114 ERIcACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
contracted, covered with soft hairs, white, 2} lin. long; limb very 
small; segments erect or subconnivent ; anthers included, oblong- 
cuneate, aristate; style included; stigma capitellate. Andr. Col. 
Heaths, t. 250; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 674. 
Soutn Arrica: Locality unknown. 
The specimens’ we have seen under this name belong to E. Peziza, Lodd. We 
have seen no authentic specimen of this species, but accept Andrews’ t. 274; 
with its accompanying description as the type. The shape of the corolla is 
there so different from that of E. Peziza, that it is quite impossible to regard the 
two as one species. 
124. E. Peziza (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 265); erect, densely flori- 
ferous, 1-11 ft. high ; branches ascending or nearly erect, tomentose ; 
leaves 3-nate, erect or subspreading, linear, obtuse, sulcate, glabrous, 
mostly shining, 11—2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate ; pedicels tomen- 
tose, 12 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, small; sepals ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acute, sulcate and keel-tipped, pubescent, 3 lin. long; 
corolla cyathiform to obeonic, not contracted but often widened at 
the mouth, densely long-tomentose, white, mostly about 2} lin. long ; 
limb from nearly half, to as long as the tube; segments rounded, 
erect or slightly reflexed at the tips only ; filaments bent at the apex ; 
anthers included, ovate, dark brown, less than } lin. long, aristate ; 
awns affixed near the middle of the cells, subulate with roughened 
margins, nearly as long as the cell; style included ; ovary minutely 
tomentose. 
Coast REGION, on mountains between 800-1000 ft.: Caledon Div. ; near 
the Zondereinde River, Schlechter, 5637! near Caledon, MacOwan, Herb. Aust.- 
Afr., 1492! Robertson Div. ; near Montagu, Tyson, 3033! Bolus, 3992! 6387! 
6720! Swellendam Div. ; near Hessaquas Kloof, Zeyher, 3242! 
This species was included by Bentham (DC. Prodr. vii. 674) as a synonym of 
E. nivalis, Andr. We have numerous specimens, agreeing well with Loddiges’ 
figure, but not, as to the shape of the corolla, with Andrews’ fig. of E. nivalis 
(t. 274). So great a difference in the shape of the corolla we have not seen in 
any species; and we feel bound to maintain both as distinct, although Andrews’ 
species appears to be known only from his figure. 
125. E. ovina (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 674) ; 
stout, erect, 1-11 ft. high; branches straight or flexuous, densely 
grey-woolly, becoming naked below; leaves 3-nate, spreading, 
linear or subfiliform, suleate, obtuse, very slender, puberulous, — 
glabrescent, 2-23 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 
1-11 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute, keel-tipped, pubescent, 8-1 lin. long; corolla ovoid or 
ovoid-oblong, mouth slightly contracted, densely but not very closely 
lanate with somewhat long twisted hairs, white, 3 lin, long; limb 
erect, short, about + as long as the tube; anthers included, sub- 
cuneate-oblong, dark-brown, less than + lin. long, aristate; awns 
narrow, about 2 the length of the cell; style included, compressed ; 
stigma capitate; ovary turbinate, somewhat truncate, hispidulous. 
Var. B, purpurea (Bolus); habit more branched; corolla cyathiform, equal 
or perhaps slightly widened to the mouth, pale purple, 2-2} lin. Sonige ; 
