154 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Erica. 
sometimes glandular, 1}—2} lin. long; bracts remote, small, scarious, 
coloured ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, keeled and keel-tipped, scarious, 
coloured, glabrous, shortly gland-ciliate, dry or viseid, 1-11 lin. 
long, somewhat shorter than the corolla-tube; corolla broad-urceo- 
late, mouth more or less contracted, glabrous, dry or viscid, 11-12 
lin. long; segments erect or somewhat spreading, 4-1 as long as the 
tube; filaments equal, straight; anthers subexserted, dorsifixed 
above the hase, obovate-oblong, very obtuse, ciliolate along the 
margins, cells deeply partite and at length subdistant, under + lin. 
long, aristate; pore very wide, about 1 the cell in length; awns 
subulate, incurved, rough-edged, about 1 as long as the cell; style 
exserted, stout, dark red ; stigma capitate; ovary lanate with long 
white hairs. 
Coast Recion: Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, near the toll-house, 1000 ft., 
Galpin, 3652! 
In the general appearance of the flowers this species bears a great resemblance 
to E. oreophila. But the habit, and especially the structure and appearance 
of the anthers and ovary are very different. The size and Shape of the corolla, 
and the texture of the sepals, separate it from E. globosa, 
201. E. flacea (E. Meyer ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 670); 
erect, slenderly branched, but not diffuse or straggling ; branches 
pubescent or glandular-hairy ; leaves usually 3-nate, rarely also 
4-nate on the same plant, spreading, not crowded, sometimes distant 
and much shorter than the long internodes, linear as if subterete and 
sulcate with strongly revolute margins, or in more luxuriant plants 
lanceolate or oblong, and open-backed with reflexed margins, acute, 
aristate, pubescent or pilose, usually gland-ciliate, 12-22 (oceasionaliy 
4) lin. long; flowers axillary, mostly 3-nate in the whorls towards 
the ends of the branches ; pedicels slender, 2-23 lin. long ; braets 
sometimes, or always (?) one approximate, small, usually two basal, 
large, leaf-like ; sepals mostly somewhat loose or spreading, lanceo- 
late, acute, foliaceous, pubescent, gland-ciliate, under 1 lin. long, 
margins reflexed; corolla subtubular-campanulate, only slightly 
widened to the mouth, puberulous, 11-2 lin. long ; segments slightly 
spreading, about 4 as long as the tube ; filaments from a short ovate 
or obovate base thence abruptly contracted upward ; anthers exserted, 
or sometimes long exserted, lateral, dorsifixed shortly above the base, 
semiovate, dorsally curved, anteriorly straight, glabrous, mostly pale 
brown, about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore less than } as long as the 
cell; style exserted, slender; stigma capitellate, small ; ovary 
glabrous or pubescent on the top. HH. thymoides, Klotzsch ex Benth, 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 670. 
Coast ReGion, between 1000 and 3000 ft.: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg 
Range, at Hzelsbank, Drege! Blue Berg, Drége! Krakadouw Pass, Leipoldt, 
206! Pakhuis Pass, Leipoldt, 624! Tulbagh Div.; Old Kloof, Roode Zand 
(near Tulbagh), Niven, 43! Ceres Diy. ; Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5286! 
A very distinct species. The shape of the corolla is somewhat like that of 
E. filiformis, but other differences are great. The filaments with their wide 
spoon-bowl-shaped base are something like those of E, thimifolia. 
