Frica.] ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 181 
ovate-lanceolate, rarely subovate, acute or acuminate, keeled, 
glabrous, glossy, usually dark red, $1 lin. long; corolla ureeolate 
or ovoid-urceolate, constricted at the throat, but always somewhat 
wide-mouthed, white or pale rose, 2-3 lin. long; segments mostly 
rather large and well-spreading, more rarely erect, sometimes darker- 
coloured than the tube, from 1—1 the length of the tube; anthers 
included, somewhat variable in shape and length, from transversely 
semiovate-cuneate to oblong-cuneate, minutely ciliolate on the 
margin, the width at the base sometimes equal to the length, some- 
times a little narrower, from 1—2 lin. long, erested ; pore 1-2 the 
length of the cell; crests always immediately deflexed close to the 
cells, subulate to lanceolate, or lanceolate-faleate, finely fimbriate, 
mostly entire or slightly lobed or lacerate, }—2 the length of the 
cells, rarely even a little longer than them; style mostly included, 
rarely subexserted ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. <Andr. Col. 
Heaths, t. 135; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 22, 155, t. 59; Benth, in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 677. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 3751 E. umbellifera, 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 25, 13, t. 6. . lactiflora, Lodd. Lc. t. 991. 
E. lactea, Lee ex Klotzsch, and E. kennedyana, Klotzsch in Linnea, 
xii. 506. E. lasiandra, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 677. E. Sprengelii, 
Sweet ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 580. 
[E. pulchella, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 379, according to the type 
specimen, belongs to this species. —N. EZ. Brown.] 
Var. 8, gracilior (Bolus); branches leaves and pedicels more slender ; leaves 
mostly spreading or squarrose and more distant; pedicels more spreading ; 
bracts minute; anthers as in the type, but the crests often here and there lobed, 
as well as finely fringed. 
Sourn AFrrica: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Raion, from 300 to 3000 ft. : Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, 
Mulder ! Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8269! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, 
Zeyher, 3207! Bolus, 5858! Guthrie, 2286! Zondereinde River Mountains, 
Guthrie, 3280! Onrust River, Schlechter, 10384! mountains near Hermanus, 
Guthrie, 4653! Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Elim, Bolus, 67321! Schlechter, 
7638! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; mountains near the mouth of the Klein River, 
Zeyher, 3229 | 
Our variety 6 ‘has a very different look, but the shape and size of the sepals, 
corolla and anthers are so similar that we cannot venture to separate it asa 
species. We have only Zeyher’s specimen found ‘in shady places,” to which 
unusual circumstance its vegetative differences are probably due. 
249. E. chionophila (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 6-7 in. or more 
in height ; branches glabrous ; leaves erect-incurved, densely imbri- 
cate, linear, subobtuse, sulcate, pubescent, ciliate, 2-2} lin. long; 
flowers terminal, 3-nate, on short elustered branchlets; pedicels 
red, under 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, small, ciliate, red ; 
sepals lanceolate, acute, subglabrous, softly ciliate, red, } lin. long ; 
corolla subglobose-urceolate, contracted at the throat, glabrous, deep 
red, 12 lin. long; segments rounded, erect, $—-{ the length of the 
tube; filaments broad; anthers included, obliquely ovate, very 
obtuse, between 3—} lin. long, cristate ; pore about } the length of 
the cell; crests broad-subulate to cuneate, subentire or lobed, ciliate, 
