Erica.] ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 187 
cent with reversed hairs ; leaves suberect to spreading or squarrose, 
broadly linear, subobtuse, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long ; 
flowers 3-nate to umbellate ; pedicels slender, 14-2 lin. long; bracts 
remote, adpressed, small ; sepals ovate to lanceolate-oblong, acute or 
obtuse, subscarious, thick-keeled, glabrous, ciliolate or naked, often 
yellowish, 3-1} lin. long; corolla subeampanulate, widened above 
the hemispherical tube, 13-2 lin. long ; segments slightly spreading, 
from 2-4 the length of the tube; anthers included, cuneate and 
subacute, or oblong and subobtuse, ciliolate or naked, 2—} lin. long, 
cristate; pore 2—3 the length of the cell; crests either spreading 
backwards at an angle or immediately deflexed, lanceolate, acuminate, 
lacerulate or fringed or pubescent, sometimes with one or more short 
lobes 2 as long as the cells or somewhat longer; style subexserted often 
decurved, stoutish; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii.677. E. declinata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1662. E. decwnata, 
Steud. Nom. ed. i. 304. , thyrsoidea, Tausch in Flora, 1834, 619. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Sieber, 178! Herb. Salisbury! and culti- 
vated specimens ! 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 2400 ft., Bolus, 4480! Schoenn- 
berg in Herb. Galpin, 4907 ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Niven, 144! 
Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8243! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 
8078, 8079; Bolus, 5855! near Lowrys Pass, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 4827 ! 
The corolla is represented as white in Loddiges’ fig. and was so in Bolus, 
5355; but in other specimens it seems to have been red or rosy. This species 
flowers in the autumn and winter. : 
259. E. trichophylla (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 679); erect, 
slender, 6-14 in. high; branches chiefly virgate, the ultimate very 
slender, hispidulous, rusty red; leaves from suberect and imbricate 
above to spreading below, the lowest subsquarrose, linear, semi- 
terete, very slender, pubescent, glabrescent, about 1 lin. long; 
flowers sub-4-nate; pedicels slender, about }—$ lin. long; bracts 
remote, linear, one sometimes exceeding the pedicel ; sepals linear- 
lanceolate, long-acuminate, green-keeled, scarious-edged, ciliate, 
about 1 lin. long, or little shorter than the corolla ; corolla broad- 
eyathiform, nearly equal at the mouth, somewhat hyaline, white, 
14 lin. long; segments erect, from } as long to as long as the tube ; 
anthers included, very straight, narrow-oblong, pallid, smooth, 
glabrous, nearly + lin. long, aristate ; pore 5 the length of the cell; 
awns entire, about 2 the length of the cell ; style included, slender ; 
stigma capitellate, very small ; ovary glabrous. 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Masson (in Herb. Kew) ! 
Coast REGIoNn: Caledon Div.; Zoetemelks Vlei, Guthrie, 3301! 3541! 
Our specimens agree almost exactly with Masson’s. 
Section XIX. LEPTODENDRON. (Sp. 260-268.) 
260. E. rupicola (Klotzsch in Linnza, xii. 504) ; erect ; branches 
stoutish, ascending, either few and subvirgate, or many, spreading 
