Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 155 
[E. ciliaris, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 19, partly, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 349, 
as to sheet a of Herb. Thunb., on which EF, planifolia, var. robusta, Rach in 
Linnea xxvi, 783, was founded, is (according to Thunberg’s type specimen, which 
I have examined) identical with EZ. flacca, EK. Meyer. The locality where it was 
collected is not mentioned by Thunberg.—N, E. Brown.] 
202. E. latifolia (Andr. Heathery, t. 72); erect, 1 ft. high ; 
branches flexuous, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, laxly spreading or 
squarrose, broad-ovate or lanceolate to oblong, acute, open-backed, 
margins revolute, densely pilose above, pale below, up to 6 lin. long ; 
flowers axillary, umbellate in threes in the middle of the branches, 
cernuous ; pedicels decurved, 3-4 lin. long; bracts remote, folia- 
ceous, small; sepals broad-ovate, obtuse, leaf-like in shape and 
texture, 1-12 lin. long; corolla urceolate-globose, much contracted 
to the mouth, glabrous, bright-red, 1}—1$ lin. long and equally wide ; 
limb very small, erect ; filaments rather broad ; anthers subexserted, 
lateral? narrow-oblong, muticous; style exserted; stigma small, 
subsimple; ovary villous with long straight hairs. Andr. Col. 
Heaths, t. 105; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 669. £. crassifolia, 
Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c., 669, not of Andr. | 
Coast Reaton : Swellendam Div., Ecklon S Zeyher, ex Bentham. 
This species is known to us only from Andrews’ figure and brief description, 
from which we have drawn up the foregoing. Bentham also cites Niven’s 43 ; 
we have seen and dissected the flowers of the specimen so marked by him and 
find it to be without doubt E. flacca, E. Meyer. Ecklon and Zeyher’s specimen 
we have not seen. Bentham cites E. suaveolens, Lodd. Bot. Cab. ¢. 24, as a 
synonym; but this figure seems to us nearer to our E. debilis. 
203. E. cordata (Andr. Heathery, t. 158); erect, 1} ft. or more 
high ; branches more or less slender, sometimes spreading, but not 
diifuse, closely pubescent and also densely pilose with gland-tipped 
hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, somewhat crowded, from ovate to 
lanceolate, acute, open-backed, more or less strongly revolute at the 
margins, sometimes subcordate at the base, upper surface hispid with 
tubercle-based hairs, becoming seabrid, closely pale tomentose 
below, 14-23 lin. long, or, in luxuriant specimens, 4 lin. long; 
flowers terminal, 3-nate, more rarely clustered or capitate, 3-6- 
flowered, subcalycine ; pedicels pilose, 13-2 lin. long ; bracts remote, 
small, scarious ; sepals ovate, acute or acuminate, scarious, subviscid, 
- corolla broad-urceolate-campanu- 
coloured, ciliate, 1-13 lin. long; 
late or globose-ureeolate, mouth not, or very slightly, contracted, 
subviscidulous, shining, pale red, 13-1; lin. long ; segments rounded, 
mostly spreading, about 3 as long as the tube; filaments rather 
broad, dilated just below the anther; anthers subexserted, lateral, 
oblong, tapering towards the apex, not quite > lin. long, muticous : 
pore over 3 as long as the cell; style exserted 5 stigma capitellate ; 
ovary villous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 669 ; Andr, Col. Heaths, 
#. 160. E. punctata, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 646. 
Masson! Drége, 2315! 
- with ] lity, * 
Sourn Arrica: without locality ft. ; Swellendam Div.; mountains near 
Coast REGIon, between 
