were sent by him to Kew from the National Botanic 
Garden, Kirstenbosch, in 1915. One of the plants raised 
from these seeds has now reached a height of about 
eighteen inches and fiowered in a greenhouse in January, 
1919. Its flowers are rather large and effective, and 
should the plant prove floriferous it will be a welcome 
addition to the number of winter-flowering heaths in 
cultivation. Among the Cape species of Lica already 
described, now nearly 500, /. Haroldiana (named after its 
discoverer, who is also commemorated in the genus by F. 
Pearsoniana, L. Bolus) is clearly most nearly allied to L. 
nobilis, Guthrie and Bolus, a little-known plant which, like 
that now described, is found on the Cederberg Range. It 
may, however, easily be distinguished by the characters 
mentioned above. /. Monsoniana, Linn., of which the 
variety exserta, Klotzsch, is figured at t. 1915 of this 
Magazine as E. Monsoniae, is also an ally, but, particularly 
when young, its branches are covered with a floccose 
pubescence, its much shorter leaves are ciliate, and its 
flowers terminate very short lateral branches arising 
below the tips of the shoots. £: glauca, Andr., figured 
at t. 580 of this work, is a pretty species belonging to 
the same section, but quite distinct. Other Ericas re- 
corded from the Cederberg Range are /. verecunda, Salisb., 
EE. Thunbergii, Montin, and £. inflata, Thunb., all ob- 
viously different from /. Haroldiana, though F. inflata 
resembles it in habit, umbellate inflorescence, and some- 
what in the corolla which, however, is smaller, while the 
calyx and bracts are quite dissimilar. /. /aroldiana 
seems to be quite happy and is making good growth, 
under the cool greenhouse treatment accorded the other 
members of this genus from 8. Africa. 
Description.—Shrub 1} ft. high or somewhat taller, erect, much branched ; 
twigs erect, rigid, densely leafy, pale brown, glabrous. Leaves ternate, very 
shortly stalked, at first erect, at length spreading, linear-subulate, including 
the petiole from }—4 in. long, usually about 4 in. long. ,,-;; in. wide, shortly 
aristate, slightly flattened above, deeply grooved beneath, glaucous, rather 
thick, shortly hairy along the furrow, elsewhere glabrous. Inflorescence 
terminal, umbellate, loosely 4—5-flowered. Flowers rather large and striking, 
nodding; pedicels } in. long, glabrous, red; bracts 2, opposite, situated below 
the middle of the pedicel, oblong-lanceolate, concave, acute, over } in. long, 
5-35 in. wide, glabrous, white flushed with red, greenish at tip and base. 
Calyx 4-partite almost to the base, over } in. long, glabrous; lobes slightly 
unequal, oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, ;4;—} in. wide, adpressed to the 
corolla-tube, in colour like the bracts. Corolla } in. long, white, the tube 
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