90 ERICACEZ (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica. 
Kraal, Mund! near Elim, Bolus, 6755! near the mouth of the Ratel River, 
Boius! near Brand Fontein, Schlechter, 10582! Var. 8, Caledon Div. ; moun- 
tains near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3195! and without precise locality, Herb. 
Bolus, 6881! 
Bentham regarded E. imperialis, Andr., as a garden hybrid between this and 
some other species. It has been found at least twice since growing wild, and 
exhibited at the Caledon Flower Show in 1897, and is probably an ordinary 
form of the present species. Zeyher’s specimens of 3195 are from two stations 
cited above, and those in Herb. Berlin are certainly of the var. 8; of the other 
we are now somewhat uncertain, 
80. E. Massoni (Linn. f. Suppl. 221); erect, 1-11 ft. high; 
branches spreading ; leaves 4—G6-nate, closely crowded and densely 
imbricate, erect or subspreading, oblong, obtuse, flat, long-ciliate, 
2 lin. long ; umbels 5-10-flowered ; pedicels lanate, 4 lin. long ; bracts 
subremote, long-haired, 2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate or oblong, 
blunt, sulcate, glossy, very viscid, more or less long-hairy, 2-22 lin. 
long; corolla tubular, asymmetrically inflated, subglobosely swollen 
below the mouth, extremely viscid, red or orange with a green limb, 
about 1 in. long; stamens subincluded; filaments capillary, 
thickened and curved at the insertion of the oblong dorsifixed 
muticous anther. Thunb. Diss. Erica, 27, t.3; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 
20; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 26,6; Bot. Mag. t. 356; Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 1069 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 638. E. Massonia, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 128, and Col. Heaths, t.36. E. lycopodiifolia, Salish. 
Prodr. 294, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 361. 
Var. 8, minor (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 638); corolla shorter and less in- 
flated ; bracts and sepals linear and less ciliate. £. gemmifera, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t. 457; Bot. Mag. t. 2266. 
Sour AFRIca: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. B: cultivated 
specimen! 
Coast REGION, on mountains, 1000-3500 ft.: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots 
Holland, Thunberg! Niven, 170! Zeyher, 3180! Bolus, 4171! and in Herb. 
Norm, Aust.-Afr., 16! Caledon Div.; near Palmiet River, Burchell, 81731 
Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 169! Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8155! 
Guthrie, 2298 ! 
Very distinct from the preceding by its habit and its hairy, usually close- 
pressed leaves; the anther is also different. The var. 8 is unknown to us except 
from the figures quoted. As the large-flowered form is related to E. squarrosa, 
so is this variety to our E. Gysbertii, of the same section. 
Section VIII. EURYLOMA. (Sp. 81-95.) 
81. E. Gysbertii (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect; branches slender, 
subvirgate ; leaves 4-nate, erect or slightly spreading, imbricate, 
obtuse, thick, glabrous, sparsely ciliate with thickish white caducous 
hairs, and tipped with a long brown bristle, including the longish 
petiole 13-2} lin. long ; umbels 3—4-flowered ; pedicels slender, dark, 
2 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, linear, ciliate and_bristle- 
tipped with hairs much longer than themselves; sepals linear, 
ciliate and tipped like the bracts, 12 lin. long, hairs sometimes 
3} lin. long ; corolla tubular, only slightly inflated, suddenly con- 
stricted at the throat, viscidulous; tube 4 lin. long, rosy; throat 
