106 ERIcACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
acute, subdenticulate or slightly and shortly lacerate; corolla mostly shorter 
and broader, 3-4 lin. long, ovoid or broad-ovoid-urceolate, often but not always, 
much contracted at the throat, bright yellow. E. retusa, Tausch in Flora, 
1834, 598. 
This variety connects this species with E. denticulata, which it approaches 
almost as nearly as it does this species. 
Var. ¢, latisepala (Bolus) ; branches somewhat flexuous ; leaves broader and 
shorter than in other vars., obleng to elliptical, obtuse, 1-1} lin. long; in- 
florescence somewhat lax; pedicels 4 lin. long; sepals (in the fully developed 
flowers) somewhat spreading at the apex, broad-lanceolate or elliptical, acute, 
thickly-keeled, orange below, red towards the apex, about 2 lin. long, 1 lin. 
wide ; corolla urceolate, red or rosy; tube 4 lin. long; segments broad-ovate, 
very obtuse, short, red, 
Var. ¢, Leipoldtii (Bolus) ; habit of the type, but sepals somewhat broader, 
ovate-lanceolate, 2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, red or rosy; tube 4 lin. long 5 
segments suboblong, tapering to the apex, not imbricating at the base but with 
somewhat open sinuses. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1094! Herb. Salisbury! and 
cultivated specimens of vars. B and y! Var. y, Herb. Salisbury ! 
Coast REGION, on mountains at 1500-6000 ft. : Clanwilliam Div. ; between 
Ezelsbank and Dwars River, Drége, 7739! near Oliphants River, Zeyher, 
1095! Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh waterfall, Niven, 77! Witsen Berg, 
Burchell, 8668! Ceres Div. ; near Ceres, Bolus, 5499! and Herb. Norm. Aust. 
Afr., 601! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Burchell, 7299! 7390! Niven, 
75! Mund, 14! near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3201! Zuurbraak Moun- 
tain, Galpin, 3600! Var. 7: Tulbagh and Ceres Div.; near Tulbagh, Guthrie, 
2079! Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5291! Schlechter, 8934! 9953! near Ceres, Bolus, 
7447 | 8482! Tyson in Herb. Norm. Aust,-Afr.,996! Paarl Div. ; near Wellington, 
MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr.,19! Cape Div. ? Zout River, Masson (ex Salis- 
bury). Swellendam Div. ; Grootvaders Bosch, Mund ! Var. e, Worcester Div. ; 
Matroos Berg, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4417! Var. ¢, Clanwilliam Div. ; Kerskop 
Flats on the Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 1382! Pakhuis Berg, Schlechter, 10813. 
CENTRAL Ruecion: Var. B: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Masson! near 
Wagenbooms River, Schlechter, 10158! Var. 8: Ceres Div.; Skurfdeberg 
Range, near Gydouw, Martin tn Herb. Bolus, 7344! Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 
7553! Gydouw Mountain, Schlechter, 10044! Var. ¢: Ceres Div.; Gydouw, 
Schlechter, 10004! Wagenbooms River, Schlechter, 10168 ! ; 
We have endeavoured to characterize the varieties named above, but fear 
that some of them are mere forms, which seem to run into each other. 
110. E. pellucida (Soland. ex Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 
384, not of Andr.) ; erect, with numerous, spreading branches, 6—12 
in. high ; leaves close-set, spreading to squarrose and most usually 
incurved, linear, subacute, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, often in 
dense masses at the ends of short branchlets; bracts approximate, 
linear-lanceolate, keel-tipped, lacerate, somewhat shorter than the 
sepals ; sepals obovate or obovate-cuneate, with a long sublinear 
foliaceous cusp, scarious, lacerate or fimbriate-lacerate, about 3 lin. 
long ; corolla-tube subinflated, bright rose, 5-6 lin. long; segments 
ovate, subobtuse, about 2 lin, long; anthers nearly square, a little 
over i lin. long; pore 4 the length of the cell; style at length 
_exserted. EH. Parmentierti, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 197. E. venusta, 
Sinclair in Hort, Eric. Wob. 27% not of Salish.; Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 647. : eciea decal eatiid 
