NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
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5-nata, rarius 4-nata, dense imbricata, linearia acnta, angustissime sul- 
cata, glabra, lamina ad 1-4, saepius 1-1 cm., longa, petiolo 0-2 cm. longo; 
flores in 1 — 3 verticillos apice ramulorum dispositi; pedunculi adscen- 
dentes, minute pubescentes, 0-6 cm. longi; bracteae 3, approximatae 
vel infima interdum medio posita, foliis simillimae, 0-7 — 0-8 cm. longae; 
sepala e basi lato (0-2 cm.) linearia acuminata, 1 cm. longa; corolla tubi- 
formis subobliqua, basin versus acute tet.ragona, 2-8 cm. longa, cum 
segmentis patentibus rotundatis, 0-3 cm. longis; antherae inclusae ter- 
minates lineares obliquae subacutae, lobis ad basin distinctis, denticulatis, 
0-25 cm. longis, poro dimidium parum excedente; ovarium 4-loculare 
cylindricum glabrum, 0-4 — 0-45 cm. longum, stigmateexsertocapitellato. 
Cape Province : South-Western Region; Cape Peninsula, neck between 
Signal Mountain and Zwart Kop, Klaver Valley, near Simonstown, fl. 
Jan., N. S. Pillans, 3944. 
Allied to E. Nevillei, L. Bolus, but differs in having longer and 
narrower sepals, corolla deeply grooved towards the base, and the style 
thickened towards the base and disjointing readily. 
Described from two specimens. 
Erica fervida, L. Bolus (? § Evanthe). Erecta, ramis adscendentibus virgatis 
pubescentibus, ad 32 cm. longis, ramulis floriferis, saepius 0-5 cm., 
rarius ad 2 cm., longis; folia fere erecta vel patentia imbricata 4-nata 
linearia acuta, sulco angustissimo, breviter pubescentia, ad 0-3 cm. 
longa, sine petiolo 0-2 cm. longo; flores 1 — 4-nati, breves laterales 
ramulos terminantes, inflorescentiam densarn, ad 14 cm. longam, 
formantes; pedunculi adscendentes vel leviter decurvati, pubescentes, 
0-2 cm. longi; bracteae 3 lineares, remotae vel superiores medio positae, 
ad 0-1 cm. longae; sepala ovata vel oblongo-obovata acuta, brevitei 
pubescentia, rubra, 0-2 cm. longa; corolla tubiformis, faucibus vix * on- 
tracta, sat quadrangularis, angulis rotundatis, brevissime denseque pubes- 
cens, laete rubra, ad 0-7 cm. longa, segmentis 0-2 cm. longis; antherae 
manifestae dorsifixae oblongae, ca. 0-1 cm. longae, aristatae, aristis 
poroque dimidium lobi parum excedentibus, filamentis rubris; ovarium 
subobovatum e medio superne dense villosum, pilis erectis albidis, stylo 
corollae aequilongo vel parum breviore, stigmate capitellato. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; ? Caledon Div., sold in 
Cape Town, fl. Oct., Bolus, 13408. 
This has the same glowing, or fervid, red colour of E. Pillansn, 
Bolus, both of the calyx and corolla, and is remarkably like it in other 
ways. The distinction lies in the corolla, which is much shorter, somew ia 
tetragonous and quite symmetrical (i.e. without the curve v hie i man} 
the ornithophilous heaths have). The corolla-lobes are relatively longer 
and the sepals proportionately broader. 
