Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 69 
long ; limb short, spreading or reflexed ; anthers included, oblong, 
curved, $—1 lin. long, with setiform awns somewhat shorter than, 
or equalling the cells; ovary substipitate, glabrous. Wendl. Eric. 
Te. fasc. 25, 9, t. 4; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 631. HE. depressa, 
Andr. Heathery, t. 17, not of Linn. 
Sourn Arica: without locality, Rowburgh, and Paterson (ex Bentham). 
Also cultivated specimens ! 
Coast REGION: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, procumbent on the 
rocks, Niven, 172! Masson! Caledon Div.; mountains near Lowrys Pass, 
native collector in Herb. Guthrie, 3554! 
A well-marked species allied to E. foliacea and E. sacciflora. It seems to be 
now rare, and a small twig, with a few flowers, brought in by a native collector 
in 1895, appears to be the only recorded gathering during a period of nearly a 
century. 
40. E. xanthina (Guthrie & Bolus); branches 12-14 in, long, 
subvirgate, stout, densely covered with short pubescent branchlets ; 
leaves 4-nate, mostly erect-incurved, imbricate, sometimes spreading, 
linear, subobtuse, convex and slightly sulcate below, flat above, 
roughly puberulous, ciliolate, 2-3 lin. long including the longish 
pallid slender petiole ; flowers 1—2-nate at the ends of the numerous 
branchlets ; pedicels less than 1 lin. long, pubescent ; bracts remote, 
almost basal, minute; sepals ovate to subrotund, cuspidate-aeumi- 
nate, keeled, pubescent, ciliate, subscarious, coloured, less than 
1 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly narrowed in the middle, and 
again towards the apex, pubescent, dry, yellow or orange ; segments 
of the limb ovate, subacute, subconnivent (in age), apparently 
discoloured, the whole 7-71 lin. long; filaments tapering upwards, 
sharply bent near the anther, glabrous; anther included, dorsifixed 
just above the base, oblong or subsemiovate, muticous, } lin. long ; 
style subexserted ; stigma capitellate ; ovary obovoid or subspherical, 
minutely and thinly puberulous, probably becoming glabrous. 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Genadendal, Alewander, 5! in Herb. Kew. 
41. E. Maximiliani (Guthrie & Bolusin Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 173) ; 
erect, 2-4 ft. high ; branches rigid, spreading, curved, naked and 
dark-coloured below} branches cano-tomentose, densely leafy ; 
leaves 4-nate or occasionally scattered, erect-spreading and slightly 
incurved, imbricate, linear-subterete, obtuse, sulcate, cano-pulveru- 
lent, the younger villous, 4-6 lin. long ; inflorescence 1—4-nate, on 
short branchlets; pedicels cano-tomentose, 3-4 lin. long; bracts 
subremote, small, upper one lanceolate, obtuse, lower two smaller, 
nearly basal, pubescent ; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, bluntish, 
imbricate at base, keeled, pubescent, 23-3 lin. long ; corolla tubular, 
widening upwards, straight or curved, glabrous, dry, pale sulphur- 
yellow, 14-16 lin. long ; limb short and broad, at length spreading ; 
anthers at length subexserted, linear, slender, brown, smooth, 1$-2 
lin. long, aristate, awns inserted with the filament about 4 of the | 
length of the cells above their base, and reaching about the same 
— length below it; ovary densely villous, except towards its base, with 
somewhat long erect hairs. : 
