76 ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
vi. 354. E, densiflora, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 
105. 
Var. §8, puberula (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630); leaves and sepals 
puberulous. 
Coast REeGIoN: Caledon Div.; Palmiet River, Niven, 103! Houw Hoek, 
Zeyher, 3159; Bolus, 53846! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 193! Bredasdorp 
Div.; near Elim, Bolus, 6761 ! George Div. ; Outeniqualand, Niven, 197 ; west 
end of Lange Valley, Burchell, 5686 ; Knysna Div. ; hills near Melville, Burchell, 
5460! Humansdorp Div.; near Kromme River, Burchell, 4846, 4875, 4877. 
Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, Holland! Also cultivated specimens ! 
Var. 8: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Mund § Maire! © 
Very near to HZ. wnicolor ; also allied to E. versicolor, from which it may be 
most readily distinguished by its aristate anthers not sharp pointed at the base 
in front, and by its filaments nearly equal at the base ; its flowering season also 
appears to be almost constantly some months earlier. 
54. E. dichrus (Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 179); erect, 3-5 ft. high ; 
branches subvirgate, pubescent; leaves 4-nate, ereet and imbricate, 
or somewhat spreading, linear, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate, 
3-5 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, mostly erect; bracts approximate, 
like the sepals, but about 2 of their length ; sepals linear-lanceolate 
and acuminate, or ovate-lanceolate or oblong and subobtuse, sub- 
scarious below with a foliaceous keeled apex, pilose or glabrous, 
ciliate, 23-43 lin. long ; corolla tubular or clavate-tubular, glabrous, 
viscid, red below, yellow above, 10-12 lin. long; filaments very 
slightly wider at the base; anthers ineluded or manifest, broad- 
linear, truncate and somewhat hollowed at the base, but searcely 
pointed in front, about 1 lin. long, minutely aristate or muticous ; 
awns scarcely reaching beyond the base of the cells; style often 
decurved at the apex; ovary glabrous. . bicolor, Andr. Heathery, 
t. 54, and Col. Heaths, t. 79 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1001, not of Thunb. 
E. dichromata, Lodd. lc. t. 1813. #. quadriflora, Klotzsch in 
Linnea, ix. 665. E. refulgens, Andr. Heathery, t. 284.?. 
Coast Recion: Mossel Bay Div. ; Hagel Kraal, near Attaquas Kloof, Niven, 
200! Attaquas Kloof, Drége, 7716! near Mossel Bay, 800 ft., Galpin, 3579! 
George Div. ;. Outeniqualand, Niven, 201! Montagu Pass, 1000 ft., Bolus, 8667! 
Also cultivated specimens ! é 
55. E unicolor (Wendl. Eric. Ie. fasc. 25, 7, t. 3); erect, 3-4 ft. 
high, with ascending branches ; leaves 4-nate (‘« 3-4-nate,” Bentham), 
Jaxly spreading, linear, hispid with long hairs, 3-4 lin. long; flowers 
4-nate (or “sub-3-nate,” Bentham), sessile or pedicels very short : 
bracts approximate, linear, foliaceous, hispid, 21 lin. long; sepals 
like the bracts, 23-3 lin. long (or in Andrews’ fig. 5 lin. long); corolla 
tubular, straight, glabrous, viscid, green, 8-11 lin. long; anthers 
narrow-oblong, 1 lin. long, included, aristate ; awns eapillary, 1—2 
the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. LZ. virescens, Link, Enum. 
Hort. Berol. i. 359, not of Thunb. E. viridescens, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t. 233. LE. hirta, var. viridiflora, Andr. Heathery, t. 166, and Col. 
Heaths, t. 173. 
. Sourn Arrica: without locality, Mund § Maire! Also cultivated speci- 
mens ! : 
