Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 81 
appears sometimes to hybridize naturally), and also to E. vanthina. The globose 
swelling of the corolla when in the living state, or when (as occasionally 
happens) visible in the dried state, and the appendiculate anthers, will always 
a to distinguish it. Andrews’ figure cited is excellent; the others fairly 
good, 
64. E. verticillata (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 99, not of Andr.); 
erect, 4-5 ft; high; branches spreading or erect; leaves 4—5—6-nate, 
densely imbricate, erect or spreading, linear, convex and suleate 
below, glabrous, the younger ciliate, 2-3 lin. long ; flowers mostly 
4-nate in wild specimens (in cultivated plants umbellately 3-10-fld., 
Andrews), usually crowded on short branchlets in dense oblong 
pseudo-racemes below the ends of the branches; flowers erect or 
spreading ; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, linear, folia- 
ceous ; sepals linear from an ovate scarious base, foliaceous, ciliate, 
2~2> lin. long; corolla tubular, mostly straight, pubescent, dry, 
rosy, 7-10 lin. long; limb erect or spreading; anthers included, 
oblong, curved ; filament inserted about the middle of the cell to 
the thick dorsally-projecting connective, about 4 lin, long, muticous ; 
ovary completely 8-celled ; capsule at length splitting into 8 valves, 
crowned at the apex by a callous cup-like process (‘‘concave-trun- 
cate” (Bentham), glabrous. E. concinna, [Soland. in] Ait. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 1, ii. 23; Andr. Heathery, t. 58, and Ool. Heaths, t. 82; 
Wendl. Hric. Ic. fase. 9,9; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 636. £. 
paludosa, Salisb. Prodr, 293, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 356. 
E. abietina, Andy. ex G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii, 823, not of Linn. 
nor Berg. 
? Var. 8, Boxburghii (Bolus); leaves 4-nate; corolla tubular-oblong or 
tubular-obeonic, 4-5 lin. long; ovary callous-crowned, sub-8-celled, glabrous. 
E. Roxburghit, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682. 
Sourn AFRicaA: without locality, Thunberg. 
Coast Rereron: Cape Div.; on the Flats in the vicinity of Cape Town, 
Wynberg and Rondebosch, Burchell, 700! 765! Niven, 206! Zeyher, 1085! 
Bolus, 2965! 8755! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 14! Schlechter, 7534! 
Aiso cultivated specimens! Var. B: Stellenbosch Div.; in marshy places, 
Roxburgh! Niven! 
Readily recognized by its peculiar anther, and callous-crested 8-celled ovary. 
(There is, however, a less marked form of these callous protuberances in £. 
curviflora, var. Burchellit, which has a 4-celled ovary.) Respecting the var B, 
Bentham says that on the authority of the collectors it was found growing with 
E. verticillata and EF. pyramidalis, and was thought by them to be a hybrid 
between those species. He adds that it is intermediate between them, and 
seemed to have perfect seeds. It appears to us better to regard it as a short- 
flowered form of E. verticillata (not a few instances of this variation occurring in 
other sections) ; and its sepals, anthers and ovary agree fur better with this 
ies than with E. pyramidalis. The anther, especially, of E. Rowburghii, 
agrees almost exactly with the peculiar anther of this species. 
65. E. mertensiana (Wendl. ex Klotzsch in Linnea, ix. 659); 
erect, 2 ft. high; branches puberulous, reddish ; leaves 3-4-nate, 
_ erect-spreading, linear, flat above, convex and sulcate below, sub- 
glabrous, 3-4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, erect ; pedicels 23-3 lin. . 
long; bracts subremote, linear, acute, pubescent; sepals broad 
ovate, acuminate, puberulous, keel-tipped, purplish-green, 2 lin. long ; 
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