Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). AT 
Calyx-segments about 2-4 times longer than 
the tube, glabreus : 
Calyx-segments convex, strongly keeled 
from the base upwards ts .«. (464) longipes. 
Calyx-segments concave or flattish, not 
strongly keeled, margins recurved .,, (465) canaliculata. 
§ 41. CyatHotoma (Colorate, Klotzsch). Inflorescence terminal; flowers 
3-nate, sometimes (by arrest of the branchlets) pseudo-axillary, subcalycine or 
subcorolline, Sepals lax, bright-coloured and prominent, more than } as long 
as the corolla, or more adpressed and somewhat smaller. Corolla with a sub- 
globose, constricted tube and larger, ascending, cup-like limb, or (in one species) 
ovoid-urceolate with shorter limb, 2-5 lin. long. Anthers included, lateral, in 
two species subprognathous at the base, appendiculate or muticous, Ovary 
sessile or stipitate, glabrous. Leaves 3-nate. 
A not very natural section even as proposed by Bentham on the two original 
species, HZ, Thunbergii and E. Corydalis, which are utterly unlike in habit and 
aspect, and have only the single character of a similar corolla in common. To 
these we have added a third which is only related to the former in appearance, 
sepals and bracts but differs from both in several important characters. We 
have associated these rather than make three sections for the three species. 
Corolla globose at the base with a large dilated cup- 
shaped limb: sf 
Sepals lax, dry, bright yellow... sie ... (467) Thunbergii. 
Sepals adpressed, viscidulous, horn-colour ... (468) Corydalis. 
Corolla ovoid-urceolate with a small limb... ... (469) flavisepala. 
Section I. GIGANDRA. (Sp. 1-5.) 
1. E. Petiveri (Linn. Diss. Erica, n. 50; Mant. alt. 235) ; erect, 
2-3 ft. high; branches stout, with many short mostly curved 
branchlets ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or recurved, more rarely erect 
and straight, linear, subglabrous, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 1—3-nate, 
mostly cernuous ; pedicels 2-2} lin. long; bracts approximate, 
ovate, 3-2 the length of the sepals; sepals ovate, oblong or narrow- 
lanceolate, acute, scarious, concave, glabrous, 23-3} lin. long, }—} as 
long as the corolla; corolla narrow ovoid to tubular, glabrous, 
greenish-yellow, orange or reddish, 3-8} lin. long; limb erect, 
2-3 lin. long. E. coccinea, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, i. 855, not of Diss. 
E. Sebana, Donn, Hort. Cantab. 45, ex Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 395; 
Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 10; Wendl. Eric. Ie. fase. 10,5; Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 23; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii.621. EH. Sebana, vars. aurantia, 
lutea, viridis and spicata, Andr. Heathery, tt. 83, 84, 85, 190, and 
Col. Heaths, tt. 55, 56, 57, 129. EH. Sebana, var. nana, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 189. E. Sebana, var. lutea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 266. 
E. soceiflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 347, E. demissa, 
Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 8, not of Klotzsch. EE. baculiflora, 
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 346. E. cothurnalis, Salish. Prodr. 
297, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 347.—E. africana angustifolia, 
etc., Seba, Thes. i. 82, t. 21, fig. 4- 
Var. 8, pubescens (Bolus) ; bracts and sepals almost without keel, and cano- 
tomentose, 
Var. y, intermedia (Bolus) ; flowers frequently so'itary, small, 3-4 lin. long. 
E. intermedia, Klotzsch ex Benth, in DC, Prodr. vii. 621. 
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