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obtusis, 2 mm. longis ; antherae inclusae lineari-lanceolatae, saturate 
brunneae, 1-5 mm. longae, poro dimidio lobi aequilongo, cristatae, cristis 
late ovalibus scaberulis lacerato-denticulatis, lobo aequilongis, 2 mm. 
latis, filamentis complanatis, sub antheris retroversis, deinde introversis, 
3 — 4 mm. longis; ovarium subglobosum, conspicue 8-lobatum (an in 
vivis?), prope apicem leviter constrictum, glabrum, stylo superne sensim 
incrassato, 3 mm. longo, stigmate cum stylo continuo vel levissime 
ampliato. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Stellenbosch Div., summit of 
Groot Drakenstein, alt. 4000 ft., Jan. 1921 (in fruit), Oct. 1922 (in flower), 
T. P. Stokoe, 68. 
Described from ample dried material. The chief variations from the 
type which appear to be constant in this variety are : the shorter peduncles 
with the indument much less dense, and the bracts placed nearer the 
apex ; inequality in the breadth of the bracts ; narrower sepals, imbricating 
to a less extent ; shorter corolla with relatively longer segments ; darker- 
coloured anthers with the crests slightly broader. These differences taken 
together might have been considered of sufficient importance to constitute 
a species if it were not that some of them break down in the following 
variety (Plate XIII, B). 
Erica Goatcheriana, L. Bolus, var. petrensis, L. Bolus. Humilis vel ad 60 cm. 
alta, folia 2 mm. longa; pedunculi ad 6 mm. longi; bracteae inter se fere 
aequilatae — ceteris varietatis drakensteinensis . 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Worcester, Caledon and 
Robertson Divs., Wildepaardeberg and Omklaarberg, alt. 4000 — 5000 ft., 
fl. March, July, Sept., 1922, T. P. Stokoe, 380. Some forms of this var. 
are similar in appearance to E. pumila, Andr. 
Mr Stokoe with characteristic zeal and perseverance has made some 
careful observations of these varieties in their mountainous habitats. He 
has traced their several forms of growth from “a shrub of 3 ft. high" to 
what he describes as “a pure rock heath, gnarled and twisted, rooting 
itself in impossible fissures or scarcely perceptible cracks. The stem of 
old plants takes a sudden thickening immediately above the crack- 
surface. The plant itself is a perfect picture of delicacy and refinement 
in colour : the regular lines of its close-cropped leaves, and the grey-green 
bloom thereon, seem to have been borrowed from the weathered sand- 
stone on which it grows. A tender shade of lemon yellow just suffuses 
the corolla when the flower is in its prime stage, but the general impression 
is pink, occasionally flushed with a deeper rosiness.” Writing again in 
September, 1926, just after another visit to Groot Drakenstein, he states 
that he “took careful note in comparing the Drakenstein type in situ 
with the Omklaar type, and unless you discover structural differences in 
