80 ERIcACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
bracts small, subapproximate, scarious, keel-tipped ; sepals. very 
variable, linear from a broad subrotund scarious lacerate base, more 
or less elongate, keeled, or ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, pilose 
or glabrous, 11-22 lin. long ; corolla subclavate-tubular, more or less 
pubescent or villous, dry, at length curved, pale rosy or purplish, 
8-12 lin. long ; limb erect or spreading ; filaments dilated and bent 
near the anther; anthers included, broadly oblong or euneate, 
muticous; ovary 8-celled (or, according to Salisbury) 6-8-celled, 
glabrous. Andr. Heathery, t. 230, and Col, Heaths, t. 255; Benth. 
in DC. Prodr, vii. 634. EH. transparens, Thunb. Prodr. 71. 4. 
lituiflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 356. EH. Linnea, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 752, and Col. Heaths, t. 106? EE, linneana, Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 102? 
VaR. 8, latifolia (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 634); leaves linear-lanceolate, 
broader, more rigid, incurved, hispid; sepals lanceolate, slightly dilated at the 
base ; corolla 7-8 lin. long. : 
Var. y, lanceolata (Bolus); leaves lanceolate, broader than in var. 8, in- 
curved ; sepals narrow-lanceolate, not dilated at the base, the lower half 
searious, foliaceous above ; corolla 9-10 lin. long. 
SoutH AFRiIca: without locality, Mund § Maire ! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast REGIon, from near sea-level to 3000 ft.: Caledon Div.; near the - 
mouth of Klein River, Masson, 50! Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3165! near 
Hawston, Schlechter, 9477! between Houw Hoek and Bot River, Galpin, 
3576! Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 9426! near Babylon’s Tower, Templeman in 
Herb. MacOwan, 2747! Var. B, Caledon Div.; near the mouth of the Klein 
River, Masson, 112! Var. y, Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, Miss Borcherds in 
Herb. Bolus, 6286! 
__ Judging from numerous flowers examined, this species seems to differ from its 
allies by its constantly 8-celled ovary. The alternate dissepiments are some- 
times not quite complete to the central column; but are usually so, and always 
nearly so. In other respects the species resembles some forms of FE. curviflora, 
but the anther is slightly different. 
63, E. colorans (Andr. Heathery, t.209); 1-2 ft. high; branches 
virgate, hirsute ; leaves 4-nate, erect-spreading or incurved, linear- 
subulate, subtrigonous, keeled, glabrous, ciliate, 11-2 lin. long; 
flowers 1-4-nate, on short branchlets densely crowded into a pseudo- 
raceme below the ends of the branches; pedicels 1—% lin. long; 
bracts subremote, small and narrow; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 
scarious, keel-tipped, ciliate, about 22 lin, long; corolla tubular, 
with a slight globose swelling below the apex (not always visible in 
dried specimens), mostly straight, glabrous, dry, white, rosy towards 
the apex, somewhat transparent, 7-8 lin. long; limb short, acute, 
subincurved, 1-1} lin. long; anthers included, subsemiovate, trun- 
cate at the broad base, black, less than + lin. long, decurrent- 
denticulate along the filament; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, 
t. 223; Bot. Reg. t. 601; Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 224; Benth. in DC. 
Prodr, vii. 634, 
Coast Reaton: Bredasdorp Div. ; near streams on the downs and mountains 
near Elim, 100-1600 ft., Bolus, 6760! Schlechter, 7693! andin MacOwan, Herb. 
Aust.-Afr., 1921! Also cultivated specimens ! 
A well-marked species, most nearly allied to EB. perspicua (with which it 
