202 ERIcacEx (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
it as it grows in its native home, and to perceive that such differences as exist 
between it and the figures and descriptions above referred to are almost entirely 
those of size and luxuriance due to the effects of cultivation. 
287. E. ardens (Andr. Heathery, t. 51, and Col. Heaths, t. 75) ; 
erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches stoutish, subvirgate, puberulous or 
glabrous ; leaves generally 3- (occasionally 4-) nate, erect to spread- 
ing, linear or linear-lanceolate, sulcate, somewhat thick, glossy, rigid, 
the younger minutely cartilagineo-serrulate, 3-5 lin. long; flowers 
terminal, 3-nate, or sometimes solitary and by arrest of the lateral 
branchlets pseudo-lateral ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long; bracts remote or 
subapproximate, like the sepals but smaller ; sepals ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, keel-tipped, thick, coriaceous, viscid, 
coloured, 13~—2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate to globose-urceolate, 
thick, very viseid, at length much inflated, coral-red or white, 
3-4 lin. long ; segments suberect, broad, from 1—1 the length of the 
tube ; filaments more or less dilated, sometimes much so, lanceolate, 
much bent below the anther; anthers ineluded, dorsifixed above the 
base, oblong, scaberulous, obtuse, * lin. long, crested; pore 3—2 the 
length of the cell; crests lanceolate, deeply lacerate, more or less 
densely hairy, 1—% the length of: the cell; style included, slender ; 
stigma small, capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Bot. Reg. ¢. 115; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab.t. 47 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Reeion, from 1000-4000 ft.: Swellendam Div.; rocky places above 
Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 3208; mountains near Swellendam, Mund, 78 or 98! 
Bolus Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 602! Niven, 50! between Sparrbosch and 
Tradouw, Drége! Kennedy in Herb. Bolus, 1200! Riversdale Div.; Garcias 
Pass, Bain in Herb. Bolus, 2961! Galpin, 3637! Schlechter, 1715! 
288. E. blenna (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 379) ; erect, 
1-1} ft. high; branches stout, ascending, virgate or flexuous, 
puberulous or glabrous ; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect and imbricate or 
subspreading, linear, subobtuse, flat above, keeled and sulcate beneath, 
glabrous, 4-5 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate (“here and there 
sublateral,” Bentham) ; pedicels about 4 lin. long; bracts remote, 
lanceolate, about 3 lin. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, keel-tipped, 
thickish, subscarious, viscid, coloured or greenish, about 23 lin. long ; 
corolla conical-ovoid or suburceolate-conical, much contracted to the 
mouth but only slightly constricted at the throat, very viscid, 41-61 
lin. long, bright orange-red, the limb and some distance below it 
green ; segments spreading or erect, about 1 the length of the tube; 
filaments broad at the base tapering upwards, bent below the anther; 
anthers included, dorsifixed well above the base, cuneate, subacute, 
scaberulous, ciliolate, about 1 lin. long, crested ; pore 3~2 the length 
of the cell; crests quite free from the filament, subsemiorbicular in 
_ outline, deeply inciso-lacerate, about + the length of the cell; style 
ineluded, straight ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. E. vernix 
and var. longiflora, Andr. Heathery, tt. 248 and 250, and Col. 
Heaths, tt. 214 and 285; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660.  E. 
resinosa, Bot. Mag. t. 1189; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 679. 
