138 gricace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica. 
Div.; Kraai River, Drége. Var. 8: Willowmore Div. ; Aasvogel Berg, Drége, 
7727a! 
Eastern Reoion: Tembuland; near Gat Berg, Baur, 240! Pondoland ; 
Egossa Forest, Sim, 2517! Natal; Umbilo Falls, Wood, 1723! 1961! Fieids 
Hill, Rehmann, 8018! 
Var. B scarcely seems worthy of note. The species is widely distributed, and 
. one of the very few which straggle into the Central Region. It is noticeable by 
its persistent flowers. 
170. E. pubescens (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 506, not of others) ; 
erect, 1-11 ft. high ; branches clothed with a close greyish tomentum, 
and long scattered hairs ; leaves 3-nate, upper suberect, lower spread- 
ing, linear, blunt, sulcate, or sometimes lanceolate and open-backed, 
pubescent, pale green, about 1 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate to sub- 
umbellate ; pedicels pubescent, 8 lin. long ; bracts subapproximate or 
remote, foliaceous, less than 1 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, subobtuse, 
margins recurved, foliaceous, densely velvety-puberulous, ciliate or 
naked, 1-12 lin. long, reaching from 3 to nearly } the height of the 
corolla; corolla narrow- or broadish-oveid-urceolate, not, or slightly, 
contracted at the throat, velvety-pubescent, white or pale rosy, mostly 
21 or rarely 2 lin. long; segments erect, obtuse, 1—} the length of 
the tube ; filaments broadest at the base, bent at the apex; anthers 
included, oblong, obtuse, somewhat tapering to the base, the cells 
subdistant, about 3% lin. long, subcristate; pore about + the length 
of the cell; appendages oblong and denticulate below, subulate- 
acuminate towards the apex, about 4 as long as the cells, or subulate- 
aristate throughout, eiliolate, and only + the length of the cells ; style 
stout, just exserted; stigma capitate; ovary villous. HE. pubescens, 
var. pilosa, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 39. E. incana, Wendl. Eric. Ic. 
fase. 18, 89, t. 834 (good /). FE. pallida, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
vi. 326; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 673. EH. purialis, Hort. ex 
Sinclair, Hort. Erie. Wob. 20; Benth. l.c. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Sieber, 174! Herb. Salisbury! 
Coast Reeron, from 800-2800 ft.: Clanwilliam Div. ; Middle Berg, Ceder- 
berg Range, Leipoldt, 742! Cape Div.; mountains around Cape Town, Thun- 
berg, Niven, 20! 127! Bolus, 2959! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 32! 
Guthrie, 13878! Wolley Dod, 2336! Ecklon, 290! 
Allied to E. tomentosa, but easily distinguished by the size and relative pro- 
portions of the sepals and corolla, Also near to HE. Lerouwia, differing, however, 
in several characters. Leipoldt’s specimens agree in al! substantial characters, 
but the flowers are a little smaller than the others, either from their not being 
fully developed, or from their station in a drier climate. They were distributed 
as E. hirta, Thunb., which may possibly prove to be a form of the present 
species. 
171. E. hirta (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 36, t. 2); branches viscous- 
pubescent and setose ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, from linear (margins 
revolute and approximate) to lanceolate and open-backed, acute, sub- 
_viseous-puberulous, the younger setose, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 
terminal, 3-nate; pedicels puberulous, 2} lin. long (in Salisbury’s 
specimen, probably from Roxburgh), to 5-7 lin. (in Thunberg’s 
figure); bracts remote, small; sepals somewhat lax and spreading, 
