180 ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
t. 8432 E.-.Fibula, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 368 (fide 
Benth.). 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated spect- 
mens ! 
Coast Reeton, between 1000 and 4000 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; Mitchells Pass, 
MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 37! Bolus, 5354! Ceres Div.; near Ceres, 
Guthrie, 2286b! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége, 7763! Paarl Div. ; 
French Hoek Mountains, Schlechter, 10270! Caledon Div.; Palmiet River, 
Guthrie, 3872! Houw Hoek Mountains, Zeyher, 3207! mountains near Gena- 
dendal, Burchell, 7714! 7756! Bolus, 5423! 
247. E. verecunda (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 379) ; 
erect, reaching 3-5 ft. high; branches ascending, cano-puberulous, 
glabrescent ; leaves erect, incurved-erect or spreading, imbricate, 
linear, rather blunt, suleate, glabrous, 2-8 lin. long; flowers in 
many-flowered umbels, sometimes shortly pedicelled and appear- 
ing subcapitate or subspicate, usually cernuous at maturity ; pedicels 
pubescent, crimson, 2—4 lin. long ; bracts small and quite remote, 
or two small and approximate, one median, long and foliaceous ; 
sepals ovate, acute, sulcate, ciliate, about } lin. long, or lanceolate, 
acuminate and about 1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-ureeolate, mouth 
contracted, 13-3 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, white or 
very pale rose; anthers ineluded, cuneate, subacute from 2 to nearly 
% lin. long, crested ; pore about % the length of the cell ; crests 
ample, lobed and erosulate at the base, linear above, white, sub- 
diaphanous, about equalling the cell in length; style slightly 
exserted or just manifest ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. 
in DQ. Prodr. vii. 676. E. cernua, Andr. Heathery, t. 9, and 
Col. Heaths, t=. 12; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 822, not of Linn. f.; var. 
lanceolata, Wendl. Eric. Ic, fasc. 8,13, EH. ignorata, Klotzsch ex 
Benth. l.c. 676. é 
South Arrica: without locality, Drége! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated 
specimens ! : 
Coast Region: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; by rivulets on Wind Hoek Mountain, 
Niven, 21! 22! Clanwilliam Div., Mader in Herb. MacOwan, 2184! Leipoldt, 
133! Cederberg Range at Pakhuis Pass, 2300 ft., Schlechter, 8607! Bolus, 
8682! Marloth, 2639! 2691! Div. ? Pinaars Kloof, Burke / 
: Pca ome Recion: Ceres Div.; Gydouw Mountain, 6000 ft., Schlechter, 
The occasional closeness of the inflorescence is sometimes misleading. 
Schlechter’s 10221 is a smaller-flowered form from a much higher elevation. © 
The three figures cited are all good, but being from garden plants they are better 
grown than wild specimens. 
248. E. tenella (Andr. Heathery, t. 94); ereet, 1-11 ft. or more 
high, generally more slender than any of the four preceding species; 
branches ascending, grey-pubescent ; leaves erect or spreading, linear, 
acute or subobtuse, keeled, glabrous or sparsely hairy and becoming 
so, mostly about 2 lin. long ; flowers crowded on short branchlets at 
the ends of the branches, mostly forming a pseudo-raceme; pedicels — 
puberulous, red, 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals mostly 
