Rrica.| ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 71 
Very near to the more glabrous forms of E. curviflora, of which it might, 
perhaps, be regarded as a variety. The angular attachment of the anther to 
= filament is, however, more marked than in any specimens of that which we 
ave seen. 
45. E. curviflora (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 354); 14-5 ft. high ; 
branches virgate, stout, more rarely spreading or slender; leaves 
4-nate, erect, incurved or spreading, imbricate, linear or lanceolate- 
linear, acute, subtrigonous, keeled, or somewhat open-backed, ciliate 
or glabrous or pubescent, 14-32 lin, long; flowers solitary, usually 
subsessile and ascending, sometimes at length decurved; braets 
small, approximate, or subremote; sepals variable, linear and 
foliaceous from a broad scarious base, or lanceolate or ovate, scarious 
with a broad foliaceous keel, or entirely scarious and coloured, 
glabrous or pubescent, 13-41 lin. long; corolla elavate-tubular or 
trumpet-shaped, curved or more rarely straight, mostly pubescent, or 
villous, more rarely glabrous, dry, red, orange or yellow, 10-19 
(commonly 11-13) lin. long ; limb 1}-2} lin. long; filaments slender, 
glabrous or pilose ; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, straight 
or slightly curved forwards at the base, inserted on the filament 
above their base, about * to a little over 1 lin. long, muticous or 
minutely decurrent-denticulate along the filament; ovary glabrous, - 
sessile or substipitate, sometimes excavate at the apex, with callous 
bosses rising above the base of the style. Thunb. Diss. Erica, 24 ; 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. jasc. 3, 7; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 633 ; Andr. 
Heathery, it. 16, 211 (var. rubra), and Col. Heaths, tt. 19, 161; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1663. EE. tubiflora, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 505; 
Thunb. Diss. Erica, 25. E. cuspidigera, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
vi, 358. E. procera, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 17, 71, t. at.. I 
simpliciflora, Willd. Sp. Pl, ii. 402, and Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 17, 
69, t. 26. E. simplicefolia, Steud. Nomencl. ed. i. 309. E.. fas- 
tuosa, Salisb. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 359. FE. buecineformis, 
Salish. Prodr. 294, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 359; Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 633. E. ignescens, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 8, 3, and 
var. atropurpurea, fase. 20, 117, 4. 44; Andr. Heathery, t. 27, and 
Col. Heaths, t.103. LE. lanitflora, F. W. Schmidt, Neue und selt. 
Pfl. 44, not of Wendl. E. tubulosa, Sm. ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 1, 
310.—Erica, Seb. Mus. 2, t. 19, fig. 5, and 1, t. 20, fig. 4. 
Var. 8, Burchellii (Bolus) ; tall, stout, virgate; leaves often more or less 
open-backed ; sepals 14-44 lin. long; corolla hairy or rarely glabrous ; limb 
oblong, 2-34 lin. long, the sinus acute, or obtuse and somewhat open; ovary 
wmostly callous-bossed at the apex; E. tubslora, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii, 403, and 
others, not of Linn.; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 28; Andr. Heathery, t. 46, and 
Col. Heaths, t. 64; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 4, 7; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 634. 
E. coccinea, of Linn. Herb. not of Sp. Pl. ed. 1, according to Benth. E. 
Burchellii, Benth. 1.c. 632. E. sordida, Drége ex Benth. l.c. 634. 
Var. y, Versatilis (Bolus) ; bracts scarious, coloured; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, keeled, scarious, coloured, pubescent, 3 lin. long; filaments inserted 
higher on the anther than usual, about the middle of the cell, with decur- 
rent awns slightly free at the apex, but scarcely reaching to the base of the 
cells. : : 
Var. 3; sulfurea (Bolus); very villous in all parts; leaves subdistant ; 
