Erica.] ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 85 
Pos Arrica: without locality, Thunberg, Drége, 7730! 7731! Mund & 
Loire ! 
Coast Recion : Oudtshoorn Div.; Zwartberg Pass, 4200 ft., Marloth, 2406! 
Kolbe! Var. B: same locality, 4900 ft., Marloth, 2404! 
Much resembling the following species, but distinguishable by its sepals. The 
variety described may be connected by intermediate forms, but though we have 
several specimens we have seen none. 
72. E. pectinifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 867); erect, 
11-21 ft. high ; branches slender; leaves 4-nate, erect, imbricate or 
sometimes shorter than the internodes, variable in size, from linear to 
lanceolate and ovate, aeute, more or less open-backed, thick and 
rigid, roughly and thinly hispid, and pectinate-ciliate with long 
pallid cartilaginous hairs, the floral leaves wider and passing gradually 
into the form of the bracts, 13-3 lin. long; flowers mostly 4-nate, 
cernuous or spreading; pedicels} lin. long; bracts approximate, 
unguiculate, broad ovate or subtriangular, margins searious, rigidly 
pectinate-ciliate, with a thick central nerve, about 3 lin. long ; 
sepals like the bracts but the claw longer, and the blade somewhat 
smaller, about 32 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated about 
the middle, constricted below the short spreading limb, pubescent, 
the upper part with longer barbellate or shaggy hairs, white or rosy, 
7-9 lin. long; anthers included, oblong, 4 lin. long, shortly aristate ; 
style exserted ; ovary obconieal, villous with long white silky hairs. 
E. erubescens, Andr. Heathery, t. 113; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
637, not of Lodd. E. cerinthoides, var. B, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 26, 
and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 354. 
Coast Rreron, on mountains at 400-600 ft.: Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof 
Mountains, Thunberg, Bolus, 2391! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River, Niven, 
167! Kruisfontein, Galpin, 3594! Clarkson, 400 ft., Schlechter, 6006! Zitzi- 
kamma, Pappe! Uitenhage Div., near the Lead Mines, and between there 
and Van Stadens River, Burchell, 4511! 4580! 4621! Van Stadens Mountains, 
MacOwan, 1126! 2059! Bolus, 1578! Witte Klip, Bolus, 9132! 
There has often been confusion of this species with the preceding. Yet 
according to Salisbury’s own description the peculiar sepals and bracts of this 
species separate the two quite effectually, and we have seen no intermediate or 
doubtful forms. The resemblance is considerable at first sight, but is only 
superficial. This species, so far as we know, is much commoner and more widely 
distributed than the preceding. 
73. E. Sparrmanni (Linn. f. in Vet. Acad. Hand]. Stockh. 1778, 
21, t. 2); erect, 1-11 ft. high, with the habit of the preceding ; 
leaves 4-nate, suberect, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, deeply 
suleate or somewhat open-backed, rigidly hispid and pectinate- 
ciliate, 2-8 lin. long; flowers 4-nate on short branchlets, cernuous ; 
pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, lanceolate, hispid and 
ciliate like the leaves, paler and more naked below, about 2 lin. long ; 
sepals like the bracts but linear-lanceolate, 3 lin. long; corolla 
tubular, inflated about the middle, densely hispid with long coarse 
setose yellow hairs, yellow or greenish-yellow, }—$ in. long; 
segments erect, deltoid, subacute ; anthers included, oblong, 1 lin, 
long, muticous; style exserted; ovary obconic, villous with white 
