Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 123 
142. E. trichophora (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 673) ; erect, 
12-14 in. high or more; branches virgate, pubescent, with longer 
setose hairs intermixed ; leaves 4-nate, suberect or spreading, linear, 
obtuse, slender, keeled, hirsute, 1-1} lin. long; flowers usually 
solitary in the specimens seen, but occasionally 2-nate and probably 
normally 4-nate; pedicels rather stout, } lin. long; bracts sub- 
basal, one long linear, two very short; sepals linear, acuminate, 
keeled, foliaceous from an ovate searious denticulate-edged coloured 
base, pubescent, 1-14 lin. long; corolla tubular-obeonie or sub- 
urceolate-cyathiform, widened to the mouth, more or less copiously 
clothed with coarse white hairs, about 3 lin. long; limb erect; 
segments rounded, about 4 the length of the tube ; anthers included, 
dorsifixed shortly above the base, cuneate-oblong, barely } lin. long, 
muticous; pore about + the length of the cell; style included, 
slender; stigma very small, subsimple; ovary oblate-spheroidal, 
glabrous. LE. pilifera, Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 505, not of Thunb. 
Coast Recion: Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, 1000-3000 ft., 
Ecklon § Zeyher (in Herb. Berlin). Swellendam Div. ; mountains near Puspas 
Vley, 1000-4000 ft., Ecklon §° Zeyher (in Herb. Trin. Coll., Dublin). 
Somewhat intermediate between E. chrysocodon and E. setulosa, differing 
from the former by its sepals and corolla, and from the latter by its leaves and 
corolla. It seems possible that all three may be states of one variable species ; 
but the evidence is scarcely strong enough at present. 
143. E. setulosa (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682); dwarf; 
branches straggling, setaceous-pilose ; leaves 4-nate, narrow-oblong to 
oblong, obtuse, minutely puberulous, and sparsely setaceous-ciliate 
with long pallid hairs, 1} lin. long including the pubescent petiole ; 
flowers 4-nate; pedicels puberulous, under 1 lin. long ; bracts 
approximate, small ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glandular- 
ciliate, pubescent, foliaceons, coloured, } lin. long; corolla obconie, 
widened to the mouth, puberulous or somewhat tomentose, about 
11 lin. long ; segments erect, subobtuse, 2—} the length of the tube ; 
filaments slender, nearly straight ; anthers included, dorsifixed near 
the base, oblong, obtuse, about 3 lin. long, muticous ; pore about 
1 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted ; stigma capitellate ; 
ovary subspherical, glabrous. 
Sovtn A¥FRIcA: without locality, Niven! in Herb. Kew. 
We have dissected and examined flowers from the type, which consists of a 
branch 6 in. in length. 
144, E. pusilla (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 374); erect, 
1-2 ft. high; branches spreading or subvirgate, puberulous, and 
also pilose (intermixed with longer hairs) ; leaves 4-nate, from sub- 
erect to spreading, linear, slender, faintly sulcate, roughly hirsute, 
12-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate ; pedicels hirsute, }-1 lin. long; 
bracts remote, small, sometimes one, or two, wanting; sepals from 
ovate to linear, hirsute, }-1 lin. long; corolla subcampanulate, 
cyathiform or obconic, wilened to the mouth, hirsute, pale rosy, 
