Erica. | EkRICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 213 
There is an unusual difference in the form of the anther in the two varieties, 
but both are so well marked in several other characteristics and agree so closely, 
that we cannot separate them specifically. The station of var. 8 was probably 
of not less altitude than, and may have exceeded, 3000 ft., and the distance from 
the sea about 80 miles; that of the type is about 200 ft., and 5 or 6 miles from 
the sea. 
306. E. collina (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 1-2 ft. high ; branches 
slender, ascending, subflexuous, pubescent ; leaves 4-nate, erect to 
spreading, sometimes squarrose, incurved towards the apex, linear- 
oblong, acute, keeled, glabrous, concave above, the younger minutely 
ciliolate, 11-2 lin. long; inflorescence clustered at the ends of the 
branches and then subumbellate, or axillary below the end with the 
branch excurrent beyond, both forms on the same plant; flowers 
subcalycine ; pedicels very slender, pubescent, 3-4 lin. long; bracts 
frequently (or always?) only 2, remote, linear, scarious, adpressed ; 
sepals ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, 
coloured, keeled, not imbricate at the base, glabrous, reaching mostly 
to a little below the corolla-tube, about 14 lin. long; corolla sub- 
ampullaceous-urceolate, with a longish neck, tetragonous, rosy red, 
4-18 lin. long; segments suberect, rounded, 1} the length of the 
tube; anthers oblong, obtuse, smooth, about + lin. long (03 in.), 
aristate ; pore 2 the length of the cell; awns subulate, about 4 the 
length of the cell, entire ; style included, very short ; stigma capitel- 
late ; ovary subglobose, puberulous or glabrescent. 
Coast ReGion: Caledon Div. ; hills between Babylons Tower and Hermanus, 
about 500 ft., Bolus, 8491! rocky places at Hemel-en-Aarde, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 
10381 ! (flowers undeveloped). 
The rather large sepals give to the flowers a subcalycine aspect. They 
greatly resemble those of EH. selaginifolia, E. acuta, and E. brevifolia in the 
§ Trigemma, and the species is only separated from their neighbourhood by its 
uxillary inflorescence. The whole aspect of the plant is, however, even more 
strikingly like E. seriphiifolia (§ Melastemon), but the flowers are very 
different. | 
307. E. deflexa (Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 8) ; branches slender, 
tomentose-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, spreading to subsquarrose, 
linear, obtuse, thick, convex on the upper side with rounded back 
and margins, deeply suleate, the younger ciliate, hirtulous or 
glabrous, shining, 1-11 lin. long; inflorescence axillary ; flowers 
solitary or scanty and subdistant towards the ends of the branches, 
corolline or sometimes subcorolline; pedicels decurved, hirtulous, 
12 Jin. long; bracts remote, small ; sepals narrow-lanceolate or 
oblong, subacute, foliaceous, margins revolute and thickened at the 
apex, 3-1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform-obconic, subtetragonous, 
glabrous, dry, “white,” about 1} lin. long; segments continuous, 
rather large, rounded, 1-1 the length of the tube ; anthers included 
(or ‘‘subexserted,” Sinclair), dorsifixed near the base, narrow- 
oblong, obtuse ; cells parted to the base, membranous, smooth, pallid, 
almost 2 lin. long (33 times longer than their width in the middle), 
aristate ; pore 2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, rough-edged, 
