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Allied to E. comata, Guthrie and Bolus, next to which it should be 
placed, differing by (1) its long shaggy hairs on the main branches ; (2) its 
leaves mostly quite glabrous, more deeply sulcate and sometimes open- 
backed {i.e., with revolute margins and the under surface of the leaf 
visible between) ; (3) the leaves, bracts, and sepals destitute of the apical 
tufts of hairs peculiar to E. cojiiata ; (4) sepals more acute, of very diffe- 
rent appearance, thicker texture, and nearly flat ; (5) by its more densely 
tomentose ovary. 
Erica Wyliei, Bolus, n. sp. (§ Eurystoma, Benth.). 
E. affinis E. fioccifercB, Zahlhr., differt foliis majoj^ibus, bracteis laxi- 
oribus, sepalis lanceolato-ovatis acuminatis, corolla parum minoribus, 
antheris semi-ovatis angustioribus appendicibus brevioribus, ovario tomen- 
toso. 
Rami e caudice rhizomatico erecti virgati graciles floccoso-pubescentes, 
25-28 cm. alti, ramulis brevibus adscendentibus parce florigeris ; folia et 
3-na et 4-na erecta imbricata semiteretia, dorso rotundata sulcata glabra 
ciliolata, 0-4-0'6 cm. longa; flores 3-ni ; terminales, pedicelli, 0*3 cm. 
longi ; bracteae 2 superiores subapproximatae, 1 inferior fere basilaris 
omnino foliacea ; sepala lanceolato-ovata acuminata ciliolata apice cari- 
nata, 0*3 cm. longa ; corolla obconica vel subcampanulata carnea extus 
minute puberula, 0'4: cm. longa, cum limbi segmentis obtusis, 0'15 cm, 
longis ; filamenta capillaria; antherse dorso affixge, in longitudinem semi- 
ovatae, 0'075 cm. longge, poro | cellulse, appendicibus in filamentum decur- 
rentibus apice liberis aristatis brevibus ; stylus breviter exsertus ; stigma 
capitato-obconicum ; ovarium subglobosum tomentosum. 
Hab. : Natal, Giant's Castle Mountain, alt. 2,500-3,000 metres, fl. Oct. 
22, 1907, /. Wylie, in the Natal herb., 10660 ! 
Allied to E. fioccifera, Zahlbr. (E. floccosa, Bartl. non Salisb.), but 
differing by the characters enumerated above. It may be placed next 
after that species. 
Watsonia flavida, Bolus (nomen novum). 
Tritonia ivatsonioides , Baker, in Handb. Irid.^p. 195, Flor. Cap. Dyer, 
vi., 127. 
Species in specimine ex Barberton, Transvaal a Galpin lecta No. 814, 
stabilita, totos characteres, prassertim ramos styli bitidos, Watsoniae 
exhibet, tum habitu congruit. 
Exemplar typicum in meo herbario examinavi. 
Hab. : Swazieland, prope 'Mbabane, alt. 1,550 metres, Dec, Bolus, 
12343. FJores flavido-albidi. 
