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the absence of constant floral characters, may frequently be recognized by their 
general appearance :— 
A. The form represented by a named specimen in Linneus’ Herbarium ; 
by the plates of Wendland in Eric, Ic. fasc. 7 and 24, and by specimens named 
E. flewuosa, E. ornata, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 620, and E. 
densiflora, Bartl. in Linnea, vii, 632. The inflorescence is usually copious and 
dense; the flowers have a foxy colour; the anthers are pale brown, and the 
_ branches are commonly flexuous. 
B. The form represented by the plates in Andrews’ Heathery, t. 65, and 
Wendland, Eric. Ie. fasc. 21. Inflorescence less copious and less dense; 
flowers white, more rarely rosy, contrasting with dark-brown anthers. 
C. The form shown in Andrews’ Heathery, t. 119. Flowers red or rosy; 
anthers dark ; leaves often spreading-recurved. 
D. Habit more robust and more virgate than in the other forms; flowers 
white or rosy, more globose and less crowded; anthers usually more lateral 
than in the preceding forms, rarely subterminal. This form approaches £. 
placenteflora. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality; A, Herb. Linneus! Herb, Salisbury! 
and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast RxEGIon, common on plains and mountains: A—Cape Div.; Thun- 
berg, Ecklon, 287! Caledon Div., Zeyher, 3304! 3805! Bolus, 4173! 5113! 
Swellendam Div., Masson, 2! Div.? Bolus, 1196! B—Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 5388! Div. ? Bolus, 6740! 7471! C—Caledon Div., 
_ Schlechter, 9493! 10400! Bredasdorp Div., Schlechter, 10479! 10542! Bolus, 
8445! Div. ? Bolus, 6741! D—Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 8683! 
Paarl Div., Bolus, 6969! Cape Div., Burchell, 24! 628! Caledon Div., Bolus, 
5111! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 607! Zeyher, 3298! Div.? Guthrie, 
2026! 3768! 4168! 
370. E. triceps (Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 371); stem stout ; 
branches ascending, pubescent, 10 in. or more long; leaves erect- 
spreading, imbricate, lanceolate to oblong, subtrigonous, the younger 
ciliate, 2-21 lin. long ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long ; bracts approximate, 
ovate, aeute, cartilaginous, large ; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acute or 
acuminate, subscarious or cartilaginous, with a strong excurrent 
short keel-tip, glabrous, ciliate or naked, 2 lin. long, a little shorter 
or longer than the corolla; corolla suburceolate, glabrous, viscid ? 
(ace. to Bentham), about 2 lin. long, longer than its width; fila- 
ments rather broad, dilated and shortly bent just below the anther ; 
anthers terminal, longitudinally narrow-semi-elliptical, acute or 
acuminate ; cells deeply partite and usually at length spreading in 
the upper part, hispidulous, brownish, 1 lin. long or a little over ; 
pore about 2 the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 620; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 962. EH. spumosa, Wendl. 
Eric. Ic. fase. 16, 51, t. 19, not of Linn. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson / and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Rucion: George Div.; Montagu Pass, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 5834 ! 
near George, Alewander ! 
371. E. calyculata (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 4, 5); erect, 12-18 in. 
or more high ; branches ascending, pubescent ; leaves erect-spread- 
ing and straight or recurved, linear, acute, 1,-3 lin. long ; pedicels 
1-3 lin. long ; bracts approximate; sepal-like but smaller ; sepals 
oblong or ovate, acute or acuminate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, 
