164 ERIcACEs (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Frica. 
it had only been found on the Cape Peninsula. Recently Mr. Schlechter has 
discovered what seems another form further eastwards,—our var. 8, which we 
cannot separate by any tangible characters, though it looks somewhat different 
on account of its shorter and more distant leaves, &c. It is intermediate between 
the typical form and our var.y. But for it we should probably have made a 
species of Schlechter, 10056, the flowers on which are, however, mostly unde- 
veloped; one or two show an almost exactly identical corolla, and only the 
anther is shorter and broader in shape. 
218. E. nudifiora (Linn. Mant. Alt. 229); erect, 6-18 in. high ; 
branches numerous, erect, subcorymbose or subvirgate, hirsute ; 
leaves 3-nate, erect to wide-spreading, linear-subulate or linear- 
semiterete, subacute, flattish and glabrous above, round-backed, 
sulcate, generally more or less hispid below, ciliate, hairs tuberele- 
based, sometimes almost entirely glabrous, 2-4 lin. long; pedicels 
slender, puberulous, 11-21 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals 
lanceolate, sometimes united for a short distance above the base, 
acute, ciliate, rigid, keeled, 3— lin. long; corolla subcampanulate- 
cyathiform, mouth not contracted, sometimes varying to tetragonous- 
tubular, narrow-ovoid, or even ovoid with contracted mouth, glabrous, 
usually bright red, rarely pale rose, 11—2 lin. long; segments slightly 
spreading or erect, 11 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, 
subequal ; anthers wholly exserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the 
base, oblong or slightly wider above, scaberulous, rounded, very 
obtuse, sometimes longitudinally semiobovate, tapering very much 
to the base and thus appearing subterminal, about + lin. long, muti- 
eous ; pore 1—1 the length of the cell ; style slender, exserted ; stigma 
subsimple ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 668. £. 
floribunda, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 14, 19, not of Lodd. EH. alopecu- 
roides, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 874, not of Wendl. EE. microstoma, Berg. 
ex G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 801. #. sertiflora, Salisb. in Trans. 
Linn. Soe. vi. 342. 
Sourn Arica: without locality, Thunberg; Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast REGION, on mountains from 400 to 2500 ft.: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ceder- 
berg Range, Letpoldt, 131! Tulbazh Div. ; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 86741 Roode 
Zand, Niven, 9; Mitchells Pass, MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm., 30! Paarl 
Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drége! Drakensteen Mountains, Bolus, 4057! French 
Hoek, Guthrie, 34351 Cape Div.; Burchell, 816! Sieber, 182! Drége! Bolus, 
3713! MacOwan, 23001 Guthrie, 816! 817! Wolley Dod, 1009! Stellenbosch 
Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8209! Schlechter, 4811! Caledon Div.; near Genu- 
dendal, Burchell, 76101 77941 8620! Donkerhoek Mountain, Burchell, 7998! 
Hemel-en-Aarde, Schlechter, 10375 ! 
Chiefly variable in the shape of the corolla; but generally recognizable by its 
numerous flowers and well-exserted stamens, The pedicels are always shorter 
and the corolla generally longer, both absolutely and relatively to its width, than 
in EB. fucata, 
Section XVIL PYRONIUM. (Sp. 219-232.) 
219. E. nutans (Wendl. Eric. Ic. et Descr. fasc. 3, 5); erect, 
3-4 ft. high; branches slender, pubescent; leaves 3-nate (or 3-4- — 
nate), erect-spreading, linear-filiform, glandular-ciliolate, scabrid, — 
