Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 191 
tenuifolia, Hort. ex Salisb. lc. 331. EF. flavicans, Klotzsch ex 
Benth, l.c. 681. 
Coast Rreton: Caledon Div.; mountains near Palmiet River, Ecklon & 
Zeyher, 95! in Herb. Berlin; Babylons Tower Mountain, 1200 ft., Templeman 
én Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 753! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, MacOwan, Herb. 
Aust.-Afr., 2016! between French Hoek and Villiersdorp, Bolus, 6989! Div. ? 
Bolus, 6872! Also cultivated specimens ! 
This is a very variable species, but with numerous specimens before us we are 
unable to define even sufficiently well-marked or stable varieties, It has been 
ordinarily recognized (from Andrews’ figure) by its somewhat slender habit and 
leaves, and solitary yellow flowers. It varies gradually up to stouter forms, 
with 4-nate leaves and clustered (3—4-nate) flowers, and these look very different 
from the others, but without any differences in the structure of the flowers. 
Extreme forms of these are represented in Bolus, 6872. 
266. E. lachnwoides (G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 795) ; erect, 1 ft. 
or more high; branches numerous, ascending, with short floriferous 
branchlets; leaves 3-nate, erect to spreading, crowded, imbricate, 
linear, obtuse, suleate or subopen-backed, tomentose-downy and of 
“a mealy green,” 11-21 lin. long; flowers corolline, spreading or 
cernuous ; pedicels very short; bracts adpressed, broad-lanceolate, 
subobtuse, sepaloid, ciliate, coloured, pink, about } the length of the 
sepals; sepals like the bracts, from }—} the length of the corolla; 
corolla suburceolate-cylindrical, not contracted at the throat, 
“ purple-pulverulent,” pink, 3-3} lin. long, 1} lin. in diam. ; seg- 
ments spreading, 1—} the length of the tube ; anthers oblong, obtuse, 
length not discernible from the figure, cristate ; pore about $ the 
length of the cell ; crests lanceolate, acute, serrulate, pallid, nearly 
as long as the cells; style included, short; stigma capitellate ; 
ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 693. EH. Lachnea, var. 
purpurea, Col. Heaths, t. 178, and Andr. Heathery, t. 170. 
Sourn AFRica: without locality, ex Andrews. 
This is only known from the figures and descriptions cited above. 
267. E. polycoma (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 655); dwarf, 
probably under 1 ft. high; whole plant silvery-grey ; branches erect, 
stoutish; branehlets short and flexuous, these and the leaves, 
pedicels, bracts and sepals pilose with short and long simple, some- 
what silky, grey hairs; leaves 3-nate, erect, closely imbricate, 
adpressed, lanceolate, subobtuse, pubescent, the hairs towards the 
apex long and tufted, 1-1; lin. long ; flowers 3-nate, subcorolline ; 
pedicels curved, 13-2 lin. long; bracts adpressed, ovate, concave, 
keeled, subscarious, long-ciliate, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the 
bracts but broad-ovate, obtuse, apiculate, 1-1} lin. long, about } 
the length of the corolla ; eorolla ovoid-cyathitorm, or by the con- 
nivence of the segments in dried specimens appearing ovoid-inflated, 
glabrous, dry (or “‘subviscid,” Bentham), rosy, about 2 lin. long ; 
segments erect, or connivent in age (and in dried specimens), semi- 
ovate, obtuse, longer than broad, equal or nearly so to the tube in 
length; filaments slender; anthers subcuneate-oblong, slightly 
