Erica.| ERICACEA (Guthrie & Bolus). 169 
mountains near Tulbagh, Guthrie, 2734! Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5298! 
Schlechter, 8948! 8962! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Paarl Div. ; 
French Hoek Mountains, Thunberg, Paarl Mountain, Drége. Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Lowrys Pass, Bolus, 5558! Caledon Div. ; Zwarte Berg, Schlechter, 5588! 
Knysna Div. ; between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay, Cape Govt. Herb. 
Generally recognizable by its numerous smull, well-rounded flowers, bowl-— 
shaped to t he base, and its slender long-exserted style. The shape of the corolla 
is somewhat variable, the limb sometimes not at all spreading, at others dis- 
tinctly though shortly spreading. But we have not seen any wild specimens 
resembling in this respect those named E. concava, cited above, with very wide- 
spreading campanulate corollas and figured from garden specimens. We follow 
Bentham in quoting them, though we are uncertain whether this character 
be only an effect of cultivation or hybridization, or whether it represents a 
distinct species. Schlechter’s 8948 looks like a species of the § Ceramia, but a 
careful examination shows it to belong here. This species also connects with the 
§ Eurystoma, and does not entirely agree with this group, owing to its usually 
half-included stamens. Andrews’ fig. l.c, ¢. 157, represents the plant in its wild 
state very well, except that we find the sepals more foliaceous, always greenish 
and pubescent. : 
226. E. dioteflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 342) ; erect, 
1-11 ft. high ; branches many, suberect, often flexuous, somewhat 
slender, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, suberect to spreading, not crowded, 
slender, linear, subacute, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin, long; flowers 
3-nate; pedicels slender, 13-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; 
sepals lanceolate, puberulous, subfoliaceous, coloured, about } lin. 
long; corolla from campanulate-cyathiform with the mouth slightly, 
or not, contracted, to ovoid-suburceolate with a moderately contracted 
mouth, glabrous, minutely pulverulent or impressed-punctate, dry, 
rich ruby-red or purple, 14-14 lin. long; segments 5—} the length 
of the tube; anthers usually included, about equal to the corolla, 
sometimes subexserted, sublateral, attached to the filaments dorsally 
at the base, longish oblong, wider at the base, from 4 to 7 times as 
long as the width in the middle, over > lin. long, muticous ; pore 
11 the length of the cell; style exserted, decurved ; stigma capi- 
tate; ovary hispidulous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 667. £. 
pistillaris, Soland. ea Salisb. l.c. 342. 
Sovrn Arrica: without locality, Masson or Niven, 44! : ; 
Coast Rxaron: Caledon Div.; mountains about the Zondereinde River, 
near Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3298 (or 3278) ! and MacOwan 
Herb, Aust.-Afr., 1627! 
It is closely allied to the §§ Gypsocallis and Ceramia, and might almost be 
placed in either. Our specimens show but little variation. 
227. E. opulenta (Wendl. ex Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 499 ?); 
branches slender, densely clothed with submatted short grey plumose 
hairs; leaves 8-nate, erect, imbricate, linear, subobtuse, suleate, 
glabrous, about 1 lin. long; flowers numerous, densely clustered ; 
pedicels slender, less than 1 lin. long ; bracts, 2 subapproximate, 
1 remote, small ; sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, scarious, glabrous, 
coloured, about 3 lin. long; corolla tubular-eampanulate, slightly 
widened at the mouth, glabrous, about 1 lin. long; segments about 
2 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, lateral, oblong, obtuse, 
