■ 
North and South Carolina, an 
Japan. •• [1 adds another to 
■ relationship hetw» 
■m Boras." The dr; 
Flora Capensis— A farther instalment of this work, prepared at 
Kew on behalf of our South African colonies, has appeared. 
This part, vol. iv., sect. i.. part ii. (pp. VXA-MW, .. contains the 
conclusion of the genus Erica by the hue Prof. Guthrie and 
Dr. Bolus. Although the conception of the species is by no 
means narrow, their number reaches the enormous total of UW, 
of which 87 are described here for the first time. The main 
features of the distribution of the species of Krkn in South 
Africa have, of course, been known for a long time. They are 
so obvious that the most casual observer could not have over- 
looked them : bm it is only now that we are able to gaue-e them 
accurately. About 90 per cent are found in the " Coast Hegion,*' 
some of them extending to the " Central Region," and very few 
beyond it. "Their greatest concentration," as the authors sav, 
"may be on the Cape Peninsula, where m-> species have been 
recorded in an area of IDS s M uare miles: but the home of the 
more beautiful, and now rarer, species is in the Caledon 
Division." Many of the species are extrenmlv local. The great 
variability of almost all the organs makes the discrimination of 
individual variations and of form, whirl, mi -'-.: reasmiabh be 
treated as species extremely difficult, and demands much experi- 
ence and tact, such as can onl\ be acquired bv continued observa- 
tion in the field and the studv of extensive collections Xo men 
with better qualifications for that task than the autho -s could have 
been found. 
Considering the extremely limited distribution of numerous 
species it is not surprising that not a few of them haw been 
collected only once, and some no doubt have since become extinct 
or only exist in the cultivated state. Moreover, as the early 
collectors generally paid little attention to indicating the localities 
where they collected their specimens, we do not know and in 
»wff ™ SeS may n ? ve F £ n <>w the exa ct area of those species. So far 
fw v l£ e H Cent 0t *, he Ericas of South Afrf ca have had to be put 
South Lfrica ' South African 
heaths having been very much in fashion in Fnronen, 
dequatelv. garden plants, which 
been hy 
were not always preserved. Tl 
enumerated on pp. :>>ln :!12. and \,i 
Some of them will probably be found ' 
which the authors were not o 
cleared up with the aid of Guthrie's and' ll 
