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 
