Erica. | ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 259 
Wendl. Eric, Ic. fase. 21, 141, ¢. 54. EH. flagelliformis, Andr. 
Col. Heaths, t. 234. H. flagellata, Andr. Heathery, t. 262. 
LE. flagellaris, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 365. E. corifolia, 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 386. EF. struthiolefolia and E. 
Jjiliformis ? Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 636 (acc. to Benth.). E. rubi- 
cunda, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 540. . strutiefolia, Steud. 
Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 580. 
Var. 8, meyeriana (Bolus) ; dwarf, 4-8 in. high; branches numerous, short, 
flexuous and intertwined ; leaves ovate, oblong, or narrow-oblong, #~1 lin. long ; 
flowers laxer and fewer than in the type; corolla-limb dark-coloured and 
brownish ; anthers smaller than in the type, the crests lessincised. EH. meyeriana, 
Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 541. E. pallescens, Klotzsch, l.c. 541. E. gnapha- 
loides, H. Meyer ew Klotzsch, l.c. 541. 
Var. y, implexa (Bolus); dwarf, 6 in. high; branches many, slender, 
flexuous or intertwined ; leaves small, subovate, acute, thick, keeled or sulcate, 
$-1 lin. long ; corolla from ovoid to subtubular, thin and hyaline in texture, 
subtetragonous, white, 14 lin. long ; limb spreading, concolorous. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality; Var. y (Niven ?), 65! 
Coast Rraion: frequent from Clanwilliam Div. to Caledon Div., Thunberg, 
Burchell, 8640! Ecklon S§ Zeyher! Drége! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 22! 355! Bolus, 4055! 4748! 5285! 5422! Guthrie, 1007! 1504! 
2188! 38178! Marloth, 1682! ZLeipoldt, 611! Var. 8: much less frequent; 
Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, distributed as “ E. gnaphalodes, L.,” Drege! 
Paarl Div.; French Hoek, 1000-1500 ft., Guthrie, 3166! Caledon Div.; near 
the Baths at Caledon, Guthrie, 2503! Riversdale Div.; Kampsche Berg, 
1000 ft., Galpin, 3607! Var. y: Worcester Div. ; on the Matroosberg, 5700 ft., 
Bolus, 6897! (Schlechter, 10073, may belong here, but the flowers are too young 
for identification). 
In Linneus’ herb. is a specimen marked £. articularis, which agrees with his 
description, so far as that goes; also with the figure of Wendland’s E£. tere. 
tiusewla, and with numerous specimens marked by Bentham and others with 
the latter name. Our var. 8 is hardly more than a colour variety. Galpin’s 
3607 and Guthrie’s 3166 connect the two varieties as to leaf-form. Var. y 
may be a more stunted, subalpine form of var. 8 (which also was found at a 
higher elevation) ; had it stood alone, it would doubtless have been deemed of 
specific rank. It has the aspect of E. humifusa, Salisb., otherwise a very 
different plant. 
391. E. caledonica (Spreng. fil. Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 13); 
apparently of dwarf habit, entirely glabrous; branches ascending, 
scarred with the short prominent leaf-cushions, the ultimate 
fastigiate and crowded; leaves 3-nate, erect, sexfariously, densely 
and uniformly imbricate, ovate, acute, concave, thick, suleate, 23 lin. 
long by 1 lin. or less broad; flowers 3-nate, somewhat clustered ; 
pedicels 3—4 lin. long, exceeding the sepals; bracts remote, the two 
upper linear-spathulate, acute, the lower absent or replaced by a 
bract-like floral leaf at the base ; sepals broadly obovate, keel-tipped 
and apiculate, very concave and rigid, scarious-edged, about 1} lin. 
long, or 3 the length of the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate, 3}—4 
lin. long; segments stellate-patent, ovate, subacute, about } the 
length of the tube; anthers broad-oblong, suddenly tapering to a 
subacute apex, 2 lin. long, crested ; pore about } the length of the 
cell; crests affixed about the middle of the cell, not spreading, narrow- 
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