DESCRIPTION:--An erect herb. _Stems_ terete, hollow, striate, pilose-hoary, laxly leafy. _Cauline leaves_ 1·2 to 15 cm. long, sessile; the lower lyrato-pinnatifid, amply auricled, amplexicaul, on both sides cobwebby-tomentose; the upper broadly ovate, closely crowded in the young stems, cobwebby-tomentose, obtuse, with the margins entire or remotely 1 to 2 toothed. _Heads_ peduncled, terminal, very large and showy, 8 cm. in diam. (including the rays), the buds very hoary. _Involucral bracts_ imbricate, in several rows; the outer narrower, reflexed, herbaceous, green; the innermost row much longer, broadly scariose, spreading below the rays; the whole involucre densely cobwebby. _Receptacle_ 1·8 cm. in diam., convex, deeply honeycombed, with the margins of the cells produced into a few bristles. _Ray-florets_ female, 1-seriate, alternate rays spreading, others at first ascending, then spreading, giving an appearance of two rows. _Corolla_ ligulate; lamina bright orange coloured, oblong-cuneate, very faintly 3-toothed at apex, of lower whorl smaller (2·5 cm. long) and with a smaller brow-black blotch at the base than that of upper whorl (3 cm. long); tube 3 mm. long, broader at base than at the top, subglabrous. _Ovary_ obovate in outline, muricated, glabrous; style 4 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous; stigmatic portion wider, with the branches 0·5 mm. long, linear, flat, spreading. _Disc-florets_ hermaphrodite, fertile, numerous, crowded on the head. _Corolla_ 4 mm. long, subcylindric, 5-cleft at the apex for about a quarter the length of the tube, with 5 longitudinal rows of glandular hairs; lobes blackish, 1 mm. long, linear, subacute, with the angles between the lobes obtuse. _Anthers_ purplish, black, 2 mm. long, obtuse, with a small suborbicular apical appendage; filaments 1·5 mm. long, linear, flat, at length filiform, inserted on lower half of corolla tube. _Ovary_ obovate in outline, white, muricated, glabrous; style 5·5 mm. long, at first narrowly cylindric, then in upper half abruptly widening into a yellow stigmatic portion, 2 mm. long, slightly cleft at the apex, becoming much exserted. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2944.) PLATE 198.--Fig. 1, longitudinal section of receptacle; Fig. 2, ray-floret; Fig. 3, disc-floret; Fig. 4, inner involucral-bract; Fig. 5, outer involucral-bract; Fig. 6, achene. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: 199.] PLATE 199. ERICA BLENNA var. GRANDIFLORA. _Cape Province._ ERICACEAE. Tribe ERICEAE. ERICA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 590. * * * * * =Erica blenna=, _Salisb._ var. =grandiflora=, _Bolus. Fl. Cap._ vol. iv. sect. i. p. 202. * * * * *