64 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica, 
the base, oblong, more or less curved, 3] lin. long, muticous or 
decurrent-denticulate on the filament very near the apex; pore about 
1 the length of the cell; ovary turbinate, deeply lobed, villous on the 
upper half, usually glabrous below. Bauer, Hxot. Pl. t. 26; 
Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 626. FE. vestita, vars. incarnata, rosea, 
alba, purpurea, carnea, and lutea, Andr. Heathery, tt. 97, 98, 
147, 198, 246, 247, and Col. Heaths, tt. 68, 69, 138, 139, 215. £. 
vestita, var. purpurea, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 10,7; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
#.217; var. alba, Wendl. l.c. fase. 12, 3, and Lodd. l.c. t. 24353 var. 
coccinea, Wendl. 1.c. fasc. 11,5; var. formosa, Wendl. l.c. fasc. 23, 
167, ¢. 63, and vars. carnea and blanda, Lodd. Lc. tt. 1696, 1716. 
E. pinifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 362. H. eckloniana, 
Tausch in Flora, 1839, 625. 
Var. f, fulgida (Andr. Col. Heaths, ii. t. 137, and Heathery, ii. t. 96); 
anthers exserted; ovary entirely silky or puberulous. EH. fulgida, Sinclair, Hort. 
Eric. Wob. 11; Benth. in DOC. Prodr. vii. 626; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1633. E. 
mera and E. speciosissima, Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 644, 645, LE. vestita, var. 
coccinea, Andr. Heathery, t. 199, and Col. Heaths, t. 70. 
Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg, Masson, 122! Zeyher, 3169 ! 
Niven, 182! and cultivated specimens! Var. B: Mund & Maire, Lichtenstein 
(ex Klotzsch), and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast REGION, on mountains 600-5000 ft.: Tulbagh Div. ; Witsen Berg, 
Burchell, 8729! Caledon Div.; Donker Hoek Mountain, Burchell, 7949! near 
Caledon, Mund, 7! Zoetemelks Valley, Niven, 181! and various localities, 
Bolus, 3192! 9226! Guthrie, 2500! 4576! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, 
Pappe! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 800 ft., Schlechter, 7634! 
A distinct and well-marked species; yet often confused with ZF, longifolia. 
From this it may be most readily distinguished by its more slender leaves, and 
. their longer and more slender petioles; they are also tremulous in the wind, 
while in Z. longifolia they are rigid. The two next species are closely allied by 
the same peculiar foliage, their sepals, anthers and ovary, But they differ by 
their corolla. We have specimens connecting, by subexserted anthers, var. B 
with the type. 
32. E. nematophylla (Guthrie & Bolus); branches slender, 
glabrous, the younger deeply channelled between the-long prominent 
leaf-cushions ; leaves 6-nate or somewhat scattered, erect or spread- 
ing, with a long hair-like pallid petiole, slender-linear, subtrigonous, 
keeled, acute, glabrous, 3—% in. long; flowers more or less crowded 
towards the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, puberulous, 4—} 
in. long; bracts remote, narrow-linear, 1} lin. long; sepals linear 
from an ovate base, long-acuminate, minutely gland-ciliate, deep-red, 
11-22 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, slightly inflated above the 
middle, thence gradually contracted towards the apex, glabrous or 
minutely velvety or puberulous, dry, 5 lin. long; limb short, 
rounded, erect; filaments 3 lin. long; anthers ineluded, dorsifixed 
near the base, oblong, obtuse, about + lin. long, muticous or some- 
times minutely decurrent-denticulate shortly below the anther; pore 
2 the length of the cell; style exserted, stout; stigma rather large, 
capitate ; ovary exactly that of preceding and next species, 
Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div., 1000 ft.; slopes of the Langeberg Range 
near Riversdale, Schlechter, 1728! road-side, Garcias Pass, Galpin, 8643! 
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