Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 301 
much widened to the mouth, very variable in size, 1-21 lin. long ; 
segments continuous with the tube, semiovate, varying from a little 
longer than the tube to a little less than 4 its length; anthers in- 
cluded, subovate, acute or acuminate, more or less villous, or papil- 
lose and glabrous, 2-1 lin. long; pore 1-1 the length of the cell, 
which is produced above the pore for from 2-11 times the length of 
the latter ; style shortly exserted ; stigma obconic, very small, rarely 
subpeltate ; ovary glabrous. EH. melanthera, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 16, 
not of Linn., teste Salish. § Rach. 
Var. B, blanda (Bolus) ; habit. mostly, but not always, more diffuse; branches 
more flexuous ; leaves somewhat shorter and more spreading ; flowers smaller in 
all parts, 1-14 lin. long; stigma subpeltate, with 4 tooth-like interior processes. 
E. blanda, Salish, in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 331. EB. cornuta, Rowb. ea Salisb. 
l.e.; Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii, 684. E. suavis, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 641, jide 
Benth, 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. 8: Herb. Salisbury! 
Coast Raion: Tulbagh Div, ; Winterhoek Berg, Bolus, 5182! Tulbagh 
Waterfall, Bolus, 5183! near Saron, Schlechter, 10666! Mitchells Pass, Mac- 
Owan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 35! Bolus, 5284! 9810! Schlechter, 8936! 
$973! Guthrie, 625)! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Niven, 100! Bains Kloof, 
Bolus, 4056! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Thunberg, Table Mountain, 2000 ft., 
Schlechter, 14! Var. 8: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, on Sneeuw Kop, 
4500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8679b! Marloth, 2688! Leipoldt, 214! 744! 
Tulbagh Div.; near Saron, Schlechter, 10692! Cape Div.; Devils Peak and 
Table Mountain, 1200-2000 ft., Bolus, 3352! 4751! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 7541 Wolley Dod, 1681! 
CentraL Reaion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 
9996 ! 
This species varies considerably in aspect, and extreme forms with pallid often 
subsquarrose, sometimes even silky leaves (as in Schlechter’s 9973), seem dis- 
tinct, and worthy of separation as a variety, were they not connected by inter- 
mediate forms with the type. The same remarks apply in part to our var. 8, 
which has little to distinguish it beyond the smaller size of the flowers. The 
subpeltate stigma even, relied upon by Bentham as a distinguishing character 
for FE. cornuta, is exhibited in Schlechter’s 9996 and in Bolus 5182, which in 
every other respect have the habit, leaves and flowers of the typical cristeflora, 
group. 
456. E. moschata (Andr. Heathery, t. 226, not of Lodd) ; erect, 
1 ft. or more high; branches few, puberulous, with lateral floriferous 
branchlets 1-11 in. long; leaves erect or somewhat spreading, 
straight or ineurved, imbricate but scarcely crowded, lanceolate- 
linear, subobtuse, pallid, glabrous, the younger ciliolate, 2-3 lin. long ; 
flowers mostly cernuous, not clustered, corolline 3 pedicels pubescent, 
1;-25 lin. long; bracts subremote or subapproximate, lax, ovate or 
cordate, acute, keeled, scarious, coloured, about 1} lin. long ; sepals, 
2 orbicular, 2 narrower and ovate, obtuse, apiculate, otherwise like 
the bracts and about as long, rarely reaching to the top of the corolla- 
tube; corolla obconic or subfunnel-shaped, widely spreading to the 
mouth, rosy, 21-4 lin. long; segments continuous, ovate, rounded, 
variable in length, from less than } the tube to a little longer than 
it; anthers included, the lower portion suborbicular, produced above 
into a contracted acuminate apex for from 1-1} times the length of 
