Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 67 
3-5 lin. long ; corolla tubular, more or less asymmetrically inflated 
and slightly contracted at the mouth, rarely equal, viscid, glabrous or 
puberulous, pale purple or ochraceous yellow, 8-11 lin. long; 
anthers included, lateral, oblong, muticous, about {$ lin. long; ovary 
villous in the upper portion, glabrous below. . glutinosa, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 66, and Col. Heaths, t. 25, not of Thunb. . viscida, 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 13, 7. E. pulehella, Willd. ex Steud. 
Nomenel. ed. 2, i.578. HE. viscosa, Steud, Nomenel. ed. i. 311 1. 
po ye Arnica: without locality, Herd. Salisbury ! also cultivated spect= 
mens ! 
Coast Raion, on mountains, 400-4500 ft.: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Peak 
Marloth, 2415! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Alexander! Cape Div.; Camp 
ground, Grey! Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 2295! Caledon Div. ; 
common, Burchell, 7579! 7799! 7950! 7995! Zeyher, 3178! Bolus, 5895! 
Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, Bolus, 6751! 8447 ! 
CenrRAL Recion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 8902! 
Section VI. EVANTHE. (Sp. 36-70.) 
36. E. abietina (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 355) ; erect, glabrous, 2 ft. 
or more high; branches virgate, with a dense pseudo-raceme of 
flowers, several inches long, not reaching to the apex ; leaves 4-nate, 
densely imbricate erect-ineurved, linear, acute, 4-6 lin. long; 
flowers solitary, on short crowded branchlets; pedicels } lin. long or 
less; bracts approximate, linear, foliaceous, 2-21 lin. long; sepals 
linear from a broad ovate scarious base, acuminate, foliaceous, 3}—6 
lin. long; corolla tubular, contracted towards the apex, mostly 
straight or nearly so, glabrous, dry, yellow with an orange limb, 
7-9 lin. long (or according to Salisbury 6-8 lin. and to Bentham 
9-12 lin.); limb short, spreading, at length revolute; anthers 
included, oblong, papillose, }—} lin. long, aristate; awns slightly 
longer than the cells; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DG. Prodr. vii. 
630. E.Patersonia, Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 43, and Heathery, ¢. 181; 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 1, 15. £. Patersonia, var. major, Andr. 
Col. Heaths, t. 195 and Heathery, t. 998, E. Patersoni, Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1727. E. spissifolia, Salisb. Prodr. 293, and in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vi. 355. 
Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; hills near Smitswinkle Bay, Bolus, 7201! and 
in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 12! Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, 1000- 
3000 ft., Zeyher, 3179 ! mountains near Vogel Gat, 3200 ft., Schlechter, 9551! 
also cultivated specimens! — 
This is one of the few winter-flowering heaths. 
37. E. sacciflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 355) ; erect, 
9-3 ft. high; branches mostly virgate, furrowed by cushions below 
the leaves, the older scarred, bearing many flowers in @ pseudo- 
raceme on short crowded branchlets below the apex; leaves 4-nate, 
erect-incurved, imbricate, linear, glabrous, 2-21 lin. long; flowers 
small, scarious ; 
solitary; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, 
sepals broadly ovate, acute, keeled, searious, glabrous, coloured, 
2 lin, long; corolla tubular, contracted at the apex, straight or 
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