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ceis, gradatim in squamos involucri transeuntibus ; involucri squamae 
5-7-seriatae laxe erecto-patentes, flores multo superantes, exterioribus 
ovatis, interiouibus lanceolatis ad 2 cm. longis, intimis paucis minoribus ; 
receptaculum fimbrilliferum, fimbrillis ovariis brevioribus ; flores homo- 
gami numerosissimi, coroUis 0"7 cm. longis ; pappi setae barbellatse, 0*6 cm. 
longae ; achaenia oblonga compressa glandulifera, 0-2 cm. longa. 
Hab. : Cape Colony, Worcester Div., rocky places on the Matroosberg, 
alt. c« 2,000 metres, fl. April, E. Dyke (No. 4554 in Dr. Marloth's herb.). 
The outer involucral scales are rosy at base and white above, the inner 
entirely white. In floral structure this much resembles H. liumile, Andr., 
but is widely different in habit and its short woolly leaves. It may be 
placed next before that species. 
Erica pyrantha, Bolus, n. sp. (§ Evanthe, Salisb. emend.). 
E. foliis 4:-7iis, fiorihus l-'^-nis terminalibus subsessilibus, scEjnus in 
raviulis brevissimis et idcirco siKcie axillaribus, bracteis remotis, sejKcUs 
ovatis scariosis, corollis tubularibus 0*5 C7n. longis, staminibus inclusis 
antheris aristulatis, ovario piloso. 
Eami adscendentes cum ramulis foliosis virgatis gracilibus puberuli 
demum glabrescentes ; folia 4-na erecto-patentia gracilia linearia 
subacuta, dorso leviter canaliculata, pleraque in ramulis abbreviatis 
floriferis congesta, 0-4-0-5 cm. longa ; flores terminales saepius soli- 
tarii, rarius 2-3-ni, saepe subsecundi, patentes demum deflexi, 
pseudo-racemum efformantes ; pedicelli 0* 2-0*25 cm. longi ; bracteas 
remotae minimae, 1 basilaris, 2 infra medium, glabrae, coloratae, vix 
0*1 cm. longae; sepala erecto-appressa, late ovata acuta scariosa in 
apiculum foliaceum desinentia, glabra, 0*2 cm. longa ; corolla tubulosa, 
sursum paullo ampliata, fere recta, glabra, semi-transparens aurantiaca, 
basi rubescens, limbi segmentis erectis rotundatis, 0-2 cm. longis, tota 
1 cm. longa, c"* O S cm. lata ; filamenta capillaria, 0'5 cm. longa ; antherae 
inclusae, oblongae, apice attenuatae laeves, 0"1 cm. longae ; poro f cellule, 
supra basin affixae, brevissime aristulatae, aristis vix ultra basin cellularum 
productis ; stylus inclusus vel rarius manifestus vel brevissime exsertus , 
ruber, 0-8-1 cm. longus ; stigma capitellatum ; ovarium 4-loculare, 
obconicum, sericeo-pilosum. (Ex exempli, vivis.) 
Hab. : Cape Colony, South-western Eegion, reported to come from the 
Caledon Div., and sold fresh in the streets of Cape Town, fl. Aug. (1908), 
Bolus herb. 13023. 
A very distinct and pretty species, unlike any known to me. The 
flowers grow in apparently secund racemes towards the upper part of the 
branches. But they are strictly terminal and arise from short arrested 
lateral branchlets. The few barren branchlets on our specimens, of from 
1-2 cm. in length, bear leaves which are uniformly crowded throughout 
