176 ericace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
lower median; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious-edged, 
and sparsely subdenticulate, 1 lin. long; corolla obconic (“ campanu- 
late,” Tausch), widened at the mouth, 1} lin. long; segments erect, 
continuous, less than 2 the length of tube; filaments not very 
slender, straight; anthers subexserted, cuneate-oblong, straight, 
glabrous, 2 lin. long, cristate-aristate at the base ; pore 2 the lengrh 
of the cell; awns subulate, curved, denticulate or slightly lobed, 
fringed, less than 4 the length of the cell; style straight, tapering 
upwards, about equalling the anthers; stigma simple; ovary thinly 
hispidulous. LZ. flexicaulis, Hort. ex Tausch, l.c., not of Dryander. 
Sout ArFrica: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
We insert this species with some hesitation, but having seen and dissected 
Tausch’s type (by the courtesy of the authorities of the Royal Bot. Inst. of 
the Univ. of Prague), it gives us the impression of being a good and distinct 
species. The anthers are only very little exserted, or for about half their 
length. 
240. E. rubens (Thunb. Diss. Erica, 49, not of others); erect, 
almost entirely glabrous, about 1 ft. high; branches numerous, 
slender, reddish, glabrescent; leaves erect or suberect, imbricate 
below or on the upper branchlets, often shorter than the internodes, 
linear or narrow-oblong, acute, sulcate, the uppermost sometimes 
pubescent, about 2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate or umbellate, 
3—6-flowered, at length usually cernuous ; pedicels slender, glabrous, 
crimson, 3-7 lin. long; bracts remote, slender, linear, adpressed ; 
sepals lanceolate, sulcate, glossy, dark red, about 1 lin. long; 
corolla urceolate-ovoid to urceolate-globose, mouth much contracted, 
bright red, 23-3} lin. long; segments very short, suberect or con- 
nivent; filaments bent ; anthers included, cuneate-oblong, thinly 
hairy chiefly at the base, about } lin. long; pore §—% the length of 
the cell; connective produced backwards at a right angle near the 
base and carrying a broad pale lacerated papery crest, winged 
laterally, with a linear terminal lobe, the whole about as long as the 
cell; style included; stigma capitellate, very small; ovary obovate, 
on a distinct stipe + lin. or more long. . peduncularis, Salisb. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 329; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 676. 
Soutu ArFrica: without locality, Thunberg! 
Coast Rea@ion : Clanwilliam Div.; on the Cederberg Range, Shaw in Herb. 
Bolus, 56651! Honig Valei, near Krakadouw, Leipoldt, 1386! 208! MacOwan, 
Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1917! 
CxzNnTRAL REGIoN : Ceres Div.; mountains in the Cold Bokkeveld, Masson ! 
Of this species we have seen Thunberg’s type and also poor specimens of 
Masson’s in the British Museum. These were almost certainly Salisbury’s types 
of his BE. peduncularis, and the latter quotes Thunberg’s E. rubens as a synonym. 
As to the specimens marked a and 8 in Thunberg’s herbarium this is confirmed by 
Rach; and the species is indeed so distinctly marked that the descriptions alone 
would have sufficed. Our other specimens agree well, and the only variable 
character is the length of the pedicel. 
241. E. leta (Bartl. in Linnwa, vii. 648) ; a glabrous erect shrub, 
6-12 in. or more high ; leaves mostly erect, imbricate, linear, acute, 
