Erica.) © ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 108 
white without a dark centre; anthers oblong or elliptical, sometimes very 
minutely aristate, 1,4 lin. long; ovary subelongate. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, specimen from Herb. Linneus in 
Herb. Salisbury! Thunberg, sheet 8. Also cultivated specimens of type and 
var. B! 
Coast Reeron, ascending from 1500-3500 ft.: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus, 
9811! Worcester Div. ; near Worcester; Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3887! Paarl 
Div.; French Hoek, Thunberg, Guthrie, 3238! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 
Schlechter, 983! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mund, 16! Thwnberg. 
Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 3875! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Bolus, 5455! 
Schlechter, 5885! Guthrie, 3874! Riversdale Div.; Platte Kloof, Masson (ex 
Salisbury), Thunberg. Var 8: Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 
3199! mountains near Vogel Gat, Schlechter, 9549! and near Hermanus, 
Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6484! Var. y: Paarl Div.: mountains around French 
Hoek, Bolus, 9183 ! Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4974! 
This species has been much confused in herbaria. In Salisbury’s herb. at 
Kew is a branchlet marked ‘‘from Linneus’s type.” We have dissected a flower 
and compared it with the specimens first cited above as the typical form. Our 
var. 8 was regarded by Bentham asa hybrid from E. pavetteflora. It does not 
seem to be a hybrid, but a maritime form; very local, its stations being within 
five, or possibly three, miles from each other. Var. yy, in aspect, resembles 
E. hyacinthoides, but the leaves are larger and the sepals very different. Wend- 
land’s fig. in Eric. Ic. fase. 19, can only be cited with doubt. Its sepals are 
broader and shorter than in the wild specimens before us. 
105. E. transparens (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 108, not of Andr. nor 
Lodd.) ; erect, about 1 ft. high; branches many, dense, slender, 
fastigiate, villous or finely tomentose, becoming glabrous; leaves 
suberect to spreading, crowded, linear, keeled, ciliate or naked, about 
12 lin. long; flowers very numerous and densely clustered, sub- 
sessile; bracts, 2 approximate, the lowest remote, linear, ciliate, 
under 2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acute, scarious, softly 
ciliate, usually red, more rarely pale rosy, 1-1} lin. long; corolla 
tubular, slightly inflated, glabrous, white; pale rosy to deep red, 
2-21 lin. long; segments ovate, acute, 1-1} lin. long ; anthers 
oblong or subovate, about + lin. long, shortly aristate near the base ; 
style included. F. comosa, Linn. Mant. alt. 234; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 
18; Andr. Heathery, t. 10, and Col. Heaths, t. 80; Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 650; var. rubra, Andr. Ul. ec. tt. 11,81. #. galitflora, 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 383. : 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Bergius in Herb. Salisbury! Also culti- 
vated specimens ! 
Coast Reaion, mountains at 2000-4000 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 
Drége! Bolus, 5174! Paarl Div.; near French Hoek Pass, Mann in Herb. 
Bolus, 6391! Schlechter, 9290! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Thuwnberg! 
Burchell, 6241 Wolley Dod, 796! Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, Burchell, 
7727! Bolus, Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 356! Zwart Berg, Schlechter, 9781! 
Swellendam Div.; Tradouw Mountains, Bowie! Riversdale Div.; Kampsche 
Berg, Burchell, 7082! Platte Kloof, Thunberg. 
106. E. Vallis-Gratie (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, branching, 
probably 1-12 ft. high; leaves suberect, incurved, imbricate, linear- 
trigonous, acute, ciliate, 4-5 lin. long, 4 lin. broad; flowers 
4-nate, generally densely clustered into heads; pedicels about 1 lin. 
long; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, eiliate, 4-5 lin. 
