82 ERICACES. (Guthrie & Bolus), [ Lrica. 
corolla clavate, straight, glabrous, blood-red, faintly ribbed, 9 lin. 
long; limb short, erect, crenulate, concolorous; anthers exserted, 
aristate, awns short; ovary silky. Benth. in DC, Prodr, vii, 
635. 
- Sout Arnica: cultivated specimen in Herb. Wendland, 
Only known to us from the above description. We have not seen any specimen 
which agrees with it. 
66. E. cruenta (Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 16); 
erect, 2-8 ft. high; leaves 3-nate (3~4-nate, Bentham), spreading or 
incurved, imbricate, linear, glabrous or the younger pubescent, 2}—4 
lin. long; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts mostly small and remote, 
rarely approximate ; sepals ovate, acute, or lanceolate, acuminate, 
about 2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular or trumpet-shaped, gla- 
brous, dry, 10-12 lin. long, blood-red; filaments slender, wider at 
the base, usually affixed at an angle to the anther and shortly. below 
its middle ; anther ineluded or subexserted, oblong, about 1 lin. long, 
aristate ; awns sometimes short and partially subdecurrent along the 
filament, or longer and hanging below the cell; more rarely muti- 
cous; ovary glabrous. Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 13; Wendl. Eric. Ie. 
fase. 4,11; Andr. Heathery, t. 110, and Col. Heaths, t. 17; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1656; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 629. HE. melliflua, 
Salisb. Prodr. 293, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 354. E. coccinea, 
Drige, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 182. 
Var. 8, mutica (Bolus); leaves broader; pedicels shorter, less than 1 lin. 
long ; corolla 8-10 lin. long; anthers muticous. . 
Var. y, buccinula (Bolus) ; pedicels 14 lin. long; sepals 2 lin. long ; corolla 
tubular-funnel-shaped, curved, oblique at the mouth, paler purplish-red, 5-8 lin. 
lone. 
Var. 5, campanulata (Bolus) ; flowers 2-3-nate; corolla wide campanulate or 
obeonic, purple or pink, 3-34 lin. long by 3-3} lin, wide at the mouth (when 
flattened) ; anthers semi-obovate, muticous, 
SoutH ARRicA: without locality, Thunberg, Drege! Herb. Salisbury! and 
cultivated specimens f 
Coast Ruaion: Caledon Div.; from Palmiet River to Zoetemelks Valley, 
700-2500 ft., Burchell, 7580! 7928! MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm, Aust.- 
Afr., 188! Schlechter, 5573! 5599; 7783! 10449! Swellendam Div.; near 
Swellendam, Masson, 118! near Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3575! Var. B : Caledon 
Div.; Houw Hoek, 1000 ft., Guthrie, 4590! Var. y: Caledon Div.; Palmiet 
River, 800 ft., Guthrie, 2297! 3553! 4163! Var. 3: Bredasdorp Div.; 
peed hare. 300 ft., Bolus, 6738! Caledon Div.; Diep Gat, 300 ft., Galpin, 
The species is variable as to the length of sepals and corolla, and of anther- 
appendages ; in var. 8, which differs little, the anthers are muticous. In var. y 
the shorter and paler corolla gives so different an appearance that we should 
have hesitated to place it here but for the presence of one specimen which 
showed corollas on the same branch ranging from 6-8 lin. in length. Otherwise 
the structure of the flowers is similar. This var. is intermediate in character 
between the normal form and var. 6, and connects two forms which appear 
widely different, though we cannot doubt their close relationship. 
67. E. wendlandiana (Klotzsch in Linnwa, ix. 652); erect, 
2 ft. high; branches crowded, elongate, flexuous, whitish ru- 
berulous; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear, shortly pilose, 
