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, 
