Evica.] ERICACE (Guthrie & Bolus). 99 
pore about 4 the length of the cell; ovary subsessile or broadly 
short-stipitate. #. Savileia, Andr. Ool. Heaths. ¢. 205. E. 
Savillie, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.96. E. savileana, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 
ed. i. 261; Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii. 641. E. Behen, EH. Meyer ex 
Benth. lic. 642 partly. E. delecta, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 633. 
Ei. tristis, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 519 4 
Var. 8, grandiflora (Bolus) ; corolla 6-7 lin. long. 
Coast Rre@ion: Tulbagh Div.: Mosterts Hoek Mountain, Bolus, 6479! 
Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Miss Liesching in Herb. Guthrie, 3367! Paarl Div. ; 
near Wellington, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 17! Worcester Div. ; 
Dutoits Kloof, Drége ; Matroos Berg, Cook in Herb. Bolus, 6887! Swellendam 
Div.; near Swellendam, Borcherds in Herb. Bolus, 6266! Also cultivated 
specimens! Var. B: Paarl Div.; around French Hoek, MacOwan, 2920! 
Worcester Div. ; Matroos Berg, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3947! 
98. E. precox (Klotsch in Linnea, xii. 517, not of Lodd.) ; erect, 
6-8 in. high ; branches ascending, mostly curved ; branchlets pubes- 
cent, and, as ate the leaves, pedicels, bracts and sepals ciliate or 
more or less pilose with soft white hairs, sometimes nearly glabrous, 
or becoming so; leaves 4-nate, ereet-spreading or slightly incurved, 
linear, subacute, 3-4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, sometimes by 
abortion of the lateral branehlets appearing axillary and clustered ; 
pedicels slender, 3-4 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, small; 
sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious-edged, 21 lin. long; 
corolla ovoid-urceolate ; tube pale or bright red, about 4 lin. long; 
throat purple ; limb red; segments ovate, acute, 8-1 lin. long; 
anthers oblong or subeuneate, 1—} lin. long, purple, muticous; pore 
about + the length of the cell; ovary stipitate. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr, vii. 641. H. Behen, E. Meyer ex Benth. l.c. 642 partly. 
Coast Rrcion: Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 ft., Drége ! 
Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Le Roux, in Herb. Bolus, 5950! Caledon Div. ; Houw 
Hoek, Kennedy, 28! near Palmiet River, Schlechter, 7455! 
Chiefly distinguished from the preceding by its longer leaves, narrower and 
muticous anthers with larger pore, and more evidently stipitate ovary; the 
pubescence on the younger parts is also generally more copious. Our material, 
though good, is not copious enough to afford good evidence that these small 
differences are constant. 
99. E. inflata (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 41, t. 2); erect, 1-3 ft. high ; 
branches slender, erect, often virgate, leafy, terminating in dense 
clusters of flowers; leaves 4-nate or scattered, suberect or incurved, 
not crowded, often subsecund, very slender, narrowly linear, acute, 
mucronate or aristate, glabrous, flat above, convex and faintly sulcate 
below, petioles long and very slender, the whole 5~10 lin. long ; 
flowers in dense many-flowered corymbose umbels ; pedicels slender, 
pubescent, red, 6-7 lin. long; bracts subremote, slender, red, 
aristate ; sepals lanceolate or subulate, acuminate, glabrous or pubes- 
cent, crimson or pallid, aristate, 1-1} lin. long ; corolla ovoid- 
urceolate; throat contracted, dry ; tube pale rose, 3-4 lin. long, 
throat and limb darker red; segments about } lin. long; anthers 
semiovate or broad, subcuneate, + about 2 lin. long, aristate ; 
ay * ER 
