Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 185 
sima, Wendl. l.c. fase. 6,9. EH. tenera, Klotesch ex Benth. l.c. 677. 
E. imbecilla, Sweet. Hort. Brit. ed. i. 258. H. neglecta, G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. iii. 792. 
Sour AFRIcA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated spect- 
mens ! 
Coast REGIoN: common from Swellendam Div. eastward to Humansdorp 
Div., from 250-8000 ft., Niven, 14! Alewander, 19! Zeyher, 3255! Bolus, 2392 ! 
5840! 9233! Schlechter, 2228! 2066! 5835! 5991! Galpin, 3674! 
In the wild state this species is fairly constant in its characters and is 
generally recognizable by its small sepals and anthers. In cultivation, however, 
it seems to have varied, and this has given rise to some doubt and confusion as 
to the figures. It is very uncertain whether Andrews’ figure is the same as 
Wendland’s plant ; we have seen no specimens with such globose corollas; nor 
can we cite, as does Bentham, Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 244. 
255. E. leucantha (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 371); erect, 
somewhat slender, entirely glabrous, 12-18 in. high; branches 
mostly virgate, often covered with a white papery semitransparent 
and deciduous or separable epidermis ; leaves 4-nate (we have seen 
none 3-nate as mentioned by Bentham), mostly erect and imbricate, 
rarely spreading, linear, blunt, faintly sulcate, 1)~-2 lin. long ; flowers 
4-nate, often clustered; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, 
small; sepals ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, very concave, 
searious-edged, 1 lin. long or less; corolla cyathiform, or sometimes 
(probably in immature flowers) somewhat obconic, widened or not 
contracted at the mouth, subtetragonous, white, about 1} lin. long ; 
segments erect or scarcely spreading, about > as long as the tube ; 
anthers elliptical or oblong, smooth, glabrous, about } lin. long, 
aristate ; pore about 3 as long as the cell; awns subulate, entire or 
nearly so, about 2 as long as the cell ; style included, slender ; stigma 
eapitellate ; ovary glabrous. Klotasch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
677. E. leucanthera, Andr. Heathery, t. 28, and Col. Heaths, t. 
108, not of Linn. (a very good fig. of the wild plant). . lutea, var. 
alba, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Woburn. 14. 
: wi lity, cultivated specimens / : 
Soa mpm Stee Oe: 3 y aoe Hock, Schlechter, 9221! Caledon 
Div. : mountains near Grietjes Gat, Zeyher, 3255! near Villiersdorp, Bolus, 
51801 near Genadendal, 800-2200 ft., Bolus, 5430! 6959! 
Bentham supposed this to be probably a garden hybrid; but from our 
numerous wild specimens this seems improbable. 
956. E. subdivaricata (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 114) ; erect, much- 
branched, 1-2 or even 3 ft. high ; branches generally hirsute ; leaves 
spreading or erect, linear, subobtuse, round-backed, glabrous or 
sparsely pubescent, about 2 lin. long ; flowers 4-nate on short 
branches, becoming clustered; pedicels glabrous, about 1 lin. long ; 
bracts remote, linear, ciliolate, small; sepals lanceolate, acute, 
foliaceous or subsearious on the margins, keeled, ciliate or naked, 
1-2 lin. long; corolla campanulate-cyathiform or subturbinate, 
mouth widened, sometimes only slightly so, white, more rarely rosy, 
