72 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
branches spreading ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2}-3 lin. long, with a channelled 
keel; corolla yellow. HE. sulfwrea, Andr. Heathery, t. 241, and Col. Heaths, t. 
278; Bot. Mag. t. 1984; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1762; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
634. E. stagnalis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 359? EH. tubijlora, Rowb. 
ew Salisb. l.c. 
Var. ¢, diffusa (Bolus); more slender than any other form; branches diffuse ; 
leaves spreading and subdistant, 6 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals lanceolate-ovate to 
ovate, acute, scarious, ciliate, coloured ; corolla glabrous except for the ciliate 
and hair-tufted limb, clear rosy red. 
Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. B, Sieber, 76! 
Var. 5, Mund, Herb. Salisbury! Var. ¢, Mund SY Maire! and cultivated 
specimens of the type and vars. 8 and 5! 
Coast RxGion : in Clanwilliam, Tulbagh and Piquetberg Div., and in all the 
coast Divisions from Cape to Albany Div., at from 300-2500 ft., Thunberg, 
Burchell, 546! 3719! 5747! 7046! 7777! Niven, 193! 194! 229! Zeyher, 
3160! Drége, 7700! 7701! 7702! 7710! Galpin, 3585! MacOwan, 81! and in 
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr.,'751! Bolus, 1577 ! 3998! 4168! 5851! 8668! Mulder ! 
Schlechter, 1918! 2417! 10379! Var. 8: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Niven, 
191! Mund, 11! Bolus, 3716! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 18! George 
Div.; Cradock Berg, Burchell, 6023! near Touw River, Burchell, 5738! Var.y: 
Worcester Div. ; Goudini, Schlechter, 9943! Caledon Div.; mountains near the 
Zondereinde River, 4500 ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4595! Var. 5: Paarl Div. ; 
mountains around French Hoek, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 957! 
Schlechter, 9264! Caledon Div.; Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 10! Var. e: 
Caledon Div. ; near Genadendal, 3000 ft., Galpin, 3573! mountains near Grey- 
town, Herb. Bolus, 6750! 
A very variable species of wide distribution. Earlier authors described and 
figured the forms as they successively appeared, as so many distinct species. 
With a very large amount of material before us we have with difficulty dis- 
tinguished 3 or 4 varieties, and even some of these run into each other. 
46. E. sulcata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 632); ereet; leaves 
4-nate, incurved, narrow or broadish linear, blunt, deeply sulcate, 
sometimes slightly open-backed, the upper copiously and softly long 
ciliate, 14-23 lin. long; flowers solitary, subsessile; bracts sub- 
remote, minute, sepal-like: sepals ovate, or subcuneate and retuse, 
apiculate, scarious, about } lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, in- 
curved, tomentose-pubescent, dry, 10-12 lin. long; limb 12 lin. 
long, spreading, somewhat fleshy ; filaments widening towards the 
anther ; anthers subexserted, oblong, mid-dorsifixed, muticous, $—1 
lin. long; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Region: George Div. ; Devils Kop, near George, Niven, 190! 
Closely allied to E. cwrviflora, var. Burchellii, and might perhaps be regarded 
as another variety of that with minute sepals. Bentham also says that “it has 
the habit of E. tubiflora, Willd.” [E. curviflora, L.] 
47. E. macropus (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, rigid, much-branched ; 
branches pallid, pubescent; leaves 4-nate, incurvo-patent, linear, 
subtrigonous, glabrous, 2 lin. Jong ; flowers sub-4-nate, numerous ; 
pedicels 4 lin. long, slender ; bracts linear, remote ; sepals lanceolate, 
acute, foliaceous, scarious-edged, concave, glabrous, 2} lin. long ; 
corolla clavate-tubular, incurved, glabrous, dry, red, 9 lin. long ; 
limb short, erect; anthers included, oblong-cuneate, less than 4 lin. 
long, with short and broad subulate appendages reaching to the base 
of the cells, or slightly longer. pad ee Sn 
