88 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
or lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, gland-hispid and ciliate, about 
2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger, from 2-3} lin. long ; 
corolla tubular, more or less inflated, slightly constricted at the 
mouth, more or less pubescent, usually both shortly so and also 
pilose with longer (sometimes glandular) hairs, mostly erimson, more 
rarely rosy, 1-14 in. long; limb spreading or erect ; anthers in- 
eluded, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, pallid, about 1 lin. 
long, muticous or with very short or rudimentary minute horns; 
style included or exserted ; ovary broadish turbinate, villous. Bauer, 
Exot. Pl. t. 30; Andr. Heathery, t. 207, and Col. Heaths, t. 11 ; 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 7,9; Bot. Mag. t. 220; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
1679; Herb. Amat. t. 108; Thunb. Diss. Erica, 25, and Fl. Cap. 
ed. Schult. 354; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 636. LE. pulviniformis, 
Salisb. Prodr. 295. . erinifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 
367. E. verecunda, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1827? not of Salisb. E. 
Meuroni, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 686? E. metulzflora, Klotzsch 
in Linnea, xii. 502, not of Andr. nor others. 
Var. B, barbertona (Bolus); corolla broadly tubular, slightly inflated in the 
middle and constricted at the throat, viscose-pubescent, 6 lin. long. LE. 
barbertona, Galpin in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 148. 
Coast Resion, frequent on plains and mountains, ascending to 6000 ft. : 
Worcester Div., Cooper, 1656! 1746! Drége! Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof, 
Drege ; Cape Div. ; around Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 53! 395! 583! 
8469! 8536! Niven, 168! Drége! Marloth in MacOwan Herb. Aust.-Afr., 
1489! Ecklon, 100! Wilms, 3443! Caledon Div., Burchell, 7609! 7648! 7695! 
7827! 8181! Riversdale Div., Burchell, 6768! George Div.; near Kaymans 
River, Burchell, 5794! Knysna Div., Pappe! Uitenhage Div., Cooper, 1486! 
Bolus, 1575! Port Elizabeth Div., Burchell, 4474! Albany Div., MacOwan! 
Scott-Etliot, 749! 
KALAHARI ReGion: Basutoland, Cooper, 758! Transvaal; Waterfall Creek, 
McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3036! Macmac Falls and head of Sabie River, Mudd! 
oe Wilms, 913! Var. 8: Transvaal! near Barberton, 4500 ft., Galpin, 
Eastern Recion: Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, Bawr, 539! Pondoland, 
Bachmann, 1003! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 507! near Murchison, Wood, 3042! 
Mood Var. 8: Swaziland; Havelock Concession, Saltmarshe in Herb. Galpin, 
An extremely variable species, chiefly as to pubescence, leaves, and size of 
corolla. With a very large suite of specimens before us we cannot define any 
distinct varieties, except that above mentioned ; this is probably a stunted form 
caused by burning by grass-fires of which the specimens show evidence; the 
corolla is shorter and relatively broader, but there is little else to distinguish it, 
and other specimens show corollas as short but relatively narrower. E. Meuroni 
(judging from Bentham’s description) can only be a rather more glabrous form 
of this species. He himself appeared to be doubtful of it and the garden speci- 
meus marked by him, which we have examined, show scarcely any differences. 
The species is one of the most widely spread in the genus. 
Section VI. CHONA. (Sp. 78.) 
78. E. embothriifolia (Salisb, in Trans, Linn. Soc. vi. 379); 
erect, 9-18 in. high; branches slender, ascending or spreading, 
glabrous, puberulous or viscid with gland-tipped hairs; leaves 
-nate, often subdistant, or shorter than the internodes, erect-spread- 
