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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
Erica coruscans, L. Bolus (§ Euryloma). Rami stricti vel substricti, glabri, 
11-17 cm. longi; folia erecto-patentia, dense imbricata, 4-nata linearia 
viscidula glabra, sat distanter ciliata apiceque penicillata, pilis longis 
(ad 0-3 cm. longis) griseis, e tuberculis parvis orientibus, 0-5 — 0-7 cm. 
longa, cum petiolo ad 0-2 cm. longo, ad 0-2 cm. lata; flores 12 — 16, apice 
ramorum aggregati; pedunculi pilis adscendentibus longis albidis dense 
vestiti, 0-7 cm. longi; bracteae 3, lineares glabrae, dense ciliatae, pilis 
longis, infima parum infra medium posita, ceterae subapproximatae, 
0-8 — 0-9 cm. longae; sepala linearia acuta glabra, conspicue penicillata, 
rubescentia, ad 0-7 cm. longa; corolla ampullacea viscidissima corus- 
cansque, tubo purpureo-rubro, colore saturatiore faucibus cincta, ad 
2-8 cm. longa cum lobis stellato-patentibus, pallideroseis, 0-35 cm. longis; 
antherae inclusae dorsifixae ovato-oblongae muticae, pallide brunneae, 
0- 22 cm. longae, filamentis apicem versus conspicue dilatatis, tubo corollae 
fere aequilongis, poro dimidium lobi aequante; ovarium elongatum 
stipitatum glabrum, 0-35 cm. longum sine stipite 0-4 cm. longo, stylo 
tiibo corollae parum longiore, stigmate capitellato. 
Var. /3, minor. Corolla 1-8 cm. longa, ceteraeque partes minores. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., Klein River 
Mountains, near Stanford, fl. July 1920, T. P. Stokoe (Bolus Herbarium, 
No. 16944). Var. /3, near the summit of the Klein River Mountains, 
alt. 2500-3000 ft., id. ( id . No. 16202). 
Erica Eylesii, L. Bolus (§ Pyronium). Rami sat graciles, pilis simplicibus 
rafiientaceisque pubescentes, ad 20 cm. longis, ramulis floriferis ad 
1- 5 cm. longis; folia erecta vel fere erecta, internodiis aequilonga vel 
parum longiora, 3-nata lineari-lanceolata, cum sepalis bracteisque dis- 
tanter ciliata, pilis saepe ramentaceis, sulco angusto vel subaperto, 
0-1— 0-15 cm. longa; flores 3-nati vel abortione 1 — 2-nati, inflorescentiam 
densam, 12 cm. longam, apice ramorum formantes; pedunculi graciles 
pubescentes, pilis simplicibus ramentaceisque, ad 0-4 cm. longi; bracteae 
3, infra medium, vel superiores medio, positae, ad 0-15 cm. longae, 
sepala ovato-lanceolata, apice saepe pilo glandulifero onusta, 0-2 cm. 
longa; corolla cyathiformis, faucibus leviter contracta, glabra, 0-4 cm. 
longa, segmentis obtusis, 0-1 cm. longis; antherae subexsertae vel demum 
exsertae, dorsifixae ovato-oblongae, basi leviter obliquae, ca. 0-1 cm. 
longae, anguste cristatae, cristis poroque dimidio lobi subaequilongis; 
ovarium depresse globosum villosum, pilis erectis, stylo bene exserto, 
stigmate capitellato. 
Rhodesia: Melsetter, fl. Oct. 1920, F. Eyles, 2755. 
Erica cincta, L. Bolus (§ Ephebus). Fruticulus erectus, ad 24 cm. altus, e basi 
ramosus, ramis ramulisque adscendentibus glabris viscidulis elongatis 
ad 14 cm. longis, floriferis ad 4 cm. longis; folia saepius erecto-patentia 
