Erica. | gRIcace® (Guthrie & Bolus). 75 
at the base, 11-2 lin. long, aristate ; awns straight, from } to nearly 
the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 133. 
E. hirta, Andr. Heathery, t. 165, and Col. Heaths, t. 101; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1116, not of Thunb. LE. polytricha, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 
ed. ii, 838, ex Ind. Kew. 
Coast REGION, on mountains from 500-4500 ft. : Oudtshoorn Div. ; Zwart- 
berg Pass, Murloth, 2428! George Div. ; Cradock Berg, Burchell, 5926! Galpin, 
3578! near Touw River, Burchell, 5731! Knysna Div.; near the Keurbvoms 
River, Burchell, 5160! 6169! near Knysna, Newdigate in MacOwan, Herb. 
Aust.-Afr., 1922! The Glebe, Galpin, 3577 ! Uniondale Div. ; near Vlugt,; Bolus, 
2382! 2383! 2385! Humansdorp Div.; Lottering Bush, Galpin, 3587! Uiten- 
hage Div.; Witte Klip, Bolus! Also cultivated specimens ! 
52. E. hebecalyx (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630); erect, 
virgately branched; leaves 3-nate, erect, subincurved, imbricate, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, suleate, puberulous, 2—3 lin. long; flowers 
usually 3-nate, occasionally solitary by abortion ; pedicels 3 lin. long ; 
bracts approximate, ovate, acute, keel-tipped, with scarious margins, 
like the sepals very concave and covered with a soft greyish tomen- 
tum, ciliate, about } as long as the sepals ; sepals oblong or obovate, 
obtuse, keel-tipped, apiculate, scarious, 213 lin. long; corolla sub- 
clavate-tubular, incurved, glabrous, viscid, 12-15 lin. long; limb 
nearly erect ; filaments capillary, nearly equally linear; anthers in- 
cluded or subexserted, oblong, truncate at the base and somewhat 
sharply pointed in front, 13-14 lin. long, aristate; awns capillary and 
somewhat turned backwards ; ovary glabrous. E. speciosa, Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 575 (good), not of Andr. E, speciosa, var. tomentosa, 
Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 656, fide Benth., not of Andr. 
Sourn AFRica: without locality, Mund § Maire! Also cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Reaion: George Div. ; Montagu Pass, near George, 1000-2500 ft., 
Alexander, 22! Schlechter, 2268! Marloth, 2407! Tyson, 3164! 
The broad softly tomentose sepals give this a distinct appearance; the awns 
of the anther are usually shorter than in EZ. speciosa, and are not straight 
as in that species but spread backwards. It seems to be very local. 
53. E. discolor (Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 20); erect, 2-3 ft. high ; 
branches stout, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, suberect and imbricate, or 
somewhat spreading, linear or narrow-lanceolate, glabrous or the 
younger viscid-puberulous, often glossy, 14-3} lin. long ; pedicels 
1-1 lin. long ; bracts approximate, like the sepals but about 2 their 
length ; sepals. ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keeled-tipped, 
scarious, coloured, glabrous, ciliolate or naked, 2-23 lin. long; 
corolla clavate-tubular or trumpet-shaped, glabrous, dry, red, 9-12 
lin. long; limb erect or slightly spreading, red or greenish ; filaments 
equal at the base or but slightly dilated ; anthers included or just 
manifest, linear to oblong, more or less hollowed at the base, about 
8 lin. long, aristate ; awns reaching 2 the length of the cell below it, 
or much shorter; style usually curved at the apex ; ovary glabrous. 
Andr. Heathery, t. 160; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 5,9; Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 1453. E. cupressiformis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
