Erica.) ERICACE® (Guthrie & Bolus). 305 
or shorter ; corolla obconic, broad-cyathiform or funnel-shaped, pale 
or bright red, 13-2 lin. long; segments continuous or spreading, 
broadly rounded, about equal to the tube or from somewhat longer 
to shorter; filaments rather broad; anthers obliquely oblong or 
longitudinally semiovate, produced above into a contracted point 
about or nearly equal to the pore, scabrid, nearly black, about 
2 lin. long; pore 1~$ the length of the cell; style exserted ; 
stigma obconic or subsimple, minute ; ovary silky-villous, chiefly on 
the summit. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 684. E. lysimachiwflora, 
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 332. E. mundtiana, Klotzsch ex 
Benth. lc. 684. E. varia, Lodd. Bot. Cub. t.1325; Benth. 1.c. 685. 
E, caroliniana, Hort. ex Benth. lc. E. muricata, Wendl. fil. ex 
Benth. lc. H. leiophylla, Benth. lc. 684. E. jubata, Lodd. ex 
Spreng. Syst. ii, 198, acc. to Ind. Kew. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 7773! Paterson ! Herb. Salisbury ! 
and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Rea@ion: Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Niven, 101! Mund, 
20! Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 3249! Langeberg Range, Schlechter, 5659! 
Riversdale Div. ; near Riversdale, Hewitt in Herb. Bolus, 3687! between Garcias 
Pass and Krombecks River, Burchell, 7189! Garcias Pass and Muis Kraal, 
1000-1500 ft., Burchell, 7089! Galpin, 3683! 3684! George Div.; Devils Kop, 
Niven! Montagu Pass, 4000 ft., Marloth, 2403! Uniondale and Humansdorp 
Div. ; Long Kloof and Kromme River, Masson, 62! Kouga Mountains, near 
Avontuur, Bolus, 2389! near Haarlem, Galpin, 3685! Knysna Div. ; Paarde 
Berg, Burchell, 5191! Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5184! Uitenhage Div. ; 
Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 792! 3250! 
We have examined Niven’s specimen of E, varia, so named in Bentham’s 
hand, but can find no sufficient characters to separate it, and Loddiges’ figure 
(upon which the species appears to have been founded) affords no additional 
evidence. Bentham observes that the leaves are not glossy, but in Niven’s 
specimen some, at least, are-so. ‘The type of E. leiophylla, Benth., collected by 
Paterson appears to be nothing but a starved state of this, varying in no essential 
character, 
463. E. Chamissonis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 685) ; 
erect, 1-2 ft. or more high; branches stout, ascending, pubescent ; 
leaves crowded, suberect or often spreading-incurved, linear, sulcate 
or often more or. less open-backed, usually hispid and rough with 
longish white tubercle-based hairs, the tubercles persistent after the 
hairs have dropped, 13-25 lin. long; flowers copious, along the 
secondary and tertiary branchlets, corolline; pedicels densely villous, 
2-27 lin. long; bracts remote, villous, minute ; calyx cyathiform, 
densely villous with white hairs, 3-14 lin. long ; segments deltoid or 
semiovate, acute, variable from about equal to the tube to 3 its 
length, reaching 3-2 the height of the corolla; corolla broad-cyathi- 
form, 18-22 lin. long ; segments erect, suborbicular, strongly nerved 
near the apex, as long as or sometimes a little shorter than the tube ; 
anthers dorsifixed well above the base, oblong or suboblanceolate, 
obtuse, not or only very slightly, produced beyond the pore, rough 
and ciliolate on the margins or subglabrous, }—} lin. long ; style 
exserted, slender, dilated and obconic at the apex; stigma oo : 
VOL. IV.—SHCT. I. 
