Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 145 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 3000 ft., Ecklon 5° Zeyher ; 
Niven, 119! Milne, 207! Bolus, 4541! Wolley Dod, 2120! 
Closely allied to E. physophylla, of which it may be regarded as a Table 
Mountain representative. This is one of those species which has only been 
found on one mountain, and which it may be feared will probably soon, like 
E. sexfaria and some others, become extinct. It is of very slow growth, bears 
but few flowers, and is often subjected to fires. 
184, E. tenuicaulis (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 669) ; 
diffuse, almost entirely glabrous; branches few, straggling, slender, 
2-3 in. long; leaves 3-nate, spreading or deflexed, usually longer 
than the internodes, broadly linear, subacute, slightly curved, flat 
above, sulcate below, somewhat rigid and coriaceous, 3—4 lin. long ; 
flowers axillary, racemoso-umbellate, often reduced to 1 or 2 in each 
axil; pedicels slender, 2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, minute; 
sepals lanceolate, keeled, ciliolate, coloured, rigid, about % lin. 
long; corolla obconic-campanuloid, mouth widened, glabrous or 
minutely puberulous, 1 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, from 
about 2 the length of the tube to a little longer than it; filaments 
scarcely exceeding the anther; anthers included, lateral, dorsifixed 
near the base, narrow-ovate, about 1 lin. long, muticous; pore about 
2 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitate ; ovary 
sparsely hispid, glabrescent (or villous, Bentham). 
Coast Ree@ton: Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Niven, 
244! near the Zondereinde River and Eksteens, Zeyher! in Herb. Berlin. 
Riversdale Div. ; clefts of rocks on the Lange Bergen near Riversdale, 2000 ft., 
Schlechter, 1844! 
This species has more external resemblance to those of the 
this section; but the floral structure is different. The leaves are pec 
unlike those of § Ceramia generally. 
185. E. myriocodon (Guthrie & Bolus) ; diffuse, 6-10 in. high, 
densely and intricately branched, with numerous flowers ; branches 
slender, puberulous, dark red ; leaves usually 4- oceasionally Pure 
spreading, incurved or recurved, linear, blunt, sulcate, hispid, 1-11 
lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate to solitary ; pedicels pubescent, 
about 1 lin. long ; bracts remote, minute ; sepals lanceolate or linear, 
coloured or greenish, under 1 lin. long ; corolla campanulate-cyathi- 
form, mouth scarcely widened or contracted, hirsute with short 
squarrose hairs, about 1 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, 
rounded, 1-2 the length of the tube; filaments capillary; anthers 
included, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, ovate-cuneate, about 
2 Jin. long, aristate ; pore about 3 the length of the wa pri 
slender, rough-edged, more than 3 the length of the cell; style 
included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary hirsute. 
: iv.; mountains about French Hoek, 2000 ft., 
Pere geree hate ene places on the mountains near Appels 
Kraal, Zeyher, 3225! 
This is in many respects like FE. cryptant 
§ Desmia than to 
uliar and 
hera; but differs by its usually 
4-nate and sulcate leaves, terminal inflorescence and shorter but proportionately 
broader anthers. ‘S 
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