Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 105 
Andr. Heathery, t. 62, and Col. Heaths, t. 90; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
207, not of Linn. E. Walkeri, Lodd. lc. t. 256. H. juliana, 
Lodd. l.e. t. 799. EH. pulehra, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 384. 
Var. 8, prestans (Bolus); corolla-segments larger, about half the length 
of the tube. E, prestans, Andr. Heathery, t. 2382, and Col. Heaths, t. 257; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 647. 
Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Drége! Herb. Salisbury! Also cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast REGION: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus im Herb. Guthrie, 2366! 
Paarl Div.; on the Drakensteen Mountains near Wellington, 1000 ft., MacOwan, 
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 18! Swellendam Div.; without precise locality, Herd. 
Huguenot Seminary, 84! Var. 8: Tulbagh Div.; mountains near Tul- 
bagh, Ecklon & Zeyher and Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drége (ex 
Bentham). 
We have not seen specimens of var. £. 
109. E. daphniflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 884, in an 
extended sense); erect, 1-2 ft. high; leaves erect or spreading, 
straightish (seldom or never uniformly spreading-incurved), linear, 
2-3 lin. long; flowers in scattered clusters, sometimes congested 
into large dense masses towards the ends of the branches ; pedicels 
1-23 lin. long; bracts approximate, or subremote and lax ; sepals 
very variable, from lanceolate-linear, lanceolate, narrow-ovate or 
subelliptical, never widest above the middle, long-acuminate to 
acute, always scarious, shortly ciliate, denticulate or naked, equalling 
or half as long as the corolla-tube ; corolla urceolate, narrow-ovoid- 
urceolate or subconical, red or rosy; tube 3-7 lin. long; segments 
obtuse or acute, variable in size, concolorous or white; anthers 
oblong, about 3 lin. long, or rarely longer, minutely aristate or 
muticous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 646. E. daphneflora, Wendl. 
Erie. Ic. fase. 26, 3. EH. daphneflora, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 5438. 
E. bartlingiana, and E. incerta, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 621. EE. 
indigesta, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 523. 
Var. 8, pedicellata (Bolus) ; branches virgate, slender, the floriferous often or 
always with long internodes, the barren closely leafy ; leaves about 2 lin. long; 
pedicels 2 lin. long or less; sepals oblong, acute or acuminate, denticulate, 
24 lin. long; corolla narrow-ovoid-urceolate; tube 6-7 lin. long, white or pale 
rose ; segments ovate, acute or acuminate, 2 lin. long; anthers (sometimes at 
least) very minutely aristate. E. pedicellata, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 525; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 646. LE. distans, Benth. l.c. 646. 
Var, y, Muscari (Bolus) ; branches usually virgate and slender; leaves erect, 
mostly straightish and slender; inflorescence often lax, flowering branchlets 
clustered, clusters more or less remote; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; sepals narrow- 
to broad-lanceolate, usually somewhat less than half the corolla-tube; corolla 
commonly narrow-ovoid-urceolate, usually ochreous or yellow, more rarely white 
(or rosy ?) ; tube 3-4 lin. long. E. Muscari, Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 40, and 
Heathery, t. 180; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 18, 85, t. 32; Benth.in DC. Prodr, 
vii. 648. E. fragrans, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 383; not of Andr. 
E. Bonplandia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 345. E. bonplandiana, Bot. Mag. t. 2126? 
E. scoliostoma, Klotzsch in Linnea, x. 322, fide Benth, E. moschata, Lodd, Le. 
t.614? E. nidiflora, Salisb. l.c., and E. denticulata, Roxb. ex Salis. lc. ( fide 
Index Kew. 
Var. 5, ae (Bolus) ; habit of var. y; leaves mostly shorter, 1}-2 lin. 
long ; flowers subsessile ; bracts and sepals broader, broad-lanceolate or oblong, 
