206 ERICACE# (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica. 
long ;, bracts subremote, sepal-like, rather large; sepals narrow-lanceo- 
late, pilose and ciliate, about 14 lin. long; corolla subcampanuloid, 
mouth widened, or the tube obconic, suddenly dilated just below the 
limb into a wider bowl, glabrous, about 2 lin, long ; limb. more or less 
spreading ; segments very broad and rounded, nearly equal io the 
tube; anthers dorsifixed above the base, broadly elliptical, with a 
large broad cushion-like hispid base, about 2 lin. long, crested ; pore 
nearly equal to the cell exclusive of the cushion; crests unusually large 
and broad, semi-orbicular, lacerate, resembling bat’s wings, about as 
long as the cells; style exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous. 
E. empetroides, Andr, Heathery, t. 19, and Col. Heaths, t. 88; Benth. 
tn DC. Prodr. vii. 663 ; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 1758. E. empetrifolia, 
var. glauca, Wendl. Eric, Ic. fase. 11, 11. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Rxeion, between 800 and 1500 ft. : Cape Div,; Simons Bay, Wright / 
on the Muizen Berg, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 27! Guthrie, 671! 
near Simons Town, Bolus, 4865! sources of Slangkop River, Wolley Dod, 
3256! Ruined Valley, Grey. 
295. E. amona (Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 48, not of Salisb.) ; 
erect, 12-18 in. high ; branches erect, rigid, subglabrous ; leaves 
4-6-nate, subpatent or incurved, crowded with longish narrow pale 
petioles, linear, blunt, sulcate, very hirsute, 2-3 Jin. long; flowers 
axillary towards the ends of the branches, often somewhat dense or 
subcapitate ; pedicels curved, hirsute, red, 23 lin. long; bracts 
remote, hirsute, red; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, hirsute, 
red, 12 lin. long; corolla broad-campanulate, glabrous, red, 2-21 lin, 
long; limb oblong, broadly rounded, about equalling the tube ; 
filaments dilated at the apex ;' anthers included, dorsifixed above the 
base, oblong, very obtuse, glabrous, dark-coloured, about 2 lin. long, 
cristate-aristate ; pore broadly elliptical, about = the length of the 
cell; awns broad at the base and subdecurrent along the dilated 
filament for + of their length, thence subulate-acuminate, spreading, 
the whole equal to the cell; style subincluded ; stigma capitate ; 
ovary turbinate, villous with red-tinged hairs. Wendl. Eric. Ic. 
fasc. 17, 73, t. 28, E. noleflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 
371. E. plumosa, Andr. Heathery, t. 36, and Col. Heaths, t, 120; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1702; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 663, not of 
Thunb., nor of Wendl. . scholliana, Lodd. lc. t.538. E. glome- 
rata, Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 11, fide Ind. Kei. 
Var. 8, pusilla (Bolus); smaller in all parts, the virgate subsimple stems 
almost filiform, 3-6 in. high, leaves and flowers few at the summit, the corolla 
barely 2 lin. long. 
Sourn ArFrica: without locality, Masson, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Reeron, from 800-1400 ft.: Cape Div.; Simons Bay, Wright! by 
streams on the Muizen Berg, 1400 ft., Bolus, 4605! and in Herb. Norm, Aust.- 
Afr., 191! Steen Berg, Guthrie, 1860! Silvermine River, Wolley Dod, 1926! 
Red Hill, Mrs. Jameson. Var. 8: Cape Div.; Cape Point, 800 ft., Schlechter, 7317 1 
Var. B may be merely a state of 1 or 2 years old, or grown in an exposed 
position, or other more severe circumstances, 
