Plants Collected in the Percy Sladen Memorial Expeditions. 131 



the Khamiesberg flora I have received very valuable assistance 

 from the Eev. W. M. Crampton, until recently in charge of tbe 

 Wesleyan Mission Station at Leliefontein. 



ERICACEAE.*! 



By Louisa Bolus. 



1. ERICA. 



1. E. Petiveri, Linn., Diss. Erica, 50; Mant. alt. 235. 



Cape: Top>f Oliphant's Eiver Mts., behind Warm Baths, 7309, 

 7041. 



2. E. Plukeneti, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. i., 356. 



Cape: Giftberg, 1-2,000 ft., 7587. Khamiesberg: Elliottsberg, 

 7691. Upper western and upper southern slopes of Sneeuwkop, 

 5830. South-western slopes of Vogelklip, near the summit, 5929. 



3. E. curviflora, Linn., var. ft, Bur chellii, Bolus, in Fl. Cap., iv., 

 §i.,p. 71. 



Cape : Bed of Oliphant's River, near Warm Baths. 



4. E. dilatata, Wendl. fil., ex Benth., in DC, Prodr., vii., 656. 

 Khamiesberg : Lower middle western slopes to summit of 



Sneeuwkop, 5827. 



This is a most interesting rediscovery. Hitherto the species has 

 been known only from what is probably a garden plant in the Berlin 

 Herbarium, and a coloured drawing in Wendland's "Icones," pub- 

 lished in 1823. Its habitat was quite unknown, and the advent of 

 the fine collection from the Sneeuwkop not only elucidates what had 

 long been obscure but allays the anxiety of those who feared the 

 species had become extinct. 



5. E. caffra, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, 353. 



Cape : Growing below waterfall, Giftberg, 1-2,000 ft., 7589. 



6. E. bicolor, Thumb., Diss. Erica, 36. 



Cape : Slopes of Oliphant's River Mts., near Warm Baths, 7047. 



* Report of the Percy Sladen Memorial Expeditions in South-West Africa, 

 No. 29. 

 f Contributed from the Bolus Herbarium, South African College. 



