Erica, | ERICACEM (Guthrie & Bolus). 79 
60. E. diaphana (Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 178); erect, 2-5 ft. 
high ; branches spreading, rigid, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect 
and imbrieate, or somewhat spreading, linear to elliptic-oblong, 
sulcate, thick, smooth, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, at length 
nodding; pedicels 23 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous, 
ovate, very thick, viseid, 2 the length of the sepals; sepals like the 
bracts, 2 lin. long; corolla subclavate-tubular, glabrous, thick, very 
viscid, 10-12 lin. long; tube pink; limb suberect, green ; stamens 
included; filaments slightly wider at the base; anthers narrow- 
oblong, with a projecting point at the base, 2 lin. long, muticous or 
minutely aristulate; ovary glabrous. E. transparens, Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 177; Andr. Heathery, t. 296, and Col. Heaths, t. 283, not of 
Berg. 
Coast Recion: Mossel Bay Div.; near Mossel Bay, Alexander, 14! 
Humansdorp Div.; by streams near the Gamtoos River, Niven, 199! near the 
Kromme River, Drege, 7714! rocky places near Storms River, Schlechter, 
5993! Kadies Berg, Galpin, 3584! Witte Els Bosch, Galpin, 3589! Also a 
cultivated specimen ! 
61. E. glandulosa (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 25) ; erect, 2 ft. or more 
high, all parts more or less covered with gland-tipped hairs; leaves 
4-nate, spreading, linear, obtuse, sulcate or sometimes somewhat 
open-backed, 2-5 lin. long ; flowers usually 4-nate (sometimes 2-5- 
nate); pedicels 2-8 lin. long ; bracts approximate, foliaceous, linear 
or broad linear; sepals broad linear, acute, 3-45 lin. long; corolla 
clavate-tubular, mostly pubescent, rarely glabrous, dry or glandular- 
viscid, 9-18 lin. long; filaments slender, not, or only very slightly, 
dilated at the base; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, curved 
forwards ‘at the base, muticous, about 1 lin. long; ovary glabrous. 
E. pellucida, Andr. Heathery, it. 183, 277 (var. rubra), and Col. 
Heaths, t. 197 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 276; Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 
675. HE. exudans, Andr. Heathery, t. 216. E. exsudans, Lodd. l.c. 
4.287. E. droserafolia, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 600 ? 
- Var. B, breviflora (Bolus); bracts remote; sepals 2 lin. long; corolla 
‘wees tae ia less than 5 lin. long; anthers decurrent-denticulate, 
bout # lin. long. : : 
c one tbavas : without locality, Thunberg. Also cultivated specimens ! 
Coast REGION, frequent between 150-800 ft.: Mossel Bay Div. ; Attaquas 
Kloof, Masson, 109! George Div.; between George and Malgat River, Burchell, 
6097! Bolus, 5520! 8671! Outeniqualand, Niven, 189! Humansdorp Div. ; 
near the Gamtoos River, Niven, 186! by the Kromme River, Masson, 103! 
Uitenbage Div.; near Van Stadens Hoogte, MacOwan, 1124! Port Elizabeth 
Div., Burchell, 4576! Pappe! Var. 8: Humansdorp Div. ; between Gamtoos 
River and Leuwenbosch River, Burchell, 4803 ! 
62. E. perspicua (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 1,-7) ; erect, 2 ft. high 
or more; branches virgate or sometimes spreading ; leaves 3- or 
4-nate, erect or spreading, narrow-linear, subtrigonous, pubescent or 
glabrous, lanceolate and roughly hispid, ciliate or naked, 13-2 lin. 
long ; flowers solitary on numerous short lateral branchlets, or some- 
times (according to Bentham) 1-3-nate; pedicels }—{ lin. long; 
