Erica.] ERICACEa (Guthrie & Bolus). 177 
sulcate, keeled, 2-3} lin, long; flowers 4-nate, or shortly umbellate ; 
pedicels slender, 2-4 lin. long; bracts remote; sepals subulate, or 
linear-acuminate from a wide base, or lanceolate-acuminate, keel- 
tipped, 1-1} lin. long; corolla urceolate to ovoid-urceolate, mouth 
more or less contracted, sometimes subtetragonous, usually bright 
red, 2-2} (rarely 3) lin. long; limb erect, 1—1 the length of the 
tube; anthers included, oblong, obtuse, naked on the margins, 
$ lin. long; pore }-% the length of the cell; connective produced 
backwards at a right angle from above the base of the cells, bearing 
a broadish ovate or subfalcate-ovate, acute, serrulate, but not 
fimbriate, white, papery crest, as long as or longer than the eells; 
style included or shortly exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovary sessile, 
glabrous, smooth or seabrid. 
Var. 8, incisa (Bolus) ; habit and leaves somewhat stouter, corolla somewhat 
larger than in the type; crests of the anthers more or less deeply inciso-lobulate. 
E. rubens, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 676; Andr. Heathery, t. 48? and Col. 
Heaths, t. 127? Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 15, 43, t. 17, not of Thunb. nor of 
others. 
Coast Reeion, between 200 and 3000 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; between 
Gordons Bay and Hanglip, Guthrie, 3723! Caledon Div.; sandy places between 
Great Houw Hoek and Bot River, Zeyher, 3228! Klein River Mountains, 
Zeyher, 3232! Vogel Gat, Schlechter, 10413! Var. 8, Cape Div.; Simons Bay, 
Niven, 16! Muizenberg Mountain, Bolus, 4474! near Simons Town, MacOwan, 
2285! on the Steen Berg, Fair! Smitswinkel Viey, Wolley Dod, 792! Klaver 
Vley, Wolley Dod, 805! 
Our variety 8 is based upon Niven’s 16, which served as the plant for 
Bentham’s description of E. rubens, Andr. (not of Thunb.). But there is very 
little difference between the two, as Bentham himself observed, and amongst 
humerous specimens we have sought in vain for any distinctive characters of 
specific value. 
242, E. turbiniflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 377); erect, 
glabrous, about 1 ft. high ; branches corymbose, channelled, reddish ; 
leaves erect or subereet, imbricate, narrow-linear, acute, round- 
backed, faintly sulcate, 3-4 lin. long ; flowers 4-nate, sometimes 
clustered ; pedicels slender, 1-2 lin. long; bracts subapproximate 
to subremote, rather long, linear; sepals narrow-linear, sometimes 
with a short broad searious-margined base, 1-2 lin. long, generally 
longer than the corolla-tube ; corolla broad-eyathiform ; tube turbi- 
nate, 4-angled (8-angled, Salisbury) or 8-nerved, mouth widened, 
red, about 11 lin. long ; segments erect, about $ the length of the 
tube; anthers included, oblong, very obtuse, membranous, smooth, 
pallid, 1 lin. long; pore about § the length of the cell; connective 
produced at the base backwards at nearly a right angle to the cell, 
and bearing faleate-lanceolate crests, which are free for the greater 
part of their length; style subincluded, usually just equal to the 
corolla ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 
GiBe 5... : 
Var. 8, aristata (Bolus) ; anthers aristate ; awns nearly as long as the cells, 
decurrent along the connective for the greater part of their length. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Niven, 77! Roeburgh! Herb. Salisbury / 
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