Friea.] ERicAacex (Guthrie & Bolus). 77 
Coast Recion: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 104! 
We retain this species, which seems too closely allied to E. dichrus, with much 
doubt. Excepting in its more spreading, more hairy leaves, and straighter green 
corolla, there is little difference, and both come from the same locality. The 
material, however, at disposal, is very poor. 
56. E. serratifolia (Andr, Col. Heaths, t. 58); erect, 1 ft. or 
more high; branches numerous; leaves 4-nate, spreading or re- 
curved, linear, ciliate with plumose hairs, (‘‘ ciliate-serrate,” Bentham) 
9-3 lin. long; flowers 4-nate [2-3-nate (Andrews) or subsolitary 
(Bentham) | ; bracts approximate or subremote, foliaceous, 2 lin. long ; 
sepals lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, foliaceous, gland-ciliate, 
1-3 lin. long ; corolla tubular, nearly straight, red below, yellow 
above, 9-12 lin. long; limb short, spreading ; filaments capillary ; 
anthers oblong, not pointed at the base, s_] lin. long, muticous or 
shortly aristate (Salisbury) ; ovary glabrous. Andr. Heathery, t. 44; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1703. HE. plumosa, Wendl. Erie. Ic. fase. 12, 5, 
not of Andr. LE. cylindriflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 
356. 
Soura AFRICA: Cultivated specimens ! 
Unknown to us in the wild state, unless it be a cultivated form of the next 
species. Andrews shows the leaves as 4-nate; Wendland as 3-nate; both 
describe the anthers as muticous. Salisbury finds them always calcarate. In 
one cultivated specimen examined we found the anthers minutely 2-toothed at 
the base. 
57. E. MacOwanii (Cufino in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital., 1903, 290) ; 
erect, probably 2-3 ft. high; branches stout, sometimes virgate, 
densely leafy, pubescent, with many lateral flowering branchlets 
from i—2 in. long; leaves 4-nate, imbricate, erect-incurved, narrow- 
lanceolate, acute, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliolate with 
simple hairs, 3-4} lin. long; flowers solitary, erect or spreading; 
pedicels pubescent, under 1 lin. long; bracts adpressed, narrow- 
lanceolate, acute, scarious, translucent, pale green, ciliate, about 4 
the length of the sepals ; sepals like the bracts, but larger and narrow 
ovate, keeled with a dark green band, 4 lin. long ; corolla 10-12 lin. 
long, tubular, usually straight, rarely slightly curved ; tube nearly 
equal, dilated at the throat, the lower portion thinly pubescent and 
dark red, the upper pilose, passing into orange at the throat and 
limb; throat oblique ; segments spreading, semiorbicular, 11-2 lin. 
long ; anthers included or manifest, rarely subexserted, inserted on 
the filament just above the base of the cell, broad oblong, subobtuse, 
rounded at the base, scaberulous, muticous, dark-coloured, about 
2 lin. long ; pore 3-2 of the length of the cell ; style shortly exserted ; 
stigma capitellate ; ovary subglobose, glabrous. 
Coast Reon: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, MacOwan! Locality and 
collector unknown, Herb, Bolus, 6899 ! : : 
This rs to be closely allied to the preceding species, differing by the much 
shorter SE ainote hairs on the leaf-margin, by its broader sepals, and solitary 
flowers. From E. perspicua, to which it is compared by the author, it differs by 
its 4-celled ovary, and by the colour of the flower. : 
