168 ERIcACcEz (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
virgate or fastigiate-paniculate, densely long-pilose or shortly floccose, 
covered with abundant corolline or subcorolline flowers, in close 
subcylindrical panicles; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate or at least 
close-set, linear or subulate, sulcate, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 
sub-3-nate on short branchlets ; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts 
approximate or subremote, small; sepals lanceolate, keeled, sub- 
scarious, glabrous or puberulous, about 2 lin. long; corolla cyathi- 
form or obconie-cyathiform, mouth more or less widened, straight, 
not curved upwards from the base, about 11 lin. long; segments 
generally continuous, about + the length of the tube or more, usually 
red, more rarely pallid or white; anthers subexserted or rarely 
exserted, lateral, obliquely oblong or subcuneate, or semiovate, about 
1 lin. long, aristate; pore about + the length of the cell; awns 
variable, sometimes very minute or even wanting, sometimes nearly 
2 the length of the cell; style exserted ; stigma broad-capitate, 
truncate and often lobed above; ovary mostly glabrous, very rarely 
(in only one specimen of many examined), slightly puberulous. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 690. . milleflora, Berg. Descr. Pl. 
Cap. 96. LE. sodalis, Klotzsch ex Benth, l.c. 690. 
Coast Rereion : Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh, MacOwan, 2442! Paarl Div. ; 
near Wellington, Herb. Hugwenot Seminary, 9! Cape Div.; frequent on the 
lower mountain slopes near Cape Town, from 200 to 700 ft., Drége, 7781! 
Bolus, 2946! 3691! Guthrie, 1174! 1219! Wolley Dod, 176! Stellenbosch 
Div., Niven, 1! Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 2505! Hottentots Holland Mountains, 
Mund, 33! Caledon Div.; near Caledon, Bolus, 8498! 
225. E. bicolor (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 36); erect, 1-2 ft. high; 
branches generally virgate, the upper part laden with numerous 
flowers, cano-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, crowded, 
mostly linear, sulcate, puberulous, 1-13 lin. long, more rarely broad- 
linear, slightly open-backed and from 13~21 lin. long; flowers 
3-nate ; pedicels 1-12 lin. long; bracts remote, small ; sepals broad- 
ovate, blunt, keeled, viscid-puberulous or shortly tomentose, folia- 
ceous, 3—% lin. long, reaching from 4-3} the height of the corolla; 
corolla cyathiform, broad-cyathiform or subcampanulate-cyathiform, 
mouth a little widened or sometimes not at all so, the outline always 
curved, not tapering direct from the base, glabrous, dull red, 1-14 
lin, long; segments erect or slightly spreading, 1-2 the length of 
the tube; anthers usually subineluded and manifest, more rarely 
subexserted, lateral, curved-oblong, very obtuse, seaberulous, 2 lin. 
long; pore 2 the length of cell; awus curved, subulate, ciliolate, 
3-8 the length of tke cell; style slender, well-exserted; stigma 
capitellate, small; ovary pubescent. Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 688 ; 
Wendl. Erie. Ie. fase. 21,189, t. 53. E. calathiflora, Salish. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 328. E. concava, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1384? 
and Bot. Mag. t. 21491 E. canaliculata, var. minor, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 157, and Col. Heaths, t. 158. gs : 
Sovrn AFrica: without locality, Mund! and cultivated specimens! 
Coast Rxcion, from 800 to 3L00 ft. : Clanwilliam Div.; Krakadouw Pass, 
Leipoldt, 214 partly | Tulbagh and Ceres Div.; on the Witsen Berg, Pappe! 
