Erica.} ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 201 
pubescent. above, naked and glabrescent below, dark-coloured and 
rough with leaf-scars; leaves mostly 4-nate, occasionally somewhat 
scattered, crowded, spreading, recurved, oblong or narrow-elliptical, 
obtuse, deeply and widely sulcate, glabrous, thick, shining, margins 
cartilagineo-denticulate, 1-2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate; 
pedicels 23—4 lin. long; bracts approximate, oblong, thick, scarious, 
about 1 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, thick, scarious, 
coloured, about 2 lin. long ; corolla narrow-ovoid or suburceolate-ovoid, 
viscid, glabrous, of thick consistence, greenish, with 16 faint longi- 
tudinal veins, 4-5} lin. long; segments small, erect, semiorbicular, 
about =; the length of the tube; filaments broad at the base, 
tapering upwards with a sigmoid curve; anthers included, dorsifixed 
at the base, linear-cuneate, subacute, smooth, glabrous, * lin. long, 
decurrent-aristate ; pore about 2 the length of the cell ; awns adnate 
to the filament for about 13 lin., with acute free tooth-like 
points; style shortly exserted; stigma clavate-capitate; ovary 
glabrous. H. decurrens, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 632. 
Li. oblongifolia, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 577. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Bowie! 
Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div.; rocky hill near Bredasdorp and Mier 
Kraal, 250ft., Bolus, 8453 ! Guthrie, 3781! Schlechter, 10504! 
286. E. odorata (Andr. Heathery, t. 177, and Col. Heaths, t. 
191); erect, glabrous, 3-1 ft. high ; branches ascending, not much 
spreading ; leaves 3-nate (or also 4-nate, Bentham), squarrose- 
recurved, crowded, linear to oblanceolate, obtuse and callous at the 
apex, thick, keeled and faintly sulcate, closely ciliate with stiff gland- 
tipped hairs, which sometimes extend also to the reduplications on 
either side of the keel, including the long pallid petiole (of about 
1 lin.) 3-4 lin. long; flowers terminal and lateral, subracemose- 
umbellate, 3-4-0 -flowered ; pedicels slender, varying much in length 
during flowering, 3-7 lin. (or 1 in. in cultivated specimens) ; 
bracts remote and distant from each other, linear-lanceolate; sepals 
lanceolate, aeute, subcoriaceous, green-keel-tipped, closely gland- 
ciliolate, whitish, 23 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, scareely con- 
stricted at the throat, subviscid, white, about 4 lin. long; segments 
erect or slightly spreading, broad and short (in cultivated specimens 
the throat is more constricted and the segments more spreading) ; 
filaments narrow, equal, about 4 the length of the corolla; anthers 
included, dorsifixed above the base, oblong-ovate or narrow-elliptical, 
obtuse, smooth, about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore about 2 the length 
of the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous. 
Bot. Mag. t. 1399; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 633; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 660. E. adenophylla, Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxiv. 181. 
E. spirans, Hojmansegg, Verz. Pfl. Nachtr. ii, 28. 
SovtTH AFRICA: without locality, Niven ! and cultivated specimens ! 
_ Coast Recron: Caledon Div,; mountains about Houw Hoek, 3000-4000 ft., 
Bolus, 5453! Schlechter, 5446 ! 
The rediscovery of the wild plant by two recent collectors enables us to describe 
