Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 95 
in DC. Prodr, vii. 644. E. ampulleformis, Salish. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. vi. 881. EF. andrewsiana, Tausch, and EF. ampullacea, Tratt. ex 
Tausch in Flora, 1834, 594 ? 
Var. 8, obbata (Bolus); floral leaves usually more dilated than in the 
assumed type; corolla with a somewhat thicker neck and throat; limb- 
segments sometimes shorter, subreniform (and variously spotted or margined ?). 
E. obbata, Andy. Heathery, t. 32, and Col. Heaths, t. 118; Benth. in DO. 
Prodr. vii, 644, and var. umbellata, Andr. Il. cc. tt. 182; 190. E. capaa, 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331. E. pregnans, Soland. ex Salisb. l.c. 
Coast Reeion: Caledon Div., somewhat rare; dry rocky places on the Zwart 
Berg, Niven, 153! Bolus, 7405! Bodkin, in Herb. Bolus, 6953! Genadendal 
Mountain, 2500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Guthrie, 3610! Var. 8: Stellenbosch Diy. ; 
Hottentots Holland, Masson in Herb. Salisbury! Caledon Div. ; Klein River 
Kloof, Zeyher, 3198! Zwart Berg, Zeyher, 3197! Bredasdorp Div. ; frequent 
on hills near Elim, Bolus, 6757! and in Herb. Aust.-Afr ,1628! Also cultivated 
specimens of type and var. ! : 
The var. obbata is scarcely separable by any constant characters, and. is noted 
chiefly for convenience of reference to the old figures. It is merely a maritime 
form, and specimens occur between Caledon and the sea which are intermediate 
in one or the other character. We have not seen any wild plants coloured 
as in Andr. J.c. tt. 32 and 132, and have little doubt that these are merely 
horticultural variations. 
90. E. irbyana (Andr. Heathery, t. 219); erect, glabrous, 1-12 ft. 
high ; branches straighter, more slender and longer than in £#. 
shannonea ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or erect or subadpressed, linear, 
subtrigonous, acute, mucronate, 2—4 lin. long (or in Andrews’ figs. 6-9 
lin.) ; umbels 3-8-flowered; pedicels 5-7 lin. long; bracts remote, 
slender ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, transversely wrinkled, viscid, 
“deep red, 21-4 lin. long; corolla somewhat variable, suburceolate, 
not much inflated, or subampullaceous with a thin neck, viseid, pale 
flesh colour, 4—7 (or, in eultivated specimens, 10) lin. long ; segments 
ovate, acute or obtuse, 14-3 lin. long; filaments and anthers as in 
E. shannonea, the latter about 1 lin. long; ovary elongate, sub- 
stipitate. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 176; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 816 
(probably a garden hybrid with a more slender corolla). 
Sourn AFRIcA: without locality, Masson, 43! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast REGION, on mountains 500-3500 ft. : Caledon Div.; Babylons Tower, 
Guthrie, 4093! Vogel Gat, near Klein River mouth, Schlechter, 9552! Zeyher ! 
Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, Bolus, 6753! near Koude River, Sehleciter, 
9620! 9729! (the latter a short-flowered form with corollas 4-5 lin, long) ! 
Very like E. shannonea in miniature, but the habit and set of the leaves is 
different, and the corolla with its relatively wider neck tends more towards an 
urceolate than an ampullaceous shape. 
91. E. curvifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 380) ; erect, 
s_]1 ft. high; branches few, slender, ascending; leaves 3-nate, 
curved and spreading, a little longer or a little shorter than the 
internodes, linear, blunt, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, thick, 2-3 lin. 
long ; umbels 3-5-flowered ; pedicels slender, 21—3 lin. long ; bracts 
subremote, slender, small ; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, sulcate, 
viscid, 2-23 lin. long; corolla tubular-inflated below, attenuate 
above, or tubular-urceolate, glabrous, viscid, tube rosy, throat purple, 
