178 ERIcAcERe (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
Coast Recion : Var. 8: Stellenbosch Div. ; by the foot-path from Gordons 
Bay towards Cape Hanglip, 200 ft., Guthrie, 3723b ! 
243. E. viridipurpurea (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 353); erect, grace- 
ful, not much spreading, 1-2 ft. high ; branches subvirgate, pubes- 
cent; leaves more or less erect or ineurved, imbricate, linear, round- 
backed, ciliate or naked, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, 
often clustered; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, very 
small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, keel-tipped, ciliate or naked, usually 
rosy, 1% lin. long; corolla obeonic-campanulate, slightly widened 
at the mouth, red, 1-12 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, 
_nearly equal to the tube, with the interstices rounded at the base, 
open and obvious in bud; anthers almost exactly those of £. 
cyathiformis, but slightly larger (.018 in. long); style ineluded ; 
stigma peltate-capitate; ovary glabrous. E. mauritanica, Linn. 
Syst. ed. 10, 1002, Diss. Erica, n. 9, with fig. of fl.. and Amen. 
Acad. viii. 59, n. 9. E. pelviformis, Salish, Prodr. 298, and im 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 376. E. persoluta, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 342, — 
and Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 14, 27, not of Linn. LE. regerminans, 
Andr. Heathery, t. 235, and Col. Heaths, t. 265, not of Linn. £. 
leucantha, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 792. E. virescens, Thunb. Diss. 
eee 37? EL multumbellifera, Hort. ea Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7760! Herb. Salisbury! and culti- 
vated specimens ! 
Coast RxGion, from 100-2800 ft.: Worcester Div., Cooper, 1596! Cape 
Div. ; common on the mountains and Flats around Cape Town, Burchell, 85641! 
Bolus, 1203! 2956! Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 758! Wolley Dod, 175! Caledon 
Diy.; mountains of Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3260! 
244. E. sitiens (Klotzsch in Linnma, xii. 505); erect, 1-2 ft. 
high; branches stout, ascending, subvirgate, pubescent or puberulous ; 
leaves generally erect, straight and imbricate, sometimes flexuous or 
squarrose-patent, linear, acute, keeled or round-backed, ciliate or 
naked, glabrous, 11-4 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, or oecasionally 
3-nate or solitary; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote or sub- 
approximate, small; sepals lanceolate, acute or acuminate, with a 
long tapering point, keeled, subscarious, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long ; 
corolla most commonly oblong-urceolate, asymmetrically inflated in 
the middle, constricted at the throat and distinetly oblique at the 
mouth, sometimes varying to shortly tubular with nearly equal 
sides and but little constricted or oblique, white to red, limb when 
red often white-edged, 3-4 lin. long; segments short, usually 
spreading; filaments bent below the anther; anthers included, 
broadly euneate but with a more or less rounded apex, in some 
examples nearly as broad as long, in others longer, rough with small 
papille, about 2 lin. long, cristate-aristate ; pore about 3 the length 
of the cell; appendages subulate, entire or occasionally lobed, 
closely ciliate, spreading, about 2~% the length of the eell; style 
included; stigma capitate; ovary generally turbinate, glabrous. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 677. 
