Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 118 
stellately spreading; anthers included, cuneate-oblong, slender, pale 
brown, membranous, a little over } lin. long, narrow-cristate, crests 
less than 3 the length of the cell; ovary glabrous, substipitate. 
Bauer, Exot. Pl.t.17; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 22, 157, t. 60; Benth. 
in DC. Prodr, vii. 641. EH. droseroides, Lam. Encycl. i. 489; Andr. 
Heathery, t. 18, and Col. Heaths, t. 21; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1685. 
Andromeda droseroides, Linn. Mant. 239. 
Var. f, parviflora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 641); flowers under 3 lin. long; 
anthers cuneate, crests Jonger than the cells. E. droseroides, var. minor, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 259, and Col. Heaths, t. 229. 
Coast KxrGion, between 1000 and 4500 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 
Prége! Cape Div.; mountains around Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 629! 
Drége! Guthrie, 1006! Bolus, 4170! 8030! Ecklon, 280! Wolley Dod, 862! 
Paarl Div. ; French Hoek, Schlechter, 10277! Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, 
Burchell, 8198! 8271! Schlechter, 7234! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Niven, 
159! Bolus/ near Palmiet River, Bolus, 4170! Genadeudal Mountain, Bolus! 
Also cultivated specimens! Var. B: Herb. Salisbury! 
CENTRAL ReEGIon: Ceres Div.; near Schoongezigt, in the Cold Bokkeveld, 
Schlechter, 10191 ! 
122. E. armata (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 672, not 
of Spreng.) ; erect, the whole, except the essential organs, more or 
less densely hispid and viscidulous, with stiff rigid gland-bearing 
hairs ; leaves 4-nate, spreading, imbricate, subulate, acute, flat above, 
convex and sulcate beneath, puberulous as well as gland-hairy, 23-3} 
lin. long ; flowers 4—7 at or near the ends of the branches, suberect ; 
pedicels 11 lin. long; bracts remote, small, foliaceous ; sepals 
narrow-ovate, acute, puberulous, 13—2 lin. long; corolla suburceolate 
or tubular-inflated, viseose-puberulous, red, the whole 3} lin. long ; 
limb very small, somewhat spreading but scarcely stellate ; anthers 
subincluded, oblong, slightly curved backwards at the base, about 
3 lin. long, aristate; awns 3-1 the length of the cell; ovary 
subturbinate, thinly puberulous. 
Var. B, breviaristata (Bolus) ; uppermost leaves subscattered, or arranged in 
unilateral pairs, not opposite nor 4-nate; inflorescence somewhat more elongate ; 
pedicels longer; bract sometimes 1, or wholly absent ; corolla finely velvety, or 
subglabrous; limb suberect ; awns of the anther very minute, scarcely reaching 
to the base of the cell. 
Coast REGION, on mountains between 2000 and 5000 ft.: Worcester Div. ; 
Datoits Kloof, Drége, 1148! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Niven, 158! Var. B: 
Caledon Div. ; near Genadendal, Bolus, 5413! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 
606! Schlechter, 9821! Masson, 37! 
This species was placed by Bentham in the § Ephebus, to which, without 
doubt, it is allied, and to which it affords a transition; but it seems better 
included here. It has also affinities with E. tumida, Ker. ; 
Section XIII. EPHEBUS. (Sp. 123-175.) 
123. E. nivalis (Andr. Heathery, t. 274) ; erect, branched, 1 ft. 
or more high; leaves 3-nate, from subpatent to squarrose, linear, 
obtuse, glabrous, straight, 2~3 lin. long ; flowers 3-nate, subcernuous ; 
pedicels about 2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, 
acute, about 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, mouth much 
eek I 
22 Gi. 1V.—<ex0T. 1. 
