Lrica.| ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus), 127 
Coast Region, at 1000-4800 ft.: Cape Div. ; near Wynberg, Niven, 27! 
Stellenbosch Div.; mountains of Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8211! Niren, 26! 
MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1773! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, 
Burchell, 8141! Schlechter, 7780! Hottentots Holland Mountains, eastern side, 
Guthrie, 2018! Bolus, 5549! Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook! near Appels Kraal, 
Zeyher, 32058! Genadendal Mountain, Galpin, 3704! Bredasdorp Div.; near 
Elim, Guthrie! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; near the Palmiet River, (uthrie, 
3548 |! ; 
This species is so near to some forms of E. parviflora that we admit it with 
some doubt. Yet even as a variety of that species it would be well marked by 
its usually larger and more membranous sepals, its much less hairy leaves, sepals, 
and (usually quite glabrous) corolla, its pseudo-racemose inflorescence, and its 
more virgate graceful habit. It is usually found, and often in abundance, 
growing along the margins of streams, or watercourses which are streams in 
winter, in which respect also it differs from the preceding. Our var. B looks 
different in habit from the ordinary form, and seems to connect with £. 
cyrillefiora. But the anther is exactly that of this species, and as we have 
only a single specimen we do not venture to make a species of it. 
149. E. cyrilleflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 357) ; dwarf, 
diffuse, under 1 ft. high; branehes very slender, numerous, pubes- 
cent, red when young; leaves 4-nate, spreading-incurved, slender, 
linear-subterete, puberulous or glabrescent, 23-3 lin. long; flowers 
1—3—4-nate, on short branchlets ; pedicels red with white pubeseence, 
very short; bracts remote, minute; sepals linear from an ovate 
ciliate membranous base, acuminate, foliaceous in the upper part, 
1 lin. long; corolla subtubalar or tubular-campanulate, mouth not 
(or slightly) contracted, pubescent, red, 3 lin. long, about 1 lin. 
wide ; segments small, spreading or erect, rounded ; filaments long, 
flexuous; anthers just included, dorsifixed above the base, oblong, 
obtuse, 2 lin. long, muticous; style included; stigma very small, 
capitellate; ovary glabrous. £. palustris, Andr. Heathery, t. 77, 
and Col. Heaths, t. 114; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t, 4. 
: ne Div. ; marshy plain on Simons Bay Mountains, Niven 
381 99 | Bilal Aoeare Moreh, Grey! ‘Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, 
Mulder (ex Salisbury)! Also cultivated specimens ! 
A very distinct species approaching nearest to the preceding, but of very 
different habit. It is probably now very rare: no records of any more recent 
collectors are known to us. 
150. E. algida (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 238); erect, 1 ft. 
or more high; branches erect, rigid, pubescent, sometimes (as also 
the pedicels and the ciliate hairs of the leaves) with compound 
subplumose or floccose hairs; leaves 4-nate, erect, incurved, imbri- 
cate, linear to lanceolate or oblong, sulcate, the lower sometimes 
slightly open-backed, puberulous and ciliate with branched or sub- 
plumose hairs, the older glabreseent, 1-2 lin. long ; flowers sub- 
4-nate ; pedicels hairy, 1-1} lin. long ; bracts approximate, lanceo- 
late, villous, viscid, nearly as large as the sepals ; sepals ovate, obtuse, 
subfoliaceous, viscid, villous, glandular-ciliate, nearly 1 lin. long; 
corolla broadly oval or oval-cyathiform, mouth not much contracted, 
