Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 271 
Var. 8, parviflora (Bolus); almost exactly as in the forms described and 
figured in the plates first above cited, except that all parts of the flower are 
smaller : sepals 1} lin. long; corolla 2 lin. long. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh ! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Raion, between 1000 and 1500 ft.: Caledon Div.; Klein River 
Mountains, Masson, Niven! Galpin, 3621! Schlechter! mountains near 
Caledon, Bolus, 91621 Var. 8: Bredasdorp Div. ; mountains near Elim, Bolus, 
6737 ! 
408. E. Grisbrookii (Guthrie & Bolus); 1 ft. or more high; 
branches stout, ascending, pubescent, channelled by the prominent 
decurrent leaf-cushions; leaves 3-nate, spreading or occasionally 
recurved, linear, acute, deeply sulcate, softly ciliate, becoming naked, 
6-7 lin. long ; flowers solitary, terminal, or by arrest of the branchlets 
also axillary, at length subcernuous; pedicels puberulous, 4—5 lin. 
long; bracts very remote, below the middle or subbasal, lanceolate, 
acute, scarious, about 2 lin. long; sepals erect, incurved, closely 
imbricate, cordate at the base and inserted upon the enlarged 
angular apex of the pedicel, ovate to suborbicular, shortly acute and 
apiculate, strongly nerved (nerves prominent on the inner surface), 
rigid, cartilaginous, glabrous, 4-5 lin. long, and reaching from 3—% 
the height of the corolla; corolla conical-ovoid, or perhaps in the 
living state globose-ureeolate, 4-gonous below, thick in texture, 
glabrous, 5-52 lin. long, white; segments oblong, obtuse, erect (in 
the dried specimens), about 4 the tube in length or somewhat less; 
filaments rather broad, bent below the anther; anthers cuneate or 
ovate-cuneate, subacute, black, $2 lin. long, crested ; pore 1 the 
length of the cell; crests orbicular, more or less deeply incised, 
black, about 2 the length of the cells; style 4-gonous, included ; 
stigma subsimple ; ovary on a broad disk. 
Coast Reeron: Caledon Div.; mountains near Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook 
in Herb. Guthrie, 2744! 
We have also seen specimens exhibited at the Caledon and other Wild-Flower 
Shows, without locality. 
This resembles E. Bodkinii and E. holosericea ; but differs in floral characters 
from both, and especially in the anthers and their appendages. In the coarse, 
strong habit of its growth it seems to be like E. gigantea. But our specimens of 
this are but small branches. 
Section XXXV. ADELOPETALUM. (Sp. 409.) 
409. E. Nabea (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 3-5 ft. high ; branches 
virgate, the younger villous, glabrescent, the older with many short 
lateral, floriferous branchlets; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear- 
subulate, acuminate, sulcate, ciliolate, 5-7 lin. long; inflorescence 
terminal, flowers 1-2 on the short branchlets, mostly in long dense 
leafy pseudo-racemes, or more rarely somewhat lax and interrupted 
on longer branchlets, suberect to spreading, subsessile, calycine ; 
bracts closely approximate, ovate to lanceolate, like the sepals 
glumaceous, 3-4 lin. long; sepals in opposite pairs, the outer pair 
