rica.) ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). 87 
Var. 8, minor (Bolus); smaller in all parts; corolla somewhat less inflated, 
narrower, shorter and scarcely curved, pink, 5-6 lin. long. 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; slopes of Winterhoek Mountains, 5000 ft., 
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 5905! Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4174! Var. 8: Clan- 
william Div. ; Snecuwkop, Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 623! 
CENTRAL RxEGton: Ceres Div.; Table Mountain in the Cold Bokkeveld, 
5500 ft. Schlechter, 10102! 
The var. 8 has some curious points of resemblance to E. armata, Klotzsch in 
the section Myra. The species appears to be somewhat rare. 
76. E. Oatesii (Rolfe in Oates, Matabeleland, ed. 2, 402, t. 11) ; 
erect, 1-4 ft. high; branches spreading, pubescent and _ hispid; 
leaves 3-4-nate (sometimes on the same branch), spreading and 
recurved or suberect, narrow-linear, subacute, puberulous or roughly 
hispidulous, naked or ciliate with long gland-tipped hairs, margins 
reflexed, the broader forms often open-backed, 3-4! lin. long; 
flowers in more or less close, few-flowered umbels ; pedicels pubescent, 
3 lin. long; bracts, two approximate, the lower remote, or all sub- 
remote, oblong or linear-pubescent, gland-ciliate, 2-3 lin. long ; 
sepals lanceolate, acute or acuminate, somewhat scarious below and 
tapering to a linear foliaceous point, pubescent, gland-ciliate, 23-; 
lin. long; corolla ovoid-tubular (or ‘‘ellipsoid-ureeolate,” Rolfe), 
glabrous or puberulous, scarlet, 5-61 lin. long ; limb short, suberect ; 
anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the base, semiovate, 3—2 
lin. long, shortly awned ; style included, rarely subexserted ; ovary 
villous. 
Var. 8, latifolia (Bolus) ; leaves somewhat shorter and broader than in the 
type, sublanceolate, more or less open-backed, suberect, pubescence more copious 
and more grey ; corolla usually somewhat smaller, 5-54 lin. long, scarlet. 
EAsTERN Re@ion: Natal; between Pietermaritzburg and Crocodile River, 
Oates! Amajuba Hill, Todd in Herb. Wood, 1638! Mrs. Steinbank in Herb. 
Wood, 3640! Buffalo River, McKen, 3! Var. 8: Natal; Amawahqua Moun- 
tain, 6000-7000 ft., Wood, 4622! Weenen County, Evans, 399! Cathkin © 
sae 8000-10000 ft., Thode, 62a! Bushmans River, 6000-7000 it., Thode, 
62b ! 
_ Kananart Recton: Orange River Colony; Allanvale Farm, near the 
Drakensberg, 5500 ft., Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3005! 
This species almost unites the two sections Dasyanthes and Ephebus, and is 
placed here on account of its affinity to E. splendens, which, like it, is also a 
plant of the higher mountains, though the stations are widely separated. The 
variety is not very distinct, and Evans’ 399 connects the two. It may be known 
from all forms of EL. cerinthoides by its usually shorter, broader and less hairy 
corolla, and the distinct awns of its anther, 
[The rosy-purple colouring of the original plate was adapted from the dried 
specimens. Collectors state that the flowers are scarlet,—N. E. Brown. ] 
77. E. cerinthoides (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 505); erect, 2-3 ft. 
high ; branches ascending, often virgate and simple ; leaves 4—5-6- 
nate, from erect and closely imbricate to spreading, squarrose or 
recurved, linear or linear-lanceolate, blunt, deeply suleate to sub- 
open-backed, variably pubescent and mostly glandular, hispid and 
ciliate, more rarely glabrous and naked, 3-8 lin. long by }—} lin. 
wide ; flowers umbellate ; pedicels glabrous or pubescent, 1—6 lin. 
long; bracts approximate, or one subremote, linear-lanceolate, oblong 
