92 ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
Gov. Herb.! Caledon Div. ? locality unknown, exhibited at the annual show of 
wild-flowers at Caledon, Sept., 1895, Herb. Guthrie, 3770! 
We have seen no authentic specimens of this species, nor had Bentham, but 
the excellent ones from Caledon (certainly wild) quoted above and from which 
we describe, agree so exactly with the figures of Loddiges and the Bot. Mag. 
that we have no doubt as to their identity.. It is the more interesting as leading 
to the supposition that it is a genuine species and not, as Bentham thought 
probable, a hybrid. Andrews’ t. 152 is not quite so representative of 
the wild plant as known to us, as are the others. His t. 203, cited by Bentham, 
appears to belong to E. retorta, Linn. f., and the two species have been confused 
in herbaria. 
84. E. retorta (Montin, in Kongl. Vet, Acad. Handl., 1774, 297, 
t. 7); erect, subglabrous, 12-15 in. high ; branches many, straggling, 
closely leafy ; leaves 4-nate, mostly revolute or squarrose-recurved, 
crowded, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute, tipped with a long bristle, 
ciliate, thick, rigid, about 2 lin. long; umbels 4—8-flowered ; pedicels 
slender, glandular-viscid, 3 lin. long; bracts remote, oblanceolate, 
acute, with a terminal bristle of their own length, scarious, softly 
pubescent, ciliate, 2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, otherwise like the 
bracts but more foliaceous, 2-23 lin. long; corolla ampullaceous, 
attenuate above but variable and the neck sometimes almost absent, 
throat contracted, viscid, of almost hyaline texture; tube }—1 in. 
long, pale rosy, throat and limb darker coloured; segments 
ovate, acute, 1-12 or even 2 lin. long; filaments slender, only 
slightly widened towards the anther; anther suberescent-shaped, 
acute, bilobed and slightly prognathous at the base, $—Z lin. long, 
more or less irregularly woolly with short white hairs, pallid; ovary 
elongate, on a thickish stipe of nearly its own diameter. Linn. /. 
Suppl. 220 ; Andr. Heathery, t. 144, and Col. Heaths, t. 54; Bot. 
Mag. t. 362; Wendl. Eric. Ic. 15, 45,t.18; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
804; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 644. E. aristata, var. minor, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 203, and Col. Heaths, t. 219,not of Linn. f. E. gorteria- 
— Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 381. H. eaimia, Lodd. l.c. t. 
1105. 
Sourtn Arrica: without locality, Mund! Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast ReGion: Stellenbosch Div.: Hottentots Holland, Thwnberg. Caledon 
Div.; Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 152! Zeyher, 3196! southern slopes of 
Great Houw Hoek Mountaius, 2800 ft., Bolus, 6954! 6955! 
In habit and external appearance this much resembles FE, aristata ; but the 
leaves and corolla are somewhat differently shaped, and the corolla-segments 
afford an immediate means of distinction. It is apparently rare, or at least very | 
local ; and only once have we seen some dozens of plants together. Specimens 
with large and small corollas of either extreme in size, were found growing 
intermixed. 
85. E. lageneformis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 382); 
erect, glabrous ; branches flexuous; leaves 3-nate, erect-recurved, 
oblong-linear, obtuse, 3-4 lin. long ; bracts subremote; sepals broad- 
lanceolate, bluntish, coloured, about 23 lin. long; corolla elongate- 
ampullaceous, or inflated at the base, gradually narrowing to the 
apex into an elongate neck, viscidulous; tube rosy with darker red 
