60 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
Prodr. 296, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 364. E. pulviniformis, 
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 364. 
Var. B, echiiflora (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 627) ; sepals obcuneate, cuspidate, 
villous ; corolla 5-8 lin. long; anthers subterminal, smaller, about 4 lin. long, 
scarcely ear-shaped, dark coloured. LE. cephalotes, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 21. E, 
echitflora, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 364. EH. echiflora, var. purpurea, Andr. Heathery, 
t. 260, and Col. Heaths, t.164. E. glandulosa, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 18, 5, not 
of Thunb. E. ostrina, Lodd. lc. t. 1218. EH. puberula, Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 
629; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 625. E. coccinea, Thunb, Diss. Erica, 28, en 
Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 773. 
SoutH AFgIca: without locality, Forster! Berg! and cultivated specimens! 
Var. B: Thunberg, and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Region, frequent on mountains from 800-3000 ft.: Cape Div.; 
around Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 99! 582! 8429! 8508! Drege! Ecklon, 
277! Bolus, 2966! 3366! Wilms, 34388a! Wolley Dod, 178! 2124! Swellendam 
Div.; near the River Zondereinde, Zeyher, 1084! Var. B: Cape Div. ; Devils 
Peak, 2000-3300 ft., Bolus, 37721 and Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1891! Wilms, 
3437! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland (ex Salisbury), Mulder ! 
Allied to Z. purpurea and E. annectens, but generally distinguishable from 
either by its sepals, and the indumentum of its ovary. Of E. puberula, Klotzsch, 
we have seen specimens in Herb. Kew of Mund and Maire so named by Bentham, 
which are probably authentic. These, as also Klotzsch’s description, agree very 
well with var. echiiflora. 
24. E. conica (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1179) ; erect, 1-12 ft. high; 
branches subvirgate ; leaves 4—6-nate, mostly erect-incurved, more 
rarely spreading, linear, acute, glabrous, 4-6 lin. long ; inflorescence 
crowded towards the ends of the branches; flowers usually erect or 
ascending ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long; braets subapproximate or 
remote, linear, 1} lin. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or 
cuspidate, keeled, keel broadly cuneate at base tapering upwards, 
viscidulous, green, 2-3 lin. long; corolla subobconic, sometimes 
subcampanulate, narrow-tubular in the lower half, then somewhat 
suddenly and obliquely widened upwards, oblique at the apex, 
viscidulous, red, 1-3 in. long; limb erect; anthers ineluded, 
subterminal to sublateral, semiobovate, muticous, dark-coloured, 
about # lin. long; style glabrous, included’; ovary turbinate, sessile 
or substipitate, puberulous, glabrescent. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
664. H. coccinea, Berg., var. breviflora, Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 
774. ere 
Coast RecGion: Cape Div. ; mountains near Cape Town, 1200 ft., Bolus, 
3715! 7949! above Tokay Plantation, Wolley Dod, 1280! Also cultivated 
specimen ! ; 
A species precisely upon the meeting-point of the present section and § Hermes. 
We place it here because of its close affinity with 2. coccinea, var. echiiflora, 
from which there is little to separate it, except the habit. Loddiges’ figure is 
good. It has a strong external resemblance to E. avilliflora, Bartl. 
25. E. pinea (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 23, not of Andr..nor Wendl.) ; 
erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches stout, rigid, often flexuous ; 
leaves sub-6-nate, or scattered, densely imbricate, erect-incurved, 
_ lanceolate-linear or linear, acute, round-backed, glabrous, 6-8 lin. 
long; flowers crowded at the ends of the branches ; pedicels 14 lin. 
