Evica.| ERICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). Bee 
by projection of the keel-angles, appearing tetragonous, the broader 
flattish, the smaller more concave, margins entire or lacerate, scarious, 
glabrous and glossy, pallid or deep coloured, 1-2 lin. long, reaching 
from}about 2—3 the height of the corolla; corolla campanuloid or 
obconic or subfunnel-shaped, pale rosy or deep red, 13-81 lin. long ; 
segments continuous, ovate or semiorbicular, mostly equal in length 
to the tube, but occasionally shorter or longer; filaments rather 
broad, tapering upwards, rigid, nerved; anthers included, oblong 
to semiovate, acute or acuminate, papillose or minutely hairy, 1—1 lin. 
long, muticous, or sometimes with minute pallid squarrose awns at the 
apex of the filament; pore about 2 the length of the cell, situate in 
the middle; style exserted, slender; stigma subsimple, small ; 
ovary glabrous. Linn. Amen. Acad. viii. 56, and Mant. Alt. 233 ;° 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 11, 13; Andr. Heathery, t. 14, and Col. 
Heaths, t. 18; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 972; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 
683. E. hottonixflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331, 
Var. 8, coronifera (Bolus); branches pallid, leaf-cushions decurrent, promi- 
nent; leaves squarrose or decurved, incurved, 3-5 lin. long; pedicels sub- 
setaceous, 7-9 lin. long; bracts subapproximate or remote; sepals suborbicular 
and scarious at the base, with a long foliaceous point, the whole 2} lin, long, 
reaching from 3 to the height of the corolla; anthers oblong, acuminate, somewhat 
longer and proportionately narrower and rougher than in the type, pale brown, 
nearly 1 lin. long. LE. coronifera, Benth. in DC, Prodr. vii. 683. 
Var. y, natalensis (Bolus); branches pallid, flexuous, slender, leaf-cushions 
decurrent, prominent ; leaves more slender than in 8, erect or spreading, but not 
squarrose, at least as to the uppermost, 3-5 lin, long; pedicels about 7 lin. 
long; bracts remote; sepals orbicular or lanceolate; other characters as in 
var. B. 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, Masson, 27! 
Burchell, 7892! Zeyher, 3246! Schlechter, 5677! Borcherds in Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 1805! Zuurbraak Mountain, Galpin, 3681! Riversdale Div. ; Platte 
Kloof, Masson, 125! Garcias Pass, Galpin, 3679! George Div.; Montagu Pass, 
2U00 ft., Young in Herb. Bolus, 5522! Knysna Div.; Millwood, Tyson, 3165! 
Uniondale Diy.; mountains near Avontuur, Bolus, 2393! Humansdorp Div. ; 
Clarkson, 800 ft., Galpin, 3678! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Miss 
West, 5! Var. 8: George Div.; between Touw River and Kaymans River, 
Burchell, 5779 ! : : ! 
Eastern Reaion: Var. y: Natal; Fields Hill, Umbilo River, Sutherland, 
922! north of Umzimkaba River, Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 970! and without 
precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders ! 
453. E. tetrathecoides (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 683) ; diffuse, 
entirely glabrous, probably under a foot high; branches, pedicels 
and sepals smooth and somewhat glossy ; branches slender, flexuous, 
straggling, distantly leafy above, naked below; leaves notably 
scanty and mostly shorter than the internodes, spreading, incurved, 
linear-subterete, acute, 3-43 lin. long; flowers terminal, or a few 
also axillary at the ends of the branches, spreading or cernuous, 
corolline ; pedicels very slender, 3-4} lin. long; bracts remote, very 
small, 2 above the middle, 1 basal; sepals subspreading, oblong, 
scarious, with a thick keel far-excurrent at the apex, the whole 
2 lin. long ; corolla obconie, 23-3 lin. long, mouth much widened ; 
