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 
