Erica.] EkIcAcEm (Guthrie & Bolus). 107 
Coast Raion: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Masson in Herb. 
Salisbury ! Caledon Div. ; summit and upper part of the mountains of Baviaans 
Kloof near Genadendal, 3300-3500 ft., Burchell, '7706! Bolus, 5402! and in 
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 350! Bodkin in Herb. Guthrie, 3611! Schlechter, 
9811! Zoetemelks Valley, Burchell, 7591! 
Near to E. denticulata, but sepals less decidedly pectinate-lacerate, always (as 
to our specimens) with a long cuspidate point (not present in that species), with 
a longer, brighter-coloured corolla, and a smaller anther-pore. Specimens in 
herbaria have been named EH. hyacinthoides, Andr., but that, according to 
Andrews’ figure, has very different sepals. Bentham regarded the latter as a 
garden-hybrid, and we have seen no wild specimens like it. With Bentham’s 
short description our specimens agree, though he does not mention the cuspidate 
sepals. This plant is at least an entity, with fairly constant characters, and 
must be distinguished. 
111. E. denticulata (Linn. Mant. Alt. 229, in a wider sense) ; 
erect, branches spreading or virgate, glabrous, striate ; leaves suberect 
or spreading, linear, acute, trigonous or round-backed, 3—32 lin. long ; 
flowers 4-nate, subsessile; bracts approximate; sepals and bracts 
variable in outline, from sublinear to obovate or spathulate, almost 
invariably broadest above the middle, sometimes unguiculate, scarious, 
more or less deeply pectinate-lacerate or fimbriate-lacerate, 2-3 lin. 
long, not cuspidate; corolla urceolate to tubular, dry, glabrous, 
white or rosy ; tube 3—4 lin. long, 14% lin. wide ; limb variable, some- 
times half as long as the tube, mostly mealy above ; segments 1] lin. 
long or less, suborbicular; pore of the anther almost as long as the 
cell. Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 25, 5, t.2; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1090; 
Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 647. H.dentata, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 28 ; 
Lam. Eneycl. i. 485% £. pavetteflora, Salisb. Prodr. 297, not 
elsewhere. E. denticularis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe, vi. 884. L. 
venusta, Hort. ex Benth. l.c. 647. 
Var. 8, longiflora (Bolus); subvirgate; leaves about 2 lin. long; bracts 
(shorter than in the type) and sepals obovate-cuneate, not unguiculate, keel not 
prolonged into a linear cusp; corolla-tube 6-7 lin. long; segments broad-ovate 
and very obtuse, or narrower, longer and subacute, 14-17 lin. long; anther- 
pore nearly 2 the length of the cell. E. dentata, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 19, 101, 
t. 38, not of Thunb. ‘ 2 
Var. y, grandiloba (Bolus); leaves erect, incurved, usually very caducous 
(the branches being for the greater part naked), narrow-lanceolate or linear, 
3 lin. long; sepals subobovate or oblanceolate, slightly lacerate ; corolla-tube 
34-44 lin. long, somewhat inflated; segments broad-ovate, obtuse, large, half as 
long as the tube or more, 2-24 lin. long; anthers less than } lin. long; pore 
% the length of the cell. 
Sourn ArFRIcA: without locality, Bergius and Thunberg (both in Herb, 
Salisbury) ! : 
Coast REGION, on mountains at 800-2400 ft.: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, 
Schlechter, 9231! Bolus, 6990! Caledon Div.; tops of Baviaans Kloof Moun- 
‘tains, Burchell, 7702! Zwart. Berg, near Caledon, Zeyher, 3200! Bolus, 6756! 
between Villiersdorp and French Hoek, Bolus, 5173! near Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 
2023! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; Genadendal Mountain, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 
6485! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Guthrie, 2501! Bolus, 6956! Var. y: 
Tulbagh Div.; above Tulbagh Waterfall, Bolus, 5460! and in Herb. Norm. 
Aust.-Afr., 1307! mountains of Tulbagh Kloof, Guthrie, 2075! 
E. macutosa (Tausch in Flora, 1839, 629), is probably a garden-hybrid between 
E. denticulata and E. Walkeria. It has the habit and spreading leaves of the 
