thunberg ! Cape Flats,
Burchell, 8454/7! Zeyher, 1107! Sieber, 72 partly ! Bolus, 3706! 4396! Guthrie,
128! Wolley Dod, 2840! Var. 8: Cape Diy. ; on the Flats and mountains up to
1400 ft., Burchell, 767! 8558! Sieber, 72 partly! 90! 199! MacGillivray,
442! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 23! Bolus, 4610! Guthrie, 458! 733!
Wolley Dod, 1737! Var. y: Stellenbosch Div; mountains near Lowrys Pass,
900 ft., Bolus, 5548! Galpin, 3524!

A very variable plant. Forms have been found with 5-fid sepals and corollas ;
others with double flowers, the inner corolline series being an 8-fid tube; others
exhibiting petalody in the stamens, and lastly others with phyllody in the
ovaries. The anthers are also unusually variable.

303. E. axilliflora (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 640) ; erect, about 1 ft.
high ; branches numerous, ascending, subvirgate, fastigiate, puberu-
lous, glabrescent, mostly very floriferous ; leaves 4-5—6-nate or some-
times scattered, much crowded upwards, erect-incurved, linear, sub-
obtuse, keeled or round-backed and sulcate, glabrous, 2—4 lin. long ;
inflorescence pseudo-racemose, resembling that of LH. viscaria, var.
decora; pedicels solitary or binate, coloured, 2-2} lin. long; bracts
2 supra-median, 1 median, linear, small ; sepals broad-ovate to ovate-
lanceolate, acuminate, keeled or keel-tipped, concave, subcoriaceous,
glabrous, glossy, red, 11-1} lin. long; corolla campanulate or
widely obconic, glabrous, more or less viscid, deep red, 24~31 lin.
long ; segments erect or slightly spreading, broadly rounded, from
% to nearly 3 the length of the tube ; anthers included, subterminal,
basifixed at the side on the dilated and thickened apex of the
filament, suboblong, subacute, the base ascending, $—% lin. long,
mostly muticous, sometimes minutely decurrent-denticulate, on the
filament near the apex; pore }—2 the length of the cell; style
included or subexserted, straight ; stigma capitate ; ovary globose,
villous, especially towards the summit, dark red. Benth. in DC.
Prodr, vii. 664.

Coast Rereion: Bredasdorp Div.; Zoetendals Vlei, Ecklon, ex Bartling ; on
hills near Elim Mission Station, 300-400 ft., Bolus, 8449! 6730! Guthrie,
3789!

We have seen no specimen of the type, nor any well authenticated. Onr
specimens agree with Bartling’s meagte description; and the station of Ecklon s
plant is within a few miles of those of ours. The species is allied to E. conica
and to EH. viscaria. From the former it is distinct by its less robust habit, its
leaves usually fewer in the whorl, aud ne shorter and less acuminate, by its

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212 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

shorter and more strictly obconic corolla, relatively broader at the base, longer
pedicels and hirsute ovary. From the latter it is separated by its entirely
different bracts and sepals, and its corolla more regularly widening from the base
upwards, whereas in E. viscaria it is usually wider and more cup-shaped at the
base.

304. E. hemantha (Bolus in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxiv. 181);
erect, 1-1} ft. high ; branches ascending, puberulous; leaves 4-nate,
erect-incurved, imbricate, not crowded, linear, round-backed, faintly
suleate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; inflorescence axillary and also
terminal, flowers 4-nate; pedicels slender, puberulous, 23-3 lin.
long ; bracts remote, small ; sepals narrow-ovate, acute, very concave,
subscarious, glabrous, keeled, about 1 lin. long; corolla suburceolate-
tubular, mouth scarcely widened or contracted, glabrous, viscidulous ?
or dry, crimson, 33-4 lin. long ; segments erect, about + lin. long;
anthers dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, subobtuse; cells
deeply partite, glabrous, about 2 lin. long, crested at the base;
pore nearly 4 the length of the cell ; crests sublanceolate, acuminate,
with one or two short side teeth, 1 as long as the cell; style
subexserted, tapering upwards ; stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Reaton: Ceres Div. ; rocky mountain slopes, near Ceres, 1700 ft.,
Bolus, 5844! '

This species is a somewhat anomalous member of this section, owing to its
partially terminal inflorescence. But there are similar difficulties in regard to
other sections, and we place it here chiefly on account of its apparent connection
with #. awvillifora and EB. viscaria.

305. E. pulvinata (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 3-1 ft. high;
branches ascending, glabrous, roughly scarred and channelled by the
cushions of old leaves; leaves scattered, or sometimes 4—6-nate,
crowded, spreading or squarrose or reflexed, flexuous, commonly
incurved towards the apex, linear, callous at the apex subpungent-
mueronate, round-backed, suleate, sometimes white-tomentose along
the channel, thick, rigid, glabrous, 3-5 lin. long ; inflorescence a
short pseudo-raceme at or below the ends of the branches, sometimes
crowded ; flowers subcalycine ; pedicels slender, 4-5 lin. long; bracts
small, remote, almost basal ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, scarious,
keeled, 2 lin. long; corolla broadish-urceolate, throat not much
constricted, but gradually narrowed to the mouth, 2-2} lin. long;
segments slightly spreading, rounded, about + the length of the
tube ; anthers dorsifixed above the base, cuneate-ovate, subscaberu-
lous, 3 lin. long, broad-aristate ; pore about 3 the length of the
cell; awns subulate-acuminate, irregularly rough-edged or smooth,
about § the length of the eells; style straight, shortly exserted ;
stigma capitate, 4-lobed ; ovary glabrous,

Var. 8, montana (Guthrie & Bolus) ; leaves more ascending ; sepals shorter,
141} lin. long ; anthers oblong, } lig. long, much narrower than in the type.
, Codst. Region: Bredasdorp. Div. ;- hills, at -Rict. Fontein -Poort, near Elin
200 ft., Schlechter, 9704 ! Bolus, 8512! Var, 8: Riversdale Div. re ica rad
Kamipsche Berg,.Burchell,7111!) ee Pio anginal

Se

Erica. | EkRICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 213

There is an unusual difference in the form of the anther in the two varieties,
but both are so well marked in several other characteristics and agree so closely,
that we cannot separate them specifically. The station of var. 8 was probably
of not less altitude than, and may have exceeded, 3000 ft., and the distance from
the sea about 80 miles; that of the type is about 200 ft., and 5 or 6 miles from
the sea.

306. E. collina (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 1-2 ft. high ; branches
slender, ascending, subflexuous, pubescent ; leaves 4-nate, erect to
spreading, sometimes squarrose, incurved towards the apex, linear-
oblong, acute, keeled, glabrous, concave above, the younger minutely
ciliolate, 11-2 lin. long; inflorescence clustered at the ends of the
branches and then subumbellate, or axillary below the end with the
branch excurrent beyond, both forms on the same plant; flowers
subcalycine ; pedicels very slender, pubescent, 3-4 lin. long; bracts
frequently (or always?) only 2, remote, linear, scarious, adpressed ;
sepals ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coriaceous,
coloured, keeled, not imbricate at the base, glabrous, reaching mostly
to a little below the corolla-tube, about 14 lin. long; corolla sub-
ampullaceous-urceolate, with a longish neck, tetragonous, rosy red,

4-18 lin. long; segments suberect, rounded, 1} the length of the
tube; anthers oblong, obtuse, smooth, about + lin. long (03 in.),
aristate ; pore 2 the length of the cell; awns subulate, about 4 the
length of the cell, entire ; style included, very short ; stigma capitel-
late ; ovary subglobose, puberulous or glabrescent.

Coast ReGion: Caledon Div. ; hills between Babylons Tower and Hermanus,
about 500 ft., Bolus, 8491! rocky places at Hemel-en-Aarde, 1000 ft., Schlechter,
10381 ! (flowers undeveloped).

The rather large sepals give to the flowers a subcalycine aspect. They
greatly resemble those of EH. selaginifolia, E. acuta, and E. brevifolia in the
§ Trigemma, and the species is only separated from their neighbourhood by its
uxillary inflorescence. The whole aspect of the plant is, however, even more
strikingly like E. seriphiifolia (§ Melastemon), but the flowers are very
different. |

307. E. deflexa (Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 8) ; branches slender,
tomentose-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, spreading to subsquarrose,
linear, obtuse, thick, convex on the upper side with rounded back
and margins, deeply suleate, the younger ciliate, hirtulous or
glabrous, shining, 1-11 lin. long; inflorescence axillary ; flowers
solitary or scanty and subdistant towards the ends of the branches,
corolline or sometimes subcorolline; pedicels decurved, hirtulous,
12 Jin. long; bracts remote, small ; sepals narrow-lanceolate or
oblong, subacute, foliaceous, margins revolute and thickened at the
apex, 3-1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform-obconic, subtetragonous,
glabrous, dry, “white,” about 1} lin. long; segments continuous,
rather large, rounded, 1-1 the length of the tube ; anthers included
(or ‘‘subexserted,” Sinclair), dorsifixed near the base, narrow-
oblong, obtuse ; cells parted to the base, membranous, smooth, pallid,
almost 2 lin. long (33 times longer than their width in the middle),
aristate ; pore 2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, rough-edged,

214 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica,

over } the length of the cell; style exserted ; stigma capitellate ;
ovary obovate, shortly and sparsely puberulous, or ‘ glabrous.”

Benth. in DC. Prodi. vii. 680.

Souru Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimen from Loddiges !

Little is known of this species, which has been described from Loddiges’
garden specimens only, and the material is scanty. It seems well-marked,
Sinclair describes the anthers as subexserted, but they are not so in the specimens
we have seen, nor does Bentham mention the character.

Section XXII. CHLOROCODON. (Sp. 308-314.)

308. E. Woodii (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 237); habit various,
branched from the base with diffuse spreading branches, 6-8 in.
high, or with erect, virgate or subsimple branches, 12-18 in, high ;
branches puberulous or hispidulous, sometimes both intermixed, the
longer hairs generally more or less compound (subplumose or bi-
furcate) or gland-tipped ; leaves mostly 3-nate (rarely 4-nate on the
same plant), spreading, narrow-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse,
margins revolute or reflexed, closed or open-backed, hispid-ciliate,
scabrid-hispidulous or glabrous and at length shining on the upper
surface, 1-2 lin. long; flowers mostly axillary, solitary, along the
upper part of the branches, and often crowded, occasionally here and
there with a few terminal flowers at the ends of the branches or on
the short, produced, lateral branchlets ; pedicels curved, about 1 lin.
long; braets remote, small, occasionally one wanting; sepals linear,
subspathulate-linear, subulate or narrow-lanceolate, hispid or gland-
ciliate, foliaceous, about 3 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform or
subcampanulate, equal or slightly wider at the mouth, glabrous, dry,
white, mostly about 2 lin. long; segments rounded, erect or slightly
spreading, }—3 the length of the tube; anthers included or sub-
included and manifest, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong,
obtuse, smooth, 1—2 lin. long, aristate ; pore about % or 2 the length
of the cell; awns variable in length from 1-3 the length of the eell ;
style exserted, longer than the ovary, somewhat rigid, sometimes
compressed ; stigma capitate, large ; ovary sessile, or substipitate by
contraction just above the disk, pubescent or glabrous.

Coast Rreton: Clanwilliam Div.; on the Cederberg Range, 2250 ft.,
Marloth, 2635! Stutterheim Div. ; summit of Dohne Mountain, Bolus, 8773!
Sim, 2132!

CENTRAL ReGIon: Graaff Reinet Div. ; on Koudvyeld Mountain, Bolus, 2583!
5189 !

Eastern Recion: Griqualand East ; Mount Currie, Tyson, 1253! Insiswa
Mountain, Schlechter, 6492! Natal; Ismont, Wood, 1839! Inanda, Wood, 873!
Little Noods Berg, Wood, 4136! near Umkomaas River, Wood, 4611! Polela,
Evans, 674! Schlechter, 6832 !

Karanari Recion: Orange River Colony ; Oliviers Hock and Mont-aux-
Sources, Thode, 60! 61! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1043! Transvaal ;
Saddleback Mountain, near Barberton, 5000 ft., Galpin, 817! Houtbosch,
Schlechter, 4749 !

Erica.| ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 215

Closely allied, and often very similar in aspect to EH. hispidula (§ Arsace).
It differs chiefly by its constantly capitate stigma and its more usually axillary
flowers, which are only occasionally terminal. In Wood’s 873 the stamens are
irregular in number, 4-7 and 8 on the same plant.

309. E. mesta (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 239); erect, 5-7 ft.
high ; branches subvirgate, ashy-grey pubescent, sometimes also
pilose with longer white hairs, glabrescent ; leaves erect-spreading,
subimbricate, linear, subacute, thick, sulcate, pubescent, ashy-grey,
ciliate with a few longer tubercle-based hairs, the older glabrescent,
1-2 lin. long; flowers solitary or binate ; pedicels pubescent, under
1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, pubescent,
about 3 the length of the corolla; corolla eyathiform, mouth searcely
widened or contracted, glabrous, sordid greenish-yellow, }—$ lin,
or rarely nearly 1 lin. long; segments connivent after maturity,
from 1 to as long as the tube ; filaments capillary ; anthers subincluded,
manifest, subterminal, tapering to the base, narrow-subobovate,
smooth, nearly 3 lin. long, muticous ; pore less than } the length of
the cell; style elongating, at length exserted ; stigma large, cyathi-
form; ovary globose, pallid, glabrous except for a few scattered
hairs on the summit.

Coast Reaion, 300-6000 ft.: Humansdorp Div.; slopes near the river at
Humansdorp, Galpin, 3708! Bedford Div.; Kaga Berg, Weale! Queenstown

Div. ; Hangklip Mountain, near Queenstown, Galpin, 1610!
Centra Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Oude Berg, 5000 ft., Bolus, 628 !

Koudveld Berg, MacLea !
KALAHARI REGIon: Basutoland, Cooper, 759! 760!

Much resembles in its flowers E. leucopelta, Tausch (§ Arsace) ; and detached
flowers are with difficulty distinguishable. But the leaves and inflorescence are
different, the latter being in this always axillary; the anthers also in E.
leucopelta are lateral, but in this species nearly terminal,

310. E. coarctata (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 19, 99, t. 37); usually
less than 1 ft. high ; branches many, slender, suberect, mostly sub-
virgate, puberulous or glabrous; leaves mostly 3-nate, more rarely
4-nate (in some specimens 3-nate on the barren, 4-nate on the
flowering branches), spreading or incurved, uniformly crowded or
gemmiferous in clusters separated by distinct internodes, linear, blunt,
trigonous or subterete, 23-4 lin. long ; flowers mostly in pairs, more
or less crowded along a great part of the branches, and forming a
narrow and sometimes dense pseudo-spike; pedicels 3-17 lin. long; —
bracts remote, basal, minute; sepals ovate or lanceolate, acute,
keeled, glabrous, greenish, about } lin. long, or about equalling the
eorolla-tube ; corolla globose-cyathiform to campanulate-cyathiform,
the mouth probably nearly equal at maturity but becoming some-
what contracted shortly after, glabrous, rosy or sordid yellow, about
8 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, about equal to the
tube; anthers mostly just manifest, or a little longer or shorter
than the corolla, subovate, smooth, brown, % lin. long, muticous ;
pore 1 to nearly 3 the length of the cell; style exserted, mostly at
length decurved ; stigma cyathiform, peltate (or perhaps becoming

216 ERIcCACEm (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Erica.

ealyptriform 1); ovary glabrous. Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 692.
E. axillaris, Soland. in Herb. Banks., acc. to Benth. l.c. E. minutz-
flora, Andr, Heathery, t. 270, and Col. Heaths, t, 245. E. brevipes,
Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 643.

Var. B, longipes (Benth. l.c.); “pedicels longer; anthers exserted; stigma
subequal.” E. longipes, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 643, not of Klotzsch.

Coast ReEGion, ascending to 1000 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; Saron, 900 ft.,
Schlechter, 7864! Malmesbury Div.; Groot Vallei, Riebeeks Kasteel, Zeyher,
1122! Cape Div. ; Cape Flats (Ecklon ?), in Cape Govt. Herb. ! Flats near
Wynberg, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 9282! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, and near
Caledon, Bolus! Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3341! Bredasdorp Div.; near
Elim, Bolus, 8459! Riversdale Div.; near- Muis Kraal, Galpin, 3696!
Var. 8: Uitenhage Div.; Elands Kloof, Ecklon &¥ Zeyher, 250! in Herb.
Brit. Mus.

A somewhat variable. species, of which we take as the type Wendland’s
excellent figure above-cited. With this Bentlam identified, with some doubt,
Andrews’ EF. minuteflora, but, as we think, after examination of a considerable
number of specimens, quite rightly. ‘The only difference of any importance is in
the form of the stigma, represented by Wendland as calyptriform, a form we
have nowhere seen in the genus. But in wild specimens the shape varies from
cyathiform to peltate, which may be due to the spreading and deflection of the
margin of the stigma consequent upon age. This view seems to receive con-
firmation from the fact that Klotzsch, who described the species from a living
plant in the Berlin Bot. Gardens, uses for the stigma the term ‘‘ umbraculiforme.”
It is easy to conjecture that a further modification might take place and result
in a calyptriform stigma. Those who see only Wendland’s and Andrews’
figures might naturally suppose them to be distinct ; but these are from culti-
vated specimens, which cannot be relied upon for habit or vegetative characters.
Bentham’s var. 8, we quote on his authority, not having examined it,

__ 811. E. curtophylla (Guthrie & Bolus); probably under 1 ft.
high ; branches numerous, incurved and leafy in the upper portion,
puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, erect, incurved, oblong, very obtuse, flat
or concave above, rounded and sulcate beneath, thick, rigid, glabrous,
smooth, pallid, 11-22 lin. long; inflorescence a subdense pseudo-
raceme towards the ends of the branches ; flowers mostly binate,
small; pedicels slender, 11-2 lin. long ; bracts remote, small ; sepals
lanceolate, coloured, shorter than the corolla-tube, concave, sub-
scarious, about 2 lin. long; corolla from urceolate-eyathiform- to
campanulate, slightly contracted at the throat and expanded at the
mouth, or subequal, glabrous, dry, minutely pitted, pale red, about
1 lin. long; segments about 3 the length of the tube; anthers
included, dérsifixed close to the base, longitudinally semiovate,
smooth, 2 lin. long, muticous ; pore 3 the length of the cell; style

exserted ; stigma rather large, subcapitate or sometimes subpeltate ;
ovary glabrous.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, specimen without collector’s name, in
Herb. Trinity College, Dublin !

Coast Reeton: Riversdale Div.; ridge near Milkwoodfontein, near Stil
Bay, Galpin, 3651!

312. E. Priori (Guthrie & Bolus); branches slender, scaberu-

Erica. ] ERICACED (Guthrie & Bolus). 217

lous, 6—8 in. or more long ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or subsquarrose,
straight, linear, blunt, flat above, deeply sulcate below, glabrous,
3-31 lin. long ; flowers solitary, somewhat scanty and lax; pedicels
rather slender, 2 lin. long or more; bracts remote, minute, between
the middle and ‘base ; sepals ovate, acute, keeled, scarious, concaye,
glabrous, about 2 lin. long ; corolla broad-cyathiform or subobconic,
mouth slightly widened, glabrous, dry, about 1 lin, long ; segments
oblong, rounded, 3-4 times the length -of the very short tube;
anthers included to subincluded, manifest, lateral, dorsifixed near the
base, narrow-obovate, smooth, 2 lin. long, muticous; pore 2 the
length of the cell; style exserted, slender; stigma broad-capitate to
subpeltate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Reeion: George Div.; near George, Alexander ! in Herb. Kew.

Of this we have only seen the single specimen above-cited. It resembles, and
is clearly allied to E. fucata (§ Gypsocallis) ; but is quite distinct by its leaves
not being fasciculate as in that, and more deeply sulcate ; by its different sepals ;
corolla-segments much longer; and by its subincluded quite lateral and some-
what differently shaped anthers. We have named this after the late Dr. R. C.
Alexander, who subsequently assumed the name of Prior, and who, during a
long journey through the colony in 1847, made many interesting discoveries. He
died in 1903.

313. E. leptostachya (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect; branches 5-6 in.,
or more, long; branchlets subsimple, erect, delicately slender, almost
capillary, striate, subglabrous; leaves 3-nate, erect to spreading-
incurved, somewhat distant (except the uppermost), narrow-linear,
subacute, deeply suleate, glabrous, about 2 lin. long; flowers few,
solitary or binate; pedicels about 4 lin. long; bracts remote, sub-
median, minute ; sepals equal or subunequal, lanceolate, subscarious,
about 1 lin. long; corolla obconic, mouth widened, — lin. long;
segments variable from a little shorter to a little longer than the
tube ; anthers subincluded to included, lateral, dorsifixed close to
the base, oblong, very obtuse, ineurved, smooth, a little over 1 lin.
long, muticous; pore 2 lin. long; style shortly exserted ; stigma
large, peltate or subcyathiform ; ovary glabrous or thinly hirtulous
near the apex.

Sourn Arrica?: without note of origin; specimen marked “ew Herb.
MacNab, 405a, 109,” in Herb, Kew! ‘i :

With the aspect of several species of Salaris this séems a true Erica. Though
its origin is somewhat uncertain, it is most probably South African, and
appears to be a quite distinct species, which may yet be refound: The anthers
occasionally exhibit clearly four complete cells, and such are of a different

form.

314. E. alticola (Guthrie & Bolus); dwarf, under a span high;
branches spreading, then ascending, flexuous, puberulous, with
prominent lunate leaf-cushions ; leaves 4-nate, spreading, straight or
subrecurved, not crowded, slender, linear, subobtuse, flat above,
rounded and sulcate beneath, glabrous, 3-4 lin. long ; inflorescence
a leafy, oblong, pseudo-spike at the ends of the branchlets, about
3 in. long by 3 in. wide ; flowers solitary ; pedicels pubescent, about

218 ertcace& (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica.

8 lin. long; braets variable, mostly (in our specimens) entirely
absent, occasionally 2, subapproximate, foliaceous, sometimes one
only, long and reaching nearly to the top of the corolla ; sepals some-
times somewhat unequal, slightly united at the base, lanceolate,
acute, keeled, often reduced to three, about } lin. long; corolla
urceolate-cyathiform, scarcely constricted at the throat or widened at
the mouth, red, about 8 lin. long; segments rounded, suberect, about
1 the length of the tube ; filaments slender, equal, a little shorter
than the anther; anthers sublateral, obovate-oblong, obtuse, smooth,
over 1 lin. long, muticous; pore about } the length of the cell ;
ovary subglobose, glabrous.

EastERN Reeion: Transvaal; in rocky places on the Drakensberg Range,
near the Devils Kantoor, about 5500 ft., Bolus, 7678!

In floral structure this is near to #. mesta, but it is separated by its much
longer and 4-nate leaves, and different habit; also to EH. coarctata.

Section XXIII. ARSACE. (Sp. 315-330.)

315. E. hispidula (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1672); strong-growing,
much-branched, of various aspect, commonly 2-3 ft. high, less in dry
places, or reaching 5-6 ft. in favourable situations; branches pubes-
cent or hirsute, usually rigid; leaves more or less spreading, from
linear and sulcate, to ovate or oblong and then open-backed, often
incurved, usually scabrid and hirsute, rarely glabrescent, 1-22 lin.
long ; flowers on short more or less distinguishable branchlets, not in
dense crowded masses ; pedicels }—} (very rarely 1) lin. long; braets
3, variable, mostly subremote or remote, occasionally subbasal ;
sepals linear to lanceolate, foliaceous or cartilaginous, usually reach-
ing as high as the corolla-tube, more rarely equalling the corolla,
often viseid ; corolla mostly broad-urceolate, sometimes narrower, or
_ occasionally globose-urceolate, at maturity almost always more or less
contracted at the throat, generally pale rosy, rarely red, 3-1 lin.
long ; segments more or less spreading, rounded, about 1—! the
length of the tube ; filaments capillary, mostly about as long as the
anthers ; anthers included, mostly lateral, rarely sublateral, oblong
and obtuse, or longitudinally semiovate, tapering at the base, sub-
acute, smooth, pallid, submembranous, }—} lin. long, muticous; pore
about } the length of the cell; style shortly exserted ; stigma peltate
or eyathiform; ovary more or less hispidulous, rarely glabrous.
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 21, 133, t. 50; Benth. in DC. Prodr. ‘vii.
691. E. hispida, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 19; Wendl. Eric. Ic, fase.
27, 13. E. virgata, Thunb. lec. 18; var. hirta, Wendl. l.e.
fase. 15, 35, t. 13. E. absinthoides, Linn. Mant. 66, fide Benth.
E. virgularis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 324. E. Colleter,
Spreng. Syst. ii. 192. H. approximata, Schlecht. ex Spreng. Syst.
ii. 196. #. serrata, Thunb, Fl. Cap, ed. S-hult. 346% E. minuta,
Klotzsch ex Benth, l.e.

Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 219

Var. B, serpyllifolia (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 691); leaves broadish open-
backed with narrow reflexed margins, or sometimes nearly linear, closed and
suleate, glabrous and smooth above, pallid or puberulous below, E. serpylli-
folia, Andr. Heathery, t. 289; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 744.

Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg (E. serrata and E. absinthotdes).

Coast REGI0N, from Paarl Div., eastward to George Div., generally on the
mountains up to 3500 ft.; many collectors :—Thunberg (EF. virgata and E.
hispida), Zeyher, 3259! 3333! Bolus. Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 609 partly! Bolus,
4051! 4582! 6987! Schlechter, 2041 (or 2042, ticket uncertain)! 10382!
Galpin, 3707! Guthrie, 2278! 4658! Wolley Dod, 178! Var. B: Cape Div.;
near Cape Town, Burchell, 8404! Table Mountain, Bolus, 3705! 4479 ! 4756!
and Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 609 partly! Galpin, 4:08! Guthrie, 1010!
Wolley Dod, 892 ! 1004!

We have not seen any type of this species; and Linnzus’ brief description
gives no account of the shape of the corolla, nor of the stigma. Hence we have
had to depend upon the figures and descriptions of post-Linnean writers. We
quote only such specimens as have passed through our hands. Briefly stated, we
have included here only such as have three usually remote bracts, small in-
conspicuous sepals, and small urceclate corollas, with a cyathiform or peltate
stigma. Even as thus restricted the species remains a variable one, and our
var. B is connected with what we can only term the commoner and more widely
spread form, by intermediate specimens, most, if not all, of which have narrow
leaves, closed and only suleate below, though they appear to be invariably smooth,
shining and usually quite glabrous.

316. E. arachnoidea (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 691) ;
stout, much branched ; branches hirsute with longish, coarse, taway,
hairs; leaves spreading or squarrose, those upon the primary
branches mostly gemmiferous with internodes longer than the leaves,
those on the ultimate branchlets more crowded, broad-ovate, sub-
acute, subcordate at the base, open-backed, margins reflexed, hirsute
and rough with raised tubercles above, becoming glabrous and
shining, closely-felted, white-tomentose below, 14-21 lin. long;
inflorescence pseudo-spicate on short lateral branchlets, or in in-
terrupted tufts, flowers solitary to 3-nate; pedicels > lin. long;
bracts 3, basal or remote, small; sepals oblong, tapering to the
inflexed apex, subpubescent or glabrous, ciliate, greenish, 2—3 lin.
long, reaching mostly about } the height of the corolla; corolla
broad-urceolate, throat contracted, glabrous or hirtulous, viscid,
11 lin. long; segments deltoid, acute, }—} the length of the tube ;
filaments rather broad, more or less bent below the anther, 3—% lin.
long; anthers lateral or sublateral, subovate or ovate-cuneate, obtuse,
smooth, about 2 lin. long, mutieous; pore }—j the length of the
cell; style exserted, dilated at the apex, rather slender; stigma
obconic, and truncate or slightly cyathiform at the apex, or sub-
peltate ; ovary densely woolly. E. hispidula, var. crassifolia, Benth.
in DC. Prodr. vii. 691.

Coast Region: George Div.; Cradock Berg, 3000 ft., Galpin, 3695! Devils
Kop, near George, Niven, 35! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher,
787! 3216!

This is very near to E. cordata (§ Ceramia) both in appearance and in floral
structure and might almost be regarded as a variety of that. In spite of the
fact that Bentham quotes E. punctata, Bartl,, as a synonym of E. cordata and

220 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Erica.

E. arachnoidea as a var. of E. hispidula, L., we suspect that the two may be
the same. ‘his only affects the priority of name, and we have not been able to
see Bartling’s type. This is certainly Klotzsch’s plant, and while we have some
hesitation in separating it from E. cordata, we have none in distinguishing it
from #. hispidula, L,

317. E. inops (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 186); erect,
much-branched, 2-3 ft. high; branches pubescent, sometimes
floceose with minute plumose hairs; leaves spreading, linear to
narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, deeply sulcate, with a raised nerve on the
flat upper surface, glabrous and smooth or roughly hispid with
tubercle-based hairs, ciliate or naked, 11-3 (mostly 2-22) lin. long;
flowers at the ends of short branchlets; pedicels 31—% lin. long;
braet one only, approximate or subremote, sometimes subamplexicaul,
sepal-like but smaller, pallid; sepals adpressed, narrow-ovate, acute,
keel-tipped, cartilaginous, glabrous, mostly smooth and shining,
whitish, from 2-2 the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid-urceolate
to globose-urceolate, whitish, about 1 lin. long; segments rounded
or deltoid, spreading, about 3 the length of the tube; filaments
rather broad, shorter than the anther; anthers lateral, dorsifixed a
little above the base, obliquely ovate, subacute, smooth, under + lin.
long; pore small, less than + the length of the cell; style shortly
exserted ; stigma peltate ; ovary hispidulous.

Coast Region: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 2500 ft., Bolus, 3719! Muizen-
berg Mountain, 600-1400 ft., Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 50! Guthrie,
521! Miss Mansergh! Steen Berg, Wolley Dod, 1277!

318. E. leucopelta (Tausch in Flora, 1884, 616); erect ; branches
and leaves pubescent, or also hispid with scanty or dense, coarse,
stiff, white, sometimes gland-tipped hairs; leaves erect. or spread-
ing, oblong-lanceolate or linear, sulcate or very rarely subopen-
backed, 1-21 lin. long; flowers mostly scanty, or at least not in
dense masses ; pedicels }—3 lin. long; bracts remote, mostly 3, one
rather large and foliaceous, and two usually small or very minute, or
perhaps sometimes wanting; sepals linear or oblong, foliaceous,
pubescent, hispid-ciliate or naked, about 4 lin. long; corolla broad-
cyathiform or hemispherical, widened to the mouth, glabrous, smooth
or minutely papillose, dull yellow, 1—% lin. long; segments erect,
broadly rounded, equalling or slightly longer than the tube; fila-
ments capillary, shorter than the anther; anthers subexserted or
subineluded, elliptical or subovate, obtuse, smooth, pale brown,
1-2 lin, long, muticous; pore atLout 4 the length of the cell; style
included or exserted; stigma cyathiform or peltate, large ; ovary
thinly hispidulous, glabrescent. EH. barbata, Hort. ex Tausch in
Flora, 1834, 616. E. unibracteata, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 692. . hispidula, var. foliacea, Benth. lc. 691. LE.
foliacea, Klotzsch, and EK. galioides, Klotzsch ex Benth. 1.c. partly,
not of Lam.

Var. 8, pubescens (Bolus) ; branches and leaves with a uniform pubescence,
not hispid ; corolla glabrous,

Erica.] ERIcACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 221

VaR. y, ephebioides (Bolus) ; indumentum of branches and leaves as in either
of i preceding ; corolla puberulous. ZH. galioides, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c.,
partly. ; ar

Coast Reaion: Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Ecklon § Zeyher! (in Herb.
Berlin; the type of EH. wnibracteata, Kl.) Var. 8: King Williamstown Div. ;
summit of Perie Mountain, 3000 ft., Flanagan, 2163! Buffalo River Mountains,
Murray in Herb. MacOwan, 1045! Var. y: Caledon Div.; mountains near
Hemel-en-Aarde, Aug., Zeyher, 3337! Albany Div.; mountains near Grahams-
town, Zeyher, 882!

EASTERN RuGION: Var. 8: ‘Tembuland; Entwanazana, near Gat Berg,
4000 ft., Baur, 517 !

The type of Tausch (a cultivated specimen in the Herb. of the Royal Univ. of
Prague) and of EF. unibracteata, Klotasch, agree well. Both have distinctly
three bracts, though two are usually very minute. Our other specimens chiefly
differ in the indumentum of the branches, leaves and corolla, The bracts are
somewhat variable in size and position, but are of one general type. The flowers
much resemble those of E. mesta (§ Chlorocodon).

319. E. maritima (Guthrie & Bolus); stem stout, much and
intricately branched; branches divaricate, rigid, cinereo-puberulous,
soon glabrescent; leaves erect, subadpressed, only a little longer
than the internodes, oblong, subacute, slightly curved from the
middle outwards, sulcate, thickish, glabrous, 1-11 lin. long ; flowers
in few-flowered clusters at the ends of lateral branchlets; pedicels
about 1 lin. long; bracts basal or nearly so, small, subscarious,
shining; sepals lanceolate, subacute, subscarious, ‘concave, rigid,
keel-tipped, glabrous, 1 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, widened
to the mouth, veined, glabrous, about { lin. long; segments erect,
semi-ovate, narrowed to the apex but scarcely acute, about % the
length of the tube ; filaments linear, rather broad, veined, in length
equalling the anther ; anthers subexserted, ovate, obtuse, smooth, pale
brown, membranous, from 1—1 lin. long, muticous; pore broad-
elliptical, large for the section, about 2 the length of the cell; style
- exserted ; stigma peltate; ovary minutely hispidulous.

Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Zeekoe Vley, 100 ft., Schlechter,
10544! .

This has‘a distinct appearance, but its somewhat stunted habit (our specimens
are not above 6 in. high) may be due to bush-fires. ‘he bracts, sepals, and
anthers with their large pores and broad filaments are, however, different from any
other of this section. :

320. E. salax (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 336); branches
numerous, fastigiate, pubescent; leaves subspreading, lanceolate,
acute, suleate, thick, shining, minutely serrulate, glabrous, 1-1; lin.
long ; flowers 3-nate ; pedicels pubescent, } lin. or more long; bracts
subapproximate, small; sepals ovate, acute, very concave, keeled,
scarious, Ciliolate, 2 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, broader
than its length, barely 1 lin. long; segments broad-ovate, obtuse,
erect; in length equalling or twice that of the tube; filaments rather,
broad, about as long as the anther ; anthers narrow-ovate, subacute,
minutely ciliolate on the front margin, about % lin. long, aristate ;
pore over 3 the length of the cell; awns setiform, roughly ciliolate,

222 ERICACEEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica,

about + the length of the cell; style subincluded ; stigma peltate,
just manifest; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 691.
E. ramosissima, Roxb. ex Salish. L.c.

Sours Argica: without locality, Niven, 2!’ Roxburgh! Herb. Salisbury! in
Herb. Kew.

Coast ReGion: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains,
Masson. ’

321. E. carinata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680, not
of Lodd.); dwarf, glabrous; branches ascending; leaves mostly
erect, the lower spreading, slender, linear, subacute, keeled, 1-2 lin.
long ; flowers on short lateral branchlets, 3—4-nate or subumbellate,
sometimes crowded and copious ; pedicels slender, glabrous, 12 lin.
long ; bracts remote, small; sepals elliptic, acute, keeled, scarious,
very concave and rigid, 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, well
constricted at the throat, including the substellate-spreading limb,
1} lin, long; segments broad, ovate, subacute, about + lin. long;
filaments slender, 2 lin. long; anthers obliquely ovate, subacute,
scaberulous on the front margin, about + lin. long, crested; crests
affixed somewhat high and on the margin of the cells, subulate,
curved, roughly ciliolate, about 2 the length of the cells; style
included, short ; stigma clavate-capitate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Reerion : Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher,
3231!

322. E. leptopus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680); erect, 1 ft.
high or less; branches ascending, slender, puberulous or nearly
glabrous; leaves mostly erect, generally subdistant on the flowering
branches, linear, suleate, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; umbels 4-6-
flowered ; pedicels at length decurved, slender, 1-23 lin. long; bracts
variable, small, either all subremote or subapproximate, or the lowest
larger and median, the upper minute ; sepals linear-subulate, acute,
rather thick, $ lin. long, reaching about + the length of the corolla;
corolla broad-cyathiform, about 1 lin. long, when dry and compressed
wider at the mouth than its length; segments continuous with and
about 2 the length of the tube ; filaments very narrow, equal, nearly
straight; anthers obliquely ovate, 1 lin. long; awns subulate,
coarsely serrulate, nearly % the length of the cell; style included ;
stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary glabrous. E. patula, E.
Meyer ex Benth. l.c.

Var. f, piquetbergensis (Bolus) ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, about 4 lin. long ;
corolla broad-cyathiform ; segments ovate, about equal to the tube; anthers
longitudinally semilanceolate, 2 lin. long; pore 4 the length of the cell; awns
setiform, minutely ciliolate, about 4 the length of the cell; style exserted.

Var. y, breviloba (Bolus); sepals as in var. 8 but narrower; corolla very
broad-cyathiform ; segments broader and shorter than in the preceding, about
% or 7 the length of the tube; anthers subtriangular with rounded angles,
4 lin. long ; awns about 4 the length of the cell ; style included.

_Sourn Arrica: without locality, distributed as “‘E. patula, E. M.,”
Drege ! ,

Brica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 223

Coast RxeGion: Var. 8: Piquetberg Div. ; summit of Piquet Berg, 2200 ft.,
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6964! Var. y: Clanwilliam Div. ; summit of Sneeuw
Kop, 6800 ft., Leipoldt, 615! Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, 5700 ft.,
Bolus, 6365 !

We have had only a frustule of Drége’s type specimen; but good material of
the others cited.

323. E. minutissima (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 691) ;
*‘dwarf, much branched”; branches up to 9 in. long, very slender,
puberulous; leaves erect-spreading, nearly straight, linear, obtuse,
faintly sulcate, rather thick, glabrous, 3-1} lin. long; pedicels
slender, glabrous, 8 lin. long; bracts median, nearly verticillate, sub-
scarious, coloured, small; sepals ovate, acute, scarious except the green
keel, ciliolate, glabrous, about 4 lin. long, ora little over > the length
of the corolla ; corolla cyathiform or broad-cyathiform, more or less
widened at the mouth, }—2 lin. long, pallid; segments ovate, 2-3
times as long as the tube; anthers “ muticous ?” (Bentham—in our
specimens of the type all appear to have fallen off); style exserted,
dilated towards the apex; stigma truncate and lobulate, rather large ;
capsule globose, glabrous.

Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div.; around Somerset West, Ecklon ¥
Zeyher (locality no. 83) in Herb. Berlin.

324. E. tenuis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 329); glabrous,
erect or diffuse, from 1-5 ft. high ; leaves erect or spreading, slender,
linear and acute or rather thick and obtuse, suleate, 1-2 (rarely 23)
lin. long ; flowers terminal and lateral; pedicels decurved, glabrous,
about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, occasionally subapproximate, small ;
sepals lanceolate, acute, 3-3 lin. long; corolla campanulate or
cyathiform, mouth widened, white, about 1 lin. long; segments
slightly spreading, rounded and obtuse, or narrower and subacute,
about equal to the tube; filaments broader at the base or subequal,
flexuous, about 4 lin. long; anthers broad-ovate or subtriangular,
nearly as wide at the base as their length, subacute, pallid, mem-
branous, }—1 lin. long, aristate ; pore 2—% the length of the cell ; awns
setiform, rough, about equal to the cell; style included, rarely just
exserted; stigma clavate-capitellate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 680. E. divaricata, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob.
8. LE. longifissa, Klotzsch, and E. capillaris, Drége ex Benth. l.c.
6

South Argica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated spect-
mens ! :

Coast ReaGion, from 500-3300 ft. : Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, Drége,
Tulbagh Div.; Winterhoek Mountain, Bolus, 5181! near Tulbagh Waterfall,
Bolus, 5462! and Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1303! Schlechter, 9004! Cape
Div.; Devils Peak, Bolus, 4873! Constantia Berg, Wolley Dod, 1959! Caledon
Div.; Genadendal, Drége; Zwart Berg, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 9227! Rivers-
dale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6945! Galpin, 3677! Humansdorp Div. ;
Elands River, Galpin, 3713! -
: Centrat Raion: Ceres Div.; Skurfdeberg Range, 5600 ft., Schlechter,
0174!

224 rricace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [Brica.

There are two chief forms of this species: one with diffuse habit and longer
and more spreading: leaves; the other .with more erect and rigid habit, and
leaves more erect and shorter. . The corolla-limb is also variable.

325. E. crateriformis (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 14 in. or more
high ; branchlets slender, floccose with minutely plumose hairs;
leaves erect, adpressed, oblong, keeled, thickish, glabrous, about
1 lin. long; flowers on short lateral branchlets ; pedicels * lin. long ;
bracts subremote, foliaceous, rather long; sepals lanceolate, acute,
keel-tipped, scarious-edged, ciliate, 3 lin. long, not quite reaching to
the height of the corolla-tube; corolla broad-eyathiform, mouth
widened, nearly 1 lin. long; segments erect, subdeltoid, obtuse,
3-} the length of the tube ; filaments capillary, with a sharp semi-.
circular bend about the middle, about 13 times the length of the
anther; anthers subincluded, just manifest, broad-elliptic, very
obtuse, smooth, about } lin. long, aristulate; pore about + the length
of the cell; awns very minute, curved outwards, and not reaching to
the base of the cell, caducous; style exserted, slender; stigma
capitate, lobulate, rather large ; ovary globose, glabrous.

Coast Reeton: Caledon Div. ; grassy hills at the foot of the Klein River
Mountains, Zeyher, 3340!

Near to some forms of FE. copiosa.

326. E. subverticillaris (Diels) ; erect, 10-12 in. high; branches
slender, leafy, thinly floccose with minute plumose hairs; leaves
usually spreading or sometimes erect, slender, linear or narrow-
lanceolate, semiterete, suleate, glabrous, 8-1 lin. long; flowers
clustered on short branchlets towards the ends of the main branches,
in appearance more or less interruptedly subspicate ; pedicels 1-14
lin. long; bracts, one foliaceous, nearly 1 lin. long, two minute,
adpressed or often wanting ; sepals adpressed, linear-oblong, tapering
upwards, ciliate, $—$ lin, long, reaching to (or a little above) the base
of the corolla-segments ; corolla broad-cyathiform, glabrous, papil-
lose, about 1 lin. long, apparently rosy; segments continuous with
tube, ovate or subtriangular, acute, about equalling the tube or but
little shorter or longer; anthers included, ovate-elliptic or some-
times subtriangular with a broader base and rounded angles, + lin.
long, aristate ; pore about } the length of the cell; awns setiform,
ciliate, about equalling the eell; style exserted ; stigma capitellate ;
ovary glabrous or very minutely puberulous.

Var. 8, revoluta (Bolus); older leaves on the main branches lanceolate,
acute, more loosely revolute, shortly hispid, shining, 2 lin. or less long ; anthers
tapering to the base ; awns not more than 4 the length of the cell,

-Karanart Reeion: Transvaal; mountains near Lydenburg, Wilms, 903 a
Sabie Valley, dry rocky hills below the Mauchs Berg, Burtt Davy, 487! Var. B :
Spitz Kop, near Lydenburg, Wilms, 908 !

Closely allied both to E. leptopus and to EB. ‘erateriformis. The var. B
looks ditferent, and possibly may be distinct; but the floral characters are in close
resemblance. }

Hriea.| ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 225

327. E. copiosa (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 25, 3, t. 1); erect, about
1 ft. high, somewhat slender; branches numerous, often diffuse,
mostly hirsute with coarse spreading hairs, with many short lateral
branchlets bearing abundant flowers ; leaves more or less spreading,
linear to lanceolate, thiek, suleate, rarely narrow-ovate and open-
backed, mostly hispidulous, sometimes glabrescent, mostly 1-13 lin.
long ; inflorescence strictly terminal, often pseudo-racemose by
erowding on the short branchlets; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts
variable, mostly remote and small, or minute, occasionally (as in the
type specimen) the lowest one larger and foliaceous ; sepals lanceo-
late or oblong-lanceolate, usually less than % lin. long, leaf-like or
coloured; corolla narrow-eampanulate (in the type) to broad-
campanulate, or cyathiform, from a little longer than its width to
a little shorter, the mouth more or less widened, glabrous, or rarely
puberulous, about 1 lin. long; segments mostly distinctly and some-
times widely spreading, from } the length of the tube to equal its
length ; filaments slender, bent below the anther; anthers included,
sometimes manifest, oblong, with more or less obliquity, subcuneate,
or narrow-elliptic, usually 1—} (rarely +4) lin. long, muticous or
minutely or long aristate; pore less than } the length of the cell,
style exserted ; stigma capitate; ovary usually hispidulous, or at
least towards the summit. EE. incomta, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 690.

Var. B, linearisepala (Bolus); leaves sometimes rather flat and open-backed ;
sepals linear, mostly coloured with green tips, 4-$ lin. long; anthers sometimes
subexserted, muticous or broad-cuneate and long aristate.

Var. y, parvisepala (Bolus); sepals ovate or broad-lanceolate, acute, ciliate,
coloured, 1-4 lin. long; corolla sometimes puberulous; anthers aristate ; awns
3-2 the length of the cell, setiform, about 4 lin. long. i

Var. 5, longicauda (Bolus); leaves deeply sulcate or slightly open-backed,
linear or subterete, obtuse; sepals narrow-ovate, obtuse or subacute, ciliate,
deep crimson or with a green foliaceous tip, about } lin. long; anthers with
rather broad subulate, serrulate or lobed awns, or subcrested nearly as long as
the cells.

Sout AFRICA: without locality, Lichtenstein !

Coast RraGion: Caledon Div.; Caledon, Zeyher, 7! in Herb. Trin. Coll.,
Dublin. Mossel Bay Div.; near Great Brak River, Galpin, 3701! George
Div. ; near George, Alexander, 7! Knysna _Div.; Woodlands, Galpin, 3712!
Uitenhage Div.; Hlands River Mountains, Ecklon § Zeyher! in Herb, Berlin.
Van Stadensberg Range, West, 4! Var. 8: Swellendam Div., Schlechter, 2089!
Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range, Bolus, 9112! Var. y: Stellenbosch Div.,
Pappe! Tulbagh Div.; Witsenberg Vlakte, Pappe, 39! George Div., Schlechter,
5813! Knysna Div. ; near Plettenberg Bay, Burchell, 5834! near Touw River,
Burchell, 5722! Var. 3: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg Range, near Sneeuw Kop,
4500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8678 !

Eastern ReGion ; Griqualand Hast, Tyson, 1783! 2859!

. The type is Wendland’s excellent figure and description ; and we have besides,
by the courtesy of Prof. Dr. Engler, Director of the Royal Bot, Mus, of Berlin
(whose generous assistance in this and many other instances we gratefully
acknowledge) been favoured with the opportunity of seeing the type of Klotzsch’s
E. incomta and of dissecting the flower. This agrees very well with Wend-
land’s, The stigma is clearly capitate, not peltate as described by Bentham.

The varieties are fairly distinct as to the sepals, but are closely connected in

VOL. IV.—SECT. I. Q

226 ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

almost every other character. Most of them are marked by a general roughness
to the touch.

328. E. onusta (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, about 1 ft. high ; stem
rather stout ; branches ascending, slender, subflexuous, white-pubes-
cent; leaves erect-spreading, narrow-lanceolate and sulcate, or the
older occasionally lanceolate and open-backed, rather thick, hirtulous,
glabrescent, drying pallid, mostly 1—% (a few older rarely 1) lin.
long ; flowers so densely covering the whole plant that but few
leaves are visible, 3-nate or solitary on very short branchlets ;
pedicels % lin. long; bracts remote, small, the lowest larger and
leaf-like ; ‘sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, sulcate, mostly coloured,
puberulous, 2 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, glabrous, red, mostly
& (rarely +) lin. long; segments erect, or only very slightly spread-
ing, broad and rounded, about 2 the length of the tube; filaments
capillary, 14-2 times as long as the anthers ; anthers subexserted,
narrow-elliptic, obtuse at the base and ares smooth, minutely
ciliolate on the anterior margin, a little over + lin. long, aristate ;
pore about 2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, spreading, more
than + the length of the cell ; style exserted, slender; stigma
clavate-capitellate, small; ovary glabrous.

Coast ReGion: Knysna Div.; near Forest Hall, Miss ahtct Seger 60! in
Cape Govt. Herb. and Herb. Bolus.

Near to H. copiosa, Wendl., var. parvisepala, but the whole appearance of the
good specimens before us is so diverse that we hesitate to regard it as a variety of
that species.

329. E. microcodon (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, probably 1-12 ft.
high; branches usually slender, ascending, hirsute; leaves erect-
spreading, mostly narrow-lanceolate, acute, thick and sulcate, varying
more rarely to broad-lanceolate and open-backed, commonly glabrous,
smooth and shining, sometimes puberulous but glabrescent, 1—1+ lin.
long, more rarely 2 lin. long ; flowers mostly dense on short branch-
lets ; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, small, cartilaginous,
pallid ; sepals lanceolate, tapering much to the apex but scareely
acute, glabrous and often shining, thick, cartilaginous, rosy, about
2 lin. long, reaching to 2 the length of the eorolla-tube or higher ;
corolla from broad-suburceolate to sceaeecges anor rae not (or only
slightly) constricted at the throat, glabrous, 3-12 lin. long; segments
rounded, more or less spreading, about + the length ot the tube;
filaments slender, at full maturity 13-13 times the length of the
anthers; anthers subexserted, euneate- oblong, acute or subacute,
smooth, about } lin. long, muticous ; pore about 1 the length of the
cell ; style exserted ; stigma small, elavate-capitellate ; ovary hispidu-
lous, chiefly on the summit.

Coast Reaion, from 900-2000 ft.: Swellendam Div.; woods, Voormans
Bosch (Ecklon § Zeyher ?) in Cape Govt. Herb. ! mountains near Swellendam,
a 3697! 3714! Schlechter, 5660! Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, Galpin,
3700

Brica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 227

330. E. setacea (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 59); erect, 1-12 ft.
high ; branches often flexuous, tomentose and also usually more or
less floccose with minute plumose hairs; leaves incurved-erect,
oblong, blunt, thick, rigid, deeply sulcate or rarely subopen-backed,
mostly roughly setose-hispid, and also pubescent or floecose-
tomentose, 1-11 lin. long; flowers sometimes lateral by arrest of the
branchlets ; pedicels tomentose, 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small ;
sepals somewhat lax, slightly coherent at the base, foliaceous, oblong-
lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, keeled, puberulous and setose-ciliate,
1-8 lin. long; corolla cyathiform or subcampanulate-cyathiform,
mouth scarcely widened, usually glabrous, more rarely minutely
puberulous or velutinous, whitish, pale yellow or pink, *—1} lin.
long ; segments erect, rounded, }—2 the length of the tube; anthers
ineluded, often just manifest, oblong, obtuse, oblique at the base,
smooth, pale brown, + lin. long, aristate at the base; pore about
2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, ciliate, mostly 1} the
length of the cell, sometimes more minute and caducous; style
shortly exserted; stigma capitate, 4-lobed, rather large; ovary
hispidulous or glabrous. Heathery, t. 87; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
690. EH. asperifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 324 (who
quotes Andr. name). FE. holocalycina and E. cumulata, Klotesch ex
Benth. l.c. 690.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury !

Coast Recion: frequent on mountains from Paarl Div. eastwards to Oudts-
hoorn Div., from 500-4500 ft., Mund, Niven, Zeyher, 3256! 3257! Guthrie,
2504! 2507! 3908! 4587! Bolus, 6388! 6498! 6988! Herb. Huguenot
Seminary, 293! Galpin, 3702! 3703! Marloth, 2405!

The difficulty felt by Bentham in upholding E. variabilis as a separate species,
has increased with the acquisition of fresh material, and the species is there-
fore abandoned. The larger flowered forms have, as a rule, the more copious
indumentum, and these have been generally named £. setacea; the smaller
flowered and less bairy forms going by the name of E. variabilis. But there is
no constant character to separate them even as varieties.

~ Section XXIV. PSEUDEREMIA. (Sp. 331-339.) ‘

331. E. cernua (Montin in Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Upsal., ii, 292,
t. 9, fig. 3, 1775); about 1 ft. high or less; branches numerous,
widely spreading, subcorymbose, the ultimate flexuous and cernuous,
finely puberulous, glabrescent, with occasionally tufts of short
subplumose hairs beneath the leaf-cushions; leaves 4-nate, mostly
erect, sometimes adpressed, straight or slightly curved, linear, acute
or subacute, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate with subplumose
hairs, at length naked, 2-3 lin. long ; heads 4-8-flowered, cernuous ;
pedicels puberulous, 1 lin. long; bracts subulate to lanceolate,
acuminate, subscarious, ciliate with long soft subplumose hairs,
22-3 lin. long; sepals like the narrower bracts, or linear, 2} lin.
long ; corolla broad-urceolate or ovoid, only slightly constricted at
the throat, glabrous, rosy, 23 lin. long; segments erect, or perhaps
_ spreading in the living state, ovate, rounded, about } the length of
Q 2

228 ERIcACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Friea.

the tube ; anthers included, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, smooth, some-
what under 1 lin. long, crested; pore 1— the length of the cell ;
crests lanceolate-acuminate, serrulate, equalling or longer than the
cells; style included ; stigma capitellate, small, or subsimple ; ovary
glabrous. Linn. f. Suppl. 222; Benth. in DC, Prodr. vii. 658, not
of Andr. E. cernua, var. lanceolata, Wendl. Eric. Ie. fase. 8,
13.

SourH Arnica : without locality, Masson !

Coast Region: Tulbagh Div.; Witsenberg Vlakte, Ecklon & Zeyher.
Clanwilliam Div., Mader, 211! Cederberg Range, 2500 ft., Leipoldt, 210!
between Sneeuw Kop and Wupperthal, 3000-4000 ft., Bodkin. in Herb. Bolus,
8632 !

CENTRAL Rrecion: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, Thunberg !

There is some doubt as to the identity of this species because Montin’s figure
does not well represent Thunberg’s and Masson’s specimens so marked, and
indeed appears to us to resemble more the next ‘species; and the description is
insufficient. But as the present has been known under Montin’s name for so
many years, and was so known to Thunberg and Linnwus, we have judged it
better to adhere to it.

332. E. Maderi (Guthrie & Bolus); 6-12 in. high; branches
ascending, rather stout, pubescent; leaves 4-nate or scattered,
irregular, erect or subspreading, crowded, imbricate, linear or lanceo-
late-linear, acute, suleate, pubescent or glabrous, ciliate with sub-
plumose hairs (as are the bracts and sepals), or becoming naked,
2-3 lin. long; heads ereet or slightly cernuous, globose or semi-
globose, 10-23-flowered, 7-10 lin. in diameter; pedicels }—1 lin.
long; lower bract long and sometimes foliaceous (chiefly so in the
outer flowers of the head), 2-32 lin. long, two upper much smaller,
submembranous, pubescent ; sepals from a broader ovate or lanceo-
late base, very acuminate, membranous, pubescent, coloured, 4-1}
lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, obliquely inflated, glabrous, white
to rosy, 23-5 lin. long; segments subspreading, 1-1 the length of
the tube; anthers included, cuneate to oblong-cuneate, obtuse,
smooth, 2 to nearly 3 lin, long, aristate ; pore about } the length of
the cell; awns setiform or subulate, 1—% the length of the cell; style
included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Recioy, between 8000 and 6800 ft.: Clanwilliam Div., Mader in
Herb. MacOwan, 2185! Cederberg Range between Sneeuw Kop and Wupperthal,
3000-4000 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 86311! Leipoldt, 619! Worcester Div. ;
marshy places on the summit of the Matroos Berg, Marloth, 2272! Bolus in
Herb. Guthrie, 4421!

333. E. spherocephala (Wendl. ex Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii.
658); erect, about 1 ft. high ; branches ascending, slender, and
mostly straight, sometimes subvirgate, pubescent, oceasionally with
soft plumose hairs under the leaf-cushions, leaves, bracts and sepals
often ciliate with the same; leaves 4-nate, erect or spreading,
straight or incurved, densely imbricate or as long as or shorter than
the internodes, linear to narrow-lanceolate, acute, suleate, ciliate or
naked, pubescent or glabrous, 14-24 lin. long; heads subglobose,

Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 229

few- to (in finer specimens) 28-flowered, 4-6} lin. in diam. ;
pedicels 3—% lin. long; bracts, the lower larger and more or less
leaf-like, the upper smaller and membranous; sepals narrow-
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, ciliate and terminated by a long
setiform awn, membranous, coloured, 1—% lin. long; corolla urceolate,
those of the outer flowers obliquely inflated, glabrous, pale to deep
rosy, 2-3 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, 1? the length of
the tube ; filaments capillary, sometimes fiexuous; anthers included,
cuneate-oblong or oblong and incurved, obtuse, smooth, glabrous,
2 lin. long, crested or crested-aristate ; pore about } the length of
the cell; crests narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, notched at the base,
about 2 the length of the cell; style included, or just manifest ;

stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Reaion: Ceres Div.; Skurfdeberg Range, Zeyher, 1096! near Ceres,
Guthrie, 2177! Bolus, 7342! 7448! Marloth, 1687! Prince Alfred, Schlechter,
9981! Cape Div.; Constantia Berg, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 784!

334. E. Solandra (Andr. Col. Heaths, ii. 132); usually weak,
straggling, diffuse; branches slender, pubescent or setulose-hispid,
‘6-9 in. long; leaves 4-nate, erect or spreading, usually incurved,
linear, obtuse, sulcate, occasionally subopen-backed, glabrous on the
upper surface, more or less densely setulose-hispid with rigid
tubercle-based hairs below, 1-2 lin. long; heads subglobose, 3-4}
lin. in diam., several-flowered ; pedicels 1 lin. long or less; bracts
like the sepals but shorter; sepals linear, acuminate, beset with
numerous long spreading setulose white hairs, foliaceous or sub-
membranous, 13-2 lin. long ; corolla oyoid-ureeolate to urceolate, not
much constricted at the throat, puberulous, subscabrid or glabrous,
1}-2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, 3—} the length of the
tube ; filaments capillary, flexuous ; anthers almost exactly those of
FE. Maderi, but a little smaller; style mostly included, rarely
exserted ; stigma capitellate; ovary villous or hispidulous. Andr.
Heathery, t. 89. EH. solandriana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 658.

Soutu Arica: without locality, cultivated specimens!

Coast Region: George Div.; Montagu Pass, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 5814!

rocky elevated places at Barbiers Kraal, near Devils Kop, Niven !
Hastern ReGion: Natul; Van Reenens Pass, 7000 ft., Schlechter, 6938!

_ The occurrence of this species so far eastward as Natal is unexpected and
interesting.

335. E. Cooperi (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxiv. 179) ; stout,
rigid, much branched, rough to the touch, 2-3 ft. high ; branches
spreading or subdivaricate, roughly hispid with spreading simple
or more or less compound hairs ; leaves 4-nate, mostly spreading,
linear to linear-lanceolate, sulcate to open-backed, ciliate with rough
simple or forked or subplumose hairs, the under surface paler or
livid and subglabrous, 2-23 lin. long; flowers subcorolline or sub-
calycine; heads mostly 4-flowered, cernuous, semiglobose, about
41 lin. in diam.; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts linear-lanceolate,
acute, coloured, densely ciliate with long soft plumose hairs, about

230 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [Lrica

equal in length to the sepals; sepals like the bracts, but narrow-
linear or subulate, 23-3 lin. long; corolla narrow-urceolate, puberu-
lous, white or pale rose, 2-23 lin. long; segments spreading, short ;
filaments slender, 13-2 times longer than the anthers; anthers
included, cuneate or cuneate-oblong, subacute, glabrous, from a little
under to a little over } lin. long; cells deeply parted, crested ;
pore about 2the length of the cell; crests varying from narrow-
lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate or more usually suborbicular, incised,
with one longer terminal subulate lobe, the whole 2—% the length of
the cell; style included, short, straight; stigma capitellate, small;
ovary turbinate, truncate, hirsute.

Var. 8, Missionis (Bolus); habit usually more erect ; branches straighter ;
leaves more erect, often adpressed, usually linear, sulcate, 1-1} lin. long ; anthers
as in the type or sometimes (as in Tyson’s 1252) subtriangular, about 4 lin.
long; pore smaller; crest proportionately larger and a little longer than the
cell. E. Missionis, Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 179.

Katauaki Reeion: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2528! 3531!

EASTERN REGION, between 2000 and 7000 ft. : Natal; sources of the Umgeni
and Umvoti Rivers, Sutherland! Mid Illovo, Wood, 1890! Noods Berg, Wood,
888! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 37! Cooper, 1101! Var. B:
Tembuland ; near Cala, Galpin, 2318! Griqualand East; near St. Augustine,
Baur, 218! summit of Mount Currie, Tyson, 1252! between Elliot and Maclear,
Bolus, 8730! Flanagan, 2872 !

Allied to E. Baurii, but a stronger, more woody plant, with larger and
differently shaped corolla. Our var. B differs chiefly in aspect, the floral
characters being almost identical. The anther varies unusually, both in size
and shape.

336. EF. Baurii (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 178) ; ereet,
1 ft. or more high; branches ascending, slender, subflexuous,
densely beset with rather rough subplumose setulose hairs, and
numerous side branchlets bearing globose 4-flowered heads, 4-5 lin.
in diameter; leaves 4-nate, erect or spreading, imbricate, linear-
lanceolate, acute, more or less open-backed, roughly hispid-ciliate,
1-1} lin. long; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts linear, subscarious,
coloured, green-tipped, densely ciliate with long soft subplumose
hairs, 1}—2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but narrower, 1+ lin.
long; corolla globose-urceolate, well constricted at the throat,
pubescent, 1) lin. long and nearly as wide; segments rounded,
short, more spreading than in any other of this section ; filaments
slender, flexuous, 13 times the length of the anther; anthers
included, narrow-elliptic, obtuse at either extremity, dark-coloured,
over { lin. long, amply crested ; pore about 3 the length of the cell;
crests as in the broader-crested forms of ZH. Cooperi ; style included,
short ; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary depressed-globose,
wider than its length, hispidulous, very small. :

HasteRN ReGion: Tembuland, Umtata Div. ; margins of woods, near Bazeia,
3000 ft., Baur, 6839!

_ 337. E. oxysepala (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches slender, aacend-
ing, glabrous, ashy-grey, 4-6 in. or more long; leaves 3-nate,

Lyrica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 231

spreading-recurved, not crowded, linear, setaceous-acuminate, convex
and suleate below, flat above, rigid, glabrous, smooth, 23-32 lin.
long; heads 5-10-flowered ; pedicels }—1 lin. long; bracts linear,
leaf-like, a little shorter than the sepals; sepals somewhat lax,
subulate, from a broad short lacerate base, acuminate, the younger
gland-ciliate, about 13 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate or sub-
campanulate, only slightly coristricted at the throat, glabrous, sordid
yellow, nearly 2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded,
overlapping at the base to the right (viewed externally), about 2 the
length of the tube; filaments short, about equal to the ovary;
anthers included, cuneate-oblong; cells deeply parted, smooth,
2 lin. long, aristate ; pore less than } the length of the cell; awns
subulate-acuminate from a broader base, about or nearly as long as
the cell; style included or just manifest ; stigma clavate-capitellate ;
ovary obovate, subconstricted at the base, glabrous.

Var, B, pubescens (Guthrie & Bolus); the whole plant more softly downy ;
branches subvirgate, slender, pubescent; leaves pubescent ; bracts and sepals
densely ciliate with long soft plumose hairs.

Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; mountains of New Kloof, 3000 ft., Schlechter,
7495!

CenTRAL ReGion: Var. 8: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, near Wagenbooms
River, 6000 ft., Schlechter, 10157!

Our var. 8 is based upon a specimen with mostly undeveloped flowers ; but we
have little doubt of its relation to this species.

338. E. Greyii (Guthrie & Bolus); decumbent, wide-spreading ;
branches chiefly from the base, rather slender, minutely pubescent,
6-12 in. long ; leaves 3-nate, few and subdistant, erect-spreading,
linear-subterete, acute, sulcate, distantly and obsoletely ciliate,
shining, glabrous, 3-44 lin. long; heads subglobose, 5-6 lin. in
diam., 6—8-flowered ; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts narrow-lanceolate,
gland-hispid and ciliate with long white hairs, 1-1} lin. long ;
sepals like the bracts, but shortly connate at the base, about 1 lin.
long; corolla urceolate, not much constricted at the throat, puberu-
lous, 2 lin. long ; segments spreading, erosulate, 11 the length of
the tube; filaments dilated at the base and apex, narrowed in the
middle, thinly pilose, about three times the length of the anther;
anthers subexserted or included (but probably always exserted at
maturity), oblong, incurved, obtuse at either extremity, glabrous,
nearly + lin. long, denticulate-aristate; pore 2 the length of the
cell; teeth minute on either side of the apex of the wide filament,
about 1 the length of the cell and not reaching to its base; style
exserted, straight, slender; stigma capitellate ; ovary subglobose,
thinly hispidulous.
gone ReGion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Grey, 658! in Herb.

ew.

- $89. E. clavisepala (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, much branched,

all parts more or less viscidulous, and except the corolla, more or less
glandular-hairy, under 1 ft. high; leaves 4-nate, mostly equalling

232 ericacra# (Guthrie & Bolus). | Erica.

the internodes, erect, incurved or the lower spreading, linear to
ovate, blunt, thick, roughly hispidulous, viscid, ciliate with long
gland-tipped hairs, suleate to slightly open-backed, 1-1} lin. long ;
heads mostly 6-fiowered, 3-31 lin. long, often clustered ; pedicels
1-8 lin. long; bracts leaf-like, longer and wider than the sepals;
sepals filiform from the base, gradually widened and thickened
upwards, clavate obtuse at the apex, viscid and gland-hairy, 1 lin.
long; corolla urceolate, only slightly constricted at the throat,
viscidulous, glabrous, dull red, 11 lin. long; segments subereet,
rounded, about 1 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, straight,
1 lin. long; anthers included, broad-oblong, very obtuse, truneate
at the base, smooth, + lin. long, crested; pore 2—% the length of
the cell; crests ovate and incised at the base, with a terminal subulate
lobe, the whole about as long as the cell; style included ; stigma
capitate ; ovary subovoid on a wide disk, glabrous.

Coast RE@ion: Cape Div.; near the western shore of the Cape Peninsula,
about due west from Simons Town, 50 ft., Guthrie, 1804!

Section XXV. POLYDESMIA. (Sp. 340-343.)

340. E. incurva (Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 47, not of Thunb. nor
of Andr.) ; erect, 3-14 ft. high; branches ascending, straight or
subflexuous, densely leafy, pallid, pubescent or glabrescent ; leaves
3-4-6-nate or scattered, generally erect, imbricate and strongly
ineurved, sometimes spreading, linear, subobtuse, glabrous, ciliate,
2-2} lin. long; heads subglobose, cernuous, 4-7 lin. in diam.,
densely many-flowered ; flowers corolline ; pedicels 1-1 lin. long ;
bracts approximate, lower spathulate, larger than the others and
exceeding the sepals, sepaloid, pallid, 13-2 lin. long ; sepals narrow-
linear or subspathulate, more or less hispid, ciliate, sometimes
viscidulous, 11 lin, or more long, as long as the corolla-tube or
longer ; corolla urceolate-cyathiform, glabrous, about 2 lin. long;
segments broadly-rounded, suberect, about + the length of the tube ;
anthers subincluded or subexserted, spathulate-linear or oblong,
obtuse, smooth, pale-brown, $—Z lin. long, muticous or decurrent-
denticulate ; pore 3-3 the length of the cell; stigma simple or
capitate; ovary glabrous. Eric. Ic. fase. 22, 151, t.57; Willd. Sp.
Plant. ii. 407; Waitz, Beschreib. Heid. 242: Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 616. EH. hemispherica, Soland. ex Salish. in Trans.
Linn. Soc. vi. 341. EF. bruniefolia, Salisd. lc. 341.

Var. 8, solandroides (Bolus); leaves rather straight; bracts and sepals all
linear; anthers decurrent-aristate, with free points; stigma capitellate. 2.
solandroides, Andr. Heathery, t. 290, and Col, Heaths, t, 274.

Var. y, stellata (Bolus); leaves more pubescent, straight or incurved;
bracts P; sepals linear-subulate; anthers decurrent-aristate, with short’ free
points ; stigma capitellate. EH. stellata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 893. E. stellaris,
Nois. ew G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 827. HE. setifera, Klotzsch ew Benth. in DO.
Prodr, vii. 616.

Var. 6, barbigera (Bolus) ; leaves hirsute on the underside, long-ciliate ;

Erica.] ERICACE (Guthrie & Bolus). 233

lower bract larger, lanceolate or linear and only a little longer; sepals linear,
slightly dilated at the apex; anthers muticous; stigma apparently simple (may
be undeveloped in our specimens). E. barbigera, Klotasch ex Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 616.

Var. «, subglabra (Bolus) ; entirely glabrous, except the branches ; leaves,
bracts and sepals naked; leaves drying pallid; lower bract large, lanceolate,
concave, 3-34 lin, long ; sepals subulate-linear, acute or acuminate, shorter than
the corolla-tube ; corolla tubular-urceolate ; anthers muticous, decurrent-denticu-
late, or decurrent-aristate, with minute free spreading points; stigma obconic,
larger than in the other varieties.

South Arrica: without locality, Rowburgh! Var. 8: cultivated speci-
mens !

Coast ReGion: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland (ex Salisbury),
Masson! Var, y: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ezelsbank, Cederberg Range, 83000-4000 ft.,
Drége, 7728! Var. 8: Bredasdorp Diy. ; limestone hills between Potte Berg
and Cape Agulhas, under 500 ft., Drége, 3553! Caledon Div. ; near the Palmiet
River at Grabouw, Guthrie, 3877 ! Houw Hoek Mountains, 2000 ft., Schlechter,
9428! Var. «: Bredasdorp Div. ; hills near Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6727!

Of the foregoing Bentham admitted four species, but observes of three, that
they are probably varieties of one. Of E. setifera we have seen no specimens,
none existing either in the Kew or Berlin Herb. ; and, the figure of Loddiges
having no analyses, there are no types excepting of EF. barbigera and L.
bruniefolia; that of the latter being at Kew. The materials of all, except
that of the few recent collectors cited, is scanty and poor. Our var. sub.
glabra is the most distinct, but, in our view, does not merit specific rank.

341. E. ustulescens (Guthrie & Bolus); 6-12 in. high; branches
ascending, virgulate or flexuous, closely leafy, puberulous, soon
glabrescent ; leaves scattered, suberect, imbricate, linear, obtuse,
apex subinflexed, minutely and shortly viscous-pubescent, at length
glabrous, gland-ciliolate, 14-24 lin. long ; flowers subcapitate-umbel-
late, 4—9, corolline ; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, rarely
subremote, linear, one slightly larger, foliaceous ; sepals linear,
foliaceous ; 4—8 lin. long; corolla at first tubular, then urceolate,
finally subovoid, viscid, white, ustulescent, 13-2 lin. long; limb
erect, short, 1-1 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, clavate,
subacute, smooth, pallid, about 3 lin. long, muticous or decurrent-
denticulate for a length about + that of the cell ; pore 2—} the length
of the cell; teeth very small; stigma capitate, lobed; ovary
glabrous,

Coast REGION; Caledon Div.; near the mouth of Bot River, Zeyher, 3191!
hills near the Bot River Bridge, 400 ft., Bolus, 5456! Guthrie, 4111! and in
MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1734! hills near Houw Hoek, 1300 ft., Bolus,
8084!

342. E. stylaris (Spreng. Syst. ii. 198) ; dwarf; branches spread-
ing, hirsute, 6 in. or more long; leaves 4- (rarely 5-) nate, much
spreading, ineurved, oblong or subterete, obtuse, thick, sulcate,
hispid with tubercle-based hairs, viseidulous, scarcely 2 lin. long ;
flowers in hemispherical, densely many-flowered heads, about 6 lin.
in diam., subcalycine ; pedicels § lin. long; bracts approximate,
lanceolate, gland-ciliate, larger and longer than the sepals, reaching
with them to the top of the corolla-tube ; sepals linear-lanceolate or
broad-linear, acute, gland-ciliate, viscidulous, about 2 lin. long;

234 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

corolla campanulate-urceolate, wide-mouthed or ovoid-urceolate, well-
contracted at the throat, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous, 2-23 lin.
long; anther-cells deeply partite and spreading, oblong, obtuse,
brown, about * lin. long, muticous; pore 4 the length of the cell;
stigma capitate ; ovary silky-villous, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
616. EE. congesta, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1748, not of Wendl.

ede AFRICA: without locality, cultivated specimen, Herb. MacNab,
The specimen quoted is in Herb. Kew. From this, from Bentham’s descrip-
tion and from Loddiges’ figure, we have compiled the above description. There
is little doubt the species belongs to the Cape, and by its leaves and bracts is
quite distinct.

343. E. turmalis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 842); erect;
branches villous, 12 in. or more long; leaves spreading, squarrose or
decurved, ovate or lanceolate, acute, open-backed, margins thick,
revolute, hispid on the upper surface with tubercle-based hairs,
becoming glabrous and glossy, white-tomentose beneath, ciliate, 11-22
lin. long; heads suboval, 4 lin. in diam., 8-flowered, erect or
cernuous ; flowers corolline; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts
median, minute, triangular, densely hispid ; sepals linear-subulate,
acute, pubescent, gland-ciliolate, under % lin. long; corolla sub-
ureeolate or ovoid, not (or only slightly) contracted at the throat,
subglabrous or minutely rough, about 23 lin. long; segments-sub-
spreading, about + the length of the tube; anthers subexserted,
oblong, obtuse or subacute, ineurved, about * lin. long, muticous;
pore } the length of the cell; stigma capitellate; ovary densely
woolly with rather long hairs. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 616.

Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mulder (ex Salisb.).
**Cape,” Mund ! in Herb. Kew.

Salisbury describes this species as having 4-5 stamens; but we have found
8 in Mund’s specimens, The plant has much external resemblance to Bleria
ericoides,

Section XXVI. CHROMOSTEGIA. (Sp. 344-346.)

344, E. eriophoros (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect or possibly decum-
bent ; branches stout, dark-coloured, naked and glabrescent towards
the base, the ultimate flowering branchlets 1-3 in. long, densely
leafy; leaves erect, incurved, closely imbrieate, narrow-oblong,
obtuse, pilose except on the upper surface and ciliate with long
curled white hairs, the floral leaves very slightly enlarged, 12 lin.
long; heads 4-flowered, about 23 lin. in diam. ; flowers subsessile ;
braets approximate, leaf-like, tomentose and ciliate, 11—2 lin. long;
sepals narrow-linear, slightly wider at the apex, glabrous on the
lower, tomentose on the upper half, 14 lin. long; corolla ovoid-
eyathiform, minutely puberulous, 1 lin. long; segments rounded,
erect, more than } the length of the tube ; filaments rather wide,
1} times longer than the anther; anthers well-exserted, lateral,
linear, acute, widened towards the base; cells deeply parted and at

Erice.] ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 235

length spreading and horn-like, smooth, light brown, £ lin. long,
aristulate; pore + the length of the cell; awns very small, not
reaching below the base of the cell and about 1—1 of its length;
style exserted, longer than the stamens; stigma subsimple; ovary

cylindrical, minutely pilose.

Centrat ReGion: Ceres Div.; Gydouw Mountain in the Cold Bokkeveld,
6000 ft., Schlechter, 10240!

345. E. senilis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 617) ;
procumbent or erect, 6-8 in. high; branches some ascending, some
spreading with many ascending branchlets, 2-3 in. long, pubescent ;
leaves very uniformly erect-incurved, adpressed, scarcely longer than
the internodes, oblong-lanceolate, deeply sulcate, flat and glabrous
above, finely downy and hispid with tuberele-based hairs below, at
length subglabreseent, 1-14 lin. long, a few of the upper leaves under
the heads enlarged, bract-like and discoloured ; heads hemispherical,
cernuous, 4—45 lin. wide at the top, about 4-flowered ; pedicels % lin.
long ; braets lanceolate, like the sepals thickly beset in the upper
part with bristly straight hairs, 21 lin. long; sepals narrow-linear,
25 lin. long; corolla broad-ovoid or subglobose, puberulous, pale
yellow, 13 lin. Jong; segments large, rounded, ciliolate, about equal
to the tube; filaments broad ; anthers subexserted, lateral, narrow-
elliptic or longitudinally semiovate, smooth, membranous, about
4 lin. long, crested ; pore 2 the length of the cell; crests suborbicular,
incised, scabrid, dark coloured, } the length of the cell; style far
exserted, straight, tapering upwards, 3 lin. long; stigma capitellate ;
ovary pubescent.

Coast Rraion: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, on the Cederberg Range,
2600-4000 ft., Drége, 2966! Shaw in Herb. Bolus, 5661! Marloth, 2686! near
Sneeuw Kop, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8627!

CENTRAL REGION: Ceres Div.; mountains near Tweefontein, in the Cold
Bokkeveld, 5800 ft., Schlechter, 10129!

Our specimens all agree well with Drage’s type, and with each other, and in all
we find the anthers distinctly lateral.

346. E. involucrata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 617) ;
procumbent, or younger plants erect; branches spreading, roughly
hispid ; leaves, the younger erect, the older spreading, oldest often
reflexed, incurved, broad-linear to lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, sulcate,
rather flat, glabrous above, ciliate on the margins and on the edges
of the fold with stiff bristly hairs, 2-3 lin. long, the floral longer,
broader and discoloured, enwrapping the flower-heads; heads
cernuous, eyathiform, 4-flowered, 5-6 lin. in diam.; pedicels 1 lin.
long ; bracts lanceolate, ciliate, coloured, 3 lin. long ; sepals obovate-
linear, ciliate, coloured, 2 lin. long; corolla urceolate-campanulate,
puberulous, 13-2 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, about as long
as the tube; filaments linear, narrow, dilated and thickened under
the anther; anthers subexserted, terminal, longitudinally semiovate,
tapering at the base into the thickened filament, scabrid, ¢ lin. long,

236 ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

crested at the base; pore 1—2 the length of the cell; crest entirely.
adnate to the filament below the base of the cells, narrow, incised,
scabrid ; style exserted ; stigma capitellate ; ovary minutely puberu-
lous.

Coast ReGion: Tulbagh Div. ; on the Winterhoek Mountain, 4000-6200 ft.,
Ecklon § Zeyher; Bolus, 5107! Marloth in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr.,
342! Tulbagh Waterfall, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 9009! Mosterts Hoek Mountain,
5000 ft., Bolus !

Section XXVII. OXYLOMA. (Sp. 347-349.)

347. E, recurvata (Andr. Heathery, t. 282); erect, in cultivation
from 1-2 ft. high; branchlets densely leafy, puberulous; leaves
seattered, spreading or subsquarrose, linear, subobtuse, obscurely
denticulate, keeled, glabrous or minutely puberulous, 4—6 lin. long ;
flowers capitate; heads many-flowered, cernuous, 6—9 lin. in diam. ;
pedicels Jess than 1 lin, long ; bracts approximate, linear or linear-
lanceolate, acute, keeled, gland-ciliolate, yellowish, about equalling
the sepals, or one sometimes longer, 4-5 lin. long; sepals like the
bracts, a little shorter or longer than the corolla; corolla tubular,
inflated below, not (or very little) constrieted at the throat, deeply
4-fid, thinly puberulous, yellowish, 4—5 lin. long ; segments erect or
slightly spreading, variable in length from + the tube to 12 times
its length, oblong, acute, apiculate, dark brownish-purple ; filaments
long, narrow ; anthers included, but in our specimens, reaching
to nearly 2 the height of the corolla, oblong or lanceolate, acute,
apiculate ; pore nearly as long as the cell; cells about 4 lin. long,
muticous ; style long exserted; stigma subsimple; ovary glabrous.
Andr, Col. Heaths, t. 262; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1093; Bot. Mag.
t. 3427 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 657.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens !

348. E. genistefolia (Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 337);
erect, 6-9 in. high; branches mostly slender, puberulous; leaves
3-nate, spreading, not crowded, linear, acute, rather flat, keeled,
glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, usually rather few ; pedicels
under 3 lin. long; bracts approximate, glumaceous, small; sepals
lanceolate, acute, concave, keeled, rigid, glumaceous, about 12 lin.
long, reaching somewhat over } the height of the corolla; corolla
tubular or subinflated-tubular, dry, glabrous, 2-21 lin. long; tube
whitish or pale yellow; segments from an oblong ciliate base, dilated
above to a cordate-lanceolate acuminate dark-brown tip, about * the
length of the tube; stamens included, nearly as long as the corolla;
filaments capillary; anthers narrow-elliptic or longitudinally
semiovate, acute, minutely hirtellous, pale brown, 4 lin. long,
muticous; pore about 2 the length of the cell; style exserted,
dilated at the apex; stigma simple; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 657. E. tetraloba, Roxb. ex Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc.
vi. 337,

Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 237

Sourn AFRIcA: without locality, Miller ! Rowburgh (ex Salisbury), Mund §
Maire, Herb. Salisbury !

Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Niven, 121! Simons Berg,
eae, Muizen Berg, 1600 ft., Bolus, 7029! Constantia Berg, Wolley Dod,

This plant seems to be confined to the Cape Peninsula, and is becoming scarce.
We have only once found it.

349. E. cumuliflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 336) ; erect,
1-1} ft. high; branches somewhat flexuous, puberulous; leaves
4-nate, spreading or recurved-squarrose, not much crowded, mostly
oblong, more rarely linear, subacute, flat above, keeled, the younger
ciliolate, glabrous, 1}—2 lin. long; flowers capitate; heads densely
5-12-flowered ; pedicels + lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate or
obovate, acute, cartilaginous or submembranous, glabrous, white,
about 1: lin. long; sepals like the bracts but obovate-oblong, 14-2
lin. long; corolla almost exactly as in 2. genistefolia, but the tube
slightly more inflated and somewhat more contracted at the throat ;
anthers as in the last named, but a little narrower at the base, and
2 larger; style exserted, cartilaginous, rigid, fusiform near the apex;
stigma simple, remarkably small, reduced to a mere point; ovary
glabrous or minutely hirtellous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 657.
LE. horizontalis, Andr. Heathery, t. 70, and Col. Heaths, t. 102
(with depauperated heads). “ EH. tricolor, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 193,
not of Niven’’ (according to Bentham). LE. sessiliflora, Wendl. Eric.
Ic. fase, 22, 149, t. 56, not of Linn., nor of Andr. (a colour-variety,
due probably to cultivation). EH. aggregata, Roxb. ex Salisb, in
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 336, not of Wendl.

Sout AFRIcA;: without locality, Rovburgh! Herb, Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast ReaGion: Paarl Div.; French Hoek Mountains, 2600 ft., Schlechter,
9252! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Genadendal, Niven, 120b! mountains
near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3297! Zwart Berg, 2600 ft., Bolws, 5403! and in
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 351! mountains near the mouth of the Klein River,
Bodkin!

Closely allied to E. genistafolia ; may be readily distinguished by its 4-nate
leaves and its minute stigma; usually also by its more numerously-flowered
heads, but there are examples where the flowers are reduced to three in number.
Wendland’s figure was cited by Bentham under E. genistefolia, but its 4-nate
leaves and many-flowered heads point rather to the present species, It is.
also very near to E, amphigena, and, through it, connects this section with

Amphodea.

Section XXVIII, ERIODESMIA. (Sp. 350-353.)

350. E. lanata (Andr. Heathery, t. 121); erect, 2-3 ft. high ;
branches stout, pilose; leaves mostly 4-nate (or sometimes, ex
Andrews’ fig., 3-nate), erect-spreading, lanceolate to oblong, acute,
open-backed, margins revolute, pilose above, canescent beneath,
2-3 lin. long, 1 lin. wide or-less ; flowers subcapitate, calycine ; heads
laxly 4-6-flowered, subsessile; bracts approximate, oblanceolate,
densely villous, equalling or exceeding the sepals and corolla; sepals

238 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica.

spathulate, acute, margins revolute, densely villous in the upper
part, whitish, nearly equal to the corolla, 2 lin. long; corolla cyathi-
form-campanulate (globose-urceolate, ex Andreuws’ fig.), hispidulous
or puberulous, white, about 2 lin. long; segments rounded, spread-
ing, 3—§ the length of the tube ; filaments nearly straight or strongly
bent below the anther; anthers exserted ; cells bipartite to the base,
narrow-elliptical, acute, scaberulous, dark-brown, % lin. long ; stigma
subsimple, small; ovary pubescent or pilose. Andr. Col. Heaths, t.
179; Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 617. E. flaccida, Link, Enum.
Hort. Berol. i. 367.

SouTtH AFRIcA: without locality, cultivated specimens !

Coast Region, from 1000-2500 ft.: George Div.; Barbiers Kraal, Niven,
164! Masson, 75 ! Outeniqua Mountains, Schlechter, 2336! near George, Bolus,
8674! and Guthrie, 2456! Montagu Pass, Schlechter, 5798! Knysna Div. ;
mountains near Millwood, Tyson in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 972! and without
precise locality, Buchanan ! and in Herb. Bolus, 5832!

351. E. villosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 200); 1-12 ft. high; branches
ascending or straggling, pubescent, somewhat slender ; leaves 3-nate,
erect or spreading, imbricate or lax, linear, obtuse, sulcate, pilose or
pubescent, glabrescent, 11-2 lin. long; flowers umbellate, subcaly-
cine or sometimes (by the more spreading sepals) subeorolline or
corolline on the same plant, 3-4-nate; umbels lax, spreading ;
pedicels pilose, 3-5 lin. long; braets remote, spathulate-linear,
pilose, 1 lin. or more long; sepals broad-lanceolate, subobtuse,
pilose, the lower half pallid, the upper green, leaf-like, with revolute
margins, about equal to the eorolla-tube, or occasionally only reach-
ing to about half its height, 13-2 lin. long; eorolla urceolate, sub-
tetragonous, pilose, white, 2 lin. long; segments rounded, erect or
spreading, about + the length of the tube; anthers exserted ; cells
deeply parted, oblong and obtuse, or sublanceolate and subacute,
scaberulous, dark-brown, about 1 lin. long; pore &-Z the length of
the cell; style tetragonous; stigma simple, or (rarely ?) capitate ;
ovary pilose with long ereet hairs. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 216:
Wendl. Erie. Ie. fasc. 16, 55; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 617. | E.
canescens, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed, 2, ii. 407% not of Wendl.
E. eriocephala, Andr. Heathery, t. 61% and Col. Heaths, t. 89?
not of Lam.; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1270, E. pilosa, Lodd. le. t.
606,

Souru AFRica: without locality, cultivated specimens !

Coast Reerton: Caledon Div.; mountains near Klein River, Zeyher, 1114
partly! near Vogel Gat, Schlechter, 9519! hills near Babylons Tower Mountain,
Bolus, 8493! near Hermanus, Bolus, 9843! Guthrie, 4109!

A fairly distinct and rather local species. Bentham remarks that cultivated
specimens are with difficulty distinguishable from FE. bruniades, but that the
wild specimens appear different. We have never found any difficulty whatever
in separating the two species. We quote E. eriocephala, Andr., with great
doubt. It looks very different, and seems undeveloped; the author himself
describes the stamens as “ exserted,” but figures them as included! It may be a
distinct species, with the aspect of some species in the § Ephebus, but can hardly
belong there,

Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 239

352. E. bruniades (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 354); erect or diffuse,
1-1 ft. high ; branches ascending, sometimes slender, flexuous and
straggling, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect and adpressed, or spread-
ing, rarely squarrose, imbricate or rarely shorter than the internodes,
linear, obtuse, suleate, pilose, 1-22 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, caly-
cine, spreading ; pedicels villous, 2-4 lin. long; bracts remote,
small, pilose ; sepals broad-oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, acute,
very densely covered with fine spreading white or pinkish hairs,
the whole entirely hiding the corolla except near the apex, 11—]2 lin,
long, about equalling the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate, pilose,
white or pale pink, 11-18 lin. long; segments recurved, 1 i the
length of the tube; anthers exserted, almost exactly those of
E. lanata, or sometimes more acuminate ; stigma subsimple ; ovary
villous, chiefly on the summit. Wendl. Eric. Ie. Jase. 16, 53, t. 20;
Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 6; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1365. E. bruinades,
Andr. Heathery, t. 6. E. velleriflora and EB. carbasina, Salisb. in
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 333. H#. capitata, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 17,
not of Linn., ex Salish. and Rach. EE. lastocephala and E.
eriantha, Klotzsch in Herb. Berol. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. Vii.
617. #. villosa, Wendl. Eric. Ie. Jase. 16, 55, t. 21, ex Ind.
Kew.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated spect-
mens !

Coast Ruaton, frequent, ascending to 1500 ft.: Malmesbury Div., Zeyher,
1114 partly! Tulbagh Div., Zeyher, 1113! Bolus, 5109! and in Herb. Norm. 1!
Worcester Div., Bolus, 5110! Cape Div., Niven, 162! 163! Burchell, 344!
8589! Bolus, 4241! 4471! Guthrie, 144! Stellenbosch Div., Burchell, 8331!
Caledon Div., Zeyher, 3289! 3291! 3293a! Schlechter, 9390! Bredasdorp Div.,
Bolus, 8493!

Plukenet seems to have first given this name (Almag. Bot. Mant. 69, t. 347, fig. 9,
1700), but Bentham refers the plant to E. villosa. As there may be some doubt
about it, and as Plukenet was pre-Linnean, we have not cited the figure under
either species. Plukenet says he named his plant after Alexander Brown, an
Englishman, who first brought it from Africa. Aiton (Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 365)
calls it the “ Brunia-like Heath.”

353. E. capitata (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 355); erect, 10-15 in.
high; branches ascending or slightly spreading, slender, woolly,
glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse,
suleate, rather thick, subglabrous above, densely woolly below,
becoming glabrous and scaberulous, 13-2 lin. long; flowers 1-3-
hate, calycine, spreading, globular, the whole of a greenish-yellow,

2-3 lin. in diam. ; pedicels woolly, 23-31 lin. long ; bracts from
subapproximate to subremote, oblong, woolly, small; sepals ovate to
suborbicular, densely woolly-villous with greenish-yellow hairs,
about equalling the corolla-tube; corolla globose-urceolate, pilose,
creamy, 2-2} lin. long ; segments rounded, recurved, 3+ the length
of the tube; filaments broader than in the others of this section ;
anthers subineluded but manifest above the corolla-tube, oblong and
obtuse, or longitudinally semi-ovate and acute, dorsally bearded,
§-1 lin. long; pore about 3 the length of the cell; stigma capitel-

240 ertcacEm (Guthrie & Bolus). | Brica.

late ; ovary villous, chiefly on the summit. <Andr. Heathery, t. 56, .
and Col. Heaths, t. 10; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 3, 3; Lodd.
Bot. Cub. t. 1519. HE. byssina, Salish. in Trans. Linn, Soe. vi.
333.

Sovurn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg, and cultivated specimens!

Coast Reeion: Cape Div. ; sandy downs near Cape Town and elsewhere on
the Cape Peninsula; generally below 100 ft., Ecklon, 283! Zeyher, 1115! Mac-
Gillivray, 440! Wright! Bolus, 3287! 8027! and in Herb, Norm. Aust.-Afr.,
2! Guthrie, 19!

Section XXIX. AMPHODEA. (Sp. 354-356.)

354. E. sexfaria (Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 11); erect, 8-15 in. high;
branches ascending, flexuous, rigid, brittle, the younger pubescent,
the older covered with scars of leaf-cushions, blackish; leaves
spreading or suberect, sometimes densely imbricate and, owing to
the shortness of the internodes, standing in six close ranks, broad
linear-trigonous, thick, glabrous, 1} lin. long; heads. subglobose ;
bracts broad-ovate ; sepals obovate, keeled, 1}—2 lin. long, reaching
nearly or quite to the top of thé corolla; corolla narrow-ovoid or
suburceolate, not (or but slightly) contracted at the throat, white,
2 lin, long; segments suberect, ovate, 3—§ of the tube in length ;

anthers narrow-elliptic, bifid to the middle, tapering acutely to
either end, about # lin. long, decurrent-aristate ; pore over } the
length of the cell, nearly black; free portion of the awns very
variable in length, always much shorter than the adnate portion,
sometimes reduced to a mere point, and the anther then (exeept for
the widened filament) appearing muticous. Andr. Heathery, t. 88,
and Col. Heaths, t. 131; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 618. £.
spumosa, Thunb, Diss. Erica, 17, not of Linn.

SourH AFRiIca: without locality, cultivated specimens !

Coast Reeten : Clanwilliam Div.; Wupperthal, Wurmb, ex Drége. Cape
Div. ; top of Table Mountain, Thunberg, Burchell, 587! Bowie ! Drege, 7747 !
McGillivray, 445! Cooper, 2682! Milne, 122! Bolus, 2950! Guthrie, 1539!
Schlechter, 548! Culedon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, 3200 ft., Bolus, 5468!
Schlechter, 5459! summit of Genadendal Mountain, Galpin, 3540! Swel-
lendam Div.; on mountains, Bowie! Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, 2300 ft.,
Galpin, 3541!

This species varies in the setting of the leaves, which are sometimes spreading
and less closely-set, a8 in Bauer’s fine figure of the type, sometimes densely
imbricate, 3 times longer than the internodes, and more erect ; the latter form
gave rise to the term “sexfarious,” for while all the heaths with 3-nate leaves
are strictly so, they do not equally distinctly show it. Galpin’s 8540 and 3541 are
in almost exact agreement with the type; while plants from the rocky, barren
summit of Table Mountain have leaves commonly more erect and close-set. It
also varies in the length of the free portion of the awns of the anther, as may be
seen by comparing Bauer’s with Andrews’ figures,

355. E. spumosa (Linn. P]. Afr. Rar. 11 and Ameen. Acad. viii.
56, n. 35, not of Thunb., nor of Wendl.); erect, 1-1} ft. high ; —
branches more spreading and slender than in the preceding, pubes-
cent; leaves erect-spreading, more rarely erect and adpressed, some-

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 241

what lax, rarely crowded, linear-trigonous, subobtuse, sulcate, thick,
1-1} lin. long, the floral sometimes wider, coloured, sepaloid;
heads subglobose; bracts and sepals as in LZ. sexfaria, but a little
smaller, more wrinkled, and more rosy, and the latter sometimes only
1_2 the length of the corolla; corolla as in #. sexfaria, but about
13 lin, long; segments lanceolate, more acute ; anthers broad-linear,
subobtuse ; cells deeply partite, black, about 1 lin. long, aristate ;
awns decurrent for a short distance, then free, about 1 the length of
the cells. Mant. 375; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 618; Lodd. Bot,
Cab, t. 566. E. scariosa, Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 102; Wendl.
ede Ie. fasc. 21, 137, ¢.52. EH. turbinata, Andr. Heathery, t.
97.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated speci-
mens !

Coast Rreron, between 1700 and 4000 ft.: Paarl Div.; French Hoek
Mountains, Bolus, 9812! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Bolus, 4482! near
Simons Town, Bolus, 8049! Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Guthrie in Herb.
Bolus, 6010! Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, Drége; Zwart Berg, near Caledon,
Zeyher, 3296! and without exact locality, Bolus, 9813!

356. E. amphigena (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, about 1 ft. high ;
branches straight or spreading; branchlets mostly decurved at the
apex, pubescent; leaves imbricate and erect, or sometimes more
lax and spreading, linear, keeled, subobtuse, 2-3 lin. long, a few
floral scarious and bract-like; flowers subcapitate or clustered, at
length mostly cernuous; bracts oblong, keel-tipped, a little shorter
than the sepals; sepals obovate-oblong, subobtuse, keeled or keel-
tipped, about 2 lin. long, reaching to a little below the apex of the
corolla-limb ; corolla narrow-ovoid, white, 2} lin. long; segments
subulate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, nearly equal in length
to the tube; anthers subterminal or sublateral; cells deeply partite,
narrow-oblong, obtusely rounded, about $ lin. long, decurrent
aristate ; awns decurrent for less than } their length, then divari-
cately spreading, the whole from }—} the length of the cells.

Sovru Arrica : without locality, Stanger ! in Herb. Kew.

Coast Rrcion, between 1800 and 3500 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; mountains
near Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 2047! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains,
Schlechter, 5449! Galpin, 3542! (a more spreading form).

This species connects this section with Onyloma, approaching to E. ewmuli-
flora, which it much resembles, but differing by its 3-nate flowers in fewer-
flowered heads, and its appendiculate, less distinctly lateral, anthers.

Section XXX. GEISSOSTEGIA. (Sp. 357-371.)

357. E. desmantha (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 620); branches
spreading; leaves spreading to squarrose, long-petiolate, linear,
- thick, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels 2 lin. long; bracts approximate,
scarious, small; sepals ovate, acute, rigid, scarious, 1-1} lin. long ;
corolla obconic-tubular, subtetragonous, glabrous (viscid, acc. to
Bentham), 2% lin. long, or (owing to the spreading of the sepals at

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242 ERICACE®H (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica.

base) appearing twice as long as the sepals; segments slightly
spreading ; filaments slightly curved; anthers subterminal, oblong,
obtuse, 3-8 lin. long; pore more than 2 the length of the cell;
stigma clavate ; ovary glabrous.

SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Masson ! in Herb. Kew.

We have only seen a branch 7 in. long, and have dissected a single flower.
Quite distinct in the section by its long corolla, and the long ($-1 lin.) petioles
of the leaves. The material is scanty, and the inflorescence not properly seen ;
it may be umbellate, 5-6-flowered.

358. E. physantha (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 619); erect, 6 in.
or more high; branches flexuous, subglabrous; leaves somewhat
spreading, oblong, obtuse, thiek, glabrous, 13-2 lin. long; pedicels
under 1 lin. long ; bracts approximate, sepal-like, but smaller; sepals
broad-ovate, subobtuse, keel-tipped, scarious, ciliate, glabrous, 12 lin.
long ; corolla oblate, subglobose-urceolate, glabrous, wide-mouthed,
21 lin. long, or reaching nearly twice the height of the sepals ;
filaments with a sigmoid bend just below the anther; anthers sub-
lateral, shortly oblong, obtuse or obliquely subacute, rounded at the
base, minutely ciliolate, a little over + lin. long, dark-coloured ;
pore about 4 the length of the cell ; stigma clavate-capitate ; ovary
globose, thinly hispidulous.

Coast Reaton: Riversdale Div.; on hills near Zoetmelks River, Burchell,
6794!

359. E. adunca (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 618); branches 8 in.
or more long ; leaves from erect to squarrose, linear, subulate or
lanceolate-oblong, subtrigonous, the younger eiliolate, 1-21 lin.
long; pedicels 1} lin. long; bracts subremote, sepal-like but
smaller ; sepals somewhat lax and spreading, narrow-ovate, acute or
acuminate, keel-tipped, subviscid, glabrous, white, 11 lin. long;
eorolla urceolate or globose-ureeolate, longer or sometimes shorter
than its width, glabrous, viseid (or viscid-puberulous, ace. to Ben-
tham), 13-1% lin, long, usually somewhat exceeding the sepals,
occasionally shorter ; limb spreading ; filaments dilated just below
the anther, slightly curved; anther subterminal, longitudinally
semiovate, the dorsal margin curved, acute, ciliolate, more or less
hispidulous, {—-} lin. long; pore 8 the length of the cell; style
generally deflexed or hooked; ovary on a conspicuous black disk,
glabrous or hispidulous.

Soutn AFrica: without locality, Niven, 100!

Coast Rxr@ion: Swellendam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, Bolus,
7304! Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, 1000 ft., Galpin, 3546! 3547! Schlechter,
1731! George Div. ; Montagu Pass, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 5802 !

Variable as to the length and position of the leaves, length of corolla and
hairiness of the anther; it may generally be recognized by its loose sepals,
deflexed style (in well-matured flowers), and the prominent dark disk below the
ovary.

360. E. involvens (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 619); branches

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4 in. or more long ; leaves erect, incurved, imbricate, linear, obtuse,
glabrous, 13-2 lin. long; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts approximate,
but somewhat lax, sepal-like, but smaller ; sepals broad-ovate, sub-
obtuse, thick, rigid, cartilaginous, subviscid, slightly longer than the
corolla ; corolla broad-eyathiform, viscid, 13 lin. long; anthers
terminal, ovate, very obtuse, tapering at the base, smooth, $—7 lin,
long ; pore broadly elliptical, + the length of the cell; stigma sub-
simple ; ovary glabrous.

SovutH Arrica: without locality, Niven! in Herb. Kew.

Very near to E. suffulta, and we retain the species with some doubt; but the
sepals are broader, especially at the base, anthers much more obtuse; and the
flowers larger.

361. E. chartacea (Guthrie & Bolus); branches ascending,
pubescent, 12 in. or more long; leaves erect-spreading, linear, obtuse,
1}-3 lin. long; pedicels 23-3 lin. long; bracts approximate, some-
what lax, sepal-like but smaller; sepals somewhat lax, broad-ovate,
keel-tipped, puberulous, papery, ciliate-lacerate, 11 lin. long ; corolla’
subureeolate or subcampanulate-cyathiform, glabrous or puberulous,
1{-1} lin. long, and about as wide; segments ciliate-lacerate ;
filaments slender below, dilated upwards; anthers subterminal,
obliquely lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous, or hispidulous
near the apex, naked or ciliolate, 8-2 lin. long; pore about 2 the

length of the cell; stigma clavate ; ovary glabrous,

Coast Rraion: Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Borcherds in Herb.
Bolus, 5959! Tradouw Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin, 3555!

362. E. suffulta (Wendl. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 619) ; erect,
1-11 ft. high; branches and leaves somewhat hoary-puberulous, at
length glabrescent, pallid; leaves ereet and ineurved, or spreading,
linear to oblong, obtuse, thick, keeled, suleate, 13-2 lin. long;
pedicels 1-12 lin. long; bracts approximate, somewhat lax, sepal-
like ; sepals obovate-oblong, keel-tipped, rather thick, ciliolate, about
as long as the corolla; corolla suburceolate-eyathiform, scarcely con-
tracted at the throat, minutely puberulous, white, 1-1} lin. long, the
width somewhat exceeding the length ; anthers subterminal, obliquely
lanceolate, acute, about * lin. long, minutely ciliolate; pore 1-2 the
length of the cell; stigma clavate ; ovary glabrous.

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Masson!

Coast Rreeion: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, 1500 ft., Bolus,
5450! Scott-Elliot, 1136!

363. E. pogonanthera (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 634) ; small shrub,
1-1} ft. high ; branches pubescent; leaves spreading or squarrose,
mostly reeurved, linear or oblong, obtuse, thick, glabrous, the
younger ciliolate, 1-11 lin. long; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; bracts
approximate, ovate, white; sepals ovate-orbicular, acute, narrowed
at the base, white, 1} lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, puberu-
lous or glabrous, white, 1-12 lin. long, a little wider than its length,

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244 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Erica

equalling or a little shorter than the sepals; anthers terminal,
longitudinally semi-elliptical, acute, tapering at the base, dark brown,
covered with shaggy purplish hairs, or sometimes glabrous and
only shortly ciliate, 3-3 lin. long ; pore about 2 the length of the
cell; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.

619.

Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, 2000 ft., Ludwig & Beil, Niven!
Bolus, 6747 ! mountains near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3301!

364. E. azaleefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 384) ; erect,
6-12 in. high; branches diffusely spreading, pubescent; leaves
mostly squarrose-recurved or erect-spreading, ovate to oblong, sub-
obtuse, thick, shining, the younger puberulous, 1-1} lin. long ;
pedicels 4 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate-orbicular, subscarious,
ciliate; sepals oblong-spathulate, acute, ciliate, 2 lin. long, about
equal to the corolla; corolla. suburceolate, puberulous, 13—2 lin. long,
its width less than its length, pink ; segments ciliate ; anthers sub-
terminal; cells deeply parted and. subdivaricate, broad-elliptical,
very obtuse, smooth, polished, dark-coloured, about } lin. long;
pore unusually large occupying nearly the whole cell; ovary
glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 619. HE. spumosa, Roxb. ex
Salisb. 1.c. 334, not of Linn. E. azaleeflora, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 618.

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury !

Coast ReGion: Caledon Div.; tops of mountains near Genadendal, Burchell,
4689! Houw Hoek Mountains, 2000 ft., Bolus, 5459! Schlechter, 9396 ! Klein
Houw Boek, Niven, 120a! Zwart Berg, 2500 ft., Bolus, in Herb, Norm, Austr.-
Afr., 852!

365. E. sonderiana (Guthrie & Bolus); 1 ft. or more high;
branches ascending, pubescent; leaves erect-spreading, imbrieate,
linear, subobtuse, thick, subrugulose, pallid, glaucous, viscidulous or
dry, the younger gland-ciliate, 2-2} lin. long; pedicels pubescent,
1 lin. long ; bracts approximate, ovate, viscid ; sepals broad-ovate to
nearly orbicular, obtuse, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, transversely
wrinkled when dry, very thick, viscid, shining (in some specimens
both bracts and sepals have an unusually long excurrent keel-point),
about as long as the corolla ; corolla suburceolate, glabrous, viscid,
11 lin. long, white, width about equal to the length; segments.
ciliolate ; anthers sublateral, oblong-incurved, obtuse, smooth, about
1 lin. long ; pore variable, 3—{ the length of the cell; style exserted ;
stigma Clavate ; ovary glabrous.

Soutn AFRrica: without locality, Niven, b! in Herb. Trin. Coll. Dublin.

Coast Region: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus, 9110! Worcester Div. ;
Matroos Berg, 5200 ft., Marloth, 2205! Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3945! Swel-
lendam Diy. ; mountains near Swellendam, Bolus, 7506 ! (immature).

366. E. erassisepala (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 619) ; branches
ascending, pubescent, rigid, 6-8 in. high; leaves 3-nate or
“scattered ” (acc. to Bentham), erect-spreading, imbricate, linear or

Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 845

somewhat semiterete, obtuse, margins somewhat thickened, the
younger gland-ciliate, 1-2 lin. long; pedicels 1-12 lin. long; bracts
approximate, sepal-like but smaller; sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtusely
acuminate, with a thickened marginal line on either side, converging
upwards to the apex, instead of the usual median keel, cartilaginous,
thick, viscid, very rigid, 12 lin. long, not reaching to the top of the
corolla; corolla eyathiform or hemispherical, minutely puberulous,
“viscid” (acc. to Bentham), 12 lin. long, somewhat greater in width ;
anthers terminal, very narrow-elliptical, acute, tapering at either
end ; cells deeply partite and somewhat distant, membranous, smooth,
pale brown, about Z lin. long; pore about 3 the length of the cell;
ovary minutely puberulous.

Coast RrGion: Swellendam Div.; summit of the great mountain near
Swellendam, Burchell, 7354 ! 7407!

Besides the numbers of Burchell quoted above, Bentham also cites 8665 and
8683. The first of these is without flowers ; the specimens under the latter are
a quite different species from those under 7354 and 7407. As these latter agree
better with the description, we assume them to be the type of this species ;
and we have placed 8683 under EH. imbricata. The specimens have a pale stripe
on the underside of the leaves, on either side of the channel, which is peculiar
and unusual; but we do not know whether it is constant, or visible in the fresh
state.

367. E. Guthriei (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 234); erect,
a foot high, glabrous; branches diffuse, ascending; leaves erect,
adpressed and closely imbricate, or slightly spreading, linear to
oblong, obtuse, the younger viscid, thick, shining, 1—1} lin. long;
pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate, coloured, very
small; sepals ovate or obovate, viscid, coloured, shorter than the
corolla, 3—% lin. long; corolla oblate-globose, depressed above the
middle, viseid, red, 1} lin. long, width somewhat greater; segments
erect, closely contracted round the stamens; anthers sublateral,
oblong, obtuse, a little over 1 lin. long; pore large and wide, about
% the length of the cell ; ovary glabrous.

Var. 8, strictior (Bolus) ; branches straighter ; leaves broader, thicker, more
obtuse and more densely imbricated.

Coast Reeton : Piquetberg Div.; summit of Piquet Berg, 1500 ft., Guthrie,
2659! Var. 8: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, near Wupperthal, 4000 ft.,
Schlechter, 8805 !

The peculiar corolla approaches in shape that of E. placentzflora, and of E.
Marlothii. The small adpressed leaves and the glossy aspect of the whole plant
are good marks for its identification.

368. E. placenteflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 348) ;
erect, 1-2 ft. high; branches mostly lax and spreading, pubescent ;
leaves erect or spreading, imbricate or shorter than the internodes,
linear, acute or obtuse, glabrous, 1-6 (mostly 3-4) lin. long; pedicels
often decurved, 2-3 lin. long; bracts subapproximate or the lowest
subremote, somewhat lax ; sepals broad-ovate or subobovate, keeled,
glabrous, 14 lin. long, a little longer than the corolla; corolla some-

246 ERICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). | Brica.

what turnip-shaped or depressed-globose ; limb closely contracted
round the stamens, or sometimes suburceolate and scarcely depressed,
glabrous, 1 lin. long, about 11 lin. wide; anthers subterminal or

sublateral, longitudinally semiovate or obliquely lanceolate, acute or

subobtuse, smooth, ciliolate or naked, 3-1 lin, long; pore about 2

the length of the cell; style exserted, rather short and stout ; stigma
capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 620. E. tiare-
flora, Andr. Heathery, t. 196, and Col. Heaths, t. 213. E. lepto-

phylla, Klotzsch ex Benth. le.

SoutH AFRIcA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! :

Coast Reeion: Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Niven, 124! Witsen
Berg, Zeyher, 1112? Bolus in Herb. Norm., Austr.-Afr., 4! Winterhoek Moun-
tain, 2500 ft., Bolws, 5112! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 800 ft., Schlechter,
932! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 5491! Onrust River, Schlechter,
9493 ! Hermanus, Galpin, 3549! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Mund,
2! Zeyher, 3299! Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3554!

A variable species as to habit: and corolla, and having forms which run into
each other. Some specimens which we cite above have been referred to E.
imbricata, with some forms of which there is considerable affinity and we find it
difficult to distinguish them.

369. E. imbricata (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 503) ; ereet, 1-3 ft. high ;
branches virgate or diffuse, variably pubescent, most usually with
abundant flowers ; leaves erect or spreading, linear, 13-21 lin. long ;
pedicels 1} lin. long; bracts approximate, more rarely subremote,
sepal-like but smaller; sepals ovate, keel-tipped, subcartilaginous,
rigid, glabrous, white, brown, or red, mostly about 14 lin. long, a
little longer or shorter than the corolla ; corolla cyathiform, ovoid,
urceolate or globose-urceolate, white, foxy or reddish, 1—12 lin. long ;
anthers varying from terminal to nearly lateral, linear, oblong, lanceo-
late, semiovate or narrow-ovate, mostly acute or acuminate, more
rarely obtuse, glabrous, smooth, light to dark-brown, mostly about
2 (rarely 2) lin. long; pore from 3-% the length of the cell; stigma
clavate-capitellate ; ovary usually glabrous, rarely puberulous.
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 620; Andr. Heathery, t. 119, and Col.
Heaths, t. 27; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 21,135, t. 51; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 1243. FE. quinquangularis, Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 117, and
E. laricifolia, Lam, Eneycl. i. 487, acc. to Ind. Kew. E. flexuosa,
Andr. Heathery, t. 65, and Col. Heaths, t. 23; Lodd. l.c. t. 1495.
LE. divaricata, Wendl. l.c. fase. 7,5. E. cesia, Wendl. l.c. fase. 24,
179, 4.67. E. pyramidalis, E. squameflora, E. cesia, E. jlexuosa,
E. siylosa, Salisb., E. imbricata, Roxb., and E. bracteata, Roxb. ex
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 349, 350. LE. ramulosa, EH. densi-
flora, E. brunneo-alba, E. myriantha, E. porrigens, Bartl. in
Linnea, vii. 632, 633. E. Actea, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob.1. E.
violacea, E. leptocephala, H. trifaria, E. sparsa, E. paleacea, and
E. glauetfolia, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DG. Prodr. vii. 620. E.
unbricata, var, elongata, Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 771,

A most variable species, difficult of distinction into varieties. We have merely
thrown the very large suite of specimens before us into four groups, which, in

Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 247

the absence of constant floral characters, may frequently be recognized by their
general appearance :—

A. The form represented by a named specimen in Linneus’ Herbarium ;
by the plates of Wendland in Eric, Ic. fasc. 7 and 24, and by specimens named
E. flewuosa, E. ornata, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 620, and E.
densiflora, Bartl. in Linnea, vii, 632. The inflorescence is usually copious and
dense; the flowers have a foxy colour; the anthers are pale brown, and the
_ branches are commonly flexuous.

B. The form represented by the plates in Andrews’ Heathery, t. 65, and
Wendland, Eric. Ie. fasc. 21. Inflorescence less copious and less dense;
flowers white, more rarely rosy, contrasting with dark-brown anthers.

C. The form shown in Andrews’ Heathery, t. 119. Flowers red or rosy;
anthers dark ; leaves often spreading-recurved.

D. Habit more robust and more virgate than in the other forms; flowers
white or rosy, more globose and less crowded; anthers usually more lateral
than in the preceding forms, rarely subterminal. This form approaches £.
placenteflora.

Sourn Arrica: without locality; A, Herb. Linneus! Herb, Salisbury!
and cultivated specimens !

Coast RxEGIon, common on plains and mountains: A—Cape Div.; Thun-
berg, Ecklon, 287! Caledon Div., Zeyher, 3304! 3805! Bolus, 4173! 5113!
Swellendam Div., Masson, 2! Div.? Bolus, 1196! B—Stellenbosch Div. ;
Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 5388! Div. ? Bolus, 6740! 7471! C—Caledon Div.,
_ Schlechter, 9493! 10400! Bredasdorp Div., Schlechter, 10479! 10542! Bolus,
8445! Div. ? Bolus, 6741! D—Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 8683!
Paarl Div., Bolus, 6969! Cape Div., Burchell, 24! 628! Caledon Div., Bolus,
5111! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 607! Zeyher, 3298! Div.? Guthrie,
2026! 3768! 4168!

370. E. triceps (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 371); stem stout ;
branches ascending, pubescent, 10 in. or more long; leaves erect-
spreading, imbricate, lanceolate to oblong, subtrigonous, the younger
ciliate, 2-21 lin. long ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long ; bracts approximate,
ovate, aeute, cartilaginous, large ; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acute or
acuminate, subscarious or cartilaginous, with a strong excurrent
short keel-tip, glabrous, ciliate or naked, 2 lin. long, a little shorter
or longer than the corolla; corolla suburceolate, glabrous, viscid ?
(ace. to Bentham), about 2 lin. long, longer than its width; fila-
ments rather broad, dilated and shortly bent just below the anther ;
anthers terminal, longitudinally narrow-semi-elliptical, acute or
acuminate ; cells deeply partite and usually at length spreading in
the upper part, hispidulous, brownish, 1 lin. long or a little over ;
pore about 2 the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 620; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 962. EH. spumosa, Wendl.
Eric. Ic. fase. 16, 51, t. 19, not of Linn.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson / and cultivated specimens !

Coast Rucion: George Div.; Montagu Pass, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 5834 !
near George, Alewander !

371. E. calyculata (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 4, 5); erect, 12-18 in.
or more high ; branches ascending, pubescent ; leaves erect-spread-
ing and straight or recurved, linear, acute, 1,-3 lin. long ; pedicels
1-3 lin. long ; bracts approximate; sepal-like but smaller ; sepals
oblong or ovate, acute or acuminate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous,

248 BRICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

glabrous, 14-21 lin. long, a little longer or shorter than the corolla ;
corolla subcyathiform or ovoid, glabrous, 11—2 lin. long ; segments
broad-oblong, rounded or subtruncate, always more or less concave or
with inflexed margins, naked or ciliate, 12 the length of the tube ;
filaments usually dilated at the apex; anthers terminal, narrow-
lanceolate, tapering much to the apex and setaceous-acuminate,
glabrous and smooth, light brown, 13-2 lin. long; pore about 2 the
length of the cell; ovary glabrous. . penicilliformis, Salish.
Prodr. 297. E. peniciiliflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 348 ;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 621. E. calyeulata, Wendl. Eric. Ic,
Fase. 4, 5. EE. rostella, Sinclair, Hort. Eric, Wob.21. EH. rastellum,
Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 196. #. rostrata, Bartl. in Linnea, vii.
652. '

Var. 8, chrysantha (Bolus); leaves broader ; anthers subobtuse or scarcely
acute, not setaceous-acuminate, minutely scaberulous, ~ lin. long; ovary
sometimes minutely hirtellous. EH. chrysantha, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vii. 620.

Sourn AFrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury!

Coast Reeion, between 1200 and 4500 ft.: Caledon Div. ; Genadendal
Mountain, Galpin, 3553! Sweetmilks Valley, Niven, 122! Swellendam Div.;
mountains near Swellendam, Masson, 48! Mund, 30! Zuurbraak Mountain,
Galpin, 8552! Schlechter, 2151! George Div.; Montagu Pass, Schlechter,
5851! Unioudale Div.; mountains near Avontuur, Bolus, 2388! Var. 8: Clan-
william Div.; on the Cederberg Range, 2500 ft., Bolus, 9108! Leipoldt, 209!
Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, Ecklon §* Zeyher! Galpin, 3545! near Hawston,
50 ft., Schlechter, 9470!

Section XXXI. ELYTROSTEGIA. (Sp. 372-376.)

372. E. lasciva (Salish. in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 349); erect,
2-3 ft. high; branches ascending, subvirgate, tomentulose, with
numerous lateral, erect or decurved, short flowering branchlets of
from 3-1 in. long; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, linear-lanceo-
late, trigonous, subobtuse, suleate, glabrous, smooth, 13-21 lin. long ;
flowers often clustered, calycine; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts and
sepals broad-ovate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, very concave, pallid,
completely concealing the corolla, the former 1—% lin., the latter
about 1 lin. long; corolla subtubular, white, about 1 lin. long;
segments erect, rounded, 5~} the length of the tube; filaments very
broad ; anthers exserted, sublateral, oblong, subacute, nearly smooth,
brown, about 4 lin. long, muticous ; pore 8 the length of the cell ;
stigma narrow-peltate, 4-dentate. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 689.
E. pachycephala, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 689. E. exserta, Hort. ex
Benth. l.c. E. brachycrossa, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 634.

Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; sandy downs on the Cape Flats, Thunberg in
Herb. Salisbury! Niven, 123! Mund, 31! Bolus, 3292! and in Herb. Norm.
Austr.-Afr., 46! Guthrie, 1448! Woliey Dod, 986!

‘ We have seen and examined Tausch’s type of his EZ. brachycrossa, evidently a
garden specimen, and find the identity complete.

Erica. | ERICACE (Guthrie & Bolus). 249

373. E. accommodata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
620) ; erect, under a foot high; branches ascending or somewhat
spreading, puberulous or somewhat tomentulose; leaves mostly
erect and straight, or incurved, more rarely spreading, linear or
linear-oblong, obtuse, sulcate, glabrous, ciliolate or naked, dry or
viscidulous, sometimes wrinkled, 1-2 lin. long ; flowers scarcely or
seldom clustered, calycine; pedicels 1-14 lin. long; bracts and
sepals as in H. lasciva or sometimes lanceolate and often wrinkled on
the back ; corolla urceolate or subcyathiform, not much contracted
at the throat, white, 1 lin. or a little less long ; segments erect,
rounded, 3-2 the length of the tube; filaments rather narrow ;
anthers subexserted never entirely beyond the corolla, sublateral,
otherwise as in H. lasciva, but a little smaller ; stigma simple at the
end of the dilated truncate style. ;

Var. 8, subviscidula (Bolus) ; all parts viscidulous; branches denser ; leaves
more spreading, more distinctly wrinkled at the sides, glandular-ciliolate ; sepals
lanceolate, ciliate, subviscidulous, 1-1} lin. long; corolla suburceolate ; seg-
ments ovate, more tapering to the apex but scarcely acute and a little longer;
filaments broader; anthers muticous, or more or less distinctly decurrent-
toothed ; stigma subpeltate, 4-punctate, smaller than in the type.

VaR, y, ebracteata (Bolus); leaves shorter, more adpressed; bracts none ;
sepals with a more prominent, foliaceous, keeled apex ; corolla slightly smaller ;
stigma rather larger.

Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.; near the Bot River, Bolus, 5448! between
Bot River and the Zwart Berg, Zeyher, 3306! Bredasdorp Div.; hills near
Elim, Bolus, 8444! Schlechter, 7630! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; mountains near
Genadendal, 4500 ft., Schlechter, 108325! Var. y, Caledon Div.; Klein River,
1000 ft., Schlechter, 7606!

374. E. glumeflora (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 689) ;
erect, about a foot high; branches erect or spreading, with short
ashy-grey tomentum; leaves erect or spreading, linear-subulate,
keeled or subtrigonous, suleate, glabrous, 2—4 lin. long; flowers on
short lateral branchlets, often cernuous, not very dense, varying
from calyeine to subcorolline ; pedicels pubescent, 111 lin. long;
bracts sepal-like, }—2 the length of the sepals ; sepals from lanceolate
to elliptical, oblong-obovate or broad-obovate, acuminate, acute or
subobiuse, keeled or only keel-tipped, cartilaginous or glumaceous,
in some specimens (Burchell’s) drying dark, in others nearly white,
13-2 lin. long, or from 3 the length of the corolla to equalling it ;
corolla urceolate-cyathiform, or ovoid-eyathiform, apparently white,
1} to nearly 21 lin. long ; segments suberect, semi-orbicular or semi-
ovate and tapering to the apex, obtuse or acute, 1-3 the length of the
tube ; anthers exserted, subterminal or sublateral; cells bipartite
sometimes divaricate, linear to oblong, acute or subobtuse, smooth,
brown, about 3—% lin. long, decurrent-aristate ; pore } the length of the
cell; appendage hirsute, in length from 1~—1 of the cell, free portion
spreading, of variable length ; stigma either cyathiform with or with-
out 4 short filiform processes (springing from the base of the eup
and sometimes exserted beyond its margin), or simple at the clavate,

250 eRIcACEm (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

truncate apex of the style. H. leucosepala, Klotzsch, and E. setula,
Klotzsch ? ex Benth. in DC. Prod. vii. 689.

Soutn AFrica: without locality, Krebs, 224! Wallich! Bowker in Herb.
Huguenot Seminary, 224!

Coast Region: Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Burchell, 5511! 5656! Uiten-
hage Div.;*Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 3282! Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port
Elizabeth, Sim! Albany Div.; near Riebeek, Burchell, 3466! near Grahams-
town, Burchell, 3537! MacOwan, 300! Galpin, 3086! East London Div. ;
near Amalinda, Miss Arnold in Herb. Flanagan, 2352! Stutterheim Div. ;
Fort Cunynghame, 3000 ft., Sim, 1895!

Burchell’s specimens 5656 and 5511 and Flanagan’s 2352, appear to be quite
distinct ; yet they are connected so closely by numerous intermediate forms
that it is impossible to define satisfactory varieties.

375. E. lepidota (Rach in Linnza, xxvi. 786); robust, erect,
1 ft. or more high; branches ‘ascending, straight, densely clothed
with short, thick, glandular, plumose, dirty-yellow hairs; leaves
adpressed, imbricate, mnarrow-linear-trigonous, glabrous, smooth,
shining, the younger ciliolate, suleate-keeled, leaden-olive-green (in
the dried state), 2 lin. long; pedicels whitish-silky, very short ;
bracts adpressed, oblong, glabrous, very obtuse, ciliate, + the length
of the sepals; sepals ovate, obtuse, glabrous, membrane-ciliate, a
little shorter than the corolla; corolla urceolate-cylindrical, scarcely
1 lin. long, 3 lin. wide; segments ovate, very obtuse, } the length
of the corolla; anthers subincluded, oblong, very obtuse at either
end, saccate at the base, hirtillous, muticous ; pore 4 the length of
the cell; style subexserted, thick ; stigma cyathiform-peltate, quad-
rangular ; ovary glabrous.

Soutu Arrica: without locality, Thunberg !

We have seen the type specimen in Thunberg’s herbarium, named by Rach.
The leaves are clearly not scurfy, but smooth. The plant is nearest to EL.
accommodata.

376. E. diosmefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 350) ; erect,
4-8 in. high; branches many, stout, rigid, corymbose, tomentulose ;
leaves erect-spreading, crowded, closely and neatly imbricate, broad-
linear-trigonous, sulcate, rigid, glabrous, glossy, ciliate-serrulate,
2-3 lin. long; flowers usually scanty at the ends of the longer
branches, subcorolline ; pedicels stout, tomentulose, 1-13 lin. long;
bracts approximate, adpressed, narrow-ovate, acute, keel-tipped,
ciliolate or naked, concave, paleaceous; sepals like the bracts, but
longer, pallid, about 14 lin. long, reaching to a little lower than the
top of the corolla-tube ; corolla cyathiform, slightly widened upwards
from the throat, white, 11-14 lin. long; segments ovate, very little
spreading, about as long as the tube; filaments capillary ; anthers
lateral, included, shorter than the corolla-segments, but just manifest
(or acc. to Bentham, sometimes exserted); cells deeply partite,
oblong, obtuse, slightly narrowed to the base, subscaberulous, dark
red,2 lin. long, subulate-aristate ; pore about + the length of the cell ;
awns curved, acuminate, serrulate or ciliolate, about 4 the length of

Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 251

the cell; stigma broad-capitate or peltate ; ovary pallid. Z. serrulata,
Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 23. E. subserrata, Roxb. ex Salish. in
Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 350.

Soutu Arrica: without locality, Mund! Herb. Salisbury!
Coast Rreion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 3500 ft., Bolus, 2954! 3877!
Harvey ! Guthrie, 1462!

This species forms a transition to the § Eurystoma to which it is closely
allied.

Section XXXII. APCCUS. (Sp. 377-378.)

377. E. Brownleee (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 185);
erect, robust, 1-4 ft. high; branches subvirgate, pubescent; leaves
4-nate, erect or subspreading, crowded, laxly imbricate, incurved,
subulate, acute, nearly flat, sulcate, glabrous, or the younger some-
times thinly pilose, 21-7 (mostly 4-6) lin. long; flowers 4-nate,
or umbellate, 5-7-flowered; pedicels pubescent, 13-2 lin. long ;
bracts subapproximate, ovate, acute, scarious, 13 lin. long ; sepals in
opposite pairs, imbricate and somewhat closely enwrapping the
corolla, obovate or suborbicular, keel-tipped, acute, thick and
wrinkled below, concave, scarious, subviscidulous, glabrous, about
21 lin. long, reaching to the top of the corolla-segments or nearly
so; corolla cyathiform, widened to the mouth, or subobconic, white,
14-24 lin. long ; limb slightly expanded, but not reeurved ; sesments
ovate, 1-14 lin. long, or about 3—+ the length of the tube; filaments
slender, bent; anthers subineluded, sometimes manifest, oblong,
obtuse, seaberulous, brown, 1—* lin. long, crested; pore about 3 the
length of the cell; crests suborbicular, incised, less than the
length of the cell; style decurved; stigma clavate-capitellate,
4-dentate; ovules compressed; seeds unknown.

tole gol

Coast Recion: Albany Div.; mountains near Grahamstown, MacOwan,
1260! King Williams Town Div.; edge of the Perie Forest, 2500 ft., Miss
Brownlee in Herb. Tyson, 2858! Perie Mountain, T'yson in Herb. Norm. Austr.-
Ajfr,, 858! Stockenstrom Div.; southern slopes of Kat Berg, Scully, 142!
Stutterheim Div. ; Dohne Mountain, 4000 ft., Flanagan, 2301! Kabousie River,
Murray, 24!

378. E. Caffrorum (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 184) ; erect,
branched or subvirgate, of various aspects, from 1-3 ft. high;
branches puberulous or tomentulose ; leaves 4-nate, mostly recurved-
spreading, linear, acute, sulcate, mostly ciliate, glabrous, glossy,
2-4 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, or subumbellate, or occasionally
pseudo-lateral and clustered at the ends of the branches ; pedicels
puberulous, 1-12 lin. long ; bracts remote or rarely subapproximate,
about 1 lin. long; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acute, glumaceous,
rigid, glabrous, 1-13 lin. long, reaching generally $ the height of
the corolla; corolla obconie or obconic-cyathiform, mostly somewhat
widened to the mouth, more rarely cyathiform, apparently dirty-
white, about 12 lin. long; limb spreading or suberect, subequal to

252 _ BRIcAcE® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

the tube in length ; anthers included, subovate or oblong, mem-
branous, smooth, scabrid on the margins only, 4-3 lin. long, very
shortly aristate; awns more or less hairy ; pore about 5 the length of
the cell; style exserted (probably always so at full maturity, but
often included, in our specimens) ; stigma clavate, capitellate or
simple, sometimes distinctly 4-toothed or lobulate; ovules com-
pressed ; seeds unknown.

Var. 8, glomerata (Bolus); branches more spreading ; flowers mostly
clustered ; corolla broader, cyathiform ; limb shorter than the tube ; anthers as
in the type.

Var. y, luxurians (Bolus) ; branches long, erect, subflexuous ; leaves more
crowded, more erect and imbricate, more distinctly ciliate; pedicels woolly ;
bracts larger, sometimes subapproximate ; corolla more tubular; limb shorter
than the tube; anthers minutely crested; crests lanceolate ; stigma more
distinctly 4-lobed.

Var. 8, aristulata (Bolus); branches and leaves as in y; pedicels pubescent ;
corolla of the type but limb shorter ; anthers very minutely aristulate ; awns not
reaching to the base of the cell.

Coast REGIoNn: Queenstown Div., Cooper, 211!

EAsteRN ReGion: Tembuland; Bazeia, Bawr,507! Pondoland ; Insiswa Moun-
tain, 6800 ft., Schlechter, 6495! Var. 8: Tembuland; near the Gat Berg, Bolus,
8731! Griqualand Hast ; Mount Currie, 7500 ft., T'yson, 1194! Var. y: Natal ;
foot of the Drakensberg Range, Wood, 3519! Mahwaqua Peak, Polela, Wood,
4281! Var. 8: Drakensberg Range, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4976!

*

Section XXXII LAMPROTIS. (Sp. 379-398.)

379. E. dianthifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 338) ;
erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches numerous, subvirgate, the younger
pubescent with short subplumose or barbellate hairs, glabrescent ;
leaves opposite, erect, linear, acuminate, keeled, glabrous, 4—7 lin.
long ; inflorescence terminal; flowers solitary, or 2-nate, calycine ;
pedicels tomentose, 2 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate-lanceolate,
acuminate, concave, rigid, glumaceous, whitish, shorter than the
sepals ; sepals like the bracts, but larger and somewhat spreading,
the keel produced into a stout cuspidate point, the whole 23-8 lin.
long, reaching to below the apex of the corolla-segments ; corolla
ovoid-urceolate, white, 34-4 lin. long; segments spreading, ovate-
cordate, nearly as long as the tube; anthers lateral, affixed well
above the base of the cells, oblong, subobtuse, 2 lin. long, crested ;
pore under } the length of the cell; crests ovate, acute, serrulate,
nearly 4 the length of the cell; ovary glabrous ; ovules subovate,
membrane-margined. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 649. H. oppositi-
folia, var. major, Andr. Heathery, t. 179. E. biflora, Link, Enum.
Hort. Berol. i. 367 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 683.

South AFRICA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated speci-
mens !

Coast Rxreion: Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Niven,
19! 70a! mountains near Hartebeest River, Grisbrook! Swellendam_ Div. ;

Erica. | ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 253

near Storms Vlei, Zeyher, 3265! mountains near Swellendam, Shand in Herb.
Bolus, 6253! Schlechter, 5682! Riversdale Div.; summit of Kampsche Berg,
Burchell, 7114!

Allied to £. Nabea, of which it has somewhat the appearance in miniature ;
but the sepals are much smaller, and the corolla larger and differently
shaped. 4

380. E. borboniefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vi. 386) ; stout,
erect, entirely glabrous; branches numerous, somewhat erowded,
ascending, virgate or flexuous, and subdiffuse ; leaves opposite, erect,
mostly adpressed, linear, acute, keeled, 2—3 lin. long, the floral often
subpetaloid ; flowers mostly 2-nate, crowded or clustered, often in
dense masses; pedicels 2 lin. long; bracts 2, median, ovate or
spathulate (Bentham), acute, coloured, 3 lin. long; sepals like the
bracts, or subobovate, petaloid, 4—5 lin. long ;_ corolla tubular-
inflated, slightly contracted at the throat, 5-6 lin. long by about
1 lin. in the widest diam.; segments ovate, acuminate, 13 the
length of the tube; anthers oblong, tapering above the middle,
truncate at the base, about 1 lin. long; crested high above the base ;
pore nearly 4 the length of the cell; crests ovate-acuminate, more
than 4.the length of the cell, reaching very little below its base;
style included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary cylindrical, elongate,
8-lobed. . togata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1626. E. aperta, Spreng.
Syst. Veg. ii. 200.

Coast Rearon, from 1200 to 4700 ft: Caledon Div.; Zwartberg Range,
near Caledon, Pappe in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 20b! tops of the mountains of
Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Masson, 24! Burchell, 7762! Bolus, Herb.
Norm. Austr,-Afr., 354! Schlechter, 9872! Roser!

The relative length of the sepals and corolla is apparently variable; partly
due to different stages of maturity, and partly to the degree of spread of the
sepals,

381. E. lutea (Berg. Desc. Pl. Cap. 115); about 1-12 ft. high,
entirely glabrous; branches numerous, ascending, subvirgate or
flexuous, slender ; leaves opposite, imbricate, slightly spreading or
adpressed, linear, acute, keeled, 1-3 lin. long; flowers 2~3-4-nate,
often clustered; pedicels 1-114 lin. long; bracts 2, submedian, more
rarely a third subbasal, 1 lin. or less long ; sepals broad-oblanceolate
or more commonly broad-ovate or obovate, keeled-tipped, shortly
acuminate, 14-13 lin. long, from 1—2 the length of the corolla ; corolla
conical-tubular, somewhat inflated at the base, tapering to a more or
less narrow mouth, white or yellow, 31-4 lin. long; segments
spreading, ovate, obtuse, 1—2 the length of the tube; anthers oblong,
very obtuse, pallid, about 2 lin. long, shortly crested; pore under
+ the length of the cell ; crests affixed near the base of the corolla,
and (in the flowers examined) spreading somewhat horizontally,
lanceolate, subentire, curved, less than 1 the length of tbe eell;
stigma capitellate ; ovary cylindrical, lobed. Linn. Mant. Alt, 234;
Thunb. Fl. Cap, ed. Schult. 359; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 1, 13;
Andr. Heathery, t. 29, and Col. Heaths, t. 32; Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t. 64; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 651. E. imbellis, Salisb. Prodr.

254. ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica,

298, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 385. EF. oppositifolia, Andr.
Heathery, t. 178, and Col, Heaths, t. 192; var. alla, Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 1343.

Coast Rreton : Cape Div.; frequent on the mountains of the Cape Peninsula,
Thunberg, Niven, 69! 70! Sieber, 195! Zeyher, 1093! Bolus, 3295! Guthrie,
483! Wolley Dod, 819! Stellenbosch Div.; mountains near Lowrys Pass,
Guthrie! Paarl or Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drége/ Caledon Div.;
Zwart Berg, Mund, 17! Pappe!

382. E. tenuifolia (Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1002); 6-18 in.
high, entirely glabrous ; leaves opposite (oceasionally some 3-nate
on the same plant), erect or adpressed, imbricate, linear-trigonous,
acute, keeled, suleate, the younger with a reddish tinge in the upper
part, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, mostly crowded; pedicels
1-1; lin. long; bracts 2, remote, about 1 lin, long; sepals spreading,
obovate, very concave, acute, apiculate, keeled, 14-2 lin, long,
mostly reaching about 1 the length of corolla; corolla ovoid-
urceolate or subconical, inflated at the base, contracted at the
throat, 23-3 lin. long; segments ovate, subacute, nearly 3 the
length of the tube; anthers oblong, obtuse, pallid, 2 lin. long,
minutely toothed or crested; pore 3 the length of the cell; crests
very variable in size, from 4; to 4 the length of the cell; stigma
small, subsimple ; ovary subtruncate, lobed. Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap.
116; Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,507; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 651.
L. oppositifolia, var. rubra, Andr, Heathery,t.180 (not characteristic).
E. linifolia, Salisb. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 386.

Coast Reaton : Cape Div. ; frequent on the mountains of the Cape Peninsula,
up to the summit of Table Mountain, Thunberg, Burchell, 594! Cooper, 3047 !
Bolus, 3875! 4700! Guthrie, 338! 814! Wolley Dod, 2156! 3336! Galpin,
3619 ! 3620! Caledon Div.; mountains near Appels Kraal, Ecklon Sf Zeyher,
near Zoetmelks Vlei, Grisbrook ! near Onrust Kiver, Schlechter, 9491 !

Closely allied to H. lutea, and perhaps to be regarded as a variety of it. It is
also allied to E. borboniefolia, and all three resemble each other in floral
structure, but differ in aspect. —

383. E. Alfredii (Guthrie & Bolus); ereet, entirely glabrous ;
branches virgate or incurved, the younger pallid, smooth, strongly
channelled between the decurrent leaf-cushions; leaves 3-nate,
imbricate, erect, subadpressed, linear-lanceolate, acute, callous-tipped,
margins inflexed with a narrow subscarious edge, glaucous, 4—52 lin.
long; flowers umbellate; umbels 6-9-flowered, erect-spreading ;
pedicels 7-9 lin. long; bracts, 2 subapproximate, 12 lin. from apex
of pedicel, the third quite basal, eaducous or sometimes wanting,
lanceolate, acuminate, subscarious, foxy-brown, 5-6 lin. long; sepals
like the bracts but ovate, acuminate, 6-7 lin. long, 3-4 lin. wide ;
corolla tubular-conical or subampullaceous, rosy, 9-10 lin. long,
about 3-4 lin. in diam. above the base, rosy; segments probably
stellato-patent, ovate, acuminate, about + the length of the tube ;
filaments capillary, flexuous, 8 lin, long; anthers broad-oblong, very
obtuse, 3 lin. long, muticous; pore 2 the length of the cell ; style

Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). | 255

ineluded ; stigma capitate; capsule globose, glabrous; seeds sub-
globose, scorbiculate, muricate on the margins of the pits.

Coast Reeton: Caledon Div.; mountains near the Yondereinde River,
5400 ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4574 !

384. E. bracteolaris (Lam. Encycl. i. 481); stout, 12 ft. or
more high, entirely glabrous; branches ascending, often virgate,
fastigiate ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, imbricate, or the lower as long
as the internodes, linear or narrow-lanceolate, acute, suleate, 2-3 lin.
long ; floral leaves sometimes dilated or even subsepaloid ; flowers
3-nate, pseudo-capitate by close packing in very short or arrested
terminal branchlets ; pedicels 1 lin. long ; bracts, two approximate,
oblanceolate, acuminate, the third basal, longer and broader ; sepals
spathulate, unguiculate, keel-tipped, subobtuse, apiculate, with a
rather broad diaphanous margin, about 4 lin. long, scarcely reaching
to the top of the corolla-tube ; corolla subtubular, almost equal or a
little inflated above the base, 31-5 lin. long; segments ovate, acute,
scarcely { the length of the tube ; anthers broad-oblong, very obtuse,
the length 1% times the width, muticous or very minutely subdenticu-
late at the base ; pore about } the length of the cell; appendages
not reaching nearly to the base of the cell; stigma capitate ; ovary
cylindrical, lobed. . glomerata, Andr. Heathery, t. 264, and Col.
Heaths, t, 237, not of Salish. nor of Sinclair; Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vil. 650. 2. rubella, Bot. Mag. t. 2165; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 658.
LE. calycinades, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 4.

Coast Reaion: Swellendam Div. ; Riet Kuil, Niven, 74! mountain peak
near Swellendam, Burchell, 7300! 7333! Borcherds in Herb. Bolus, 5958 !-
mountains near Zuurbraak, Schlechter, 2102! Galpin, 3608! Also cultivated
specimens |

We have seen and dissected Lamarck’s type in Paris Herbarium ; it agrees ‘well
with Andrews’ figures.

385. E. steinbergiana (Wendl. f. ex Klotzsch in Linnea, xii.
531); 1-11 ft. high, entirely glabrous ; branches few, virgate ; leaves
3-nate, adpressed, imbricate, or the lower sometimes scarcely longer
than the internodes, lanceolate, 1}—21 lin. long, acute or acuminate,
thick, round-backed, suleate ; flowers 3-nate, subsessile, somewhat
clustered; bracts 2, approximate, linear-oblanceolate, acute, 2—21
lin. long; sepals oblanceolate or lanceolate, keel-tipped, sharply
acuminate, the margins somewhat involute, 2}~—3 lin. long, about as
long as the corolla-tube ; corolla subtubular, more or less inflated at
the base, subtetragonous, 4—5 lin. long; segments ovate, acuminate,
about 4 the length of the tube ; anthers broad-oblong, very obtuse,
pallid, smooth, a little over 4 lin. long, muticous ; pore about } the
length of the cell; stigma capitellate ; ovary short-cylindrical,
truneate, prominently 8-lobed. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 650.

Var. 8, abbreviata (Bolus); leaves broad-lanceolate, 14 lin. long ; sepals broad-
oblanceolate, mostly $-% the length of the corolla-tube.

Souta AFrRica: without locality, Hesse.
Coast ReGion: Riversdale Div.; Kafferkuils River, Niven, 73! Langeberg

256 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hriea.

Range, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 1911! Var. 8: Riversdale Div. ; on the Kampsche
Berg, Burchell, 7086 !

386. E. taxifolia (Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 19); erect, rigid, generally
under a foot high; branches numerous, short, nearly straight, stout,
pallid, the younger channelled by the prominent decurrent leaf-
cushions, pubescent or glabrous; léaves 3-nate, erect, spreading
or the older squarrose, crowded, imbricate, linear-trigonous, acute or
acuminate, sulcate, glabrous, 4-6 lin. long; flowers umbellate, or
subumbellately-clustered, with occasionally a few axillary ; pedicels
3-4 lin. long, pubescent or glabrous; bracts remote, oblanceolate,
coloured, 2—4 lin. long; sepals ovate or obovate, acute, keel-tipped,
mucronate, coloured, 21—41 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate 3-41
lin. long, 13-2 lin. wide; segments ovate, subacute, darker-coloured
or brownish, a little less than 4 the length of the tube; anthers
narrow-elliptical, rounded at the base and apex, smooth, 4—2 lin. long,
subaristate ; pore less than } the length of the cell; awns subulate,
about 1 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitate ;
ovary turbinate, or depressed-globose, glabrous. Wendl. Bot.
Beobacht. 44, and Eric. Ic. fasc. 2, 19; Salish. in Trans. Linn.
Soc. vi. 3887; Andr. Heathery, t. 93, and Col. Heaths, t. 63, also
var. major, l.c. t. 243, and I.c. t, 279; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
651. LE. corifolia, & Herb. Thunb. ex Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 779.
E. turgida, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 365, not of Salish, £.
juniperifolia, Salish, Prodr. 296. EH. lawxifolia, Steud. Nom. ed.
a ay &

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Niven, 64! and cultivated specimens !

Coast Rraion, from 1000 to 3000 ft.: Tulbagh Div. ; Witsen Berg, Burchell,
8664! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Bolus, 5175! Paarl Div. ; near
Wellingtov, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 20! French Hoek, Bolus,
6966! Schlechter, 10266! Stellenbosch Div.; Gordons Bay, Miss Guthrie!
Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8233! Caledon Div., Roser! Knysna Div., Buchanan
in Herb. Bolus, 5837 !

Bentham, following Andrews, made @ variety of the larger-flowered forms,
but we find the size of the flowers variable by small gradations; as a
rule, the specimens from the higher altitudes appear to have the larger
flowers.

387. E. pyenantha (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 653); entirely
glabrous; fluriferous branchlets densely fastigiate-corymbose, 1—2 in.
long ; leaves 3-nate, ereet, adpressed, imbricate, ovate (Bentham) or
lanceolate, very acute, sulcate, concave, the upper 2 lin. long;
flowers 3-nate, pseudo-corymbose in our specimens, erect; pedicels
2-21 lin. long; bracts narrow-lanceolate, remote, 2 lin. long;
sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, apiculate, keeled, margins hyaline,
3 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated, 4-41 lin. long;
segments cordate-ovate, acute, } the length of the tube; anthers
broad-oblong, very obtuse, } lin. long, narrow-crested ; pore 3 the
length of the cell; crests minute, 4 the length of the cell, and
not reaching below its base; style included ; stigma capitate.

Coast Rereion : Caledon Div. ; near the Klein River, Masson, 21 !

Erica. ] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 257

388. E. chlamydiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 338) ;
slender, erect, 1-13 ft. or more high; branehes subvirgate, pallid,
pubescent, glabrous or glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, erect, often
adpressed, linear-lanceolate or oblong, subobtuse, sulcate, glandular-
hirsute or glabrous, ciliate or at length naked, imbricate in the upper-
most, or equalling or shorter than the internodes in the lower parts
of the branches, 2-2} lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate, clustered or
more often lax; pedicels 2~3 lin. long; bracts, 2 upper sub-
approximate, lowest median, lanceolate, ciliate, 1} lin. long; sepals
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, not or scarcely imbricating at the
base, spreading or sometimes somewhat recurved towards the apex,
keeled or the keel sometimes obsolete, mostly faintly wrinkled aeross
the keel near the base, 13—2 lin. long, pale purple or lilac, reaching
a little below or above the corolla; corolla urceolate-tubular, very
little inflated below or contracted at the throat, subtetragonous,
prominently 4-nerved, viscidulous, 13-14 lin. long; segments
rounded, stellate-patent or subrecurved, concolorous, about 4 the
length of the tube; anthers longitudinally semilanceolate, 5} times
as long as their greatest width, tapering to the apex but scarcely
acute, smooth; cells deeply partite, between 2 and } lin. long,
appendiculate ; pore more than } the length of the cell ; appendages
lanceolate, acute, incurved, incised, + the length of the cell; style
included, or just manifest above the corolla-tube ; stigma capitate ;
ovary glabrous. Benth, in DC. Prodr, vii. 656. E. viscaria; Roxb.
ex Salisb. l.c.

Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; eastern slopes of Table Mountain, above Con-
stantia, in the Cape Govt. Herb., without collector’s name, but with the locality
number 85 of Ecklon § Zeyher on the label! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentois
Holland Mountains, Masson in Herb. Salisbury ! Caledon Div. ; mountains near
the Zondereinde River, Grisbrook in Herb, Guthrie, 4975 |

We have seen and examined Salisbury’s type. The species is allied to BE.
gnaphaloides. The slenderness of the whole flower, the sepals more spreading
and less imbricate at the base than is usual, and their almost lilac colour,
serve generally to distinguish this species, which is by no means common.

389. E. gnaphaloides (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 356) ; erect, 1-1} ft.
high; branches mostly erect and fastigiate, slender, puberulous,
glabrescent, the younger angular by prominent leaf-cushions ; leaves
3-nate, erect and mostly adpressed, not crowded, equalling or longer
than the internodes, linear, blunt, suleate, glabrous, 1-1} lin, long ;
flowers 3-nate, often clustered ; pedicels 3-1} lin. long; bracts, 2
subapproximate, 1 remote, narrow-lanceolate; sepals obovate, ellip-
tical or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keeled, concave, more or less
imbricate at the base, incurved but often somewhat spreading at the
apex, about 11 lin. long, pallid or rosy ; corolla somewhat variable,
campanulate-tubular to obconic, sometimes subtetragonous, 1}—1} lin.
long, rarely in fully-matured and well-grown plants (Schlechter,
5397) 15 or nearly 2 lin. long; segments at maturity recurved,
rounded, from 2—} the length of the tube, concolorous or nearly so ;

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258 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

anthers oblong, obtuse, ascending at the base, + lin. long, with the
pore less than } the length of the cell, or longitudinally semi-
elliptical, tapering to base and apex, 2 lin. long, with the pore 2 the
length of the cell; cells deeply parted, crested; crests subovate,
acute in outline, incised, naked or ciliolate, about 1 the length of
the cell; style included, angular; stigma 4-fid, cruciform; ovary
pallid, lobed, glabrous. Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii. 656. E. gnap-
halodes, Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 119; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 19,
109, #.42. HE. gnaphaliiflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 337.
E. calycina, var. minor, Andr. Heathery, t. 108, and Col. Heaths, t.
156. E. paniculata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1194? not of Linn. £.
tetrastigmata, Bolus in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxiv. 178. E. lilacina,
Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 657.

Coast REGION, ascending to 2500 ft.: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Bolus,
6984! Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, near Rondebosch, &c., Burchell, 170! Zeyher, 1111!
Bolus, 3747! Guthrie, 88! 381! Steen Berg, Wolley Dod, 3481! Muizen Berg,
Bolus, 7300! Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 5897! Caledon Div. ;
Houw Hoek, Bolus, 5451! mountains near Hemel-en-Aarde, Zeyher, 3276!
Zwart Berg, Schlechter, 5577! Bredasdorp Div.; near Potte Berg, Mund, 28!
Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6943 !

This species has been much confused, and is often marked “ E. articularis”’ in
herbaria. The 4-fid cruciform stigma is generally a diagnostic character, and
was noted by Linnzeus. Drége’s 7743, while it exhibits this character, has flowers
much more like those of E. chlamydiflora. We regard it as a hybrid, and merely
note it. We do not cite Thunberg’s E. gnaphalodes, Diss. Erica, 45, although
Rach’s determination of this as £. articularis, L., is probably wrong. Our
plants agree well with Wendland’s figure cited above. There are two forms, one
represented by the last-named figure, slender and virgate; and a_ stouter
and more branching one, with more numerous and crowded flowers, resembling
some species of § Trigemma. But the two forms are by no means distinct,
and are connected by intermediates.

390. E. articularis (Linn. Mant. 65); mostly erect, 1-12 ft.
high; branehes usually virgate, not numerous, slender, glabrous,
rarely puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect, mostly incurved and
adpressed, generally about equal to the internodes, linear or narrow-
lanceolate, keeled or suleate, mostly 14-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate,
more or less clustered, often so crowded on short branchlets as to
form a dense long pseudo-spike; pedicels slender, 1-12 lin. long;
bracts 2, subremote or subapproximate, linear-subulate to oblanceo-
late, third subbasal, longer or wanting ; sepals obovate, keel-tipped,
acute or obtuse, concave, spreading at full maturity, generally reach-
ing from 3—} the length of the corolla (including the limb), 3-14
lin. long; corolla suburceolate, only slightly contracted at the
throat, sometimes subtetragonous, 11-2 lin. long; segments erect or
spreading, subovate, deep flesh-eolour (Andrews), concolorous or
dark-coloured, 4—} the tube in length; anthers sublateral, almost
basifixed ; cells deeply parted, semi-ovate or elliptical, 12 lin. long,
crested ; pore about 3 the length of the cell; crests subovate in out-
line, more or less deeply incised ; style included; stigma capitate ;
ovary lobed. Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii, 653; E. teretiuscula,

Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 259

Wendl. Eric, Ic. fase. 21, 141, ¢. 54. EH. flagelliformis, Andr.
Col. Heaths, t. 234. H. flagellata, Andr. Heathery, t. 262.
LE. flagellaris, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 365. E. corifolia,
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 386. EF. struthiolefolia and E.
Jjiliformis ? Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 636 (acc. to Benth.). E. rubi-
cunda, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 540. . strutiefolia, Steud.
Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 580.

Var. 8, meyeriana (Bolus) ; dwarf, 4-8 in. high; branches numerous, short,
flexuous and intertwined ; leaves ovate, oblong, or narrow-oblong, #~1 lin. long ;
flowers laxer and fewer than in the type; corolla-limb dark-coloured and
brownish ; anthers smaller than in the type, the crests lessincised. EH. meyeriana,
Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 541. E. pallescens, Klotzsch, l.c. 541. E. gnapha-
loides, H. Meyer ew Klotzsch, l.c. 541.

Var. y, implexa (Bolus); dwarf, 6 in. high; branches many, slender,
flexuous or intertwined ; leaves small, subovate, acute, thick, keeled or sulcate,
$-1 lin. long ; corolla from ovoid to subtubular, thin and hyaline in texture,
subtetragonous, white, 14 lin. long ; limb spreading, concolorous.

Sourn Arrica: without locality; Var. y (Niven ?), 65!

Coast Rraion: frequent from Clanwilliam Div. to Caledon Div., Thunberg,
Burchell, 8640! Ecklon S§ Zeyher! Drége! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm.
Austr.-Afr., 22! 355! Bolus, 4055! 4748! 5285! 5422! Guthrie, 1007! 1504!
2188! 38178! Marloth, 1682! ZLeipoldt, 611! Var. 8: much less frequent;
Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, distributed as “ E. gnaphalodes, L.,” Drege!
Paarl Div.; French Hoek, 1000-1500 ft., Guthrie, 3166! Caledon Div.; near
the Baths at Caledon, Guthrie, 2503! Riversdale Div.; Kampsche Berg,
1000 ft., Galpin, 3607! Var. y: Worcester Div. ; on the Matroosberg, 5700 ft.,
Bolus, 6897! (Schlechter, 10073, may belong here, but the flowers are too young
for identification).

In Linneus’ herb. is a specimen marked £. articularis, which agrees with his
description, so far as that goes; also with the figure of Wendland’s E£. tere.
tiusewla, and with numerous specimens marked by Bentham and others with
the latter name. Our var. 8 is hardly more than a colour variety. Galpin’s
3607 and Guthrie’s 3166 connect the two varieties as to leaf-form. Var. y
may be a more stunted, subalpine form of var. 8 (which also was found at a
higher elevation) ; had it stood alone, it would doubtless have been deemed of
specific rank. It has the aspect of E. humifusa, Salisb., otherwise a very
different plant.

391. E. caledonica (Spreng. fil. Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 13);
apparently of dwarf habit, entirely glabrous; branches ascending,
scarred with the short prominent leaf-cushions, the ultimate
fastigiate and crowded; leaves 3-nate, erect, sexfariously, densely
and uniformly imbricate, ovate, acute, concave, thick, suleate, 23 lin.
long by 1 lin. or less broad; flowers 3-nate, somewhat clustered ;
pedicels 3—4 lin. long, exceeding the sepals; bracts remote, the two
upper linear-spathulate, acute, the lower absent or replaced by a
bract-like floral leaf at the base ; sepals broadly obovate, keel-tipped
and apiculate, very concave and rigid, scarious-edged, about 1} lin.
long, or 3 the length of the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate, 3}—4
lin. long; segments stellate-patent, ovate, subacute, about } the
length of the tube; anthers broad-oblong, suddenly tapering to a
subacute apex, 2 lin. long, crested ; pore about } the length of the
cell; crests affixed about the middle of the cell, not spreading, narrow-

s 2

260 ERICACEm (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

lanceolate, incised, in length * of the cell; ovary columnar, glabrous.
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 653. E. marginata, Baril. in Linnea,
vii. 637. E. cochleariformis, Wendl. ex Klotsch in Linnea, xii.
542.

South AFRICA: without locality (Niven?), 66! Ecklon § Zeyher, ex

Bartling.
Coast Reaion: Caledon Div.; tops of the mountains of Baviaans Kloof,
near Genadendal, Masson, 22! Burchell, 7682!

392. E. chlorosepala (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 649) ; prostrate
(Burchell), or decumbent (Masson § Schlechter) ; branches straggling,
slender, rigid, pallid or yellowish, minutely downy, channelled
between the leaf-cushions, and the older covered with their persistent
scars, 4 in. or more long; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate, elliptic-
oblong, subacute, rather flat, but rather thick and coriaceous, often
shrinking and wrinkled in drying, sulcate, glabrous, the stout pallid
petiole ciliate, 23-3 lin. long; flowers subaxillary, solitary, the
pedicels subtended at the base by several pallid bract-like aborted
leaves, forming a short pseudo-raceme below the ends of excurrent
branches, calycine; pedicels curved, tomentulose, 11—2 lin. long;
bracts subapproximate, like the sepals but smaller, 1} lin. long ;
sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, keeled in the upper half, cartilaginous,
rigid, coneave, pale-margined, white or yellowish (or acc. to Bentham,
subfoliaceous, greenish), nearly 21 lin. long, reaching to a little below
the top of the corolla-tube ; corolla ovoid-urceolate, well-contracted
at the throat, ‘golden-yellow ” (Schlechter), 21 lin. long; segments
spreading-recurved, ovate-orbicular, under 1 lin. long, the whole
31 lin. long; anthers bluntly subtriangular or obliquely subovate,
ubtuse, membranous, pallid; eells deeply partite, nearly + lin. long,
aristate; pore 3 the length of the cell; awns affixed a little above
the base of the cell, straightly dependent, setiform, nearly as long
as the cells; style stout, clavate, 4-gonous; stigma simple or
conical; ovary finely puberulous, dark-coloured ; ovules lenticular,
or at least compressed, immarginate.

Coast Reaion: Swellendam Div.; Langeberg Range, near Zuurbraak,
3500 ft., Schlechter; 2044! Riversdale Div.; summit of Kampsche Berg,
Burchell, 7098! Div. ? *‘ Boschjesmans Pad,” Masson, 12!

A very distinct species, somewhat anomalous by its inflorescence in this or any
of our sections. It was placed by Bentham in § Platyspora, but is unlike
that by its calycine flowers. Bentham had not seen mature seeds, nor have
we.

393. E. levigata (Bart]. in Linnea, vii. 638); entirely glabrous,
or the pedicels minutely hairy; branches ascending, slender,
sometimes very numerous and filiform; leaves 3-nate, erect, sub-
adpressed, imbricate, or only a little longer than the internodes,
linear or narrow-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, very smooth, often
with a narrow pellucid margin and apex, 11-21 lin. long; flowers

Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 26]

3-nate, or by arrest of branchlets often axillary, somewhat more lax
and the flowers less crowded than ir the allied species; pedicels
slender, minutely hairy, 2-3 lin. long; bracts 3, remote, the 2
upper small, the lower basal, larger, or absent; sepals ovate, acumi-
nate, acute, keel-tipped, concave, somewhat spreading, mostly about
1} lin. long, reaching to about 3 the length of corolla-tube, pale or
darker rosy-red, concolorous; corolla elongate-ovoid-urceolate, the
neck rather long-tapering, only slightly contracted at the throat,
rosy or darker red, 2-21 lin. long; segments ovate, obtuse or
subacute, spreading or early connivent, 1 the length of the tube,
concolorous ; anthers oblong, obtuse, pallid, 1-2 lin. long, minutely
aristate ; pore over 3 the length of the cell; awns free, tooth-like ;
style ineluded ; stigma capitate. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 650.
L. oppositifolia, var. rubra, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1060?

Var. B, elongata (Bolus) ; sepals obovate; corolla longer than in the type;
tube less inflated or nearly equal, reaching nearly 23 lin. in length; segments
rounded and very obtuse anthers smaller, { lin. long, more ovate, with minute
free awns.

Var. y, decurrens (Bolus); anthers minutely decurrent-denticulate along the
filament.

Sourn Arnica: without locality, Mund!

Coast ReGion: Caledon Div.; Klein River, Masson, 35! Genadendal Moun-
tain, 2500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6898! near Caledon Baths, 800 ft.,
Guthrie, 2502B! and without exact locality, Ecklon § Zeyher, ex Bartling.
Var. 6: Knysna Div.; without locality, Buchanan in Herb. Bolus, 5836!
Var. y: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Sandfontein, 2000 ft., Schlechter,
10346! ;

Closely allied to E. articularis, L., differing chiefly by its laxer and more
frequently axillary inflorescence, its relatively shorter sepals, and the smaller
and differently-shaped anther-appendages,

394. E. corifolia (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 355, in an extended
sense) ; usually 1-12 ft. high; branches erect or spreading, mostly
glabrous, rarely puberulous; leaves mostly 8-nate, in one form
(E. patula, Klotzsch) often opposite, erect or adpressed, often
imbricate, linear to lanceolate, rarely narrow-ovate, acute, keeled or
sulcate, concave, the younger ciliate or naked, 13-4} lin. long, the
floral sometimes larger, scarious or sepaloid; flowers in terminal
clusters, rarely lax; pedicels 13-2 (rarely 3) lin. long; bracts, two
median or nearly so, third basal or wanting, spathulate or oblanceo-
late, mostly naked, rarely softly ciliate, 11-4 lin. long ; sepals wide-
spreading, imbricate below, a little longer or a little shorter than the
corolla, rarely about 4 its length, obovate or lanceolate, acute, keeled
or keel-tipped, very smooth, sometimes shining bright rosy to white,
11-4 lin. long; corolla varying between tubular-urceolate and
ovoid-ureeolate, never much inflated at the base or contracted at the
throat, bright red to white, 13-5 lin. long; segments mostly ovate,
acute or acuminate, sometimes short and broader than long, dis-
coloured or at length brownish, mostly from 1~} the length of the

262 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [| Hrica

tube ; anthers from cuneate to oblong, 1—2 lin. long, crested; pore
2 the length of the cell or more; crests lanceolate to ovate, incised
or serrulate, about 1+ the length of the cell; style included; stigma
capitate. Berg. Pl. Cap. 108; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 21; Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 652. EH. eorifolia, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 46, partly ;
see Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 779, . corifolia, var. spicata, Wendl.
Eric. Ie. fase. 24, 185, t. 70. E. calycina, Andr. Heathery, t. 8,
and Col. Heaths, t. 8; Wendl. l.c. fasc. 10, 11; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
594. EH. calycina, var. melastoma, Andr. Heathery, t. 254. H.
articularis, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 423. “ E. tunicata, Bartl. in Linnea,
vii. 686, and E. Alopecias, Tausch in Flora, 1837, 498,” acc. to
Benth. £. bracteata, Thunb. Diss. Erica,13. E. obvallaris, Salish.
in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 886, and “ E. hyssopifolia, Salisb, l.c. 387,
and EH. obcordata, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 17,” ace. to Benth.
E. polygaleflora, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 537. E. patula, Klotzsch,
Le. 538. EH. calycanthoides, Klotasch, l.c. 539. E. obtecta, Tausch
in Flora, 1839, 638. EH. togatoides, Forbes, Hort. Wob. 86. E.
erectiuscula, Wendl. ex Klotzsch, l.c., 5386. EH. pigra, Soland.
ex Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 387.

Coast ReGion: frequent on the plains and mountains from Tulbagh Div. to
George Div., Thunberg, Burchell, 7661! 7988! Ecklon & Zeyher, 3267! 3268 !
38271! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 21! 1804! Guthrie,
1305! 2282! 2287! 2502! 2794! 8613! 4591! Bolus, 1199! 4172! 5431!
6742! 6895! 7512! 8494! 9168! Schlechter, 2267! 5414! 7262! 9508!
10360! Galpin, 3615! 3617! 4941! Wolley Dod, 295! 894! 904!

A very variable species, which has been unduly divided by the earlier authors,
and even Bentham observed under E. corifolia: “A variable species, nor is it
separated by any certain characters from its neighbours, since it is connected by
intermediate forms with the preceding species [E. bracteata, Thunb.] and with
the four following [E. polygalaflora, patula, nodifiora, and teretiuscula].”? We
have examined a very large suite of specimens, and in the result find that
it runs into three chief forms, which cannot even be separated into varieties, since
they are all connected by intermediates. These are :

A. Corolla 33-5 lin. long; floral leaves often larger and sepaloid ; sepals from
a little shorter than, to a little exceeding the corolla. ‘This form answers broadly
to E. bracteata, Thunb. :

B. Corolla mostly 2-3 lin. long; floral leaves like the cauline ; sepals from 4
of the corolla to equal to it in length. This seems to be FE. corifolia as under-
stood by Linnzeus and the older authors, and as figured by Bauer, by Andrews,
Le. t. 8, and by Wendland, J.c. fase. 24, t. 70.

C. Corolla 14-2 lin. long, its segments sometimes, but not always, obtuse and
broader than long ; sepals often white or pallid, in length as in B; leaves often
all opposite, or 3-nate and opposite on the same plant. ‘These answer mostly
ee E. patula, Klotzsch, and in part to E. polygaleflora, Klotasch, besides
others.

The nearest allies to the species, as we understand it, are EH. nodiflora and EB.
articularis,

395. E. nodiflora (Klotzsch in Linnwa, xii. 539, not of Salisb.) ;
erect, 6-12 in. high, entirely glabrous; branches numerous, ascend-
ing, slender, sometimes filiform ; leaves 3-nate or rarely opposite,
mostly about as long as the internodes, or occasionally imbricate,
linear or narrow-oblong, acute, keeled, suleate, 1-2} lin. long ;

Frica.]} ERICACES (Guthrie & Bolus). 263

flowers 3-nate, or occasionally (by arrest of lateral branchlets) pseudo-
axillary ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; bracts 2, rarely 3, remote, usually
small and often very small; sepals spreading, obovate or sub-
orbicular, obtuse, with a keel-like discoloured apiculate tip, 1-14 lin.
long, reaching from 3—2 the height of the corolla; corolla conical-
urceolate, or in over-mature specimens (as Zeyher’s 3287) ovoid-
ureeolate, very broad at the base, and more or less (often much)
contracted at the throat, of thin and hyaline texture, rosy or pale red,
14-1 lin. long ; segments in the living state spreading, not stellate-
patent, at length connivent, ovate, acute, short, more or less dis-
coloured, about + the length of the tube ; anthers oblong, or oblong-
cuneate, obtuse, from less than 1 to nearly + lin. long, erested ;
pore 3-2 the length of the cell ; crests variable, ovate, acute, serrulate
or incised, 4-1 the length of the cell; style included; stigma

capitate ; ovary subturbinate. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 652.

Var. B, delapsa (Bolus) ; leaves somewhat longer, up to 24 lin. long; bracts
- a little larger and more coloured; corolla 14-2 lin. long, the upper part
of the tube at length falling down, making a fold or wrinkle just above the
middle.

Coast Rrcion: Caledon Div.; sandy places near Onrust River, under
500 ft., Zeyher, 3287! Schlechter, 10388! Bredasdorp Div. ; hills near Elim,
Bolus, 8457! Ratel River Valley, Guthrie, 3792! Swellendam Div. ; Potte
Berg, Mund, 25! Var. 8: Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, about 5000 ft.,
Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3952 !

396. E. palliiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 351); erect,
1-14 ft. high; branches ascending or spreading, the upper angular ;
leaves 3-nate, erect or adpressed, imbricate or shorter than the
internodes, linear or linear-lanceolate, keeled, 13-3 lin. long; flowers
3-nate, mostly clustered ; pedicels mostly glandular or puberulous,
1-21 lin. long ; bracts subremote, lax, linear to lanceolate, 1-2 lin.
long; sepals erect or slightly incurved, not spreading, ovate, acumi-
nate, the alternate pair a little narrower, keeled, in the dried state
more or less transversely wrinkled across the keel, about 2 lin. long,
usually about as long as the corolla; corolla campanulate-tubular,
sometimes marked with 12 more or less prominent parallel veins,
rosy or white, 2-21 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded,
concolorous, about } the length of the tube; anthers longitudinally
subsemiovate, subacute; cells deeply parted, smooth, } lin. long,
crested ; pore 2 the length of the cell; crests sublanceolate, inciseg,
2 the length of the cell ; style included ; ovary ovoid, with a conical
projection at the apex, depressed in the centre. Benth. in DU.
Prodr. vii. 651. E. pallida, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 25, 11, t. 9,
not of Salish. E. candida, Soland. ex Salisb. l.c.

Coast Re@ion: Cape Div.; mountains near and south of Cape Town, at
300-1500 ft., Masson, 70! Bolus, 4654! 7002! 7918! Guthrie, 649 ! Schlechter !
Guthrie, 646! Wolley Dod, 1874! 2877! Caledon Div.; mountains between
Caledon and Blim, 400 ft., Bolus, 6743! Riversdale Div.; on the Langeberg
Range, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 1771! George Div.; Montagu Pass, 4200 ft.,
Schlechter, 5847 !

264 ERIcACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica.

397. E. nigrimontana (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1 ft. or more
high, glabrous except on the younger branches and the ovary ;
branches ascending, rather straight, subfastigiate, puberulous,
glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect, adpressed, not crowded, about as
long as the internodes, linear-trigonous, obtusely acute, sulcate,
the younger minutely gland-ciliate, 11-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ;
pedicels subviscidulous, about 14 lin. long; braets, 2 subapproxi-
mate, 1 more remote, ovate, cartilaginous, viscidulous, rosy, about
1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broad-ovate, keel-tipped,
imbricate at the base, about 2 lin. long, reaching nearly to the top
of the corolla; corolla urceolate-campanulate or globose-suburceolate,
not much constricted at the throat, viscidulous, rosy, 2 lin. long;
segments spreading or stellate-patent, or sometimes subrecurved,
broadly rounded, concolorous, a little over 3 the length of the tube ;
filaments dilated and bent just below the anther; anthers manifest,
about as long as the corolla, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong,
obtuse, incurved, about 2 lin. long, crested; pore 2 the length of
the cell; crests free, lanceolate in outline, deeply inciso-partite ;
lobes linear, the whole less than 3+ the length of the cell; style
shortly exserted, thickened towards the apex ; stigma clavate-
capitellate ; ovary glabrous; ovules much compressed,

Coast Region: Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg, between 1000 and
3000 ft., Zeyher, 3278! Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6745 !

Allied to and resembling EL. brevifolia, but differs by (1) more adpressed and
narrower leaves, (2) wider sepals, (3) wider corolla, (4) anthers and appendages,
(5) exserted style. The flowers are somewhat like those of E. selaginifolia, but
in this the pedicels are much shorter, the sepals much smaller and not foveolate
at the base. It has also been confused in herbaria with EF. lucida, which it
approaches in structure ; but the habit of this is different by its more fastigiate
growth, the flowers larger and viscidulous,

398. E. melanacme (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1 ft. or more
high ; branches slender, the younger subtrigonous by the promi-
nent decurrent leaf-cushions; leaves 3-nate, erect, somewhat ad-
pressed, the uppermost imbricate, the lower equalling or shorter
than the internodes, narrow-oblong or narrow-elliptic, blunt, sulcate,
viscid-pubescent becoming glabrous, softly ciliate, about 2 lin. long;
flowers 3-nate, somewhat clustered; pedicels thinly pubescent,
viscidulous, 33-4 lin. long; bracts lax, 2 subapproximate, 1 infra-
median, lanceolate, all or the lowest tipped with a green keel, ciliate,
viscid, 1} lin. long ; sepals somewhat unequal, the outer pair ovate,
the inner lanceolate, all softly ciliate, viscid, tipped with a sulcate,
green keel, more or less transversely wrinkled in the dried state, rosy
below, deeper upwards, dark purple at the apex, about 2 lin. long ;
corolla suburceolate, very slightly contracted at the throat, prominently
12-veined, subviscid, 2 lin. long; segments almost invariably
spreading or reflexed, rounded, erosulate, about 1 the length of the
tube; anthers narrow subelliptical, wider at the base, slightly
recurved, about ¢ lin. long, crested; pore 3 the length of the cell;

Erica.) ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 265

crests suborbicular, deeply incised, a little over 1 the cell in length;
style included, short; ovary ovoid, with a conical apex, nearly as
in L, palliifolia, very pallid, almost glabrous.

Coast Reeion: Bredasdorp Div. ; hills near Elim, 300 ft., Schlechter, 9637 |
Bolus, 8506!

Closely allied to, and greatly resembling E. palliifora. It presents the
following differences : the leaves are smaller and blunter, the younger pubescent,
and also (as are the bracts and sepals) softly ciliate; bracts larger, tipped with a
green keel and (together with the sepals and corolla) more or less viscidulous ;
sepals incurved, and more adpressed (so that the outline of the flower is more
ovate) much more obtuse, their apex always dark-coloured ; corolla more inflated
below, limb smaller, more spreading and dark-coloured; anthers and crests
somewhat different. This species is notable as affording the nearest transition
to the § Trigemma.

Section XXXIV. EORYSTEGIA. (Sp. 399-408.)

399. E. lanuginosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 122); erect, about 1 ft.
high; branches subflexuous, glabrous; leaves 3-nate, spreading,
incurverl, or at length recurved, linear, acute, the younger ciliate,
10-12 lin, long ; flowers 3-nate or often solitary, cernuous ; pedicels
puberulous, 2-3 lin. long ; bracts approximate, ovate, acute, scarious,
keeled, minutely velvety as are the sepals and corolla, 3—4 lin. long ;
sepals imbricate, erect, ovate, acute, scarious, keeled near the apex,
ciliate or naked, 6 lin. long; corolla ovoid-inflated at the base,
4-parted nearly to the base, dull red-brown, 7-9 lin. long; segnients
erect, ovate-acuminate, much tapering to the apex, acute, alternating
at the base with short triangular, acute, reflexed teeth, situated in the
sinuses, convex on the upper, concave on the lower surface ; fila-
ments much curved, about 4 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed
above the attenuated base, but appearing as if somewhat terminal,
broad-linear, subobtuse, smooth, 11-11 lin. long, aristate; pore
about 3 the length of the cell; awns setiform, decurrent for a
short distance along the filament, thence free and spreading, nearly
as long as the cells; style elongate, a little shorter than the corolla-
segments; stigma subsimple,.small; ovary glabrous. Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 623; Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 180. E. fuscata,
F. G. Dietr. ex Steud. Nom. ed. I, 305; acc. to Ind. Kew.

Coast Rxgion: Caledon Div.; mountains near the mouth of the Klein
River, Masson, 110! Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 3240!

The teeth between the sinuses of the corolla are very peculiar when full-
grown, but are not easily distinguishable in young or badly-dried specimens ;
we have not seen a corolla in any other species similarly furnished, and the
character is not well portrayed in Andrews’ figure.

400. E. Bodkinii (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1-2 ft. high;
branches ascending, the younger puberulous, glabrescent; leaves
3-nate, erect and imbricate or somewhat spreading-incurved, linear-
subulate, acute, mucronate, sulcate, thinly pilose and softly ciliate,

266 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

becoming glabrous and naked, 6-11 lin. long; flowers 1-3-nate,
cernuous; pedicels cano-pubescent, reddish, 4-5 lin. long; bracts
remote, linear to ovate, pubescent, subsearious, 1-21 lin. long ;
sepals ovate, acutely keel-tipped, thick and rigid, concave, finely and
closely tomentose, dull red, 3-5 lin. long, mostly from §—{ the
length of the corolla ; corolla from subeyathiform to ovate, 4-partite
very nearly to the base; segments lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate,
_ obtusely acute, suberect, at length connivent, externally puberulous,
dull pink or nearly white, 4-6 (mostly about 5) lin. long; filaments
strongly bent at the base, much bent and dilated at the apex, about
2; lin. long; anthers lateral, dorsifixed well above the base, but
(owing to the narrowness of the cells at the base) appearing sub-
terminal ; cells deeply partite and subdistant, oblong, about 2 lin.
long, crested ; pore about 2 the length of the cell ; crests partially
adnate to the filament above, then free and spreading, oblong,
lacerate, subtruneate, 2—* the length of the cells; style included,
or rather subexserted ; stigma capitellate.

Coast ReGion, at 400-1200 ft. : Bredasdorp Div. ; mountains between Elim
and Napier, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8456! mountains between Fairfield and
Elim, Bolus, 6892! near Napier, Schlechter, 9660! Caledon Div. ; Shaws
Mountain, near Caledon, Bodkin!

Habit and general appearance of E. holosericea, from which it is to be known
by its larger flowers, deeply parted corolla, with more acute segments, three
times larger and differently shaped anthers. In floral structure, however, it
is tgs to the preceding, distinguishable by its remote bracts and smaller
corolla,

401. E. Halicacaba (Linn. Plant. Rar. Afr. 11); procumbent, or
erect against the steep sides of rocks ; branches divaricate, flexuous,
stout, woody, rigid, brittle, puberulous, densely leafy or covered with
the sears of old leaf-cushions, 6-12 in. long ; leaves 3-nate, very
closely set, spreading or squarrose-recurved, linear, round-backed,
suleate, rigid, glabrous, 4—7 lin. long ; flowers mostly solitary, some-
times 2—3-nate, at length pendulous; pedicels puberulous, 2-3 lin.
long ; bracts approximate, ovate, acuminate, keeled, scarious, about
3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but much larger and more
adpressed, 4~5 lin. long; corolla ovoid or ovoid-tubular, inflated,
glabrous, pale yellow, 8-11 lin. long, by about 3 lin. in diam. at the
widest part ; segments erect, and at length connivent, long, tapering,
obtuse, nearly 2 the length of the entire corolla ; filaments rather
broad, dilated and thickened below the anther, very little bent, 5-6
lin. long ; anthers oblong, acute, affixed dorsally at the very base of
the deeply parted divaricate cells, 4-1$ lin. long, aristate or
muticous ; pore nearly 2 the length of the cell ; awns spreading and
upeurved, or decurved, from 3—s Of the cell in length; style straight,
shorter than the corolla-segments, but mostly manifest; stigma
subsimple, small; ovary globose, rough, glabrous. Amen. Acad. vi.
88, and. Mant. Alt. 374; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 2; Wendl. Erie. Ie.
Jase. 6,7; Andr. Heathery, t. 164, and Col. Heaths, t. 99; Benth.

Erica. ] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus), 267

in DC. Prodr. vii. 623. HE. rupestris, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe.
vi. 353, not of Andr. FE. grossa, Salisb. Prodr, 292.

Coast Re@ion: Cape Div. ; in rocky places on the mountains of the Cape
Peninsula from Table Mountain to Simons Town, from 1000 ft. upwards, now
becoming scarce: Masson, T'hunberg, Burchell, 625! Zeyher, 3241! Harvey,
175! Bolus, 4473! Guthrie, 672! Wolley Dod, 2037! Bentham mentions
Stellenbosch Div. as a locality, but we have not been able to find any record of
stations outside of the Cape Peninsula.

The anthers are called muticous by Bentham; yet Linnaeus describes them
as aristate, and they are so figured by Bauer and by Wendland; Andrews shows
them as muticous, and we have found both forms.

402. E. monsoniana (Linn. fil. Suppl. 223); 2-4 ft. high;
branehes erect, rather straight, when young covered with a floccose
pubescence of minutely plumose hairs; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect
and closely imbricate, sometimes subspreading, linear to oblong or
narrow-elliptic, sulcate, shortly ciliate, glabrous, smooth, shining,
the floral often dilated, with a scarious margin, 2-3 lin. long ;
flowers 3-nate, on short branchlets for some distance along the
branches, at length cernuous; pedicels floccose, 11-2 lin. long;
bracts approximate, broad ovate, 4-5 lin. long; sepals erect, oval-
oblong, obtuse, glabrous, white, 6-7 lin. long; corolla elongate-
ovoid-ureeolate, contracted at the throat, glabrous, white, 9-11 lin.
long; limb nearly erect, obtuse, about 2 of the tube in length ; filaments
rather broad, red-nerved, 4-5 lin. long; anthers mostly included,
linear-cuneate, subacute, smooth, shining, black, 2-21 lin. long,
crested ; pore 41—3 the length of the cell; crests pendulous, lanceo-
late, acute, serrulate, 2 the length of the cells or less ; style included ;
stigma simple; ovary globular, glabrous, small. Andy. Heathery, t.
173, and Col. Heaths, t.110; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 10,9; Benth.
wn DC. Prodr. vii. 624. EH. Monsonie, Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 7. .
E. variifolia, Salisb. Prodr. 298, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi.
353.

VaR. 8, exserta (Klotzsch in Linnwa, ix. 701); anthers exserted or sub-
exserted, their apices spreading. E. Monsonie, Bot. Mug. t. 1915,

Soutna Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated speci-
mens! Var. B: Mund § Maire. :

Coast Rxeeion: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Thunberg. Stellenbosch Div. ;
Hottentots Holland, Thunberg; Lowrys Pass, 2000 {ft., Schlechter, 4805!
Caledon Div.; mountains near Houw Hoek, Guthrie, 2040! near Bot River,
Guthrie, 2290! Babylon’s Tower Mountain, Zempleman in Herb. Norm. Austr.-
Afr., 752! Worcester Div. ; near Darling Bridge, Bain in Herb. Bolus, 3165!
Robertson Div.; near Montagu, Bain in Herb. Bolus, 3162! Riversdale Div.;

near Riversdale, Herb. Bolus, 3162 !
CenTRAL ReGion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, 5200 ft., Schlechter,

8924!

403. E. nobilis (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, about 2 ft. high,
entirely glabrous; branches ascending or spreading, pallid, angular
by the prominent leaf-cushions ; leaves spreading, reeurved, linear,
acute, sulcate, glaueous, 4—6 lin. long, the floral commonly larger
and subpetaloid, pink; flowers umbellate, at length cernuous, often

268 ERIcACER (Guthrie & Bolus). — [ Brica.

numerous ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long ; bracts large, remote, lax, broad-
lanceolate or subovate, coloured, 3-6 lin. long; sepals ovate or
obovate, acute or obtusely apiculate, often with a broad white
margin, rosy, 5-6 lin. long; corolla elongate-ovoid, or subovoid-
ureeolate, more rarely the tube somewhat eonical above the base,
generally much narrowed at the throat, 8-101 lin. long, rosy; seg-
ments spreading, ovate, obtuse, about 1-1 of the tube in length;
filaments narrow, not rigid, rising well above the ovary, 4-6 lin. long ;
anthers oblong-cuneate, acute, about 1 lin. long, crested; pore 1—1
the length of the cell; crests affixed well above the base of the cell,
straightly pendulous, lanceolate to oblong, free from the filament,
variously incised, as long or nearly as long as the cells; style
included, sometimes just manifest, somewhat 4-angled; stigma
capitellate.

Coast Reerton: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 216!
Marloth! Herb. Bolus, 6325! Mader, 209!

Allied to EZ. glawca, and much resembling our var. 6 of that species.

404. E. glauca (Andr. Col. Heaths, t, 24); stout, erect, entirely
glabrous, 2-3 ft. high; branches rigid, ascending; leaves 3-nate,
from suberect to spreading, mostly curved, linear-semiterete, acute or
mucronate, suleate, glaucous, the floral often larger and subpetaloid,
3-6 lin. long; flowers in 4—7-flowered umbels, at length cernuous;
pedicels mostly about 4 (rarely 10-12) lin. long; bracts remote, the
lowest subbasal, laxly spreading, ovate ; sepals spreading, elliptic
or subovate, obtusely acute, keel-tipped, about 3 lin. long, or 2 the
length of the corolla more or less; corolla subglobose-urceolate, with
a rather long neck, not much contracted at the throat in the mature
state, but becoming more so as the capsule ripens, 4—6 lin. long, of
very thick texture and becoming indurated in age, variable in colour,
dull red and more or less livid purple about the throat and limb, or
pallid with green tips, or entirely green ; segments short, spreading,
about 3} of the tube in length; filaments broad, rigid, strongly
bent below the anther, 11-21 lin. long, about as long as the capsule,
so that the anther-crests rest upon its apex ; anthers oblong-cuneate,
acute or subacute, 1-1} lin. long, crested ; pore over 3 the length of
the cell; crests spreading, broad-ovate or semiorbicular, affixed at the
base of the cell and adnate to the upper part of the filament, or
partially free at the apex, finely crenulate or incised, from 1—2 the
length of the cells; capsule globular, glabrous. Andr. Heathery,
t. 25; Bot. Mag. t. 580; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 26, 9; Benth.
in DC. Prodr. vii. 654. E. elegans, Bot. Mag. t. 966, not of
Andr.

Var. 8, elegans (Bolus); aspect of E. nobilis ; sepals nearly as long as the
corolla-tube, longer than in the typical form, somewhat less spreading, and mostly
of paler colour ; corolla like the type, but sometimes reaching to 54 or 6 lin. in
length; for the rest as in the type. E. elegans, Andr. Heathery, t. 111, and
Col. Heaths, t. 165 ; Benth. in De. Prod. vii. 654,

we Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens of the type and
var.

FBrica.] ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 269

Coast Reaton: Clanwilliam Div, ; Brakfontein, near Oliphants River (Ecklon
Sy Zeyher? in Cape Govt. Herb.) ! Ceres Div. ; Skurfdeberg Range, Masson,
134! near Ceres, MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1079! Bolus,
7343 ! Piquetberg Div.; top of the Piquetberg Range, Niven, 62! Paarl Div. ;
Drakensteen Mountains, near Wellington, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr,,
23! Var. 6: Paarl Div.; on Sneuwkop Mountain, near Wellington, 4900 ft.,
Miss Cummings in Herb. Bolus, 5853! Marloth, 651! Drakensteen Mountains,
MacOwan, 2416!

CENTRAL ReGion: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 8928 !

Allied to E. nobilis, to which our var. 8 bears so great an external resemblance
as often to have been confused with it. It may possibly be a natural hybrid
between the two species,

405. E. lanipes (Guthrie & Bolus); the branch before us 7 in,
long, virgate ; side branches few, erect, straight, swollen at the nodes,
very pallid, mostly glabrous, or slightly pubescent near the summit
of the flowering branches; leaves 3-nate, erect, adpressed, slightly
imbricate, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, concave above, sulcate-
keeled, glabrous, 8-3} lin. long; flowers 3-nate, cernuous; pedicels
decurved, stout, thickened upwards, densely covered with coarse
woolly barbellate white hairs, 6-7 lin. long ; bracts approximate, large,
ovate, scarious, coloured, concave, amplexicaul, 3-31 lin. long;
sepals slightly spreading, ovate, acute, subimbricate at the base,
cartilaginous, coloured, 4 lin. long; corolla ovoid-suburceolate, not
much contracted at the throat, glabrous, rosy or lilac, 41-5 lin. long ;
segments erect (in the dried specimens, probably somewhat spreading
in the living plant), cordate-ovate, imbricate at the base, acute, 33
of the tube in length ; filaments broad, rigid, much bent below the
anther, about 2 lin. long, considerably longer than the ovary ;
anthers narrow-oblong, subacute, about 1 lin. long, crested; pore
about 1 the length of the cell; crests obovate, obtuse or truncate
at their apex, serrulate or variously toothed, inserted above the base
of the cells, free from the filament, nearly 3 the length of the cells ;
style straight, angular; stigma clavate-capitellate; ovary smooth,
pallid, with an apical conical projection.

Coast Reeion: Caledon Div.? Our only example was a living specimen
from the Caledon “* Wild-Flower Show,’’ 1896, Herb. Bolus, 6894!

A very distinet species, with the habit and foliage of § Lamprotis, but with
floral characters so similar to those of EZ. glawca, though quite uulike in general
appearance, that they must be placed in juxtaposition. The anther-crests are
almost those of the latter, but they are placed well above the base of the cell,
and free, as in EF. nobilis ; while it is immediately known from both by its much
smaller, erect and adpressed leaves. It is to be regretted that our material
(though good) is so small; but a fragment sufficient for identification has been
sent to the Kew Herbarium.

406. E. papyracea (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, reaching 7-8 ft.
high (Schlechter); branches stout, rather straight, puberulous ;
leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved, crowded, densely imbricate, linear-
subulate, acuminate, keeled, glabrous, 4—5 lin. long ; flowers 4-nate,
sometimes elustered and umbellate, mostly at length cernuous ;
pedicels puberulous or villous, 3-4 lin. long ; bracts subapproximate,

270 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica.

spreading, lax, broad-ovate, acute or acuminate, keeled, papery,
white, 23-32 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but nearly erect,
imbricating for about + their length more or less, much wrinkled in
the lower part (in the dried state), 4-5 lin. long, mostly reaching
1—] lin. lower than the corolla or sometimes equalling it; corolla
varying between campanulate, broad-cyathiform and subobconie,
always widening to the mouth, glabrous, 43-5 lin. long, apparently
varying from pale rose to nearly white; segments erect or very
slightly spreading at maturity, shortly afterwards becoming connivent
and giving the corolla a somewhat ovoid shape, semiovate, about
1 the tube in length; filaments tapering upwards from a broader
base, sigmoid, 1-14 lin, long; anthers dorsifixed well above the
base, broad-linear, much ‘tapering to the acuminate point, and
produced sometimes much beyond the pore, scabrid, about 1} lin.
‘long, or sometimes a little more, aristate ; pore about } the length
of the cell; awns upeurved, 4—1 of the length of the cell ; style

4
slender; stigma simple; ovary glabrous.

Coast Recon: Caledon Div.? from the Caledon “ Wild-Flower Show,”
1893, Herb. Guthrie, 2448! and 1897, Herb. Bolus, 6383! Riversdale
Div.; Garcias Pass, 2000 ft., Bain in Herb. Bolus, 3163! Schlechter, 1917!
Galpin, 3622 !

Allied to BE. inelusa, but differs a good deal in appearance by its stouter habit,
much longer and acuminate leaves, larger flowers, differently coloured sepals, and
aristate (but otherwise very similar) anthers. Has been confused with LE.
holosericea from which, however, it is even more distinct.

407. E. holosericea (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 352) ; erect,
apparently 1-11 ft. high ; branches rather stout, puberulous, glab-
rescent; leaves 3-nate, suberect, linear-subulate, acute, mucronate,
pilose-pubescent or glabrous, the younger ciliate, 5-8 lin. long;
flowers 3-nate, or sometimes solitary, cernuous ; pedicels puberulous,
22-4 lin. long; bracts remote, ovate-lanceolate, membranous,
puberulous, about 1 lin. long; sepals ovate, acute, imbricate,
puberulous, mostly somewhat spreading at full maturity and shorter
than the eorolla, rosy red, 23-41 Jin. long; corolla campanulate-
cyathiform, sub-4-gonous, glabrous or less commonly puberulous,
rosy, 83-5 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, at length con-
nivent, ovate, 3—2 of the tube in length; filaments about 14 lin. long;
anthers oblong, obtuse, dorsifixed above the base, seabrid, about
2 lin. long, crested ; pore over } the length of the cell; crests free,
straight or spreading, oblong, toothed towards the apex, from }—-}
the length of the cell; stigma small, clavate-capitellate; ovary
on a prominent dark-coloured disk. . andromedeflora, Andr.
Heathery, t. 151, and Col. Heaths, t. 146; Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t.521; Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii. 654. EH. pomifera, Hort, ex Benth.
lc.

The following appear to be mere colour varieties, or, as Bentham supposed,
garden hybrids: —E. triumphans, Lodd, Bot, Cab. t. 257. E. andromedeflora, var.
triumphans, Bot. Mag, t. 2322, (So far as we know they have not been met with
in a wild state).

Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 271

Var. 8, parviflora (Bolus); almost exactly as in the forms described and
figured in the plates first above cited, except that all parts of the flower are
smaller : sepals 1} lin. long; corolla 2 lin. long.

SoutH Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! and cultivated specimens !

Coast Raion, between 1000 and 1500 ft.: Caledon Div.; Klein River
Mountains, Masson, Niven! Galpin, 3621! Schlechter! mountains near
Caledon, Bolus, 91621 Var. 8: Bredasdorp Div. ; mountains near Elim, Bolus,
6737 !

408. E. Grisbrookii (Guthrie & Bolus); 1 ft. or more high;
branches stout, ascending, pubescent, channelled by the prominent
decurrent leaf-cushions; leaves 3-nate, spreading or occasionally
recurved, linear, acute, deeply sulcate, softly ciliate, becoming naked,
6-7 lin. long ; flowers solitary, terminal, or by arrest of the branchlets
also axillary, at length subcernuous; pedicels puberulous, 4—5 lin.
long; bracts very remote, below the middle or subbasal, lanceolate,
acute, scarious, about 2 lin. long; sepals erect, incurved, closely
imbricate, cordate at the base and inserted upon the enlarged
angular apex of the pedicel, ovate to suborbicular, shortly acute and
apiculate, strongly nerved (nerves prominent on the inner surface),
rigid, cartilaginous, glabrous, 4-5 lin. long, and reaching from 3—%
the height of the corolla; corolla conical-ovoid, or perhaps in the
living state globose-ureeolate, 4-gonous below, thick in texture,
glabrous, 5-52 lin. long, white; segments oblong, obtuse, erect (in
the dried specimens), about 4 the tube in length or somewhat less;
filaments rather broad, bent below the anther; anthers cuneate or
ovate-cuneate, subacute, black, $2 lin. long, crested ; pore 1 the
length of the cell; crests orbicular, more or less deeply incised,
black, about 2 the length of the cells; style 4-gonous, included ;
stigma subsimple ; ovary on a broad disk.

Coast Reeron: Caledon Div.; mountains near Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook
in Herb. Guthrie, 2744!

We have also seen specimens exhibited at the Caledon and other Wild-Flower
Shows, without locality.

This resembles E. Bodkinii and E. holosericea ; but differs in floral characters
from both, and especially in the anthers and their appendages. In the coarse,
strong habit of its growth it seems to be like E. gigantea. But our specimens of
this are but small branches.

Section XXXV. ADELOPETALUM. (Sp. 409.)

409. E. Nabea (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 3-5 ft. high ; branches
virgate, the younger villous, glabrescent, the older with many short
lateral, floriferous branchlets; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear-
subulate, acuminate, sulcate, ciliolate, 5-7 lin. long; inflorescence
terminal, flowers 1-2 on the short branchlets, mostly in long dense
leafy pseudo-racemes, or more rarely somewhat lax and interrupted
on longer branchlets, suberect to spreading, subsessile, calycine ;
bracts closely approximate, ovate to lanceolate, like the sepals
glumaceous, 3-4 lin. long; sepals in opposite pairs, the outer pair

272 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Prica.

lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the inner pair more oblong and more
obtuse, concave, 7-8 lin. long, much exceeding the corolla; corolla
subovate, 4-fid (or at length, being ruptured by the swelling ovary,
4-partite), 11-14 lin. long; segments erect, ovate, obtuse, about as
long as the tube; stamens 5-6 lin. long, shorter than the sepals,
much exceeding the corolla; anthers terminal, longitudinally semi-
lanceolate, acute, smooth, submembranous; cells deeply partite,
about * lin. long; pore nearly as long as the cell; style subexserted,
hooked ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous; seeds broadly* margined.
Nabea montana, Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1831, 5, name
only; Klotzsch in Linnea, viii, 667. Maenabia montana, Benth.
in DC. Prodr. vii. 612. :

Coast Region: George Div.; Montagu Pass, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 5820!
Devils Kop, near George, Mund, ex Klotzsch. Uniondale Div.; mountains

between Avontuur and Vlugt, Bolus, 2381! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens
Berg, Zeyher, 3308 ! ;

There seems no sufficient reason for retaining the genus Nabea, It has no
characters which are not found in a greater or lesser degree in several species
of Erica; and the only one for which it is remarkable is the great length
of the sepals compared with the corolla.. But the range of variation in the
relative size and length of these organs in the genus (as generally admitted)
is very great, and it does not seem well to uphold the separation on that
ground. The much compressed and wide-margined seeds connect the. species
with the § Platyspora, but from that it is separated both by its calycine flowers,
and the very different shape of its corolla. In some respects it approaches to
the § Eurystegia. The name E. montana, having been pre-occupied, it is
necessary to give the plant a new specific name, and it seems better to revert to
the generic name of Lehmann,

Section XXXVI. TRIGEMMA. (Sp. 410-431.)

410. E. plumigera (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 636); 12 ft. or more
high ; stem erect, not much branched; branches subflexuous, finely
floccose with minutely plumose or barbellate hairs ; lateral branchlets
1] in. long, numerous, cernuous, floriferous ; leaves 3-nate, erect or
subspreading, imbricate, linear to oblong, subtrigonous, keeled,
ciliolate or naked, 1-13 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, numerous at the
ends of short decurved branches; pedicels cernuous, floceose, about
1 lin. long; bracts 3, approximate, elliptic, apiculate, about 1-12
lin. long; sepals elliptic, acute, keeled, subcomplicate, approximate
or imbricate, 13—2 lin. long, at full maturity a little lower than the
top of the corolla; corolla urceolate or conical-urceolate, somewhat
contracted at the throat, reddish, 11-2 lin. long; segments variable
in length, spreading-recurved, but not stellate-patent; filaments
rather broad, tapering to the apex; anthers included, lateral, sub-
cuneate, 2 lin. long, the length 21 times the greatest width, crested ;
pore about } the length of the cell; crests affixed rather high
above the base of the cell and half its length, ovate or suborbicular,
serrulate with a terminal longer subulate lobe; style subincluded,
sometimes just manifest above the corolla-tube; stigma clavate ;

Erica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 273

ovary globose, minutely hairy or scabrous; ovules pallid, lenticular
or flat, not margined. H. lamprotes, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 536 ;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 651.

Coast RerGion : Cape Div. ; amongst bushes on the eastern side of the Devils
Peak, between 1000 and 2000 ft., Ecklon & Zeyher, ex Bartling. Oualedon Div. ;
mountains above Palmiet River, Zeyher, 3274! Guthrie, 4167! Caledon Wild-
eset Show, Herb. Bolus, 6835! (the only fully matured specimens we have
seen),

We have not seen Bartling’s type, but the chief of the peculiar characters
of this species are so well described by him that we can have no doubt of the
identity of the specimens cited with his type.

411. E. inclusa (Wendl. fil. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 654) ;
6-10 in. high ; branches few, slender, ascending or erect, sometimes
subvirgate, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, crowded, suberect and
imbrieate, or spreading or squarrose, linear, blunt, glabrous, the
younger minutely ciliolate, 14-2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate on
short branchlets, by arrest of branchlets sometimes appearing
axillary ; pedicels puberulous, about 3 lin. long; bracts approximate,
lax, ovate, membranous, 11-2 lin. long; sepals erect or subspreading,
ovate, acute, keel-tipped, submembranous, about 23 lin, long; corolla
at full maturity campanulate, afterwards becoming somewhat ovate,
34 lin. long, and nearly as wide when flattened; segments slightly
spreading, semiorbicular, 2 the tube in length, the whole flower a
delicate pale rose, corolla darker than the sepals; filaments 3—% lin.
long, straight and spreading at a low angle, dilated at the apex ;
anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, broad-linear, tapering to
the subacute apex, slightly recurved, scabrous, dark-coloured, 1-1}
lin. long, muticous; pore 1 the length of the cell ; style straight,
slender ; stigma subsimple ; ovary globose, pallid, glabrous.

Sourn Ararica: without locality, Hesse, in Herb. Berlin,

Coast Rueton: Riversdale Div.; on the Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7081!
7113! Mozambique Kop, 2500 ft., Galpin, 3623! Swellendam Div.; without
exact locality, Tyson /

412. E. crassifolia (Andr. Heathery, t. 257); branches flexuous ;
leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, oblong, obtuse, short, fleshy, glaucous,
2-21 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate, on short lateral branchlets ; pedicels
about 11 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, acute, coloured, spread-
ing, smaller than the sepals; sepals narrow-ovate, acute, incurved,
with wide interspaces, rosy, about 11 lin. long; corolla broad-
urceolate or globose-urceolate, somewhat contracted at the throat,
but wide-mouthed, rosy, about 3 lin. long; segments spreading or
recurved, rounded, about 3 the length of the tube ; filaments curved,
rather broad, at least twice the length of the anther; anther in-
cluded, oblong, obtuse, muticous ; pore + the length of the eell; style
included, short; stigma capitellate; ovary (apparently) glabrous.
Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 227; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 685.

Sourn Arrica: Locality and collector unknown,
VOL, 1V.—SECT, I,

274 gricacem (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

The species is only known to us from Andrews’ figure cited above, and his short
description, from both of which we have drawn the preceding. Bentham thought
it ‘* perhaps some hybrid *” but he wrongly identified with it specimens in Herb.
Kew., which are really E. Corydalis, Salisb., a quite different species,

413. E. tegulefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 351); stout,
erect, 12-21 ft. high; branches nearly straight, pubescent ; leaves
8-nate, erect and closely imbricate, or spreading, mostly incurved,
linear or oblong, to broad-elliptic, obtuse, ciliolate, sulcate, keeled,
mostly glabrous (or “pubescent,” Salisbury), 13-3 lin. long, the
floral a little larger, coloured, sepaloid; flowers 3-nate (in our wild
specimens, but described by Andrews from cultivated plants as
“ ymbellate 3—6-nate ”), sometimes abundant and clustered ; pedicels
pubescent, red, 13—2 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate, acute,
strongly keeled, incurved and deeply concave at the apex, scarious,
rigid, coloured, 2-24 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger,
much wrinkled, 2 lin. long, reaching to 2—% of the height of the
corolla; corolla urceolate or globose-urceolate, slightly contracted at
the throat, 4-gonous at the base, glabrous, rosy-red, about 21 lin.
long ; segments slightly spreading, at length connivent, ovate, $-}
the length of the tube ; filaments tapering upwards from a broader
base, bent below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed above the
base, subcuneate, acute, about $ lin. long, crested ; pore 8—2 the
length of the cell; crests broad-ovate or suborbicular, spreading,
free, margin toothed, as long as or longer than the eells; style
included, thickened towards the apex, 4-gonous; stigma simple ;
ovary glabrous. EH. squamosa, Andr.? Heathery, t. 91, and Col.
Heaths, t. 207; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 655.

Coast Raion: without locality, Masson, in Herb. Brit. Mus. Paarl Div. ;
French Hoek, Bolus, 6891! Caledon Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, near
Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 3549! 8764 !

We have not been able to find Salisbury’s type in his Herbarium, but have
ween Masson’s specimens, in the British Museum, which are probably the same
which Salisbury quotes. These agree substantially with Andrews’ figure of
E. squamosa, cited by Bentham. Both, however, appear immature and poorly
grown. But in floral characters they agree so nearly with the finer specimens
quoted under Guthrie, 3549 and 3764, and Bolus, 6891, that we assume them to
be the same species, and have chiefly described from these latter.

414, E. gigantea (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 656) ;
4-7 ft. high; branches stout, rigid, erect, cano-puberulous, all except
the lowest parts densely leafy; leaves 4-nate, erect-spreading,
crowded, imbricate, oblong, obtuse, thick, rigid, sulcate, glabrous,
gland-ciliolate, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, on short branchlets ;
pedicels 8 lin. long; bracts approximate, scarious, acute, the two
upper longer than, and exceeding in height the sepals; sepals erect-
incurved, broad-ovate and obtuse to broad-lanceolate and acute,
subscarious, 2-23 lin. long, somewhat shorter than the corolla ;
corolla urceolate, throat slightly constricted, of thick texture, white,

about 21 lin, long; segments slightly spreading, broad, rounded,

sprain aia

Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 275

yellow, a little less than 3 the length of the tube; filaments tapering
from a broad base, flexuous ; anthers included, dorsifixed almost at
the base, cuneate, brown, about } lin. long, narrow-crested ; pore
% the length of the cell; crests subulate, acute, serrulate, about
1 the length of the cell; style included; stigma subsimple ; ovary
glabrous.

Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div.; alpine dry stony places near Platte Kloof,

Masson, 123! Kannaland, Ecklon § Zeyher, ex Bentham ; summit of Muiskraal
Ridge, near Garcias Pass, 1500 ft., Galpin, 3626!

415. E. baccans (Linn. Mant. Alt. 233) ; erect, entirely glabrous,
2-5 ft. high; branches numerous, ascending, subflexuous; leaves
4-nate, erect-incurved, imbricate, narrow-linear, subobtuse, sulcate,
entire or obscurely serrulate, 23-3} lin. long; flowers terminal,
4-nate; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, keeled,
scarious, coloured, 2-3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broad-
lanceolate to obovate-oblong, acute, imbricate, keel-tipped, very
concave, about 22 lin. long, mostly reaching to the length of the
corolla-tube ; corolla globose-ureeolate, distinctly constricted at the
throat, bluntly 4-gonous below with deep intermediate depressions
between the angles, about 21 lin. long; segments short, broad,
spreading, about 1 the length of the tube; filaments rather broad,
bent below the anther; anthers included, lateral, broad-oblong, very
obtusely rounded; cells completely divided to below the base, each
on a branch of the decurrent connective, and at length becoming
subdistant, pale brown, about } lin. long, crested ; pore large and
wide, 2 the length of the cell; crests obliquely lanceolate-acuminate,
serrulate, pallid, somewhat longer than the cell; style included,
very short and stout; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary
glabrous, Bauer, Exot. Pl.t. 22; Wendl. Erie. Ie. fase. 6, 18;
Andr. Heathery, t.53, and Col. Heaths, t. 4; Bot. Mag. t. 358 ;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 656. E. bacexformis, Salish. in Trans.
Linn. Soc. vi. 352. E. moniliformis, Salish. Prodr. 293, ace. to
Index Kew.

Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; near Wupperthal, Wurmb, ex Drége;
Cape Div. ; frequent on the mountains and occasionally on the Flats, Thunberg,
Burchell, 43! 376! 8425! Ecklon, 281; Zeyher, 1110! Drége, 77461 Me-
Gillivray, 444! Bolus, 2969! Guthrie, 1461 MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr.,
24! Worcester Div.; Cooper, 1595! Also cultivated specimens !

A well-marked species, allied to E. tegulefolia, differing in corolla and anthers.
Salisbury says the leaves are sometimes 3-nate; we have not seen such, It is
also allied to Z. irregularis.

416. E. irregularis (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680); erect, a
foot or more high; branches subvirgate, the younger, with the
pedicels, shortly and softly pubescent, otherwise glabrous ; leaves
3-4-nate on the same branch, erect-incurved, linear, semiterete,
tapering upwards, somewhat obtuse, sulcate, 21-3 lin. long; flowers
abundant, in a somewhat long irregular pseudo-raceme, on very short

ae |

276 ERICACEm (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

suppressed branchlets, solitary in each axil, with one or two minute
bract-like leaves, at the base of the pedicel, or occasionally also
terminal ; pedicels slender, downy, 2-2} lin. long; bracts remote,
minute, scarious, erect, the upper pair about * lin. long, the lowest
smaller; sepals subspreading, not imbricate at the base, lanceolate-
oblong, acute, secarious, brown-keeled, ciliolate, about 12 lin. long,
reaching §—% the height of the corolla; corolla ovoid, not (or very
slightly) constricted at the throat, with a rather wide mouth, rosy,
about 2 lin. long; limb erect; segments broadly rounded, about
+ the length of the tube; anthers lateral, oblong-cuneate, contracted
at the base; cells } lin. long; pore narrow, 2 the length of the cell ;
crests lanceolate-acuminate, denticulate on the outer margin, as
long as the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary
glabrous.

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Mund! in Herb, Kew.

In the structure of the flowers this comes very near to FE. baccans; but
the different inflorescence, the minute bracts, shorter sepals, &c., serve to
distinguish it.

417. E. affinis (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 656); branches strag-
gling, diffuse, flexuous, woody, but somewhat slender for their size,
white-pubescent, 6-8 in. long; leaves 4-nate, spreading, slender,
linear, subobtuse, sulcate, nearly flat, glabrous, 21-31 lin. long ;
flowers mostly 4-nate, occasionally 3-nate, sometimes by arrest of the
branchlets axillary ; pedicels suberect, pubescent, 4-5 lin. long ;
bracts remote, lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, 11—2 lin. long ; sepals
erect, not imbrieate at the base, obovate or oblanceolate, shortly
acute, keeled, scarious, 2-2 lin. long, about equalling the tube of
the corolla; corolla broad-urceolate or subglobose-urceolate, throat
slightly constricted, several-nerved, glabrous, dry, red, about 22 lin.
long; segments slightly spreading, broad, rounded, about 2 the
length of the tube; filaments broad below, tapering upwards, about
1 lin. long; anthers included, lateral, longitudinally semilanceolate
to semiovate, subacuminate ; cells deeply parted, about 2 lin. long,
crested ; pore 2 the length of the cell; crests broad-ovate or sub-
orbicular, minutely serrulate, about 2 the length of the cell, brown;
style at length exserted, angular, swollen a little at the apex ; stigma
a short filiform point, much narrower than the truncated end of the
style; ovary glabrous. LH. Zeyheri, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 635, not

of Spreng. fil.

Coast Reeton : Uitenhage Div.; stony bed of the Zwartkops River, Zeyher,
1072! 3279!

418. E. propinqua (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 3-4 ft. high;
branches white-pubescent, glabrescent, angled and the older searred
by prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 4-nate, either erect, adpressed
and about as long as the internodes, or somewhat spreading, oblong,
or narrow-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 2-3 lin, long; flowers 3-4-

Erica.] eRIcace® (Guthrie & Bolus). 277

nate or umbellate ; pedicels white-tomentose, from 2-10 lin. long,
apparently elongating during and after flowering; bracts mostly
remote, rarely subapproximate, lanceolate, acuminate, strongly keeled,
scarious, very concave, incurved, 1-2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts
but broader, 2-25 lin. long; corolla subureeolate, only slightly
contracted at the throat, glabrous, rosy-red, 2-21 lin, long ; segments
spreading, oblong, obtuse, with usually more or less wide sinuses
which are sometimes obtuse or semicircular at the base, from 1—% the
length of the tube; anthers subincluded, or reaching above the
corolla-tube, dorsifixed at or near the base; cells deeply partite,
oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, blackish, from 4 to nearly 2 lin. long,
aristate ; pore } the length of the cell; awns decurrent for over }
their length, then free and spreading, subulate, acute, about } as
long as the cells ; style exserted ; stigma subclavate, small ; ovary
glabrous,

Coast Reeion: Bredasdorp Div.; in rocky places near the mouth of Ratel
River, Bolus, 6728! 8514! Schlechter, 9721! hills near the Koude River, near
Elim, 700 ft., Schlechter, 9598 !

419. E. leucodesmia (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 681); apparently
a small straggling shrub, with hoary tomentulose branches ; leaves
3-nate, erect, incurved, often fasciculate, linear, obtuse, rather thick,
suleate, uniformly covered with a fine short hoary or grey tomentum,
becoming at length glabrous, 21—8 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate on short
lateral branchlets, at length cernuous; pedicels white-pubescent, —
‘2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, acuminate,
keeled, rigid, tomentulose, about 14 lin. long; corolla suburceolate,
only slightly contracted at the throat, glabrous (“ white,” Marloth)
about 13 lin. long ; segments rounded, very short, slightly spreading,
from 3-1 the length of the tube; filaments slender, nearly twice as
long as the anthers; anthers included, lateral, cuneate-oblong, some-
what rough, under } lin. long, erested at the base; pore more than
2 the length of the cell ; crests ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, distantly
dentate, thin, hyaline, 2 the length of the cells; style included,

short, dilated at the base ; stigma capitate ; ovary densely woolly.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Niven! in Herb. Kew. é
Coast Region: Worcester Div.; rocky places on the Matroos Berg, 5200 ft.,

Marloth, 2214!

420. E. triflora (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 354); erect, 3-10 ft. high ;
stem sometimes 2-3 in. in diam, at the base; branches ascending,
pallid, the upper parts tomentose with dense long and short barbel-
late hairs; leaves 3-nate, crowded, spreading, ineurved, subulate-
linear, acute or acuminate, somewhat trigonous, sulcate, glabrous,
3-5 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 13-2} lin. long ;
bracts approximate, or the lowest subremote, lanceolate, carious,
keeled, 2-21 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but ovate, incurved,

3-3 lin. long, about as long as the corolla; corolla campanulate-

278 HRICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

urceolate, slightly contracted at the throat, glabrous, white, about
2} lin. long; segments spreading, 1-2 the length of the tube ;
filaments tapering upwards, bent above; anthers variable, included,
dorsifixed at or near the base; cells deeply partite and sometimes
spreading or incurved, oblong, tapering to the base, or longitudinally
semiovate, obtuse or subacute, scaberulous, about + lin. long, crested ;
pore % the length of the cell ; crests from linear to broadly ovate,
denticulate, or more or less incised, equalling or little shorter than
the cells, brown; style short, included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary
glabrous. Thunb. Diss. Erica, 47, t.5; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 12,
13; Andr. Heathery, t. 245, and Col. Heaths, t. 284; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t, 1733; Benth. in DO, Prodr. vii. 656. FE. triflora, var.
aristata, Wendl. Beobacht. 47, and Hric. Ic. fase. 22, 153, t. 58. #.
Jugax and E. pyroleflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 351.
LE. marifolia, var. longifolia, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 26, 4, not of
Soland.

Var. 8, rosea (Benth, in DO. Prodr. vii. 656); leaves 3—4-nate; pedicels
longer, up to 4 lin.; flowers rosy. E. arbutiflora, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 26,
10,

Sourn Arica: without locality, Drége! Herb. Salisbury! avd cultivated
specimens ! ’ ‘

Coast RreGion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain and Devils Mountain, up to
2500 ft., Thunberg, Bolus, 3704! 3782! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 190!
Guthrie, 818! kloof beyond Kirstenbosch, Wolley Dod, 1684! 1685! Caledon
Div. ; Grabouw near Palmiet River, Grisbrook !

In admitting the var. 8 in this place, we have followed Bentham, with some
doubt; it is only known to us from Wendland’s figure and description. The
very good figure seems to unite some of the characters of this species and of E.
afinis and E. baccans, differing from all, though scarcely sufficiently so for
specific distinction,

E. stenoma, Tausch (Flora, 1839, 633) appears to be this species or near to it,
but the type is too small for satisfactory examination.

421. E. depressa (Linn. Mant. Alt. 230, not of Andr.) ; a rigid
depressed glabrous shrub, generally less than a foot long; branehes
stout, brittle, divaricate, usually flexuous; leaves ‘mostly 3-nate,
occasionally also 4-nate on the same plant, crowded, spreading,
straight or curved, oblong or lanceolate, keeled and faintly sulcate,
coriaceous, rigid, pallid, smooth, 3—4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate,
generally fewer, when fully expanded subcorolline in aspect; pedicels
about 1 lin. long; sepals oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, keeled,
scarious, pallid, 2-2} lin. long, mostly as long as the tube of the
corolla; corolla cyathiform or subecampanulate, mouth scarcely or
only very slightly widened, white, 2-21 lin. long ; limb subspreading
or erect, ;~3 the length of the tube ; filaments rather broad ; anthers
included, lateral, cuneate-oblong, } lin. long, narrow-eristate ; pore
about + the length of the cell; crests subulate-acuminate, with a few
teeth at the outer margin near the base, or subaristate ; awns about
z the length of the cell; style shortly exserted ; stigma capitate ;
ovary glabrous ; capsule subglobose. Thunb. Diss. Erica, 33, t. 6;

Erica.] ERICACEEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 279

Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680. E. humilis, Salish. in Trans. Linn.
Soe. vi. 329, not of Benth. EH. rupestris, Andr. Heathery, t. 145,
and Col. Heaths, t. 128; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 855. EH. semisulcata,
Drége ex Benth. l.c.

Coast Rucion : Cape Div.; in clefts of rocks on summit of Table Mountain
and Devils Peak, Drége, Harvey! Alexander, 15! Bolus, 4484! Guthrie,

1165! Wolley Dod, 855! Muizenberg Mountain, Bolus, 4472! Also Herb,
Salisbury ! and cultivated specimens /

Andrews’ l.c. t. 145, drawn from a cultivated plant, does not give a good
idea of the wild plant, especially as to the corolla; whereas Thunberg’s t. 6,
evidently drawn from a dried wild specimen, though small, is excellent.

422. E. petiolaris (Lam. Encycl.i. 487); 1-14 ft. high ; branches
many, erect or divarieately-spreading, rigid, white-pubeseent ; leaves
3-nate, from suberect to spreading or squarrose, linear, lanceolate or
elliptic, acute, sulcate or more usually open-backed, with rounded
or revolute margins, thick, rigid, white-tomentose beneath, glabrous
and glossy above, from 5-8 lin, long, 3-14 lin. wide; petiole long,
pallid, adpressed, from 3 the length of the blade, to (in the smaller
leaves) nearly as long; flowers 3-nate, often clustered in dense
heads, subcalycine; pedicels 12 lin. long; bracts approximate,
lanceolate, acute, cartilaginous, rigid, glabrous, white or pallid; sepals
like the bracts, but ovate, acute or acuminate, wrinkled or striate,
reaching a little lower than the top of the corolla, 1}—2 lin. long;
corolla cyathiform-urceolate, glabrous, white, 2-23 lin. long;
segments deltoid and subobtuse, or broadly-rounded, recurved, 4-1
the length of the tube; filaments rather broad, often dilated, some-
what darkened and angled or bluntly toothed near the apex ; anthers
subexserted, terminal or subterminal, longitudinally semioval, sub-
acute or obtuse, smooth, about % lin. long, muticous; pore 2 the
length of the cell, style exserted; stigma capitate, toothed ; ovary
minutely hairy on the top. Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 334. E.
petiolata, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 15, t. 6; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc.
27,15; Andr. Heathery, t. 136, and Col. Heaths, t. 198; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 1150; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 615.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Mund! Drége! Herb. Salisbury! and
cultivated specimens ! i

‘Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; clefts of rocks on Table Mountain, 3500 ft.,
Thunberg, Bolus, 4483! Harvey! Wolley Dod, 3482! Devils Peak, Niven, 214!
Constantia Berg, Bodkin ! Wolley Dod, 1936!

423. E. selaginifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 338) ;
erect, 11 ft. or more high; branches incurved-erect, tomentose-
puberulous; leaves 3-nate, nearly erect, imbricate, linear-trigonous,
blunt, glabrous, minutely gland-ciliolate, 2-4 lin. long; flowers
3-nate ; pedicels puberulous, 23-3 lin. long > bracts remote, ovate-
lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, subviscidulous,
coloured, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but ovate, less
acuminate, not imbricate in the fully matured flower, with a peculiar

280 EkIcACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica.

depression in the centre at the base, nearly 1} lin. long, reaching as
high as 3-2 of the corolla-tube; corolla globose-urceolate, narrowed
not much constricted at the throat, 4-conous towards the base, sub-
viscidulous, rosy red, 13-2 lin. long ; limb slightly spreading, broad
_ and rounded, about 3 the length of the tube; filaments from a
broader base tapering upwards, not much longer than the ovary ;
anthers included, or scarcely exceeding the corolla-tube, dorsifixed
near the base ; cells deeply parted, suboblong, obtuse or subacute,
brown, under? lin. long, crested ; erests ovate-lanceolate, denticulate,
pale brown, longer than the cells ; style subincluded ; stigma sub-
simple, small ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 657.

Sour Arrica: without locality, Masson!

Coast REGIoN: Clanwilliam Div. ; on the Cederberg Range, 2600 ft., Marloth,
2683! Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, Marloth in Herb. Bolus, 6375!
Riversdale Div. ; Muiskraal, near Garcias Pass, 1500 ft., Galpin, 3627! Union-
dale Div.; Long Kloof, Paterson in Herb. Salisbury ! :

424. E. gracilipes (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 3 ft. or more high ;
glabrous, except the puberulous pedicels ; branches stout, ascending,
mostly marked with the scars of prominent leaf-eushions ; leaves
3-nate, erect-incurved, imbrieate, not very crowded, linear, obtuse
or subacute, round-backed, faintly suleate, 3-4 lin. long; flowers
1-8 pseudo-axillary, on short arrested branchlets, somewhat copious,
calycine; pedicels spreading, slender, eurved, puberulous, red,
4-6 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 submedian, 1 nearly basal, lanceolate,
scarious, under 1 lin. long ; sepals adpressed, imbricate for about
¢ their length, ovate, acute, shortly keel-tipped, cartilaginous,
coloured, rosy, wrinkled when dried, reaching to the top of the
corolla-tube ; corolla urceolate, slightly constricted at the throat,
4-gonous, rosy, 1} lin. long; segments spreading, about 1 the length
of the tube; anthers exserted, subterminal, longitudinally semi-
lanceolate, the dorsal margin curved, acute, dark-coloured; cell
produced beyond the pore, 2 lin. long, very shortly aristulate at the
base ; pore nearly + the length of the cell; awns free, about 1 of
the cell in length ; style slender, well-exserted, dilated near the apex ;
stigma subsimple; ovary glabrous,

Coast ReGion: Bredasdorp Diy.; hills near Rict Fontein Poort, 200 ft.,
Schlechter, 9687! Bolus, 8511!

The anthers are caducous, or most of them in our specimens have dropped
from age ; in this state the flowers resemble those of E. selaginifolia or E. affinis.
But the species is remarkable, and even anomalous here, by its exserted anthers
and pseudo-axillary inflorescence. Yet its calycine flowers, with their large
imbricate sepals, indicate a nearer approach to this section than to § Gypso-
callis.

425. E. acuta (Andr. Heathery, t. 1); erect, probably 1-12 ft.
high; branches numerous, ascending, pubescent; leaves 3-nate,

crowded, subrecurved-spreading, linear-subulate, acute, mucronate or
setaceous-acuminate, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; flowers

Erica] EkICACE& (Guthrie & Bolus). 281

3-nate ; pedicels thickened upwards, viscous-pubescent, 3 lin. long ;
bracts varying from subapproximate to subremote, lanceolate-
acuminate, 1-1} lin. long; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acumi-
nate, with a strong wrinkled incurved keel throughout its entire
length, produced into a rather long spreading setiform point, scarious,
subviseid, margin entire or sublacerate, coloured, nearly 2 lin. long,
about as long as (or a little exceeding) the corolla-tube; corolla
urceolate, throat contracted (in age becoming, by the swelling of the
ovary, widened, and the tube more conical, as in § Eurystoma),
reddish, about 2 lin. long ; segments suberect in dried specimens,
probably spreading in life, semiovate, obtuse, 3-% the length of
the tube; filaments slender, tapering upwards; anthers included,
subterminal, dorsifixed at or near the base; cells bipartite but not
much spreading, subcuneate-oblong with an oblique ascending base, —
subacute, a little over 1 lin. long, crested ; pore about 2 the length of
the cell; base of the crests affixed considerably above the base of
the cells, broad-lanceolate, acute, pendulous, toothed at the apex,
a little over 3 the cell in length; style included ; stigma capiteliate,
small ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Ool. Heaths, t. 73; Benth. in DC.
Prodr, vii. 685. EE. scariosa, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 477% not of Berg.
nor of Thunb. “ E. crossota, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 201” ex
Benth.

Sout ArFrica: without locality, Niven ! and cultivated specimens! ’
Coast Reeion: Tulbagh or Worcester Div.? without. precise locality,
Bolus, 5184! Paarl Div. ; French Hoek Mountains, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 9272!

Allowing for differences of age the specimens cited all agree fairly well with
Niven’s and with Andrews’ figure. Niven’s, however, are too old, and led
Bentham to place the species doubtfully in § Eurystoma. It varies chiefly
Ms the length and acumination of the leaves and the length of the corolla-
imb.

426. E. brevifolia (Soland. ex Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi.
338); erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches glabrous or occasionally
puberulous; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect or subspreading, longer or
sometimes shorter than the internodes, mostly ovate-oblong or oblong,
blunt, sulcate, thick, glabrous, usually 1-1} lin. long, rarely in
‘“drawn-up” specimens linear, subspreading-recurved, 2 lin. long ;
flowers usually 8-nate, sometimes clustered on short approximate
branchlets, sometimes 2-nate or solitary ; pedicels puberulous, 13-2
lin. long ; bracts remote, small, about 1 lin. long; sepals ovate or
obovate, acute, not keeled, but shortly keel-tipped, and like the
bracts mostly cartilaginous, thick, viscid, shining, about 14 lin. long,
a little shorter than, to as long as the corolla; corolla sub-
cyathiform-campanulate or urceolate-campanulate, throat searcely
contracted, viscidulous, pale pink to rosy red, 13-2 lin. long ;
segments slightly spreading, semiovate, about } the tube in length ;
filaments slender ; anthers included, subterminal, ovate-oblong, very
obtuse ; cells bipartite, stalked upon the decurrent connective (as in
E. baecans and E. Lycopodiastrum), a little over 1} lin. long,

282 ERicacrz (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica,

aristate; pore nearly as long as the cell; awns decurrent along the
filament for about 3 their length, then free, spreading, subulate,
about as long as the cell; style included, short; stigma. capitellate ;
ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 657. #. callosa,
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 18, 87, ¢t. 33. EH. obtusa, Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t.1027? 2B. pachyphylla, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 199.

Soura Arrica: without locality, Drége, 1155! and cultivated specimens!

Coast Recion: Cape Div.; frequent on the mountains of the Cape |
Peninsula, up to 2700 ft., Bolus, 3771! 3876! 4894! Guthrie, 691! Wolley
Dod, 1714! Paarl Div. ; mountains at French Hoek, Schlechter, 9298! Stellen-
bosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 53899! Caledon Div.; mountains near
Genadendal, 5000 ft., Burchell, 7684/2! Galpin, 3628! near Vogel Gat,
3000 ft., Schlechter, 9564! Swellendam Div.; summit of a mountain peak,
near Swellendam, Burchell, 7343! George Div.; mountains near George,
Alexander, 23!

427. E. fimbriata (Andr. Heathery, t. 63); erect or subdecum-
bent, 6-8 in. high ; branches numerous, spreading, flexuous, rigid,
pubescent ; leaves 3-nate (or, also 4-nate, Andrews), erect-spreading,
imbricate, elliptic or oblong, subobtuse, trigonous or round-baeked,
sulcate, thick, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, about 1 lin. long; flowers
3-nate, calycine ; pedicels tomentose with subplumose or barbellate
hairs, about 1 lin. long ; bracts approximate, ovate to lanceolate,
cartilaginous, deeply and prominently pectinate-ciliate, whitish or -
tinged-lilac, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broad-
ovate, or nearly orbicular, keel-tipped, the closely-ranked cilia on the
margin in well-grown plants barbellate and gland-tipped, concave,
a little over 1 lin. long and broad; corolla campanulate-cyathiform
(in age becoming more globose) glabrous, dry, white or rosy, mostly
1} (rarely 2) lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded, about
% of the tube in length; filaments slender, sometimes dilated at. the
base, thickened and bent near the anther ; anthers included, lateral,
dorsifixed at, or just above the base, oblong or subsemiovate, some-
times recurved, smooth, ciliate at the base, 4 lin. long or a little
more or less, awned ; pore $ the length of the cell ; awns spreading,
subulate, ciliolate, about } the cell in length; style included,
4-gonous; stigma simple (or sometimes capitellate, or “ subpeltate,”
Bentham); ovary depressed, densely woolly with longish white
hairs. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 169; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1047;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 658.

SoutH Argrica: without locality, Masson, Mund § Maire, ex Bentham, and
cultivated specimens ! ‘

Coast Reaction: George Div.; Devils Kop, Niven, 115! Montagu Pass,
3500 ft., Schlechter, 5833! Oudtshoorn Div.; Zwartberg Pass, near the Victoria
Hotel, 3900 ft., Marloth, 2408 !

Andrews’ figure is the type, but is a very poor representation of the plant as
known from Schlechter and Marloth’s excellent wild specimens. Loddiges’ figure
is much better. With these plates Bentham identified Niven’s specimens, which we
have examined, and also one from the Berlin Herbarium, probably Mund’s; these
are both past maturity, The species is very distinct, yet somewhat anomalous

Erica. | HRICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 283

wherever placed. To its neighbours in this section it has a general resemblance,
its peculiar sepals and woolly ovary being the chief exceptional characters,
From the § Pseuderemia it differs somewhat in appearance, also by the in-
florescence not being capitate, and its calycine, not corolline, flowers. It is also
connected with the § Ewrystoma.

428. E. Lycopodiastrum (Lam. Ill. ii. 428, t. 287, fig. 4);
“a dwarf plant” (Bentham); branches erect, rigidly flexuous,
tomentose-puberulous, 10-15 in. long; leaves 3-nate, nearly erect,
closely and very regularly imbricate, oblong, subacute, concave above,
round-backed, sulcate, thick, glabrous, shining, 11—2 lin. long; flowers
3-nate, terminal on short lateral branchlets, or sometimes (by their
partial arrest) sublateral; pedicels tomentose, decurved, 14-2 lin.
long ; bracts mostly approximate, more rarely submedian, ovate,
acute, keeled, rigid, scarious, 1-11 lin. long; sepals like the bracts,
but slightly larger, 14 lin. long, 3-3 the length of the corolla; —
corolla obconic-cyathiform, slightly widened to the mouth, glabrous,
1} lin, long (flesh-coloured, Wendland) ; segments slightly spreading,
rounded, 3-2 of the tube in length; filaments slender; anthers
included, subterminal; cells bipartite, distant, stalked upon the
slender connective, narrow-obovate, subobtuse, pale brown, mem-
branous, about 2 lin. long, broad-aristate ; pore 1-3 the length of
the cell ; awns affixed to the connective and free from the filament,
pendulous, subulate, acuminate, toothed, a little over 4 the cell in
length ; style included, short ; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous or
with a few hairs at the summit; ovules ovoid (Bentham found them
compressed, which our observations do not confirm). J. fabrilis,
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 338; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
655. EH. conferttfolia, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 20, 121, t. 46. LE.
montana, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 15. £. confertiflora, Steud.
Nom. ed. 2, i. 570.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson, Drége, Herb. Salisbury! Herb.
Lamarck (641)! and cultivated specimens ! : é
Coast Region: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, by the river, Niven, 55!

Connects §§ Trigemma and Eurystoma, yet has hardly the longer corolla-limb
of the latter. In appearance it has some resemblance to the two succeeding
species, but is distinct by its peculiarly thin membranous subterminal anthers, and
their narrow appendages. Wendland describes the leaves (from a cultivated
plant) as 4-nate, which we have not seen. ‘The plant appears to be now
rare.

429. E. pumila (Andr. Heathery, t. 234); dwarf, probably only
a few inches high ; branches numerous, short ; leaves 3-nate, erect or
spreading, or the older squarrese, obovate, obtuse, thick, suleate, sub-
glaucous, pallid, glabrous (or in cultivated specimens linear and
green, Andrews), 2-2} lin. long; flowers 8-nate; pedicels short ;
bracts short, approximate, cartilaginous, white, glabrous ; sepals
ovate, obtuse, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, viscidulous, white (or in
cultivated specimens acute, rosy), about 2 the length of the corolla ;
corolla ovoid-inflated or subcylindric, glabrous, subviscid, tube rosy,

284 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

the whole 3-33 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading,
about } the length of the tube, green; anthers included, longi-
tudinally semiovate, acute, crested; erests semiorbicular, denticulate
on the outer margin, about 2 of the length of the cell, brown; style
included ; stigma subsimple or capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Andr.
Col. Heaths, t. 258; Benth. in D@ Prodr. vii. 655. E. coni-
flora, Klotasch in Herb. Berol. ex Benth. lc.

South Arrica: without locality, Masson, 96! in Herb. Kew ; also, collector
and locality unknown, in Herb. Berlin !

Our material is very scanty; Masson’s specimens have no flowers; we have
only seen one flower and a few loose leaves in the Berlin Herbarium ; and our
description is therefore drawn from these, from Benthum’s brief description and
Andrews’ figure. Bentham remarks that it seems to be allied to E . modesta and
to § Pachysa.

430. E. Thodei (Guthrie & Bolus); dwarf (the single specimen

7 in. high); stout, erect; branches numerous, nearly straight,
rigid, pubescent, glabrescent, leafy above, covered with scars of
prominent leaf-cushions below ; leaves 3-nate, crowded, subspreading
but closely imbrieate, oblong or narrow-elliptic, subobtuse, thick,
keeled, not sulcate or the keel only faintly channelled, carti-
- laginous-ciliolate, the flat scales on the younger leaves minutely
branched or lacerate, glabrous, shining, petiole more than 1 the
length of the blade, the whole 14~2 lin, long; flowers strictly
terminal and 3-nate, but in young and undeveloped or arrested
branchlets sometimes appearing almost axillary, long-persistent ;
pedicels puberulous, lengthening during or after flowering, attaining
1} lin. long ; bracts remote or subapproximate, erect, linear, scarious,
1 lin. or less long; sepals erect, adpressed, narrow-lanceolate, acute,
concave, searious, keeled, not imbricate at the base, glabrous, cilio-
late as the leaves, 11-12 lin. long, about ¢ the corolla; corolla
tubular-cyathiform, equal to the mouth, glabrous, dry, ‘ white,”
2 lin. long; segments broader than long, rounded, 1-1 the length
of the tube ; filaments capillary, over 1 lin. long ; anthers included,
lateral, longitudinally semiovate, smooth, membranous, pale brown,
about 3 lin. long, crested-aristate ; pore under x the length of the
cell; awns broadly subulate, acute, long-ciliate, nearly 2 the length

of the cells ; style included ; stigma subsimple ; ovary glabrous.

KALAHARI ReGion: Orange River Colony; rocky places on the summit of
the Mont-aux-Sources, near the sources of the Tugela River, 9000-10000 ft.,
Thode, 64! in Herb. Bolus and Kew, but may be distributed under other numbers
in other herbaria.

In floral structure this is near the next species, but the sepals are relatively
shorter, the indumentum on the leaves different, the ovary glabrous, and the
habit much more erect and rigid. The specimen bears persistent old flowers ;
but we cannot be sure that they are those of the preceding year.

431. EF. lasiocarpa (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches flexuous, puberu-

Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus), 285

lous, pallid, 8-10 in. long; leaves 4-nate, subspreading, linear,
acute, widely sulcate, puberulous and thinly hispid with short stiffish
hairs, glabrescent, 11-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate on short. lateral
branchlets, subcorolline; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts subremote,
linear, erect, subglumaceous, about 1 lin. long; sepals somewhat
spreading, not imbricate unless slightly at the very base, and not
concealing the corolla-tube, lanceolate-linear, tapering to a narrow
keeled point, subglumaceous, ciliate, glabrous, 13-18 lin. long,
usually reaching as high as the top of the corolla-tube or higher ;
corolla narrow-cyathiform or subureeolate, the throat not (or scarcely)
spreading, tetragonous, veined, glabrous, dry, 1 lin. long; segments
ereet (in the dried specimens), or subspreading, semiovate, over-
lapping at the base, about 3 the length of the tube; filaments
capillary ; anthers included, lateral, euneate-oblong, obtusely rounded,
smooth, membranous, brown, scaberulous on the margins, 2 lin, long,
aristate; pore 2 the length of the cell; awns subulate, _ hairy,
recurved at an angle of 45°-60° from the cells, about 3 the length of
the cells; style included or sometimes just equal to the corolla
and manifest; stigma capitellate; ovary densely and shortly
villous.

Eastern Recon: Natal ; rocky places near Van Reenen, 7000 ft., Schlechter,
6941 !

This has somewhat the habit and aspect of E. caffrorum. The flowers on our
specimens are rather scanty.

Section XXXVII. POLYCODON. (Sp. 432-439.)

432. E. leucanthera (Linn. f. Suppl. 223); erect, 1-12 ft. high;
branches numerous, ascending, often dense, pubescent with short
barbellate haits; leaves mostly erect or subspreading, crowded,
imbricate, linear-trigonous or linear-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse,
sulcate-keeled, glabrous, 1-11 lin. long ; flowers calycine or sub-
calycine on numerous short branchlets, often crowded in dense
masses ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long; bracts from subapproximate
to subremote, sepal-like, small; sepals narrow-ovate, acute, keeled,
pallid, cartilaginous, margin scarious, under 1 lin. long, or about
3 the length of the corolla; corolla obconic, pale yellow, L-1j lin.
long; segments spreading to the apex, straight, semiorbicular or
broad semiovate, from about as long as to a little longer than the
tube ; stamens far-exserted and recurved or subincluded ; filaments
slender, long or short; anthers oblong, slightly wider at the base ;
cells deeply partite and spreading, or approximate, subacute or sub-
obtuse, membranous, pale yellow, about 3 lin. long, muticous ;
pore small, about 1 the length of the eell ; style included, or
Just manifest; stigma capitate; ovary minutely hairy, chiefly ©
on the summit, Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 689, EB. spireeflora,

286 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Brioa.

Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 350. E. staminea, Andr. Heathery,
t. 193, and Col. Heaths, t. 208. . thalictriflora, Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t. 1294.

SourtH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Herb, Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast Reaton, from 900-1200 ft. : Tulbagh Div. ; Roode Zand, Masson,
133! Winterhoek Mountain, Niven, 87! Bolus, 5188! Tulbagh Waterfall,
MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 232! Bolus, 5370! Schlechter, 9008 !
Guthrie, 2072! Worcester Div., Ecklon & Zeyher! Paarl Div.; French Hoek
Mountains, Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 608 !

CenTRAL Reaion: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, near Elandsfontein, 4000 ft.,
Schlechter, 10027!

There appear to be two forms of this species :—the one with slightly smaller
flowers, shorter corolla-limb, subincluded stamens, anther-cells smaller and
approximate and broader stigma; the other with larger flowers, longer corolla-
limb, far-exserted stamens, anther-cells separate and spreading, stigma somewhat
smaller. Tne first may be the original form of Linn. f.; the latter is certainly
E. staminea, Andr. These are either heterostyled forms, or the first are plants ©
not yet fully developed; to decide, observation of the living plant is necessary.
In either case, we think they are one species. Bentham says this was Klotzsch’s
conclusion (though we have not been able to trace the statement) ; but he
himself thought they were sufficiently distinct.

433. E. stenantha (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 685) ;
small, branched, 8 in. or more high ;_ branches ascending, sub-
flexuous, villous or pubescent; leaves crowded, squarrose-recurved,
rigid, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, flattish, sulcate, glabrous, ciliate,
glossy, about 1 lin. long; flowers numerous, on short crowded
branchlets towards the ends of the branches, subcorolline ; pedicels
slender, 8—22 lin. long ; bracts remote, lanceolate, subsearious, ciliate,
small; sepals ovate to subrhomboidal, acute, keeled, concave,
scarious, cilate, paler than the corolla, 3-1 lin. long; corolla broad-
obconic to obconic-campanuloid, rosy or bright red, 1-15 lin. long ;
segments continuous with the tube or slightly recurved, ovate or
lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, keeled, from as long as, to nearly
twice as long as the tube; anthers included, longitudinally semi-
ovate, subacute, minutely hairy, 1 ¢ lin. long, muticous; pore
+ the length of the cell; style exserted ; stigma subsimple or
minutely obconic or distinctly obconic-cyathiform ; ovary villous.

Coast Recion : Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Zeyher ! Swellen-
dam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, 3000 ft., Niven, 107! Masson, 1!
Ecklon § Zeyher, 221! Burchell, 7298! 7832! Bolus, 7505! Zuurbraak Moun-
tain, 4600 ft., Galpin, 3694!

All our specimens agree fairly well, except that in Galpin’s 3694 the stigma is
much larger and distinctly obconic-cyathiform and the pedicels shorter ; but as
there is a tendency towards enlargement in some of the others, it does not seem
well to separate them. Bentham placed this species in the § Melastemon, but
the anther-cell is scarcely produced beyond the pore and the corolla seems more
to resemble that of the present section.

Lirica] . ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 287

434. E. consobrina (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches (in our only
specimen) incurved, cano-puberulous with simple, intermixed with
minute compound, hairs on the main branches, 10-12 in. long ;
leaves spreading, linear, acute, sulcate, subglabrous, the younger
erect, imbricate, crowded, 1-12 lin. long ; flowers corolline ; pedicels
pubescent, 1 lin. long; braets, 2 subapproximate, 1 median, linear,
$ lin. long; sepals broad-ovate, acute, keel-tipped, scarious, concave,
coloured, ~ lin. long, reaching to less than 2 the height of the
corolia ; corolla campanulate-cyathiform, rosy, 13 lin. long; segments
slightly spreading nearly 2 the length of the tube ; filaments narrow-
linear, equal ; anthers subexserted, dorsifixed well above the base,
obliquely broad-lanceolate, acute, scaberulous, blackish, 2 lin. long,
aristate ; pore = the length of the cell; awns straightly pendulous,
subulate, ciliolate, 1 the length of the cell; style very shortly exserted,
searcely exceeding the anthers; stigma subsimple, of 4 short erect
tooth-like processes, blackish ; ovary glabrous, pallid.

Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div.; on the Cederberg Range near Krakadouw,
3000 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8679 !

This resembles E. rhodantha, but the flowers are somewhat broader, stamens
subexserted, anthers aristate, style shorter, stigma smaller and of different
structure, and the ovary glabrous. It has also some similarity to E. cristeflora,
var. B.

485. E. nemorosa (Kloizsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 688) ;
erect, reaching 6 ft. high (Bentham); branches subvirgate or more
rarely spreading, tomentose with simple soft hairs; leaves suberect,
slender, linear, obtuse, sulcate, glabrous, scareely 1 lin. long ; flowers
corolline; pedicels 2—% lin. long; bracts remote, linear, small ;
sepals from subovate and acute to oblong-lanceolate and sub-
acuminate, keel-tipped, glabrous or puberulous, mostly strongly
incurved towards the apex, more rarely straight, coloured, about
x the height of the corolla, 3—2 lin. long; corolla varying from broad-
to narrow-cyathiform, red or rosy, 3-1} lin. long; segments erect,
very variable, from 3 the tube to somewhat longer; anthers in-
cluded or sometimes subexserted, suboblong, obtuse, 1-1 lin. long,
muticous or minutely aristulate; pore 2 the length of the cell ;
Style slender, exserted; stigma capitellate ; ovary minutely hairy,
or at least on the summit, LF. floribunda, var. micrantha, Benth.

Lc, 688, not of Lodd. E. polycodon, Benth. l.c. 688.

Coast Region: Caledon Div.; near Caledon, Bolus, 8497! Humansdorp
Div. ; near the Gamtoos River, Niven, 95! near Clarkson, 900 ft., Galpin,
3711! Uitenhage Div.; stony channel of the Zwartkops River, Ecklon Y Zeyher,
30! Zeyher, 3338! Alexander, 9? Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 784! Albany
Div. ; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3549! Atherstone, 2! Bathurst Div. ;
Karega River, Zeyher, 3339! Stutterheim or Komgha Div.; banks of the
Kabousie River, 3000 ft., Murray, 53!

This seems to be a variable species, chiefly in respect of the shape and size of
the corolla and its limb; and is consequently somewhat difficult of distinction,

288 ERIcAcEx (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Hrica.

The type of Klotzsch was most probably Ecklon and Zeyher’s 30, and a careful
comparison of this with Niven’s 95 (the type of E. polycodon, Benth.), appears
to show that these can hurdly be separated. The corolla is a little different, but
intermediate forms are present. In Galpin’s 3711 the anthers are subexserted,
as in Alexander’s 9, and these approach H. decipiens in structure and appearance ;
but in the latter the sepals are glabrous and more scarious and the corolla
longer. All the forms (except Niven’s 95) appear to be characterized by similarly
incurved sepals. In general appearance it resembles FE. floribunda, but may be
distinguished by the simple hairs on its branches as well as by its capitellate, not
obconic, stigma.

436. E. floribunda (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 176); erect, 2 ft. or more
in height; branches many, ascending, covered with a short pubes-
eence of floccose shortly plumose ashy-grey hairs ; leaves suberect to
subspreading, linear, obtuse, obscurely sulcate, glabrous, 1—1} lin.
long ; flowers subcalyeine, mostly very numerous and crowded in
dense masses on short branchlets; pedicels }—1 lin. long ; bracts
remote or subapproximate, erect, ovate, small; sepals broad-ovate
to orbiecular, keel-tipped, subacute, eoneave, subcartilaginous, coloured
(mostly paler than the corolla) 1—} lin. long; corolla cyathiform to
broad-cyathiform, mouth widened, pale rosy, 8—1 lin. long; segments
broadly rounded, erect, about equal to the tube; filaments short,
straight; anthers subineluded, generally manifest, oblong or ovate,
obtuse, rough, nearly black, 1-2 lin. long, muticous; pore less than
2 the length of the cell, style slender, well-exserted ; stigma obconic-
cyathiform, or sometimes obconic (solid), small; ovary minutely
hairy. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 688. EH. sparsa, Lodd. Bot. Cab.
t. 1467. EH. macrostoma, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 688.

SoutH ArFrica: without locality, cultivated specimens !

Coast Rea@ion : frequent, from George Div. eastwards to Albany Div., Niven,
96! Burchell, 5523! MacOwan, 272! Bolus, 8293! 8673! Schiechter, 2244!
5886! The following, which we have not been able to examine, probably also
belong here: Niven, 98; Burchell, 5157, 53871, 5455! Oudtshoorn Div. ; Zwart-
berg Pass, Tyson !

Loddiges’ figure is the type of this species; but for critical purposes is all but
useless. Bentham identified with it E. galliiflora, Bartl., and we have a specimen
so marked from the Cape Gov. Herb., most probably Zeyher’s. As far as it goes
we cannot confirm from it Bentham’s identification. It has the stigma ‘‘ capitato-
4-lobo”’ as described by Bartling, and in this respect differs from all our other
specimens. The species much resembles E. paniculata and is easily confused with
it. But it may generally be distinguished by its broader sepals (more calycine
flowers), its longer, more slender style, its pale obconic stigma, and minutely hairy
ovary. Both havea like floccose indumentum. ‘The stigma of this is somewhat
variable; usually it is obconic, quite hollow or depressed within ; sometimes it
is solid and has a truncate top. But it is always small, as compared, for
instance, with EH. peltata, with which it has some affinity.

437. E. rhodantha (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect ; branches ascending,
somewhat straight, with numerous short floriferous subdecurved
branchlets of from 1-11 in. long, pubescent with simple hairs ;
leaves erect or subspreading, crowded, imbricate, linear-trigonous,
subobtuse, glabrous, 13—2 lin. long; flowers somewhat copious, sub-
ealycine; pedicels softly floccose with minutely plumose hairs, 1} lin.

rica. } ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 289

long ; bracts remote, laxly spreading, lanceolate, concave, scarious,
keel-tipped, coloured, the lowest more erect, about * lin. long;
sepals broad-ovate, 1 lin. long, otherwise like the bracts, reaching
about } the height of the corolla; corolla cyathiform or campanulate-
cyathiform, about 12 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading,
broadly rounded, about as long as the tube; anthers included,
dorsifixed well above the base, longitudinally semiovate, acute or
subacute, ciliolate on the margins, dark-coloured, 3 lin. long,
muticous; pore about 1 the length of the eell; style exserted ;
stigma subcapitellate, 4-lobed, rather flat on the summit; ovary
oblate-spheroidal, puberulous.

Coast REeGion : Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin, 3706!

In floral structure allied closely to EZ. floribunda, yet with certain differences,
and especially in its general aspect, which, after much consideration, have obliged
us to distinguish it.

438. E. peltata (Andr. Heathery, t. 276); erect, 1-2 ft. high ;
brancbes ascending, straight or flexuous, usually clothed with a
pubescence of very short compound (rarely simple) hairs ; leaves
erect, imbricate, not crowded, linear, round-backed, 1-1} lin. long;
flowers generally in interrupted numerous clusters at the ends of the
branchlets, subcorolline; pedieels puberulous, about 3 lin. long;
bracts variable, sometimes 1 only, close to the calyx, or with 2
smaller and subremote, or, entirely wanting; sepals from ovate-
lanceolate to ovate, or suborbicular, acute or subobtuse and
apiculate, concave, hyaline, pallid, ciliolate or naked, about as long
as the corolla-tube ; corolla broad-cyathiform or subhemispherical,
neatly 1 lin. long; segments broadly rounded, erect, a little
shorter than the tube; anthers subexserted, from shortly oblong to
subovate, subacute, scabrid, dull red, about } lin. long, muticous ;
pore about 2 the length of the cell; style exserted, straight,
red ; stigma cyathiform, large, with 4 intramarginal short points,
bright crimson, about } lin. in diam.; ovary small, minutely hairy.
Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 254; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 691. £.
Actea, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 371. E. exserta, Sinclair, Hort.

Eric. Wob. 9.

Coast Rreron: Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Swellendam, 10090 ft., Niven,
31! Bolus, 7302! and in Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 604! Garcias Pass, 1500 ft.,
Schlechter, 2194! Riversdale Div. ; rocky places, Schlechter, 2172 ! George Div. ;
near George, Schlechter, 2232! near Great Brak River, Guthrie, 3555! Union-
dale Div.; near the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5132!

The habit varies from that with more erect and straightish, to that with
more slender, whip-like, flexuous branchlets ; but there are intermediate forms.

439. E. macrotrema (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, apparently 1] ft.
or more high; branches few, ascending, subflexuous ; branchlets
many, the younger white-pubescent ; leaves slightly spreading, sub-
incurved, oblong or narrow-elliptic, subobtuse, thick, round-backed,
faintly sulcate, glabrous, cartilaginous-denticulate, }-1} lin. long,

VOL. IV,—SECT, I, U

290 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

about 2 to 21 times longer than the internodes; flowers not
numerous, on short branchlets thinly scattered over the whole plant,
subealycine ; pedicels curved, stout, red, shortly white-tomentose,
1 lin. long; bracts 3, approximate, oblong and lanceolate, ciliolate,
shorter than the sepals; sepals ovate, acute, concave, glumaceous,
keeled or keel-tipped, rosy suffused with bright red, white-margined
and ciliolate with scale-like, forked or subplumose hairs, about
4 lin. long; corolla hemispherical or subobconic-cyathiform, about
1 lin. long ; segments equal to the tube or slightly longer, rounded,
suberect ; filaments rather broad, lanceolate; anthers subincluded,
or at full maturity subexserted, longitudinally semiovate, obtuse,
minutely scaberulous, a little over } lin. long, muticous ; pore large,
% the length of the cell; style well-exserted, stout; stigma obconic-
cyathiform ; ovary sometimes glabrous, sometimes pubescent.

Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Kers Kop, Cederberg Range, near Wupper-
thal, 3000 ft., Schlechter, 8788!

In floral structure very like the preceding; but the branches are closer, more
rigid and erect, the leaves broader and mostly shorter, pedicels thicker, longer,
more densely tomentose; bracts more constant; sepals more prominent, more
ciliate ; anthers larger with a much Jonger pore; stigma smaller. It has some
resemblance to the § Melastemon and E. lavandulefolia.

Section XXXVIII. EURYSTOMA. (Sp. 440-450.)

440. E, media (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682) ;
branches eano-puberulous; leaves erect, adpressed, oblong, sub-
obtuse, round-backed, thick, concave and nerved above, sulcate
below, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; flowers subcorolline ; pedicels
rather stout, puberulous, 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, closely
adpressed to the calyx, sepal-like, ovate, obtuse ; sepals ovate, acute,
keeled, concave, searious or subcoriaceous, * lin. long; corolla cyathi-
form,mouth somewhat widened, 13 lin.long ; segments erect, deltoid,
obtuse, about + the length of the tube; filaments rather broad,
subequal, about 2 lin. long; anthers lateral, oblong, obtuse, about
$ lin. long, appendiculate at the base; pore 1—1 the length. of the
cell ; appendages between crested and aristate, oblong, entire, short,
blunt, brown, placed rather high on the cell, in length about 4 of
the cell; style shortly exserted; stigma small, capitellate; ovary
glabrous.

Coast ReGion: Caledon Div.; Cape Hangklip, Mund § Maire! in Herb.
Berlin and Kew.

This species is closely allied to E. argentea, Klotzsch, and the latter may possibly
be a form of this. The fragments we have before us are poor, and we therefore
leave the species as Klotzsch and Bentham had it.

44]. E. argentea (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 686);
erect, 1-1} ft. high ; stem and branches flexuous ; branchlets slender,
the ultimate and floriferous generally decurved ; leaves mostly erect

Eriea.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 291

and adpressed or ineurved, imbricate or often only as long as the
internodes, oblong or elliptic, acute, thick, flat above, convex and
glossy below, glabrous, generally 1-1 (sometimes 11) lin. long;
flowering branchlets subdistant and somewhat seanty ; pedicels under
y lin. long ; flowers corolline ; bracts approximate, elliptic, small ;
sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, rigid, thick with hyaline margin,
about 1 lin. long; corolla obconie, about 11 lin. long; segments con-
tinuous with the tube, semiovate, subacute, somewhat shorter than
the tube; anthers included, manifest, lateral, narrow-oblong, = lin.
long, incurved, obtuse, pale brown, shortly aristate; pore 1-1 the
length of the cell; awns subulate, about 1 the length of the cell;
style exserted, very slender; stigma subsimple; ovary pubescent or
glabrous.

a

Var. 8, rigida (Bolus) ; stouter and more rigid, less flexuous : branchlets not
usually decurved ; anthers shorter and broader, oblong, 4 lin. long.

Coast Reaction: Piquetberg Div.; Oliphants River Mountains, near
Piqueniers Kloof, Zeyher, 1106! Tulbagh Div. ; foot of Winterhoek Mountain,
Ecklon § Zeyher, 224! Ceres Div.; mountains near Ceres, 1800 ft., Guthrie,
2413! Bolus, 7472! Var. B: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus, 8481 !

The whole plant has a somewhat shining silvery-grey appearance, yet not
quite glabrous. It is very near the preceding species.

442. E. brevicaulis (Guthrie & Bolus); apparently a dwarf
stunted shrub, 3 in. high ; caudex stout, about 13 lin. in diam.,
divided immediately into several rather stout main branches and
very numerous ascending filiform branchlets, puberulous, glabres-
cent, marked with prominent scars of leaf-cushions ; leaves opposite,
erect, adpressed, the lower about as long as the internodes, the
uppermost imbricate, not crowded, lanceolate, acute, thick, concave
with a middle nerve above, suleate below, glabrous, *-1 lin, long;
flowers terminal, 3-nate? subcorolline; pedicels slender, mostly
bent, red, 13-18 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 inframedian, 1 basal,
linear, 1 lin. long; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, keeled, concave,
glabrous, glossy, red, 12 lin. long, reaching a little beyond the top
of the corolla-tube; corolla broad-campanulate, or between that and
broad-cyathiform, glabrous, veined, apparently red or crimson,
nearly 13 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, ovate, a little more
than 3 the length of the tube, colour darkened towards the apex ;
filaments slightly dilated just below the anther; anthers included,
manifest, sublateral, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong, subobtuse,
smooth, about + lin. long, crested; pore about } the length of the
cell; crests partially adherent at their base to the filament, then
spreading-incurved, narrow-lanceolate or subulate, acuminate, with
2 or more incised teeth near the base, the whole about } the length
of cell; style shortly exserted, slender; stigma capitellate ; ovary
subglobose, shortly villous.

Coast Raion: Worcester Div. ; rocky places on the Matroos Berg, 5500 ft.,
Marloth, 2213 !
ee 3

292 ERICACEH® (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

Our only specimen is in poor condition and has dropped its flowers; but the
species is So distinct that we do not hesitate to describe it. It has the corolla of
this section, but the sepals are so narrow as to give the flowers a somewhat
corolline appearance. In this respect it is nearest to E. argentea, and in so far
both recede from one of the chief characters of the section.

443. E. nivea (Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 16); erect, almost
entirely glabrous, 1-2 ft. high ; branches ascending, rather straight
or subvirgate, sometimes puberulous, glabrescent; leaves erect,
mostly subadpressed, not crowded, linear-subulate, acute, trigonous,
deeply sulcate, 2-3 lin. long ; flowers somewhat densely crowded on
short branchlets, calycine; pedicels slender, subglabrous, 2-8 lin.
long; bracts laxly subapproximate, lanceolate, about 2 lin. long ;
sepals imbricate, obovate or oblong, subacute, keeled on the upper
half and keel-tipped, white, about 2 lin. long, about equalling the
corolla; corolla subobconie or between rotate and salver-shaped from
a broad base; tube subtetragonous, wider than its length ; segments
broad, obtuse, spreading at an angle of about 45°, about 12 times the
length of the tube, the whole about 2 lin. long, entirely white; filaments
from a broader base tapering upwards, about 1 lin. long ; anthers
included, manifest, sublateral, obovate-oblong, obtuse, smooth ; cells
bipartite, about 2 lin. long, crested; pore about 2 the length of the
cell ; crests about 1 the length of the cell, spreading ; style exserted ;
stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous, pallid on a dark disk. Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 687.

Soutu Arrica: without locality, Mund § Maire, ex Bentham.

Coast Reeion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 2500 ft., Marloth, 214! Simons
Bay, Wright! hills west of Simons Town, Wolley Dod, 1452! Caledon
Div.; mountains near Lowrys Pass, 2000 ft., Guthrie, 3536! moist places

pod hed ne get ae River, Schlechter, 5380! and without precise locality, Bolus,

444, E. lachneeefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 335);
erect, probably under 1 ft. high; branches ascending, leafy, pubes-
cent, covered with the scars of small but prominent leaf-cushions ;
leaves 6-farious, closely crowded, imbrieate, obovate or subelliptical,
very obtuse, thick, somewhat concave above, rounded below, minutely
puberulous, sulcate, gland-ciliolate, very shortly petiolate, —1 lin.
long; flowers subcalycine ; pedicels stout, tomentose, under 1 lin.
long; braets approximate or subapproximate, ovate, leathery, rigid,
keeled, with green or coloured leaf-like suleate thickened tips,
shorter than the sepals; sepals like the bracts but sometimes obo-
vate, larger, ciliolate, nearly 14 lin. long ; corolla obconic-cyathiform,
white (Andrews), about 2 lin. long; segments spreading, oblong,
rounded, a little longer than the tube; anthers included, manifest, sub-
lateral ; cells bipartite, oblong, tapering a little towards the sub-
obtuse apex, papillose, thick, rigid, blaekish, about 2 lin. long, with
a thick dorsal band produced downwards into two thick subulate
awns decurrent along the filament for 1—2 their length, the acuminate
apices free and spreading (or entirely free according to Andrews’

Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 293

figure, and some imperfect specimens seen), the whole projecting
below the cells for a distance shorter than the length of the latter;
pore about } the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma clavate-
capitate, truncate; ovary glabrous. H. lachnwa, Andr. Heathery,
t. 120, and Col. Heaths, t. 177; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 685.

Soutn Arica: without locality, Masson, Mund! and cultivated speci-
mens !

Coast Rea@ron: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, Bowie! tops of the mountains
of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7729.

Very distinct in the section by its peculiar leaves. Our description is from
Bowie’s and Mund’s specimens in Herb. Kew., which agree well. Bentham
quotes with a sign of doubt, E. Pohlmanni, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1852; but this
seems to us quite different, and is a plant unknown to us. The present species
is apparently rare and has not been gathered by any recent collector.

445. E. calycina (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 507, not of some others) ;
generally stout, erect, rigid, 11-2 ft. high, with numerous, ascending,
subvirgate, rarely white-pubescent branches; leaves suberect and
imbricate, or sometimes spreading, or squarrose-recurved, crowded,
linear or narrow-lanceolate, subtrigonous, acute or subobtuse, suleate,
glabrous, ciliolate or naked, mostly 11-2 lin. long; flowers often
crowded on short branchlets, more rarely seanty, calycine or subcaly-
cine; pedicels mostly densely white-tomentose, more or less with
plumose hairs intermixed with simple (occurring sometimes on
the branches), spreading, 13-21 lin. long; bracts subremote (or
the lowest remote) to subapproximate, lax or more rarely imbricating
the sepals, ovate or oblong, coloured, scarious or cartilaginous, about
1 lin, long ; sepals ovate to orbicular or subrhomboidal, imbricate for
a greater or less distance from the base upwards, scarious or carti-
laginous, keeled or keel-tipped, white, ciliate or naked, 1-12 lin.
long, or mostly from 2—% the length of the corolla (rarely 4 only) ;
corolla obconie-cyathiform, white, 1}-2 (rarely 23) lin. long;
segments in full flower spreading or reeurved, but very soon becom-
ing erect, oblong or ovate, obtuse or subacute, from equal to the
tube to a little shorter than it; anthers included, but manifest,
terminal or subterminal; cells partite to the base, oblong or semi-
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, scaberulous, 2-1 lin. Jong, cristate ;
pore }-3 the length of the cell; crests free, coarsely toothed or
incised or crested-aristate ; awns free, short, subulate, ciliate or
hairy ; style stout, straight, shortly exserted; stigma simple
or clavate; ovary pallid, glabrous or hispidulous at the apex.
Thunb. Diss. Erica, 47. E. nigrita, Linn. Mant. 65; Andr.
Heathery, t. 81, and Col. Heaths, t. 41; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 12,
11; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 54; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 687. E.
laricina, Berg. Dese. Pl. Cap. 94, not of Spreng. /f. E. vespertina,
Linn. f. Suppl. 221; Benth. lc. 686. E. gnidiafolia, Salish. in
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 336. E. lyrigera, Salisb., and E. nigrita, Roxb.
ex Salisb.l.c. E.volutzflora, Salisb. l.c. 335. E. munda, Salisb. l.c.
337. EH. acutangula, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1868. E. emarginata, Andr.

294, ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Lrica.

Heathery, t. 214.° EH. marginata, Benth., and E. nitidula, Hort. ex
Benth, l.c. 687. E. Dickensonia, var. alba, Sinclair, Hort. Eric.
Wob. 8. E. cucullata, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 615, aec. to Ind.
Kew. E. nigrescens, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, ii. 7. E. nigricans, Lodd.
ex G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 151, fide Ind. Kew. LE. divaricata,
Lodd. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 1, 305.

Var. 8, periploceflora (Bolus) ; flowers reddish or dull red-purple, numerous ;
anthers terminal, decurrent-crested or aristate, the appendages usually (or
always?) more or less adherent to the filament, only partially free, or more
rarely muticous. E. periploceflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 387.

Var.y, fragrans (Bolus) ; leaves opposite or 3-nate ; flowers fewer and somewhat
larger, 23 lin. long, blueish-purple, or livid: anthers subexserted, terminal,
decurrent-aristate, with short free points. EH. fragrans, Andr. Col. Heaths,
t, 95, and Heathery, t. 163.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated speci-
mens !

Coast Reeton : from Clanwilliam Div. on the north, throughout the Coast
Region generally, eastward as far as Grahamstown, usually at an elevation of
from 2000 to 5000 ft.; Thunberg, Niven, 114, 219/ Burchell, 7685! Drége,
7778b! Zeyher, 341! 3253! 3254! 3280! 3286! MacOwan, 1260! Bolus,
1579! 8294! 32946! 8771! 3991! 5186! 5466! 6337! 9368! MacOwan,
Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 36! Guthrie, 648a! Schlechter, 17383! 5509! 8915!
Wolley Dod, 127%! 3258! Galpin, 3688! Leipoldt, 550! 1046! Marloth, 2687!
Var. B: Niven, 57! MuacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 938! Bolus, 5185!
5454! Guthrie, 3669! Schlechter, 5592! Var. 7: Swellendam Div. ; summit of
Zuurbraak Mountain, 4800 ft., Galpin, 83693! (Schlechter, 5400! and Zeyher,
325! probably belong to this species, but are immature).

The examination of a very large number of specimens has obliged us to unite
the four species to which Bentham reduced the still larger number cited above.
It is evident that he still suspected the identity of three of these; and our
additional material has confirmed the suspicion. Like all widely distributed
species it varies somewhat in habit and in every organ, so that if every variation
were regarded as distinctive, it would be necessary to make 8 or even 10 varieties
or species. Those forms which have been collected northwards towards Clan-
william diverge from the others by a poorer growth and smaller leaves and
flowers, the result probably of climatic influences ; but the floral structure differs
little ; the anthers are more lateral, but even these pass by gradations into the
usual or commoner, more southern, form. ‘The var. vy looks distinct, but the real
differences are not great; and it is connected with var. 8 by such a form as
Bolus, 5454, which has almost exactly the same anther. One of Bentham’s
distinctions of E. fragrans was the opposite leaves ; but Galpin’s 3698, which is
undoubtedly the same as Andrews’ fig. t. 163, has the 3-nate leaves of the
section.

446. E. comata (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches densely and shortly
tomentulose, at length glabrescent; the younger leaves, also the
bracts and sepals ciliate and furnished with a tuft of rather long
white hairs at the apex; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, linear-
subulate, sulcate, greyish-pubescent, ciliate, at length naked ; petiole
red, 2-2} lin. long; flowers on short branchlets, subcorolline ;
pedicels woolly, scarcely 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, in-
curved, usually lax and spreading, oblanceolate, acute, keeled, ciliate,
reddish, {-1} lin. long; sepals somewhat lax and incurved, sub-
orbicular, very concave, keeled, the keel red, the rest hyaline,

Brica.] ErIcacem (Guthrie & Bolus). 295

prominently and somewhat rigidly ciliate, about % lin. long; corolla
broad-cyathiform, apparently red, 11-15 lin. long ; segments erect,
broadly rounded, about as long as the tube or a little less; filaments
linear, equal, about as long as the anther; anthers included, dorsi-
fixed well above the base, broadly oblong, obtuse, scaberulous,
ciliolate, dark-coloured, under + lin. long, muticous ; pore about 4
the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender ; stigma simple ;
ovary depressed-obconic, wider than its length, silky-villous.

Coast RxeGIon : Swellendam Div. ; on the summit of the craggy peak near
Swellendam, 4000-5000 ft., Burchell, 7329 !

A very distinct species, the flowers somewhat too corolline for this section,
but difficult to place elsewhere. Its nearest ally seems to be E. lachneefolia,
Salisb., which was found by Burchell on the same range of mountains, but further
westwards, from which, so far as our material goes, it is easily distinguished at
sight.

447. E. saxicola (Guthrie & Bolus); dwarf, 3-4 (rarely 6) in.
high; branches many, decumbent or ascending, diffuse, flexuous,
often intricate, the ultimate slender, rigid, white-pubescent; leaves
spreading or squarrose, oblong-trigonous, subacute, mostly thick and
fleshy, glabrous, mostly 1 (rarely 14) lin. long; flowers moderately
crowded, on short lateral branchlets, subcalycine or subcorolline;
pedicels about + lin. long; bracts approximate, 3 lin. long ; sepals
somewhat spreading, ovate, acute, concave, thick, rigid, keel-tipped,
scarious, glabrous, ciliolate, less than 1 lin. long, reaching about as
high as the corolla-tube; corolla broad-cyathiform, white, mostly
about 1 (rarely 12) lin. long, wider when expanded than its length ;
segments ascending, rounded, somewhat shorter than the tube ;
anthers included, lateral, oblong-cuneate, or narrow-elliptic, obtuse,
smooth, brown, 1—1 lin. long, crested or subulate-aristate ; pore 3 the
length of the cell; crests or awns as long as the cells or a little
shorter ; style subincluded or shortly exserted ; stigma capitellate ;
ovary oblate-globose, minutely puberulous.

Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div. ; on the ledges of steep rocks, Riet Fontein
Poort, near Elim, 200 ft., Bolus, 8508! Schlechter, 9705! Caledon Div. ; hills
near Papies Vlei, 300 ft., Schlechter, 10445 ! ;

Very distinct in the section by its small leaves and flowers. The anther-ceils
are very similar in shape and size to those of HL. lachnewfolia and i. floceosa,
but there are considerable differences in other respects. Schlechter’s specimens
show not a few flowers with 6-lobed corollas, 11 or 12 stamens and a 6-celled
ovary; and it is his plants, also, which have the smaller elliptic aristate
anthers, mentioned in the description; these occur in the normal, as well as in
the abnormal, flowers.

448. E. floccosa (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 640, not of Salisb.) ;
erect, 1-13 ft. high ; branches many, ascending, straight or flexuous,
floccose-tomentose with dense short plumulose hairs; leaves erect to
subpatent, crowded, linear-trigonous, subobtuse, slender, glabrous,
15-2 lin. long; flowers abundant, crowded on numerous side-
branchlets, subcorolline ; pedicels pubescent, about 1 lin. or less

296 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). | Brica.

long; bracts approximate or subapproximate, ovate or lanceolate,
scarious, 4—% lin. long; sepals ovate-orbicular, keeled and keel-
tipped, scarious, whitish, about 1 lin. long, reaching about or nearly
half-way up the corolla; corolla obconic-campanulate, white, 2 lin.
long ; segments widely-spreading or subrecurved, ovate, very obtuse,
in length equal to the tube; filaments very slender; anthers in-
cluded, submanifest, sublateral; cells bipartite, broadly oblong, in-
curved, with a thick dorsal ridge, scaberulous, dark brown or reddish,
nearly {§ lin. long, subulate-aristate; pore 4—2 the length of the
cell; awns hairy or eiliolate or naked, sometimes decurrent for a
short distance along the filament at its apex, nearly as long as the
cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 686.

Coast Region: Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 1300-
3400 ft., Mund, 35! Bolus, 6746! 9167! Schlechter, 5542! mountains near the
Zondereinde River, Guthrie, 3281! and without precise locality, Ecklon JS

Zeyher ! Robertson Div, ; mountains near Montagu Bath (warm springs), Bolus,
8294!

A fairly distinct species. From others which resemble it externally it may
be known by its anthers; these are somewhat like those of E. lachnecefolia,
Salisb., but the awns are not or only slightly adherent to the filament, and the
whule aspect of the plant is otherwise very different.

449. E. lucida (Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 337); erect,
stout, 1-12 ft. or more high; branches ascending, mostly flexuous,
sometimes subvirgate, usually floccose-tomentose, as are the pedicels,
with short greyish plumulose hairs, more rarely puberulous ; leaves
erect, often adpressed, imbricate, rarely somewhat spreading, linear-
trigonous, subacute, sulcate, glossy, 1-3 (mostly 2-21) lin. long;
flowers numerous, mostly crowded at the ends of short lateral branch-
lets, calycine, glossy ; pedicels tomentose or rarely subglabrous,
1-1} lin. long ; bracts approximate to subremote, ovate, coloured,
shorter than the sepals; sepals imbricate below and somewhat
spreading at the apex, ovate or obovate, acute or obtuse and cuspi-
date, keeled, concave, thick, rigid, ciliate or rarely naked, glossy,
coloured, 1-1} lin. long, reaching 2—% the length of the corolla;
corolla campanulate, cyathiform or subglobose-urceolate, only in the
last-named form, very slightly contracted at the throat, 14-1} lin.
long, red or rosy ; segments spreading, sometimes horizontally, ovate,
3-{ the length of the tube; anthers included, lateral, oblong,
obtuse ; cells bipartite, 2-1 lin. long, crested; pore about 3 the
length of the cell; crests suborbicular in outline, deeply incised,
about 3 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted; stigma
capitellate; ovary glabrous. Andr. Heathery, t. 172, and Col.
Heaths, t. 109; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 687. LE. rigidifolia,
Wendl. Eric. Ie. fase. 20, 125, t. 48. E. nitens, Bartl. in Linnea,
Vii. 652. a

Var. 8, pauciflora (Bolus); branches more slender; leaves fewer, more
adpressed and smaller; flowers fewer, less glossy, and a little smaller (1 lin.

Erica.] ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 297

long) ; anthers either as in the type or crested-aristate; awns subulate, acumi-
nate, slightly incised.

Var. yy, laxa (Bolus); as in var. 8, but the anthers cristate; crests narrow-
ovate, crenulate, about 2 the length of the cell. EF. lava, Andr. Heathery, t. 73,
and Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 181; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 687. E. rigescens,
Baril. in Linnea, vii. 635, fide Benth. E. rigens, Benth. lc.

SourH Arkica: without locality, Niven, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens ! Var. y: Niven! and cultivated specimen !

Coast ReGion: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, 2600 ft., Marloth,
2690! Leipoldt! Tulbagh Div. ; Winterhoek Mountain, Bolus, 6351! moun-
tains near Saron, Schlechter, 10679! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Pappe!
Devils Peak, 1100-1500 ft., Guthrie, 1217! Bolus, 4470! 4590! Paarl Div. ;
Sneeuw Kop, Marloth! French Hoek, Bolus, 6985! Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg,
Zeyher, 3278! Var. 8: Tulbagh Div.; Mitchells Pass, 1000 ft., Bolus, 5187!
mountains near Tulbagh Waterfall, 800 ft., Bolus, 5464!

The larger-flowered form of this has some resemblance to E. calycina, but the
flowers are smaller. Our var. 8 is more lax in habit and is fewer-flowered, but
otherwise seems to agree with the type. Niven’s specimen in Herb. Kew.,
marked E. lawa by Bentham, is the only one we have seen in which the anther-
crest agrees with Andrews’ figure, and we have distinguished it accordingly.
Taken as a whole the species differs from all the rest in the section by its corolla,
which is not so uniformly spreading upwards, but has a tendency to become
cyathiform or even globose-urceolate with a slight contraction at the throat; and
_in so far it approaches to § Trigemma.

_ 450. E. mucronata (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 186, and Heathery,

t. 225); erect, 11 ft. high ; branches erect or spreading, downy ; leaves
spreading, incurved, narrow-lanceolate, setaceous-acuminate, mucro-
nate, keeled, glabrous, 4-10 lin. long; flowers 3-nate (or 3-6-nate,
Andrews) on short arrested branchlets, subcorolline ; pedicels downy,
decurved, 3-4 lin. long; bracts, 2 approximate imbricating the
sepals, 1 remote, lanceolate, setaceous-acuminate, scarious, keeled ;
sepals like the bracts, but larger, including the bristle-like point,
2} lin. long; corolla obconic-campanulate, rosy, 23 lin. long (in
MacNab’s 233, a cult. sp. ?); segments slightly spreading, ovate,
subacute, about 3 the length of the tube; filaments rather broad at
the base, tapering upwards, a little longer than the anther; anthers
included, lateral, narrow-oblong, subacute, minutely scaberulous,
dark-coloured, 1 lin. Jong, 44 times longer than its greatest width,
-muticous; pore small, about 4} times shorter than the cell and near
its apex ; style slender, well-exserted ; stigma small, obconic ; ovary
glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 683. . eriopus, Benth.
le. 650,

SourH Arrica: without locality, Masson/ and cultivated specimens!
Coast Region: Riversdale Divy.; mountains near the Kaffirkuils River,
Niven, 103! summit of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7117!

This species was placed in § Melastemon by Bentham and next to £. tetra-
thecoides, which, in the external appearance of its flowers, it somewhat resembles.
But it has not the anther of that section; and also differs in leaves, bracts and
sepals. It also resembles in some respects H. acuta, but has larger flowers and a
different corolla and anthers. Burchell’s specimens are not fully developed, and

on this Bentham established Z. eriopus and placed it in § Platyspora. But
Niven’s specimens, 103, afford mature seeds which are ellipsoidal and not at all
compressed as in that section.

298 ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

Section XXXIX. MELASTEMON. (Sp. 451-460.)

451. E. seriphiifolia (Salisb. Prodr. 297); erect, 1-1} ft. high ;
branches straight and subvirgate, or spreading, subcorymbose or
fastigiate ; leaves mostly 4-nate or sometimes scattered, erect, imbri-
cate, usually strongly incurved, more rarely straight, linear, acute,
glabrous, mostly 1-14 (rarely 2) lin. long; flowers mostly axillary,
generally some also terminal, in dense clusters as if capitate at the
ends of the branches, corolline ; pedicels slender, floccose (as in H.
cubica), 2-4 lin. long; bracts remote, linear-spathulate, about 1 lin.
long ; sepals ovate or lanceolate and acute, or sometimes obovate and
retuse with a produced keel-point, often deeply concave, rigid, sub-
scarious, coloured, 3—% lin. long, reaching 2—1 the height of the
corolla; corolla obconic or sometimes somewhat funnel-shaped,
bright red or crimson, 14—1% lin. long ; segments continuous, ovate,
rounded or subacute, from } the length of the tube to a little longer
than it ; anthers included, longitudinally semiovate, acute, the cell
produced beyond the pore for }—2 the length of the latter, papillose,
hispidulous or nearly glabrous, dark-coloured, about + lin. long;
pore from i—2 the length of the cell; style well-exserted, very
slender ; stigma subsimple ; ovary globular, glabrous, small. Salisb.
in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 688. £.
cubica, var. minor, Andr. Heathery, t. 15; and Col, Heaths, t. 84.
E. cubica, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 31, ace. to Salish. and also Rach.
EH. bella, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 197, acc. to Benth. E. incurva,
Thunb, Prodr. 188, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 359% not of Wendl.
nor of Andr. LE. inflexa, Pers. Syn. i. 428?

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thwnberg, Drége, 7772! 77831 and culti-
vated specimens !

Coast Recion: Riversdale Div.; near Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7150! George
Div.; Outeniqualand, Niven, 105! Montagu Pass, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 2270!
Guthrie in Herb. Bolus, 8675! Knysna Div.; near Plettenberg Bay, Bowie!
Burchell, 5878! mountains near Millwood, 2000 ft., Tyson in MacOwan, Herb.
Austr.-Afr., 1496! Uniondale Div.; Long Kloof, Ecklon ¥ Zeyher, 211! Uiten-
hage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, Burchell, 4692 !

452. E. cubica (Linn. Diss. Erica, 45); erect, 1-12 ft. or more
high; branches straight and subvirgate or spreading, subcorymbose
and fastigiate, glabrous, pallid or dark, with more or less prominent,
sometimes decurrent, leaf-cushions ; leaves 4-nate or scattered (or
sometimes apparently 3-nate), very variable in size and setting, from
2-5 lin. long, the shorter erect, crowded, imbricate, strongly incurved,
the longer either straighter, erect and imbrieate, or incurved and
squarrose, all linear, acute, sulcate, glabrous; flowers terminal and
axillary, densely umbellate at the ends of the branches, corolline ;
pedicels slender, floccose with minute distantly-branched or sub-
plumose hairs, 2-9 lin. long; bracts 2 only (? always), remote, linear-
spathulate, foliaceous, about 14-2} lin. long; sepals narrow-lanceo-
late, lanceolate, ovate, obovate or suborbicular, aeute, acuminate,
keeled or sometimes retuse with an excurrent keel-tip, occasionally

Evica.| ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). Bee

by projection of the keel-angles, appearing tetragonous, the broader
flattish, the smaller more concave, margins entire or lacerate, scarious,
glabrous and glossy, pallid or deep coloured, 1-2 lin. long, reaching
from}about 2—3 the height of the corolla; corolla campanuloid or
obconic or subfunnel-shaped, pale rosy or deep red, 13-81 lin. long ;
segments continuous, ovate or semiorbicular, mostly equal in length
to the tube, but occasionally shorter or longer; filaments rather
broad, tapering upwards, rigid, nerved; anthers included, oblong
to semiovate, acute or acuminate, papillose or minutely hairy, 1—1 lin.
long, muticous, or sometimes with minute pallid squarrose awns at the
apex of the filament; pore about 2 the length of the cell, situate in
the middle; style exserted, slender; stigma subsimple, small ;
ovary glabrous. Linn. Amen. Acad. viii. 56, and Mant. Alt. 233 ;°
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 11, 13; Andr. Heathery, t. 14, and Col.
Heaths, t. 18; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 972; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii.
683. E. hottonixflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331,

Var. 8, coronifera (Bolus); branches pallid, leaf-cushions decurrent, promi-
nent; leaves squarrose or decurved, incurved, 3-5 lin. long; pedicels sub-
setaceous, 7-9 lin. long; bracts subapproximate or remote; sepals suborbicular
and scarious at the base, with a long foliaceous point, the whole 2} lin, long,
reaching from 3 to the height of the corolla; anthers oblong, acuminate, somewhat
longer and proportionately narrower and rougher than in the type, pale brown,
nearly 1 lin. long. LE. coronifera, Benth. in DC, Prodr. vii. 683.

Var. y, natalensis (Bolus); branches pallid, flexuous, slender, leaf-cushions
decurrent, prominent ; leaves more slender than in 8, erect or spreading, but not
squarrose, at least as to the uppermost, 3-5 lin, long; pedicels about 7 lin.
long; bracts remote; sepals orbicular or lanceolate; other characters as in
var. B.

Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, Masson, 27!
Burchell, 7892! Zeyher, 3246! Schlechter, 5677! Borcherds in Herb. Norm.
Austr.-Afr., 1805! Zuurbraak Mountain, Galpin, 3681! Riversdale Div. ; Platte
Kloof, Masson, 125! Garcias Pass, Galpin, 3679! George Div.; Montagu Pass,
2U00 ft., Young in Herb. Bolus, 5522! Knysna Div.; Millwood, Tyson, 3165!
Uniondale Diy.; mountains near Avontuur, Bolus, 2393! Humansdorp Div. ;
Clarkson, 800 ft., Galpin, 3678! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Miss
West, 5! Var. 8: George Div.; between Touw River and Kaymans River,
Burchell, 5779 ! : : !

Eastern Reaion: Var. y: Natal; Fields Hill, Umbilo River, Sutherland,
922! north of Umzimkaba River, Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 970! and without
precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders !

453. E. tetrathecoides (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 683) ; diffuse,
entirely glabrous, probably under a foot high; branches, pedicels
and sepals smooth and somewhat glossy ; branches slender, flexuous,
straggling, distantly leafy above, naked below; leaves notably
scanty and mostly shorter than the internodes, spreading, incurved,
linear-subterete, acute, 3-43 lin. long; flowers terminal, or a few
also axillary at the ends of the branches, spreading or cernuous,
corolline ; pedicels very slender, 3-4} lin. long; bracts remote, very
small, 2 above the middle, 1 basal; sepals subspreading, oblong,
scarious, with a thick keel far-excurrent at the apex, the whole
2 lin. long ; corolla obconie, 23-3 lin. long, mouth much widened ;

300 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

segments continuous, broadly rounded, equal to the tube or some-
what longer ; filaments rather broad, with a strong median nerve;
anthers included, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate ; cell produced beyond
the pore for about # the length of the latter, papillose, minutely
ciliolate on the margins, fox-coloured, 3-1 lin. long, muticous ; pore
less than } the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender;
stigma subsimple ; ovary glabrous.

Coast Region: Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7027 !

454. E. humifusa (Hibbert ex Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi.
332) ; erect or procumbent, 6-10 in. or more high, almost entirely
glabrous ; branches flexuous, subglabrous, with whitish scars of leaf-
cushions ; leaves 3-nate or opposite, erect, adpressed, somewhat
imbrieate or about as long as the internodes, not crowded, oblong or
elliptic, obtuse, round-backed, thickish, sulcate, smooth, 3—1 lin.
long; flowers subeorolline ; pedicels slender, about 1 lin. long;
braets subapproximate, imbricating the sepals but shorter, ovate or
lanceolate, keeled, scarious, whitish, 1—* lin. long; sepals like the
bracts, adpressed, very concave, * lin. long or a little more, not
reaching to the top of. the corolla-tube; corolla funnel-shaped,
veined, red or rosy, 1}—14 lin. long ; tube narrow-obconic ; segments
more spreading, semiovate, very obtuse, from equal in length to the
tube to twice as long; filaments slender, tapering to the apex;
anthers included, manifest, 2-1 lin. long or more, the shorter sub-
ovate, acute, the longer lanceolate or semilanceolate, acuminate ;
cell produced beyond the pore for from —1 of the length of the
latter, mutieous; pore about + the length of the cell, seabrid,
foxy-brown ; style exserted ; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.

Soutn ArFRica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! procumbent on the rocks
in shady places among the mountains, Niven, 37!

Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; on the Cederberg Range, 2500 ft.,
Marloth, 2682! Worcester Div.; Matroos Berg, 5500 ft., Marloth, 2245!
Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mulder ex Salisbury. Somerset Div. ;
rocky places, summit of Bruintjeshoogte Mountain, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 1648!

We have seen and examined specimens of Salisbury’s type, and of all the.
others cited, and find them to agree fairly well. Marloth’s specimens and
MacOwan’s have 3-nate leaves. In the others they are opposite so far as we
have seen; but Bentham must have seen some also 3-nate. By its thin whip-
like branches it looks distinct from any other species in the section.

455. E. cristeflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 332); erect,
1-2 ft. high; branches ascending, stout, puberulous; leaves erect-
spreading, imbricate, rarely subsquarrose, linear, subobtuse, glabrous,
rarely puberulous or canescent, glabrescent, 1-8 lin. long; flowers
scanty or more or less densely clustered, corolline; pedicels puberu-
lous, 1-25 lin. long; bracts laxly subapproximate, sometimes sub-
remote, ovate, acute, keeled, scarious, coloured, rosy or pallid, 3-11
lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger and broadly elliptic or
suborbicular, obtuse or subacute, $~1} lin. long, mostly reaching to
about the top of the corolla-tube; corolla very broadly obconic,

Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 301

much widened to the mouth, very variable in size, 1-21 lin. long ;
segments continuous with the tube, semiovate, varying from a little
longer than the tube to a little less than 4 its length; anthers in-
cluded, subovate, acute or acuminate, more or less villous, or papil-
lose and glabrous, 2-1 lin. long; pore 1-1 the length of the cell,
which is produced above the pore for from 2-11 times the length of
the latter ; style shortly exserted ; stigma obconic, very small, rarely
subpeltate ; ovary glabrous. EH. melanthera, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 16,
not of Linn., teste Salish. § Rach.

Var. B, blanda (Bolus) ; habit. mostly, but not always, more diffuse; branches
more flexuous ; leaves somewhat shorter and more spreading ; flowers smaller in
all parts, 1-14 lin. long; stigma subpeltate, with 4 tooth-like interior processes.
E. blanda, Salish, in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331. EB. cornuta, Rowb. ea Salisb.
l.e.; Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii, 684. E. suavis, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 641, jide
Benth,

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. 8: Herb. Salisbury!

Coast Raion: Tulbagh Div, ; Winterhoek Berg, Bolus, 5182! Tulbagh
Waterfall, Bolus, 5183! near Saron, Schlechter, 10666! Mitchells Pass, Mac-
Owan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 35! Bolus, 5284! 9810! Schlechter, 8936!
$973! Guthrie, 625)! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Niven, 100! Bains Kloof,
Bolus, 4056! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Thunberg, Table Mountain, 2000 ft.,
Schlechter, 14! Var. 8: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, on Sneeuw Kop,
4500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8679b! Marloth, 2688! Leipoldt, 214! 744!
Tulbagh Div.; near Saron, Schlechter, 10692! Cape Div.; Devils Peak and
Table Mountain, 1200-2000 ft., Bolus, 3352! 4751! MacOwan, Herb. Norm.
Austr.-Afr., 7541 Wolley Dod, 1681!

CentraL Reaion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, 5000 ft., Schlechter,
9996 !

This species varies considerably in aspect, and extreme forms with pallid often
subsquarrose, sometimes even silky leaves (as in Schlechter’s 9973), seem dis-
tinct, and worthy of separation as a variety, were they not connected by inter-
mediate forms with the type. The same remarks apply in part to our var. 8,
which has little to distinguish it beyond the smaller size of the flowers. The
subpeltate stigma even, relied upon by Bentham as a distinguishing character
for FE. cornuta, is exhibited in Schlechter’s 9996 and in Bolus 5182, which in
every other respect have the habit, leaves and flowers of the typical cristeflora,
group.

456. E. moschata (Andr. Heathery, t. 226, not of Lodd) ; erect,
1 ft. or more high; branches few, puberulous, with lateral floriferous
branchlets 1-11 in. long; leaves erect or somewhat spreading,
straight or ineurved, imbricate but scarcely crowded, lanceolate-
linear, subobtuse, pallid, glabrous, the younger ciliolate, 2-3 lin. long ;
flowers mostly cernuous, not clustered, corolline 3 pedicels pubescent,
1;-25 lin. long; bracts subremote or subapproximate, lax, ovate or
cordate, acute, keeled, scarious, coloured, about 1} lin. long ; sepals,
2 orbicular, 2 narrower and ovate, obtuse, apiculate, otherwise like
the bracts and about as long, rarely reaching to the top of the corolla-
tube; corolla obconic or subfunnel-shaped, widely spreading to the
mouth, rosy, 21-4 lin. long; segments continuous, ovate, rounded,
variable in length, from less than } the tube to a little longer than
it; anthers included, the lower portion suborbicular, produced above
into a contracted acuminate apex for from 1-1} times the length of

302 ERICACE# (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica.

the pore, coarsely shaggy and ciliate, foxy-brown, 2—% lin. long ; pore
about 4 the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender; stigma
obconic, very small; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 248;
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 683. EH. florida, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 284,
not of Thunb. E. anthina, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 196, acc. to Benth.
& Rach.

- SourH ArFrica: without locality, Miller! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated
specimens !

Coast Recton: Tulbagh Div. ; Witsen Berg, Ecklon §* Zeyher! Winter-
hoek Berg, 4000 ft., Bolus, 6350! Worcester Div.; Brand Vlei, Masson, 36!
Dutoits Peak, 4800 ft., Marloth, 2412!

Closely allied, perhaps too closely, to E. cristeflora. It differs by the larger
flowers, larger, more acuminate and more shaggy anthers, and also somewhat in
habit; the flowers being fewer, less clustered, more cernuous, the branches
fewer, the leaves longer and paler. The flowers are fragrant as noted by
Andrews, and also by Marloth, who likens their odour to that of Disa
graminifolia, Ker-Gawl.

457. E. lavandulefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 332) ;
subarboreous, 3-8 ft. high; branches subvirgate, pubescent, with
many floriferous branchlets, forming towards the top of the branches
a somewhat thyrsoid inflorescence; leaves erect, mostly ineurved,
linear, acute, round-backed, sulcate, glabrous, 2-31 lin. long; flowers
subcorolline ; pedicels decurved, slender, white-pubescent, 1-12 lin.
long ; bracts approximate, imbricating the sepals, or rarely the lowest
remote, lanceolate, acute, keeled, ciliate, scarious, glabrous, whitish
or pale rose, } lin. long; sepals like the bracts but ovate, very
concave, about 1; lin. long, reaching to about 1 the height of the
corolla ; corolla nearly broad-obconic, or very slightly funnel-shaped,
rosy, 1{-2 lin. long; segments continuous with the widening tube,
ovate or oblong, about 3 the length of the tube; filaments lanceo-
late at the base tapering upwards; anthers included or sometimes
subexserted, longitudinally semiovate, the dorsal margin curved, the
inner nearly straight, acute, the cell. extending beyond the pore for
about > the length of the latter, rough but not very hairy, about
¢ lin. long, muticous; pore narrow, about 3 the length of the cell;
style slender, well-exserted ; stigma capitellate, small; ovary small,
minutely puberulous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 684. E. monti-
cola, Klotzsch in Herb. Berol. ex Benth. Lc.

Soutu AFrRica: without locality, Masson !

Coast ReGion: Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh (Roode Zand), Niven, 102!
800 ft., Guthrie, 3113! Marloth, 2911! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland,

ex Salisbury.

458. E. Gillii (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 684); ‘habit of Z.
moschata” (Bentham); branches floccose with minute compound,
distantly subplumose greyish hairs; leaves subrecurved, spreading,
imbricate and crowded (on the ultimate branchlets), linear-trigonous,
obtuse, sulcate, glabrous, pallid, 13 lin. (or probably more) long;
pedicels floecose, 2 lin. long; flowers ecalycine; bracts subremote,

Erica. ] ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). 303

the uppermost one only imbricating the sepals, lax and somewhat
spreading, ovate, acute, complicate, keeled, membranous, pallid,
about 14 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger and flatter,
broad-ovate or suborbicular, imbricate above the base, 12 lin. long, by
1; lin. wide, reaching a little beyond the top of the corolla-tube;
corolla broad-cyathiform, 2 lin. long; segments erect, broadly
rounded, about 2 the length of the tube; anthers included, sub-
cuneate, acute, scaberulous or roughly papillose, nearly black, & lin.
long ; pore about + the length of the cell, placed in the middle of the
cell ; style slender, exserted ; stigma minute, obconie or ‘subsimple ;
ovary puberulous.

Coast Reeion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Gill! in Herb. Kew.

459. E. nervata (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches hirsute (1 lin. in
diam. in our small specimen), the lower parts covered with the
persistent short stumps of old flowering branchlets, the upper densely
leafy; leaves erect, rigid, strongly ineurved, crowded, imbricate,
axils gemmiferous, broad-lanceolate, acute, from deeply suleate to
open-backed, the revolute margins flat and wide, long-ciliate, the
younger hispid, glabrescent, pallid, 14-2 lin. long; flowers terminal
on very short arrested branchlets and thus appearing axillary,
solitary, subcorojline; pedicels woolly with longish white hairs,
2-25 lin. long; bracts remote, basal, minute; sepals incurved,
broad-ovate or suborbicular, shortly acute, very concave, cartilaginous,
rigid, with about 9 distinct parallel nerves, ciliate, pale rosy, about
1 lin. long or a little more, not reaching to the top of the corolla-
tube; corolla broad-cyathiform, red, 22 lin. long; segments con-
tinuous with the tube, subereet, broad-ovate, about equal to it in
length ; filaments rigid, shorter than the anther ; anthers included,
longitudinally semilanceolate, acute, the cell produced beyond the
pore for about 2 the length of the latter, scaberulous, dark-coloured,
s lin. long, muticous; pore about 3 the length of the cell; style
included ; stigma subsimple ; ovary densely woolly.

Coast Region: Oudtshoorn Div.; grassy places, Zwarteberg Pass, 4900 ft.,
Marloth, 2409! ;

460. E. trachysantha (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Svc. xxiv. 184) ;
erect, rather slender, not much branched, under 1 ft. high ; branches
(except in the lowest parts), under surface of the leaves, pedicels and
especially the sepals, densely hirsute with shaggy dirty-white hairs ;
leaves crowded, fasciculate in tufts, shorter or a little longer than
the internodes, erect-incurved, ovate-lanceolate, acute, open-backed,
with reflexed wide flattish margins, subglabrous on the upper surface,
2-2; lin. long ; flowers mostly solitary on short branchlets, spreading,
erect or cernuous, calycine ; pedicels 4-65 lin. long ; bracts remote,
basal, very small ; sepals slightly united at the base, ovate, acute,
13-2 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, nearly equal at the mouth, 2-23
lin, long; segments equal to or a little longer than the tube ; anthers

304. grtcace® (Guthrie & Bolus). | Lrica.

included, subulate or sublanceolate, acuminate, recurved, 1 lin. long;
pore 1—1 the length of the cell ; style just exserted; stigma small,
capitellate or subsimple ; ovary subconic, hispidulous.

Coast Rrearon: Uniondale Div. ; Kouga Mountains, between Uniondale and
Avontuur, Bolus, 2387 !

This is most nearly allied to HE. Passerine (§ Gamochlamys), and is @ con-
necting link between the present and that section. It may be readily known
from that species by its different indumentum, larger and flatter leaves,
longer pedicels, and more deeply divided calyx. It is also related to the
preceding.

Section XL. GAMOCHLAMYS. (Sp. 461-466.)

461. E. Passerine (Montin in Act. Nov. Upsal. ii. 289, t. 9,
fig. 1) ; erect, about 2 ft. high, tomentose in the upper part, glab-
rescent below ; branches, leaves, pedieels, bracts, sepals and ovary,
but especially the sepals, uniformly covered with a short closely-
matted white tomentum; leaves ovate to elliptic, obtuse, thick,
deeply sulcate, or sometimes subopen-backed, at length glabrescent,
1-14 lin. long; flowers on very short lateral branchlets, solitary or in
pairs, erect or pendulous, from subcorolline to subcalycine ; pedicels
2 lin. long; bracts remote, subbasal, small; sepals more or less
united at the base, ovate, about $ the length of the corolla, 14 lin.
long; corolla cyathiform, mouth searcely widened or contracted
(“‘red,” Thunberg), 3 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, }—} the
length of the tube ; filaments short and rather broad, less than 3 the
length of the anther; anthers subulate, acute, recurved, about 3 lin.
long; pore 1-1} the length of the cell; style included; stigma
capitellate, very small; ovary conical, densely tomentose. Linn. f.
Suppl. 221; Thunb. Diss. Erica, 18; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
681. LE. passerinefolia, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 332.

Soutn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Paterson! Miss Cummings in

Herb. Bolus, 9286!
Coast Reeion: Uniondale Div.; Long Kloof, Masson, 63 !

Closely allied to the two preceding species (HZ. nervata and 2. trachysantha)
all being distinct in the genus. It is also noteworthy that all inhabit the same
general region, so far as their habitat is known to us.

462. E. melanthera (Linn. Diss. Hrica, n. 37; Mant. Alt. 232,
not of Lodd.); erect, about 1-2 ft. (acc, to Niven, 5-6 ft.) high;
branches ascending or widely spreading, pubescent ; leaves mostly
spreading, more rarely squarrose, from linear to oval, blunt, thick,
suleate, minutely tuberculate-hispid or glabrous, at length usually
glossy, 1—2 lin. long ; flowers generally abundant, corolline ; pedicels
puberulous, 1-2 lin. long ; bracts from subremote to subapproximate,
linear, small, sometimes larger and somewhat imbricating the calyx ;
calyx obconic, 4-cleft, puberulous or glabrous, keeled throughout or
only keel-tipped, coloured, about 1 lin. long ; segments reniform or
obcuneate, apiculate, as long as the tube or somewhat longer

Erica.) ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 305

or shorter ; corolla obconic, broad-cyathiform or funnel-shaped, pale
or bright red, 13-2 lin. long; segments continuous or spreading,
broadly rounded, about equal to the tube or from somewhat longer
to shorter; filaments rather broad; anthers obliquely oblong or
longitudinally semiovate, produced above into a contracted point
about or nearly equal to the pore, scabrid, nearly black, about
2 lin. long; pore 1~$ the length of the cell; style exserted ;
stigma obconic or subsimple, minute ; ovary silky-villous, chiefly on
the summit. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 684. E. lysimachiwflora,
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 332. E. mundtiana, Klotzsch ex
Benth. lc. 684. E. varia, Lodd. Bot. Cub. t.1325; Benth. 1.c. 685.
E, caroliniana, Hort. ex Benth. lc. E. muricata, Wendl. fil. ex
Benth. lc. H. leiophylla, Benth. lc. 684. E. jubata, Lodd. ex
Spreng. Syst. ii, 198, acc. to Ind. Kew.

Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7773! Paterson ! Herb. Salisbury !

and cultivated specimens !
Coast Rea@ion: Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Niven, 101! Mund,

20! Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 3249! Langeberg Range, Schlechter, 5659!
Riversdale Div. ; near Riversdale, Hewitt in Herb. Bolus, 3687! between Garcias
Pass and Krombecks River, Burchell, 7189! Garcias Pass and Muis Kraal,
1000-1500 ft., Burchell, 7089! Galpin, 3683! 3684! George Div.; Devils Kop,
Niven! Montagu Pass, 4000 ft., Marloth, 2403! Uniondale and Humansdorp
Div. ; Long Kloof and Kromme River, Masson, 62! Kouga Mountains, near
Avontuur, Bolus, 2389! near Haarlem, Galpin, 3685! Knysna Div. ; Paarde
Berg, Burchell, 5191! Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5184! Uitenhage Div. ;
Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 792! 3250!

We have examined Niven’s specimen of E, varia, so named in Bentham’s
hand, but can find no sufficient characters to separate it, and Loddiges’ figure
(upon which the species appears to have been founded) affords no additional
evidence. Bentham observes that the leaves are not glossy, but in Niven’s
specimen some, at least, are-so. ‘The type of E. leiophylla, Benth., collected by
Paterson appears to be nothing but a starved state of this, varying in no essential
character,

463. E. Chamissonis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 685) ;
erect, 1-2 ft. or more high; branches stout, ascending, pubescent ;
leaves crowded, suberect or often spreading-incurved, linear, sulcate
or often more or. less open-backed, usually hispid and rough with
longish white tubercle-based hairs, the tubercles persistent after the
hairs have dropped, 13-25 lin. long; flowers copious, along the
secondary and tertiary branchlets, corolline; pedicels densely villous,
2-27 lin. long; bracts remote, villous, minute ; calyx cyathiform,
densely villous with white hairs, 3-14 lin. long ; segments deltoid or
semiovate, acute, variable from about equal to the tube to 3 its
length, reaching 3-2 the height of the corolla; corolla broad-cyathi-
form, 18-22 lin. long ; segments erect, suborbicular, strongly nerved
near the apex, as long as or sometimes a little shorter than the tube ;
anthers dorsifixed well above the base, oblong or suboblanceolate,
obtuse, not or only very slightly, produced beyond the pore, rough
and ciliolate on the margins or subglabrous, }—} lin. long ; style
exserted, slender, dilated and obconic at the apex; stigma oo :

VOL. IV.—SHCT. I.

306. ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica.

ovary turbinate, silky-villous. . polyantha, Klotzsch ex Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 688.

Soutn AFRIcA: without locality, Chamisso, Wallich !

Coast Reeton: Uitenhage Div.; without exact locality, Zeyher; Van
Stadens Berg (EZ. polyantha, Kl.) Zeyher, 218! 786! Port Elizabeth Div.;
Kemsley, 357! Miss West, 3! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burchell,
3557! MacOwan, 33! Tyson in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb, Norm. Austr.-Afr.,
983! Guthrie, 2369!

We have examined the types of E. polyantha, and do not doubt that they are
merely poorly-grown plants of this species, of which they have all the characters,
but of a reduced size, and all parts (especially the calyx) less hairy.

464. E. longipes (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 684, not
of Bartl.) ; branches erect, rigid, rather rough, pubescent with simple
hairs, 10 in. or more long; leaves erect-incurved, imbricate, linear,
deeply sulcate, hispidulous or glabrous, 2-12 lin. long; flowers on
short lateral branchlets, somewhat copious, corolline; pedicels
puberulous or densely woolly, 13-23 lin. long; bracts remote, very
small; calyx obconic, thick, rigid, scarious, glabrous, concave,
strongly keeled, the keel prominent from the very base and the
whole thus somewhat truncate at the base, 1 lin. long, or slightly
less ; segments ovate, erect, acute, ciliolate or naked, 3-4 times the
length of the tube ; corolla between funnel-shaped and campanulate,
rosy, about 2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded, about as
long as the tube; or sometimes longer; anthers dorsifixed above the
base, oblong, obtuse, minutely scaberulous, reddish-brown, 1-8 Jin,
long; pore 3—2 the length of the cell; ‘style exserted, slender ;
stigma subsimple or capitellate ; ovary turbinate, silky-villous on the
conical summit.

Soutu Arrica: without locality, Masson ! Mund!

Coast Reeion: Knysna Div. ; near Forest Hall, Miss eudigate, 63! Uiten-
hage Div.; Grass Ridge, Ecklon & Zeyher.

We have not seen Ecklon & Zeyher’s type; but have examined Masson’s and
Mund’s specimens, both named by Bentham, and Miss Newdigate’s, all of which
agree well.

465. E, canaliculata (Andr. Heathery, t. 156, and Col. Heaths,
t. 157) ; ereet, reaching to 6 ft. high (Galpin) ; branches ascending,
greyish-puberulous, in some specimens floccose with minute com-
pound hairs, with many subverticillate spreading copiously floriferous
branchlets ; leaves erect-spreading, very straight, linear, deeply
sulcate or more or less open-backed, showing a paler tomentulose
under-surface, scabrid-puberulous above, sometimes becoming glabrous
and smooth, 2-3 lin. long; flowers apparently normally 3-nate, but
often by arrest of the lateral branchlets so crowded as to appear
umbellate with 4-6 flowers, subcorolline ; pedicels slender, puberu-
lous, 2-27 lin. long; bracts remote, minute ; calyx glabrous, roughly
papillose, pallid outside, red within, the central line closely adpressed
to the corolla, deeply 4-fid; segments ovate, acute, 2-4 times
_ the length of the tube, ciliate at the base, sides more or less strongly

Rrica.) ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus), 307

reflexed and the whole then tetragonous, 4-1 lin. long, reaching
generally about 3} the height of the corolla; corolla. broadish.
cyathiform or subcampanulate, tetragonous, rosy, 13-1 lin. long;
segments not, or only slightly, spreading, broad, about as long as the
tube; anthers subexserted or only manifest, dorsifixed well above
the base, oblong, obtuse, $-+ lin. long; style exserted, slender;
stigma simple ; ovary velvety or glabrous. Benth.in DC. Prodr. vii.
688. EH. melanthera, Lodd. t. 867? not of Linn. nor of Thunb,

Sourn Arnica: without locality, cultivated specimens !

Coast ‘Re@ion: George Div.; woods near George, 900 ft., Schlechter,
2329! Barbiers Kraal, near Devils Kop, Niven, 97! Humansdorp Div. ;
Witte Els Bosch, Zitzikamma, 500 ft., Galpin, 3698 !

We have taken as the type Andrews’ figure and Niven’s 97, named by Bentham,
and have described from these and the two more recent gatherings cited
above, which agree very closely. The species is a very distinct one by
its peculiar calyx. Galpin’s and Niven’s specimens both exhibit compound
hairs,

466. E. natalitia (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxiv. 187) ; erect ;
branches numerous, ascending, cano-puberulous ; leaves erect, or the
older spreading, linear to oblong, acute, deeply sulcate or open-
backed, mostly glabrous, sometimes hispidulous, 1-23 lin. long;
flowers 3-nate, sometimes umbellately clustered, subcalycine ; bracts
remote, basal, small; calyx more or less deeply 4-fid, about 8 lin.
long; segments deltoid or ovate, subacute, keeled or keel-tipped,
about equal to the tube or only a little shorter or longer; corolla
cyathiform or subobconic, pink, about } lin. long; segments di-
vergent, somewhat longer than the tube; anthers oblong, obtuse,
smooth, about 4 lin, long; pore less than 3 the length of the cell ;
style shortly exserted, sometimes dilated at the apex ; stigma peltate
or eyathiform ; ovary glabrous.

EASTERN Reaion : Natal; Indwedwe, 2000 ft., Wood, 990! near Emberton,
1000 ft., Schlechter, 3230! on mountains occasionally snowed, 4000-5000 ft.,
Sutherland! Zululand; N’Kandhla, Wood, 7301!

Distinct in the section by its small flowers, and proportionately large peltate
or cyathiform stigma. It connects with the § Arsace, differing by its calyx and
its subealycine flowers.

Section XLI. CYATHOLOMA. (Sp. 467-469.)

467. E. Thunbergii (Montin in Act. Nov. Upsal. ii. 292, t. 9,
fig. 2); erect, 6-12 in. high, entirely glabrous or the branches
sometimes downy ; leaves erect, imbricate, linear, sulcate, pallid or
subglancous, 2-3 lin, long ; flowers few or copious on short branch-
lets towards the ends of the branches, subcalycine ; pedicels slender,
spreading or decurved, 3-6 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate,
acute or acuminate, keel-tipped, subscarious, bright canary-yellow,
2-3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but oblong or ovate, large and
conspicuous, more acuminate, 23-3} lin. long; corolla subfunnel-

x

308 ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

shaped, the lower part somewhat globose, constricted above, yellowish,
15-2 lin. long, the upper part broad-cyathiform, red, 3 lin. long,
the whole 43-5 lin. long; segments erect, broad-ovate, divided from
a longer or shorter distance above the constriction, about 2-24 lin.
long; filaments slender, dilated at the apex; anthers dorsifixed
above the base, oblong, tapering to the apex, obtuse or subacute,
curved forwards (subprognathous) at the base, papillose, brown,
nearly 1 lin. long, muticous ; pore +—2 the length of the cell; style
subincluded; stigma simple; ovary turbinate, glabrous, shortly
stipitate. Linn. f. Suppl. 220; Bot. Mag. t. 1214; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 277 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 648. EF. Thunbergia, Andr.
Heathery, t. 244, and Col. Heaths, t. 282. HE. medioliflora, Salisb.
in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331. ;

Sour Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated speci-
mens !

Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, on the Cederberg Range,
3000 ft., Drége! Sneeuwkop, 5800 ft., Leipoldt, 617! Thode, 70! Bodkin in
Herb. Bolus, 6882!

CentRAL ReGion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Thunberg, chiefly on the
farms Waarde Drift and Rietfontein, 24-42 miles north of Ceres, 3000-3500 ft.,
Carson in Herb, MacOwan, 2778! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 959!

A very distinct species unlike any other in floral character, or in aspect, with
the single exception of E. flavisepala. Bentham in DC. Prodr. vii. 649,
quotes Hy, celsiana, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1777, as a variety of this, with a larger
rosy corolla-tube and darker limb, and with narrower, paler bracts and sepals.
He thought it perhaps a garden hybrid, and we have seen no specimens like it.
It is more unlike E. flavisepala in both aspects and structure,

468. E. Corydalis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn, Soe. vi. 334) ; erect,
8-10 in. high; branches ascending, subvirgate or sometimes spread-
ing, puberulous ; leaves recurved or squarrose, crowded or somewhat
lax, lanceolate to oblong, acute, flat or subconeave above, sulcate
below, thick, glabrous, glossy, 14-21 lin. long; flowers somewhat —
scanty along the branches, either (in well-grown specimens) on short
branchlets bearing only a few bract-like leaves, or (by arrest of the
branchlets) pseudo-lateral, corolline; pedicels rather stout, puberu-
lous, subviscid, 1-2 lin. long; braets approximate, ovate, viscid,
3% lin. long; sepals broad-ovate or obovate, acute, keel-tipped,
leathery, viseid, coloured, 1-11 lin, long; corolla subrotate ; tube
short hemispherical, about 1 lin. long; segments suddenly and
widely spreading, very broad and obtuse, about 11-12 lin. long, the
whole dry, white, 2-23 lin. long, when flattened out; anthers
manifest, very broad-oblong or subquadrate, with a dorsal and apical
ridge or entire crest, membranous at the apex, sometimes expanded —
into a wing-like process on either side, thickened downwards into
awns or muticous; cells separate, papillose-scabrid, 3 lin. long,
aristate or subcristate ; pore less than 4 the length of the cell; awns
or crests (when present) subulate, thick, entire or sometimes broader
and dentate, acute, about. 4 the length of the cell; style exserted

Erica.] ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). 309

siender ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vii. 649. KE. complanata, Nois. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 196? £.
crassifolia, Benth. l.c. 685, not of Andr.

South AFRica: without locality, Niven / and cultivated specimens !

Coast ReaGion : Caledon Div., 3000-4000 ft.; southern slopes of the Houw
Hoek Mountains, Bolus, 5452! Schlechter, 5453! mountains near Vogel Gat,
Klein River, Schlechter, 9548 !

It is probable that Salisbury’s type is Niven’s specimen in Herb. Kew. This
we have dissected, as also all the specimens cited above, besides one in Herb.
MacNab at Kew, and one in the Berlin Herbarium, both marked E. crassi-
folia, Andr., and are satisfied that all are identical. Bentham describes this
species under the name of E. Corydalis, and also under E. crassifolia, with
which it has a superficial resemblance: an easy mistake in so large and
intricate a genus, from which we ourselves can hardly expect to have escaped.
The species is very well marked, and quite different, upon dissection, from the
last-named; the hemispherical “tube” is differentiated from the limb by an
interior thin circular ridge and longitudinal nerves, and the anther is very
different. We cite E. complanata, Nois., upon Bentham’s authority, and can
only say that the description agrees, as far as it goes. ‘Ihe species connects this
section both with § Pachysa and § Trigemma.

469. E. flavisepala (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, slender, a foot or
more high; branches subfiliform, glabrous or minutely puberulous
at the apex; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate, linear or linear-lanceo-
late, acute, the younger mucronate and ciliate, the floral somewhat
dilated, 2-3 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate, clustered at the ends of short
branchlets, subcorolline ; pedicels glabrous, red, 2-3 lin. long ; bracts
remote, lanceolate, setaceous-acuminaté, concave, scarious, ciliate,
the hairs often barbellate or forked, pale yellow, about 3 lin. long ;
sepals like the bracts or sometimes a little broader and shorter ;
corolla ovoid-urceolate, but little contracted at the throat, dry,
glabrous, red, 4—44 lin. long; segments slightly spreading or erect,
somewhat concave, ovate, acute, subcordate, about 4 of the tube in
length; filaments capillary; anthers subcuneate-linear, or narrow-
oblong; cells deeply parted, very slightly bilobed but scarcely
prognathous at the base, about % lin. long, aristate; pore scarcely
3 the length of the cell; awns inserted well above the base of the
cell, subulate, projecting backwards, about 3 the length of the cell ;
style straight, red; stigma capitellate, small; ovary subturbinate,
shortly stipitate, glabrous.

CENTRAL Region: Ceres Div.; sent with E. Uhunbergit and said to
grow with it on the Cold Bokkeveld, Herb. Bolus, 6893! and Cape Govt.
Herb, !

This species, of which we have seen only one (but a good) specimen, is a very
well-marked one, but difficult to place satisfactorily in any of the sections. In
general aspect it is strikingly similar to E. Thunbergii ; but has not the peculiar
globose corolla-tube of either of the other species of this section. From
§ Ceramus it recedes by its large loose bracts and sepals, by its corolla but little
constricted at the throat, and in aspect is unlike any other species described
there. Krom § Trigemma it differs by its lax and bright coloured bracts and
sepals and its shortly stipitate ovary.

310 ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Eriea.

Imperfectly known species.

. abrotanoides, Burm. f. Prodr. Cap. 11.

. adenophora, Spreng. Syst. ii. 188.

. Aphanes, Spreng. Syst. ii. 196.

. appressa, Spreng. Syst. iv. Cur. Post. 146.

. bicalyculata, Moench, Meth. Suppl. 18.

. boucheana, Regel in Gartenfl. 1852, 73.

. ealyciflora, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 617.

candida, Spreng. Pugill. i. 30.

. carneola, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 5 ; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii.

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io)
be bt bet bet ett tt tot dot

. cinerascens, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 21.
. cistifolia, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 369.
E. comosa, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 12, 7.

E. conifera, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 632, Said to be allied to Z.
denticulata, L.

E, decolorans, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 21; name only.
Hab. ?

E. dicranifolia, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 634. We have seen the
type of this, which is not sufficient for treatment.

E, Edelinia, Bonpl. Descr. Pl. Rar. Malm. 48, t. 16.

E. epiptera, Willd. Enum. Hort, Berol. Suppl. 21. Name
only,

E. erubescens, Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 1826.

E. exposita, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1521.

E. exquisita, Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1882, 362.

E. faireana, Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1882, 363.

E. Fergusoni, Gentil. & Carr, in Rev. Hort. 1882, 407.

E. filifolia, Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1856, 29. Hab. ?
E. finitima, Lodd. ex G. Don in Loud, Hort. Brit. 153.

E. flocciflora, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 629. Hab.? Near Z£.
daphniflora. |

E. galiiflora, Bart]. in Linnea, vii, 643.

E. globosa, Burm. f, Prodr. Cap. 11.

E, globosa, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 408,

E. gracilis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 244, not of Wendl. nor of Salisb.
E. hirtifolia, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. 370.

Erica.] ERICACERX (Guthrie & Bolus). 311

E. hispida, Burm. f. Prodr. Cap. 11.

E. innocens, Hoffmgg. Verz. Pfl. Nachtr. ii. 111.

E. insulsa, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 12.

E. jasminiflora, var. minor, Andr. Heathery, t. 220.

E. jasminoides, Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1882, 362. Hab. ?
E. lanceolaris, Steud. Nom. ed. i. 306.

E. lanceolata, Pers. Syn. i. 424. Hab. ?

E. laricea, Burm. f. Prodr. Cap. 11.

E. laricina, Spreng. f. Tent. Suppl. Syst. 12.

E. laxa, Thunb. Prodr. 189.

E. leucophylla, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 507.

E. litoralis, Regel, Cat. Pl. Hort. Aksakov. 55 (name only).

. longipedunculata, Wender. ex Steud. Nom. ed. ii. i. 575. E.
longipedicellata, Hoffmgg. Verz. Pf. 59. Hab. ?

. lychnidea, Wendl. ex Steud. Nom. ed. i. 307 (name only).
. lycopodioides, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. 874.

. microcalyx, Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1856, 29.

. mollissima, Lodd. ex G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 150.

. mutica, Tauseh in Flora, 1834, 597.

. nitens, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 16. Hab. ?

. ochroleuca, Wendl. f: ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 687.
octagona, Lodd. ex G. Don in Loud, Hort. Brit. 147.
Pabsti, Regel, Gartenfl. 1858, 50.

. pallens, Spreng. Pugill. i. 30, not of Andr.

. Paxtoni, Gentilh. & Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1882, 407. Hab. ?
. pellucida, var. rubra, Andr. Heathery, t. 277.

. pellucidoides, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 18.

. polytricha, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. ii. 338.

. protrudens, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 372.

. pulverulenta, Sinclair, Hort. Eric, Wob. 20.

. quadriflora, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 379.

. Rachii, Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1856, 30. Hab.?
. retusa, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 598.

E. Rinzii, Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1857, 48. Hab. ?
E. rollisonia, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 21.

E. russelliana, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1013.

E. saturejefolia, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 656.

bs

HAR ARP ee ee ee eee eo oe od

312 ERICACEEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

E. scabra, F. W. Schmidt, Neue u. Selt. Pfl. 42.
E. scabriuscula, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 372.
E. spherantha, Spreng. Syst. iv. Cur. Post. 146.

E. spiralis, Lodd. ex G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 153 (name
only).

E. splendida, Mackay ex G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 146
(name only).

E. struthioleflora, Lodd. ex G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 148.
E. suleata, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. 371.
E. superba, Hoffmgg. Verz. Pfl. Nachtr. iii. 35.

E. syndriana, Hort. ex Gentilh. & Carr. in Rev. Hortic. 1882,
306. Hab. ?

E. tenera, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 580. E. spherantha, Link ex
Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, 580. Hab. ?

E. tenuis, Moeneh, Meth. Suppl. 17. Hab. ?
E. teucriifolia, Spreng. Pugill. i. 31.
E. torosa, Moench, Meth. Suppl. 18. Hab. ?

E. tortuosa, Lodd. ex G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 153 (name
only).

E. triphylla, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol, i. 360. Probably belong:
ing to § Ephebus. Described from a cultivated specimen.

E. uniflora, Burm. f. Prodr. Cap. 11.

E. ursina, Lee ex Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i, 263 (name only).

E. venoza, Gentilh, & Carr. in Rev. Hortic. 1882, 406. Hab. ?
E. ventrosa, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. ii. 341. Hab. ?

E. verniciflua, Salisb. in Trans. Liun. Soc. vi. 319, 335. E.
glutinosa, Roxb. ex Salisb. l.c.

E. Vernoni, Gentilh & Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1882, 408. Hab. ?
E. vesicularis, Salisb. in ‘Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 319, 335; Benth.
in DC, Prodr. vii. 661. H. eonacea, Hort. ex Salisb, 1.c. 335.

Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div.; mountains near Stellenbosch, Mulder, ex
Salisbury.

This is not in Herb. Salisbury at Kew, and we have been able to find no
farther clue to it.

E. vestitoides, Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1856, 30. Hab. ?

E. virgata, Wendl. ex Spreng. Syst. ii. 197,

Supposed Hybrids.

KE, acuminata, Andr. Heathery, t. 101, and Col. Heaths, t. 145; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 216.

Erica. | _ ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 313

K. ACUMINATA, var. ANGUSTIFLORA, Andr, Heathery, t. 251.
E. ACUMINATA, var. LONGIFLORA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron, 1843, 461.
K. apsuvans, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 502.
KE. ampieua, Wendl. Bric. Ic. fasc. 16, 61, t., 24.
Pn AMPULLACEA, vars. RUBRA and virTaTa, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843,
E. AMPULLACEOIDES, Rolliss. l.c,
E. ANDREwSst, Klotzsch in Linnga, x. 314. E. andrewsiana, Rolliss. 1.c.
HE. ARcHERIA, Andr. Heathery, t. 3.
EK. ARCHERIANA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1466.
KE, ARISTATA, var. MINOR, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
KE. aristeLua, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 2. E. equestris, Klotzsch in Linnea,
x, 350. EH. eximia, Load. Bot. Cab. t. 1105.
E. Banponia, Andr. Heathery, t. 205, and Col. Heaths, t. 220.
E. BATEMANIA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
= BravumonmiA, Andr, Heathery, t. 253, and Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843,
E. BEAUMONTIANA, Rolliss. ex Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1686.
EK. BLANDA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
E. BUCCINIFLORA, Bot. Mag. t. 2465 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 1127.
E. BuRNETTII, Hort. ex Plauch. in Fl. Serres, viii. 261, t. 845. 2. Hartnello-

hiemalis, Planch, 1.c.
CALOSTOMA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1759.
. CARINATA, Lodd. l.c. t. 1071.
CAVENDISHIANA, Paxt. Mag. xiii. 3. (£. Cavendishii on the plate.)
. CELSIANA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t, 1777.
. CLOWESIANA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
. CRINITA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 14382.
- CRUCIFORMIS, Andr. Heathery, t. 258, and Col. Heavhs, t.228. HE, cwnei-
jJormis, Benth. in DO. Prodr, vii. 648.
E. cULCIT#FLORA, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 357.
E. CURVIFLORA, var. RUBRA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
E. cytinprica, Andr. Heathery, t. 60; Lodd. Bot. Cab. te 1734; Rolliss. in
Gard. Chron. 1843, 461, not of others.
. DAPHNOIDES, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 154.
. DENSA, Rolliss. i in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
DEPRESSA, var. RUBRA, Rolliss. ].c.
Dovetasta, T. Moore in Moore & Ayres, Bot. Mag. iii. 9, t. 1, fig. 1.
DUCALIS, Klotzsch in Linuwa, x. 347.
DUNBARIANA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
ECHIIFLORA, var. CARNBA, Rolliss. ].c,
EFFusA, Nichols. Dict. Gard. i. 522.
EPIsTomia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1186.
EXCELSA, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 596.
EXSURGENS, var. COCCINEA, Kolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1848, 461.
FAVOIDES and vars. ELEGANS and PURPUREA, Rolliss. 1.c.
FORBESIANA, Klotzsch ir Linnea, x. 349.
FoRMOSA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
GRANDIFLORA, var. HUMILIS, Rolliss. ].c.
HartTNewuu, Rolliss. l.c.
Hirsuta, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 754.
HYACINTHOIDES, Andr. Heathery, t. 167, and Col. Heaths, t. 174.
HYBRIDA, Rolliee, i in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
. IMPULSA, Rolliss. l.c.
INFLATA and var. RUBRA, Rolliss. l.c.
IneRamI, Hort. ex Morr. "Belg. Hortic. vii. 322, t. 52, fig. 1.
. INTERTEXTA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1034.

. JACKSONIT, Paxt. Mag. viii. 149.
- SASMINIFLOMA, vars. NANA and RUBRA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843,

Lobis ua

Bi SS ie et

461,

314 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica.

F¥. LampertiA, Andr. Heathery, t. 171, and Col. Heaths, t. 104. EH. lam-
bertiana, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 3.

E. LAWRENCEANA, Rolliss, in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

E. LAXIFLORA, Buck in DC. Prodr. Index, iii. 167. E. prestans, var. laxiflora,
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 647.
. LEUCOSTOMA, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 596.
LINN#/[A, var. SUPERBA, Andr. Heathery, t. 268, and Col. Heaths, t. 243.
LINNHZ ANA, Var. CURVIFLORA, Rolliss. in Gard. ‘Chron. 1843, 461.
LINNHANA, var. SUPERBA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1778; Rolliss, l.c.
LINN&ZOIDES, Andr. Heathery, t. 123.
MACNABIANA, Paxt. Mag. vii. 125.
MAGNiFIcA, Andr. Heathery, t. 228, and Col. Heaths, t. 244.
MARNOCKIANA, T. Moore in Moore & Ayres, Mag. Bot. iii. 9, t. 1, fig. 2.
METULEFLORA, and var. BICOLOR, Kolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1848, 461.
MIRABILIS, Andr. Heathery, t. 271, and Col. Heaths, t. 246.
MOOREANA, Lem. Jard. Fleur. iii. t. 259, fig. 2.
MULTUMBELLIFERA, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 628.
MURRAYANA, Thunb. ex Paxt. Mag. xi. 77.
MUTABILIS, Andr. Heathery, t. 176, and Col. Heaths, t. 187 ; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 46; Bot. Mag. t. 2348; Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461, not of
Salisb.

E. oBLONGA, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 17.
__E. ostrina, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

KE. patiipa, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1355.

E, PATBERSONIA, var. coccinEA, Andr. Heathery, t. 134, ei Col. Heaths,
t. 196.

. PATERSONIADES, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 18.

. PERSPICUA, Sinclair, l.c.; Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1813, 461.

. PERSPICUA, var. MAJOR, Kiotzseh i in Linnea, ix. 674.

4 PERSPICUOIDES, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 18.

. PINEA, and var. PURPUREA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 18438, 461.

. PINGUIS, Klotzsch in Linnwa, x . 851. E. clowieana, Hort. ex Benth. in
DC. Prodr. vii. 643.

E. PINIFOLIA, vars, COCCINEA, DISCOLOR and ELEGANs, Rolliss. in Gard.
Chron. 1843, 461.

E. princeps, Andr. Heathery, t. 140, and Col. Heaths, t. 121; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 647.

E. PRINCEPS, var. CARNEA, Rolliss. in Gurd. Chron. 1843, 461.

E. primuboipes, Andr. Heathery, t. 233, and Col. Heaths, t. 203; Bot.
Mag. t. 1648; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 715. EE. dilecta, Hort. ex Klotzsch in
Linnea, xii. 621.

Bi. PsEupoveEstiTA, Benth. in Maund, Bot. iii. 104.

E. PULCHERRIMA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

E. puNICEA, Rolliss, ].¢.

E. QUADRANGULARIS, Andr. Heathery, t. 280, and Col. Heaths, t. 260. E.
erosa, Lodd. Bot. Cab, .t. 133.

BK, RADIATA, Andr. l.c. t. 42, le. t. 52. #. calamiformis, Salisb. in Trans.
Linn. Soe. vi. 362.

KE. RADIATA, var. DISCOLOR, Andr, l.c. t. 281, l.c. t. 261.

REFULGENS, Andr. l.c. t. 284, l.c. t. 264. —.

RETORTA, Var, MAJOR, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
RIGIDA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1286.

Rot.issonti, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

rosea, Andr. Heathery, t. 82; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 782.

. RUBERCALYX, Andr, l.c. t. 285, and Col. Heaths, t. 266.
. RUBIDA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1166.

E, RUBROCALLA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

£. RuBrocaLyx, Gentilh. & Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1882, 306.
E. RuBBOSsEPALA, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 339.

E, rugosa, Andr. Heathery, t. 236, and Col. Heaths, t. 267.

bet fet be ed ad bt bd bt dt

be be be be bd ed

bf et bat a bs

Erica. ] ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 315

E, RUSSELLIANA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

E. sANGUINEA, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 86.

E. stMuLATA, I’. Moore in Moore & Ayres, Mag. Bot. iii. 9, t. 1, fig. 3.

E, SPENCERIANA, Planch. in FI, Serres, t. 2323.

KE. SPRENGELLI, Endl. in Harting. Parad. Vindob. t. 67, fig. 2; Rolliss. in
Gard. Chron. 1843, 461,

H. spurta, Andr. Heathery, t. 90, and Col. Heaths, t. 62; Rolliss. 1.c.

KH. stELLIFERA, Andr. l.c. 291, l.c. 276; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1622, E. bibrac-
teata, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 516.

E. suAVEOLENS, Andr. l.c. t. 292, l.c. t. 277; Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
- SwaunsoniA, Andr. Le. t. 242, lc. t. 209. E. swainsoniana, Rolliss. ].c.
- TEMPLEA, Lee ex Andr. l.c. t. 293, l.c. t. 280.
- TENUIFLORA, var. CARNUA, Andr. l.c. t. 294, le. t. 281.
- Thomsonit, Lem, Jard. Fleur, iii. t, 259, fig. 1.
- TORTULIFLORA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.
TRANSLUCENS, Andr, Heathery, t. 295.
. TRANSPARENS, Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 283.
- TRICOLOR, and vars. ELEGANS, IMPRESSA, MAJOR aud SUPERBA, Rolliss. in
Gard. Chron, 1843, 461.

KE. trRossuta, Lodd. Bot. Cab. tt. 668, aud var. RUBRA, t. 1742. 2B. trassula,
Klotzsch in Linnea, xii, 515.

E. rusirtora, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

K. tusurosa, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 16, 57, t. 22.

HE. tuRGioLA, Rolliss. in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

#. unpuata, Andr. Heathery, t. 300, and Col. Heaths, t. 288; Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 1792.

E. VENTRICOSA, vars. ALBA, CARNEA, NANA, PURPUREA, and STELLIFERA,
Rolliss, in Gard. Chron. 1843, 461.

E. VERNIX, var. RUBRA, Rolliss. l.c. :

EK. VESTITA, vars. BLANDA, ELEGANS, FULGIDA, INCARNATA and ROSEA, Rolliss.
l.e.

K. weppiana, Rolliss. l.c.

KE. westPHALinetA, Hort. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 639.

KE. WituMorel, Knowles & Westcott, Fl. Cab. ii, (1838) 115. E. vilmoreana,
E. villmoriniana, E. willmoreana and E. willmoriana, Hort. ex Carr. in Rev.
Hort. 1892, 335.

tet Set bet ty ad dt

Il. PHILIPPIA, Klotzsch.
By N. E. Brown, A.L.S.

Pedicels ebracteate. Calyx unequally 4-lobed or 4-partite, one
segment distinctly larger than the others and outside them. Corolla
very small, 4-lobed. Stamens 8; filaments free or connate ; anthers
bifid or bipartite, without dorsal or basal spurs, opening by oblique
pores. Ovary 4-celled; style exserted, persistent; stigma large,
peltate or saucer-shaped ; ovules 2 or more in each cell. Capsule
loculicidally 4-valved ; seeds 1 or more in each cell.

Shrubs or undershrubs with the habit of Hrica; leaves shortly petiolate,
grooved down the very convex back; flowers very small, in small terminal
clusters.

Distrib. Species between 30 and 40, several of them in Tropical Africa, more
numerous in the Mascarene Islands.

Leaves hispid with long gland-tipped hairs... ... (1) leeana.

Leaves not hispid with gland-tipped hairs : :
Branchlets with short gland-tipped hairs ie () Evansii.

316 ERICACEX (Brown). [ Philippia.

Branchlets with minute white tomentum, with-
out gland-tipped hairs :
Calyx-lobes unequal; staminal-filaments all

connate es wi et ae. ... (3) Chamissonis.
Calyx-lobes subequal: staminal-filaments
free or some connate for 4 their length ... (4) tristis.

1. P. leeana (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 213); branchlets ascending
or spreading, usually curved, minutely or conspicuously pubescent
with spreading glandular hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, 2-1 lin.
long, ovate, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, some-
what turgid, hispid on the back with rather long gland-tipped hairs,
puberulous on the upper surface ; flowers 1-6 together at the tips of
the branchlets; pedicels 3-1 lin. long, varying from glandular-
pubescent to nearly glabrous ; calyx-lobes thin, with the keel or tip
thick and coriaceous, very broadly ovate or subquadrate-oblong,
acute or obtuse, variably connate or nearly free, ciliate with long
gland-tipped hairs, otherwise glabrous, the larger 1—% lin, long,
3~ lin. broad ; corolla 2—8 lin. long, * lin. in diam., campanulate or
broadly cup-shaped, 4-lobed to about 4 of the way down, glabrous ;
lobes very obtuse, very minutely denticulate ; stamens not exserted ;
filaments broad, entirely connate; anthers 1—2 lin. long, oblong,
bifid to nearly -way, connate ; ovary subglobose, 4-grooved, glabrous ;
style very much exserted, 1-11 lin. long, glabrous or pubescent ;
stigma circular, 2 lin. in diam., flat or nearly so, with 4 minute
central tubercles; seeds often solitary, rather large. Benth. in DC.
Prodr, vii. 695. Erica absinthoides, E. Meyer ex Klotzsch in
Linnea, xii. 213.

Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, 1000-2000 ft., Drége!
Hottentots Holland Mountains, Bolus in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 44! Caledon
Div. ; by the Palmiet River, Schlechter, 5430! Ecklon § Zeyher (ex Klotzsch) ;
Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8143! Schlechter, 9895! Zwart Berg, near
Caledon Baths, 1000 tt., Zeyher, 3329! Galpin, 3715! MacOwan Sf Bolus,
Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 755! Schlechter, 9772! 10361! Guthrie, 2508! hills

near Caledon, Bolus, 9907! Ecklon § Zeyher (ex Klotzsch); near Genadendal,
Ecklon & Zeyher (ex Klotzsch).. :

This has been distributed in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. as Scyphogyne
divaricata, Benth.

2. P. Evansii (N. HE. Br.); branchlets spreading when young,
becoming ascending, shortly glandular-hairy ; leaves 3-nate, ascend-
ing or spreading, #—1 lin. long, linear-oblong, very minutely gland-
denticulate on the margins, otherwise glabrous; flowers 1-3 to-
gether, terminal; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, glabrous; calyx-lobes
coriaceous, broadly ovate, subacute, grooved down the back, minutely
gland-ciliate, the larger 4—} lin. long, 4 lin. broad, nearly twice as
long as the rest; corolla globose-campanulate, about 1 lin, long and
5 lin. in diam., 4-lobed to nearly 3-way down, glabrous, pale greenish ;
lobes broader than long, very obtuse; stamens not exserted ; fila-
ments } lin. long, free; anthers 2 lin. long, bifid to 4-way down,
free ; ovary globose, 4-grooved, glabrous; style about equalling the
corolla ; stigma peltate, orbicular, 4 lin. in diam,

Philippia.] ERICACEX (Brown). 317

iS — Recion : Natal; near Ulundi, 5000-6000 ft., Evans, 62! in Herb.
olus,

3. P. Chamissonis (Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 856); a large shrub
(tree, ex Niven); branchlets densely crowded, erect or ascending,
densely white-puberulous with minute deflexed hairs ; leaves 3-nate,
crowded, imbricately adpressed, 3-14 lin. long, linear, obtuse, flat,
with a raised midrib above, glabrous and smooth or minutely scabrid,
often with wrinkled sides in the dried state, subentire or very
minutely scabrid on the margins; flowers in terminal clusters of
3-7; pedicels } lin, long, glabrous; calyx-lobes coriaceous, the
larger about }—% lin. long, 3 lin. broad, very broadly ovate, obtusely
pointed, slightly grooved down the back towards apex, glabrous
or minutely scabrid; corolla campanulate-globose, glabrous ; tube
2 lin. long; lobes 4 lin. long, rounded or broadly ovate, obtuse ;
stamens as long as the corolla or slightly exserted ; filaments connate ;
anthers 1—2 lin. long, bifid to }-way down, connate below; ovary
globose, glabrous; style shortly exserted, 4-1 lin. long; stigma
% lin. in diam., crater-like, with or without 4 small papille or larger
radiating processes at the bottom of the cup. Klotzsch in Linnwa,
xii. 213; Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 788; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.
695. Hrica virgata, var. 8, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 19. E. absinth-
oides, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 349. EH. tristis, Bartl. in
Linnea, vii. 643; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 691. E. cupressifolia,
Wendl. ex Klotzsch, l.c. 213.

Sovurn ArFrica: without locality, Thwnberg! Chamisso (ex Klotzsch),
Mace! Roxburgh! Ecklon 5 Zeyher! Burchell, seed 1808! and cultivated
specimen ! -

Coast Reeion: Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Guthrie, 1164! Table Mountain,
Niven, 218! Harvey! Camps Bay, Burchell, 848! Fish Hoek, Niven, 90!
Muizen Berg, 400 ft., Bolus, 4477! Caledon Div.; Hot springs near Caledon,
Ecklon!

4. P. tristis (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 187) ; branchlets
crowded, subparallel, covered with a minute dense white tomentum,
becoming brown and glabrous ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, }—11 lin.
long, linear, obtuse, glabrous, very minutely denticulate ; flowers 2-3
in a cluster, lateral and terminal; pedicels 1—} lin. long, glabrous ;
calyx-lobes subequal, subcoriaceous, 1—1 lin. long, + lin. broad, ovate,
obtuse, glabrous, minutely ciliate ; corolla about 3 lin. long and the
same in diam., subglobose-campanulate ; lobes about } lin. long and
broad, broadly ovate, obtuse ; stamens about as long as the corolla ;
filaments nearly + lin. long, adnate to the bottom of the corolla and
some of them sometimes connate for half their length, free above ;
anthers 1 lin. long, bifid to nearly half-way down, cohering at the
middle, becoming free when in fruit; ovary globose, 4-grooved,
glabrous ; style 3 lin. long, shortly exserted; stigma 3-3 lin. in
diam., funnel-shaped, with ineurved margin or crater-like; seeds
usually solitary in each cell.

CyentraL Recion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; Koudveld Mountains, 4500 ft.,
Bolus, 2594! wie

318 ERICACEH (Brown). [ Hricinella.

III. ERICINELLA, Klotzsch.

Pedicels ebracteate. Calyx unequally 3-4-partite or -lobed, one
sepal distinctly larger than the rest. Corolla very small, 3—4-lobed.
Stamens 4-6; tilaments free; anthers free or connate, with or
without basal spurs. Ovary 3-4-celled; style persistent; stigma
peltate. Ovules several in each cell. Oapsule 3-4-celled, 3-4-
valved.
- Shrubs or undershrubs with the habit of Erica; leaves grooved down the
convex back ; flowers very small, in small terminal clusters, |

Distrip. Species 5 or 6, the others in Tropical Africa and Madagascar,

Corolla campanulate, with erect lobes; style much

exserted my oe ie fe (We ... (1) multiflora,
Corolla obconic-clavate, with incurved lobes; style
not exserted ies vee ite sis ... (2) passerinoides.

1. E. multiflora (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 223); very densely
branched ; branchlets puberulous, becoming glabrous; leaves 3-nate,
adpressed, imbricate, including the petiole *—1+ lin. long, + lin.
broad, linear, obtuse, glabrous, ciliate when young; flowers in
terminal clusters of 3-9 ; pedicels 1-1 lin. long, minutely puberulous ;
sepals 4, unequal, minutely ciliate, the larger +— lin. long, linear or
linear-lanceolate, more or less leaf-like, at least at the apex, the
others about half as long and more narrowed to the obtuse apex ;
corolla eampanulate, glabrous; tube 3 lin. long; lobes erect, about
1 lin. long, rounded; stamens 4, equalling the corolla; filaments
2 lin. long, free, filiform ; anthers nearly + lin. long and as’ mueh in
breadth at the tup, cuneate-subquadrate, bifid to half-way down, very
obtuse, with awn-like spurs at the base, slightly and very minutely
scabrid ; ovary subglobose, adpressed, pubescent ; style very much
exserted, 1 lin. long; stigma broadly obconic, triangular, + lin. in
diam.; ovules about 8 in each cell. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii.
697.

Coast ReGion: Queenstown Div.; Winterberg, Ecklon S Zeyher !

2. E. passerinoides (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Sve. xviii. 393); a
densely branched erect shrub, about 2 ft. high; branchlets at first
minutely tomentose, soon becoming glabrous; leaves 3-nate, ad-
pressed, imbrieate, including the petiole 3-1 lin. long, + lin. broad,
oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, flat on the face, very minutely ciliate ;
flowers in small terminal clusters of 3-9, drooping; pedicels 3—1 lin.
long, eurved, puberulous; sepals 4, unequal or rarely subequal,
narrowly oblong, obtuse, minutely ciliolate, the larger 2 to nearly
1 lin. long, usually leaf-like at the upper half; corolla obsonic-
clavate, 4-lobed, glabrous, pink (Bolus); tube % lin. long; lobes
incurved, 1 lin. long, rounded; stamens 4, included ; filaments
4 lin. long, free, filiform; anthers nearly 1 lin. long and broad at
the top, broadly cuneate, bifid to half-way down, very obtuse,

Fricinella. | ERICACER (Brown). - 319

with awn-like spurs at the base, very minutely scabrid; ovary
subglobose, slightly 4-grooved, puberulous; style just reaching the
tips of the eorolla-lobes, about 3 lin. long, glabrous; stigma
peltate, + lin. in diam. ; ovules 8-9 in each cell.

CENTRAL Reaion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Koudeveld Mountains, 5000 ft.,
Bolus, 2582!

IV. BLZAERIA, Linn.

Pedicels 3- (rarely 2-) bracteate. Calyx equally 4-lobed or 4-
partite. Corol/a small, tubular or campanulate, shortly 4-lobed, often
4-angled. Stamens 4-6; filaments free, glabrous; anthers usually
much exserted, bipartite, with or without basal spurs, opening by
oblique pores or short slits. Ovary 4-celled; cells 2-5-ovuled;
style filiform, persistent, iong and much exserted, except in one
species, glabrous ; stigma simple or slightly enla