Erica.| ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). 165 
2-3 lin. long; flowers terminal, sub-3-nate, cernuous; bracts sub- 
remote, foliaceous, small; sepals narrow-ovate, acuminate, keel- 
tipped, foliaceous, pubescent, slightly over 3 lin. long; corolla 
urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, more or less contracted at the mouth, 
viscid, white or rosy, 13-21 lin. long; segments nearly erect, +1 of 
the length of the tube ; anthers well exserted, subterminal, obovate, 
or (according to a specimen in Herb. Berol.) oblong, very obtuse, 
scaberulous on the margins, 2 lin. long, muticous ; pore about 4 the 
length of the cell; style slender, exserted ; stigma capitellate, small ; 
ovary pubescent, seated on a largish dark-coloured disk. Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 618. E. pudibunda, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
vi. 8345. LZ. padibunda, Pers. Syn. i. 431, 
South Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimen from Herren- 
hausen ! 
Closely allied to E. deliciosa, from which it is chiefly distinguishable by its 
relatively smaller sepals and broader anthers ; and we are by no means sure that 
it should not be regarded as a variety of that species. Our description is drawn 
from Wendland’s, as well as from his figure, and from the specimen we have 
seen, 
220. E. deliciosa (Wendl. fil. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 666) ; 
erect, 2-3 ft. high; branches white-pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect- 
spreading, imbrieate, slender, linear, blunt, sulcate, glabrescent, 
13-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, abundant ; pedicels 13-25 lin. long ; 
bracts approximate or sometimes subremote, foliaceous ; sepals from 
broadish- to narrow-lanceolate, subacute, sometimes foliaceous, 
greenish and dry, sometimes subscarious, coloured and slightly 
viscid, 2-11 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth very slightly con- 
tracted, or ovoid with a narrower mouth, glabrous, white or rosy, 
13-21 lin. long; segments erect, very short, about + the length of 
the tube; anthers subexserted, subterminal, or sometimes strictly 
terminal, suboblong or oblong-obovate, dorsally curved, very obtuse, 
about 2 lin. long, quite muticous, or very minutely toothed on the 
cells above the base, or with a single projecting tooth between the 
cells at their base in front; pore 1-2 the length of the cell ; style 
exserted; stigma clavate-capitellate, small; ovary hispid-puberu- 
lous. E. umbellata, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 647? not of Linn. 
Coast Rearion. between 500 and 1500 ft.: Riversdale Div. ; near Garcias 
Pass, Burchell, 7155 ! Langeberg Range, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 1729 ! George Div. ; 
Montagu Pass, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 5799! Oudtshoorn Div. ; Olifants River, 
Gill! Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Niven, 12! Humansdorp Div.; 
Kromme River, Masson, 55! near Clarkson, 500 ft., Galpin, 3653! Uiten- 
hage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, MacOwan, 1034! Holland in Herb: Bolus, 1209! 
pitas f h The white- 
i ies is si variable in respect of its anther. e whi 
iverch bnesta Setaele Berg has usually the curious single basal free 
tooth. The red-flowered forms from the stations further west are occasionally 
either quite muticous, or with the single basal tooth adnate to the filament, 
or with two very minute teeth upon the cell, distant from the filament and some- 
times hardly visible. They are constant m being very obtuse and scaberulous 
on the front margin. mc 
