Hrica.| ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 59 
verticillate towards the end of the branches; pedicels about 1 lin. 
long ; bracts subapproximate to subremote, linear, acute, scarious, 
13 lin. long; sepals lanceolate or . linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
foliaceous above, submembranous below, glabrous, about 3 lin. long ; 
corolla clavate-tubular, curved, glabrous, dry or viscidulous, red or 
red-purple, 10-12 lin. long; anthers subexserted, lateral, oblong, 
muticous, pallid, pore more than half the length of the cell, about 
1 lin. long; ovary cylindrical, longer than wide, often or always 
shortly stipitate, glabrescent. Andr. Heathery, t. 81; Wendl. EKric. Ic. 
fasc. 15, 39, t. 15; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 627. E. phylicefolia, 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 364. EH. formosa, Andr. Heathery, 
t. 114, and Ool. Heaths, t. 94, not of Thunb. EE. Salisburia, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 288, and Col. Heaths, t. 271, . pinea, var. purpurea, 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1259, not of Thunb., nor of Wendl. EE. acutifolia, 
Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 651? EE, rigidiuscula, Wendl. ex Klotsch in 
Linnea, ix. 647. E. coccinea, a, Thunb. Herb. ex Rach in Linnea, 
xxvi. 774. EH. superba, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 340. 
Coast Reeton, frequent, ascending to 3500 ft.: Cape Div.; region of Cape 
Town, &c., Thunberg, Burchell, 455! Niven, 179! Drége! Bolus, 4475! 4516! 
Wilms, 3439! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 192! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Hottentots Holland, Mulder! Lowrys Pass, Galpin, 3526! Also cultivated 
specimens ! 
CrentRAL REGIon : Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 8878! 
Allied to E. coccinea and EZ. annectens, from either of which it may be dis- 
tinguished by the sepals. The best figure of the plant, as known to us in its wild 
state, is Andr. Heathery, t. 114. 
Mr. G, F. Scott-Elliot observes of this species: ‘‘ I have often seen the flowers 
visited by Nectarinea chalybea [a species of ‘ sugar-bird ’] at Wynberg Butts and 
Muizenberg, Owing to the upward curvature the bird has to seize the branch 
above the tlowers and suck them head downwards, ‘This is an advantage to the 
flower, as self-fertilization is quite impossible, while in E. Plukeneti it must 
occasionally happen.” (Ann. Bot. iv. 270.) 
23. E. coccinea (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 92); erect, 2-3 ft. high ; 
branches ascending, thickly pubescent ; leaves 6-nate, erect-spread- 
ing or squarrose-upeurved, crowded, linear, acute, stout and rigid, 
glabrous, 5-6 lin. long ; inflorescence verticillate, crowded at the 
ends of the branches ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long; bracts from approxi- 
mate to remote, oblanceolate, acuminate, nerved, viscid, pubescent, 
ciliolate, 2-3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, villous, gland- 
margined, very viscid, 4-5 lin. long; corolla tubular, widening 
upwards, slightly curved, pubescent, or sometimes glabrous, viscidu- 
lous, bright red, 10-13 lin. long; limb erect, minutely erosulate ; 
anthers included, sometimes becoming subexserted, sublateral or 
lateral, oblong, somewhat narrowly ear-shaped with a. wide pore, 
muticous, a little more than 1 lin. long; style thinly puberulous ; 
ovary very shortly stipitate, minutely and reversedly puberulous. 
Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 25; Andr. Heathery, t. 57, and Col. Heaths, t. 
13; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 3,9; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1375; Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 627, and others, not of Linn. EH. frondosa, Salisb. 
