Erica.) ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 207 
296. E. Dodii (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 10-12 in. high, glabrous 
in all parts ; branches numerous, ‘spreading or straggling, striate with 
long prominent linear leaf-cushions, deeply channelled between ; 
leaves 4-nate, spreading- or squarrose-incurved, linear, acute, sulcate, 
4 lin. long; inflorescence as in EH. regerminans, but the pseudo- 
spikes shorter (the longest about 11 in.), narrower and denser, and 
the intermixed leaves longer and more prominent ; pedicels decurved, 
3-1} lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
keel-tipped, searious, greenish with rosy tips, 8-1 lin. long; corolla 
13-2 lin. long, campanulate-cyathiform, sometimes subobconic, about 
equal at the throat and mouth; tube pale rosy becoming darker 
upwards; limb bright red ; segments slightly spreading or suberect, 
rounded, 1-1 the length of the tube; anthers dorsifixed near the 
base, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 1 lin. long, aristate ; pore about 1 the 
length of the cell; awns subsetiform, pallid, about equal to the 
cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary oblate-spheroidal, 
glabrous. 
Coast Rreton: Cape Div.; on rocks at the head of Waai Vlei, on Table 
Mountain, 3000 ft., Wolley Dod, 3333! western ledges of Table Mountain, 
Galpin, 3647! Caledon Div. ; summit of Genadendal Mountain, 5000 ft., Galpin, 
3646 ! 
Closely allied to the next; distinguishable by its spreading not virgate habit, 
its shorter and narrower pseudo-spikes, corolla not at all constricted at the 
throat, besides some minor characters. 
297. E. regerminans (Linn. Mant. Alt. 232, not of Andr.); 
erect, glabrous, 1-2 ft. high; branches long, virgate, the younger 
striate with long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves mostly sub-6-nate, 
sometimes 3—4-nate or scattered, incurved-erect, linear, acuminate, 
slender, 3-6 lin. long; inflorescence a long and mostly dense pseudo- 
raceme or spike, 4—5 in. long and } in. or more in diam.; pedicels 
slender, 2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate to lanceo- 
late, acuminate, keel-tipped, margins scarious, about % lin. long ; 
corolla from globose-urceolate to ovoid-urceolate, more or less con- 
stricted at the throat, from pale rosy to bright-red, about 2 lin. long; 
limb rounded, slightly spreading, about 1 the length of the tube; 
anthers narrow-subovate, subacute, smooth, about 1 lin. long, crested- 
aristate ; pore a little over 3 the length of the cell; awns subulate, 
irregularly lobulate, bearded, about ®% the length of the cell; style 
included ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vil. 662. #. uncifolia, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 369. £. 
smithiana, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1614. £. racemifera, Andr. Heathery, 
t. 188, and Col. Heaths, t. 204. H. Lichtensteinit, Klotzsch in 
Linnea, xii. 504. EH. juncea, Baril. in Linnea, vii. 648 ? (from 
description). E. rosea, Lichtenst. ex Klotasch, l.c. 
SoutH ArFrica: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Re@ion, between 1000 and 5000 ft.: Swellendam Div.; mountains 
near Swellendam, Masson, 18! Burchell, 7314! Grootvaders Bosch, Zeyher, 
