Erica. | ERICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 211 
Var. 8, decora (Bolus) ; leaves and sepals usually puberulous; inflorescence 
pseudo-racemose ; racemes broader and more lax than in the type; pedicels 2 lin. 
or more long; corolla 3—4 lin. long ; anthers somewhat longer than in the type. 
E. decora, Andr. Heathery, t. 159, and Col. Heaths, t.162; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 
1385; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 664. E. viscaria, Bauer, Ewot. Pl. t.1. FE. 
secundiflora, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 617. 
Var. y, hispida (Bolus); characters of var. 8, but the sepals and bracts 
usually longer, the former nearly as long as the corolla-tube; corolla 4 lin. long, 
densely hispid on the lower part; filaments broader; anthers cuneate-linear, 
subacuminate, about 1 lin. long. E. pulchella, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 22, t. 4, not 
of Houtt. LE. argutifolia, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 364. E. leeana, var. 
pulchella, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 626. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality; Var. y: Thunberg ! 
Coast Reeion: Cape Div.; hills near Cape Town, Thunberg ! Cape Flats, 
Burchell, 8454/7! Zeyher, 1107! Sieber, 72 partly ! Bolus, 3706! 4396! Guthrie, 
128! Wolley Dod, 2840! Var. 8: Cape Diy. ; on the Flats and mountains up to 
1400 ft., Burchell, 767! 8558! Sieber, 72 partly! 90! 199! MacGillivray, 
442! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 23! Bolus, 4610! Guthrie, 458! 733! 
Wolley Dod, 1737! Var. y: Stellenbosch Div; mountains near Lowrys Pass, 
900 ft., Bolus, 5548! Galpin, 3524! 
A very variable plant. Forms have been found with 5-fid sepals and corollas ; 
others with double flowers, the inner corolline series being an 8-fid tube; others 
exhibiting petalody in the stamens, and lastly others with phyllody in the 
ovaries. The anthers are also unusually variable. 
303. E. axilliflora (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 640) ; erect, about 1 ft. 
high ; branches numerous, ascending, subvirgate, fastigiate, puberu- 
lous, glabrescent, mostly very floriferous ; leaves 4-5—6-nate or some- 
times scattered, much crowded upwards, erect-incurved, linear, sub- 
obtuse, keeled or round-backed and sulcate, glabrous, 2—4 lin. long ; 
inflorescence pseudo-racemose, resembling that of LH. viscaria, var. 
decora; pedicels solitary or binate, coloured, 2-2} lin. long; bracts 
2 supra-median, 1 median, linear, small ; sepals broad-ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, keeled or keel-tipped, concave, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous, glossy, red, 11-1} lin. long; corolla campanulate or 
widely obconic, glabrous, more or less viscid, deep red, 24~31 lin. 
long ; segments erect or slightly spreading, broadly rounded, from 
% to nearly 3 the length of the tube ; anthers included, subterminal, 
basifixed at the side on the dilated and thickened apex of the 
filament, suboblong, subacute, the base ascending, $—% lin. long, 
mostly muticous, sometimes minutely decurrent-denticulate, on the 
filament near the apex; pore }—2 the length of the cell; style 
included or subexserted, straight ; stigma capitate ; ovary globose, 
villous, especially towards the summit, dark red. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr, vii. 664. 
Coast Rereion: Bredasdorp Div.; Zoetendals Vlei, Ecklon, ex Bartling ; on 
hills near Elim Mission Station, 300-400 ft., Bolus, 8449! 6730! Guthrie, 
3789! 
We have seen no specimen of the type, nor any well authenticated. Onr 
specimens agree with Bartling’s meagte description; and the station of Ecklon s 
plant is within a few miles of those of ours. The species is allied to E. conica 
and to EH. viscaria. From the former it is distinct by its less robust habit, its 
leaves usually fewer in the whorl, aud ne shorter and less acuminate, by its 
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