Erica.] ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus), 209 
rarely crimson; segments larger, oblong, from 3-3 the length of the 
tube ; anthers 3 to nearly 2 lin, long. 
Soutrn Arrica: without locality, Mund! 
Coast REGION, on mountains from 200-1200 ft.: Caledon Div.; near 
Hermanus, Guthrie, 4119! Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, Guthrie, 3787! Bolus, 
8454! Schlechter, 7619! near Napier, Schlechter, 9657! 
This comes very near to the preceding, and might perhaps be regarded as a 
variety of it. The only distinction of importance is in the shape of the corolla, 
which seems, however, to be constant. 
300. E. flavicoma (Baril. in Linnea, vii. 639) ; erect, 6-10 in. high ; 
branches virgate, slender, glabrescent; leaves mostly 3-nate, but 
occasionally also 4-nate on the same plant, subimbricate, erect, 
adpressed, suboblong, width more than + of the length, subacute, 
concave and midnerved above, round-backed and suleate, the younger 
slightly pubescent, soon glabrous, about 2 lin. long; flowers axillary 
at the ends of the branches, spreading in a somewhat close pseudo- 
raceme 1 in. or less long, } in. wide; pedicels 1} lin. long; bracts 
remote, small ; sepals oblong-obovate, concave, keeled, subscarious, 
ciliate, 11 lin. long; corolla campanulate-tubular, neither inflated 
below nor constricted at the throat, pale yellow, 2—2} lin. long ; 
segments somewhat spreading, 11 the length of the tube ; anthers 
dorsifixed just above the base, oblong-recurved, obtuse and equal at 
base and apex, pallid, smooth, about 1 lin. long, aristate ; pore } the 
length of the cell; awns squarrose on the upper part of the filament, 
short and ascending like cock’s spurs; style included, stout below, 
tapering upwards ; stigma simple; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 663. i 
Coast Raion: Bredasdorp Div. ; near Zoetendals Vlei, Miss Joubert! on 
hills near Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6729 ! 
We have not seen the original specimen (which was probably gathered more 
than 70 years ago), nor does the species seem to have been collected again until 
1894, But our Elim specimens, found within a few miles of the first, agree so 
well with Bartling’s short description, and the species is so distinct, that we have 
no hesitation in identifying them and deseribing them more fully. At first sight 
they seem as if they might be a small-flowered variety of E. parilis, Salisb., but 
the structure of the flowers is quite different. It is not improbable that this 
may be either E. fallaw, or E. festa, Salisb., but, in the absence of specimens, the 
short descriptions of that author are seldom of use, and we are compelled to leave 
it under Bartling’s later name. 
301. E. parilis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 371); erect, 
1-2 ft. high; branches stoutish, more or less virgate, pubescent ; 
leaves 3-4—6-nate or sometimes scattered, incurved, erect or spread- 
ing, linear, blunt, keeled or round-backed, sulcate, somewhat rigid, 
glabrous, pale green, 21-4 lin. long; flowers axillary, crowded 
towards the ends of the branches; pedicels pubescent, 2-3 lin. long ; 
bracts more or less remote, one often much longer than the others, 
linear, foliaceous; sepals linear, acuminate, foliaceous, 14-2} lin: 
long, shorter than (or sometimes even a little exceeding) the corolla- 
tube ; corolla from subtubular to campanulate, mouth scarcely con- 
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