142 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
remote, small, 2 inframedian, 1 subbasal ; sepals ovate, subeordate, 
acute, glabrous, viscid, nerved, subscarious, about 1 lin. long, equal 
to the corolla-tube ; corolla oblate-urceolate or suburceolate-cyathi- 
form, mouth somewhat contraeted (in the dried state appearing 
scarcely so), glabrous, viseid, pale rose below, darker tinted above, 
12 Jin. long, 2 lin. broad; segments more than 3 as long as the tube, 
deltoid, subacute ; filaments tapering upwards, bent below the anther ; 
anthers included, lateral, short-cuneate, dorsifixed at or near the 
base, about 1 lin. long, aristate; awns subulate, rough-edged, as 
long as the cell; style included; stigma capitellate or subsimple; 
ovary turbinate, very pallid, hispidulous. 
Coast Recion: Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, 2400 ft. 
Schlechter, 9261! 
178. E. planifolia (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 508); diffuse, much 
branched, 6-12 in. high ; branches pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, spread- 
ing, ovate to lanceolate, acute, open-backed, margins revolute, midrib 
thickened upwards into a smooth prominent callosity, puberulous, 
ciliate, 13-2 lin. long; flowers axillary, solitary or usually so; 
pedicels slender, hispidulous, 2-21 lin. long; braets 2, remote, 
foliaceous, -shortly petiolate; sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, 
gland-ciliate, margins revolute, about 1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, 
mouth neither contracted nor widened, hispidulous, viscid, 12 lin. 
long ; limb suberect, less than 4 as long as the tube; filaments from 
a short dilated base tapering upwards; anthers included, lateral, 
dorsifixed close to the base, oblong, 2 lin. long, aristate; awns seti- 
form, about } as long as the cell; style included ; stigma capitate ; 
ovary hispidulous. Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap. 100; Benth. in DO. 
Prodr. vii. 669. E. thymifolia, vars. a and B, Salish. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vi. 325, ace. to Bentham. EE. thymifolia, Andr. Heathery, 
t. 195, and Col. Heaths, t. 136, not of Wendl. EE. distans, Spreng. 
jil., Fl. Tent. Suppl. Syst. 13, not of Benth. 
Var. 8, calycina (Bolus); sepals about as long as the corolla, 14 lin. or more 
long; corolla puberulous, about 1 lin. long, 14 lin. wide; filaments equal ; 
son of the anther about as long as the cell, minutely notched ; ovary white 
irsute. 
a Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specis 
mens 
Coast Reaton, at 2000-3000 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drége! 
Bolus, 5178! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Schlechter, 9239 | Cape Div, ; on 
mountains around Cape Town, Thunberg, Roxburgh! Niven! Burchell, 602! 
8435! Bolus, 3334! Schlechter, 223! Guthrie, 557! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hotten- 
tots Holland, Zeyher, 334 (ex Sprengel). Var. B: Caledon Div. ; moun- 
tains near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3215! (in Cape Govt. and Berlin 
Herbaria). 
Most nearly allied to E. cryptanthera, and E. thymifolia. It is more robust 
than the former and distinguished from the latter by its shorter corollas and 
- included anthers. 
_ 179. E. heterophylla (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, 6 in. or more 
high ; branches flexuous, straggling; hirsute, laxly leafy ; leaves 
