100 nricacez (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
pore 2—2 the length of the cell; awns inserted above the middle of 
the eell and equalling or exceeding it in length, capillary, much 
involute; style subexserted; ovary on a distinct, broad, shortish 
stipe. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 641. EH. amabilis, Salish. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 885. E. sainsburyana, Andr. Heathery. t. 
287, and Col. Heaths, t. 270. E.carniula, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 926. 
E. carinula, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 570. H. ollula, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 275, and Cot. Heaths, t. 251; Lodd. l.c. t. 1646. 
Sourm Arrica : without locality, Thunberg. Also cultivated specimens f 
Coast REGION, ascending from 1000-2500 ft. : Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg 
Range, Drége, 7737! Leipoldt,62! Mader, 68! Piquetberg Div. ; foot of Twenty- 
four Rivers Mountains, Zeyher, 1091! Tulbagh and Ceres Div. ; Mitchells Pass, 
Bolus, 6923! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 385! Schlechter, 9967! Guthrie, 
2178! 
Distinct in the section by its very long leaves, but with a curious resemblance 
to EB. obliqua, Thunb., in the § Pachysa (which also has a stipitate ovary) and 
might be placed with it, but that the sepals and anthers are so different ; the 
pedicels and leaves also are longer. The leaves are very like those of E. vestita, 
Thunb., but far fewer. We have not seen any wild specimens with flowers 
either so long, or so short, as those represented in the figures of Andrews and 
Loddiges. 
100. E. ventricosa (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 27, t. 1); erect, 2-6 ft. 
high; branches stout, rigid ; leaves 4-nate, spreading or squarrose, 
sometimes undulate, crowded, linear-subulate, acuminate, margins 
white, pilose, rarely subglabrous, 6-8 lin. long; flowers in dense 
umbels at the ends of the branchlets, sometimes forming close 
pyramidal masses ; pedicels pubescent, 3-4 lin. long ; bracts remote, 
"small, linear, ciliate ; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious- 
edged, glabrous, 3 lin. long; corolla ovoid-ureeolate, attenuate up- 
wards and constricted at the throat, glabrous, dry, white, rosy, or 
red; tube 6-8 lin. long; segments ovate, acute, sometimes mealy, 
11 lin. long; anthers cuneate-oblong, purple, about 2 lin. long, 
minutely crested; crests not reaching to the base of the cell; 
style ineluded, stigma subsimple ; ovary turbinate, stipitate. Andr. 
Heathery, t. 197, and Ool. Heaths, t. 65; Bot. Mag. t. 350; Wendl. 
Eric. Ie. fasc. 83,11; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 481; Herb. Amat. t. 62; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642. H. pregnans, Andr. Heathery, t. 
231, and Col. Heaths, t. 202; Lodd. Lc. t. 945. E. venusta, Salish. 
Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 385, not of Sinclair, nor 
Klotzsch. E. densa, Andr. Heathery, t. 212, and Col. Heaths, t. 
163. LE. glabra, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 362. FE. translucens, 
Wendl. ex Spreng. Syst. ii. 186, in syn. ? 
Soutn ArricA: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated 
specimens | 
Coast REeGion, ascending from 1000-5200 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits 
Peak, Marloth, 2416! Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, Schlechter, 
9236! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 939! Stellenbosch Div. ; hills about 
False Bay, Musson and Niven (ex Bentham). Caledon Div.; near Amandel River, 
Bolus, 5172! 
Chiefly variable in the size of its flowers and the degree of copiousness or 
density of the inflorescence. But we cannot discover any constant characters on 
