180 MR. H. BOLUS’S CONTRIBUTIONS 
incluse, inciso-cristate ; ovarium tomentosum ; stylus inclusus, 
stigmate parvo capitatus. (Hx exempl. unico, Baur 218.) 
Hab. Ad ripas flum. Ingxu et Tsita prope sedem Missionis 
“Sancti Augustini” dictam, alt. circ. 700 metr., flor. Maio-J unio, 
Rev. R. Baur No. 218. 
This species comes near to E. cernua, Linn. f., and E. sphero- 
cephala, Wendl., differing from either by its shorter, more ap- 
pressed leaves, larger sepals and bracts, its tomentose ovary, and 
its heads frequently disposed along the branches instead of being 
invariably terminal. 
Erica (§ Pachysa) URNA-VIRIDIS, Bolus, n. sp.  Suffrutex 
erectus, ramosus, glaber, 8-5-pedalis. Folia 4na, linearia, ob- 
tusa, erecto-patentia; flores terminales, 3ni, swpissime longi- 
uscule pedicellati, pedicellis 6-8 millim. longi, infra medium 3- 
bracteati; sepala ovata, subobtusa, 3 millim. longa, cum corolla 
viscosissima; corolla inflato-urceolata, limbo erecto, circa 1'8 
centim. longa; anthers incluse, cristate; ovarium oblongo- 
obovatum, stipitatum. (Ex exempll. plur. viv.) 
Hab. In montibus Peninsul® Capensis (Muizenberg &c.), alt. 
250-400 metr., flor. Sept.-Mart., Bolus 3355. Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr. No. 42. 
Flowers a bright clear green! In this respect I have never 
seen any variation. I find it very difficult to distinguish this 
species by good technical characters from the old and well-known 
E. physodes, Linn. Few who know them on their native hills 
would regard them as conspecific; while many who have seen 
them only in herbaria would disapprove their separation. I 
shall endeavour to point out their chief differences :— 
E. urna-viridis. ' E. physodes. 
Tall and lanky, 3-5 ft., with strag- Short; rarely over 2ft.; branches 
gling, spreading branches. very erect and approximate. 
Pedicels 6-8 millim. long. Pedicels 1-4 millim. long. 
Corolla always green. Corolla always white. 
Flowers from Sept. to March. Flowers only in the winter—July to 
Aug. 
Zone of growth 600 to 1300 ft. Zone of growth, 2300 to 2800 ft. 
They do not grow, so far as my observations go, on the same 
mountain, nor have I met with them nearer than five or six miles 
from each other, nor anywhere else than on the Cape Peninsula, 
and quite possibly both species are confined to it. 
