Erica.| ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 215 
Closely allied, and often very similar in aspect to EH. hispidula (§ Arsace). 
It differs chiefly by its constantly capitate stigma and its more usually axillary 
flowers, which are only occasionally terminal. In Wood’s 873 the stamens are 
irregular in number, 4-7 and 8 on the same plant. 
309. E. mesta (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 239); erect, 5-7 ft. 
high ; branches subvirgate, ashy-grey pubescent, sometimes also 
pilose with longer white hairs, glabrescent ; leaves erect-spreading, 
subimbricate, linear, subacute, thick, sulcate, pubescent, ashy-grey, 
ciliate with a few longer tubercle-based hairs, the older glabrescent, 
1-2 lin. long; flowers solitary or binate ; pedicels pubescent, under 
1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, 
about 3 the length of the corolla; corolla eyathiform, mouth searcely 
widened or contracted, glabrous, sordid greenish-yellow, }—$ lin, 
or rarely nearly 1 lin. long; segments connivent after maturity, 
from 1 to as long as the tube ; filaments capillary ; anthers subincluded, 
manifest, subterminal, tapering to the base, narrow-subobovate, 
smooth, nearly 3 lin. long, muticous ; pore less than } the length of 
the cell; style elongating, at length exserted ; stigma large, cyathi- 
form; ovary globose, pallid, glabrous except for a few scattered 
hairs on the summit. 
Coast Reaion, 300-6000 ft.: Humansdorp Div.; slopes near the river at 
Humansdorp, Galpin, 3708! Bedford Div.; Kaga Berg, Weale! Queenstown 
Div. ; Hangklip Mountain, near Queenstown, Galpin, 1610! 
Centra Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Oude Berg, 5000 ft., Bolus, 628 ! 
Koudveld Berg, MacLea ! 
KALAHARI REGIon: Basutoland, Cooper, 759! 760! 
Much resembles in its flowers E. leucopelta, Tausch (§ Arsace) ; and detached 
flowers are with difficulty distinguishable. But the leaves and inflorescence are 
different, the latter being in this always axillary; the anthers also in E. 
leucopelta are lateral, but in this species nearly terminal, 
310. E. coarctata (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 19, 99, t. 37); usually 
less than 1 ft. high ; branches many, slender, suberect, mostly sub- 
virgate, puberulous or glabrous; leaves mostly 3-nate, more rarely 
4-nate (in some specimens 3-nate on the barren, 4-nate on the 
flowering branches), spreading or incurved, uniformly crowded or 
gemmiferous in clusters separated by distinct internodes, linear, blunt, 
trigonous or subterete, 23-4 lin. long ; flowers mostly in pairs, more 
or less crowded along a great part of the branches, and forming a 
narrow and sometimes dense pseudo-spike; pedicels 3-17 lin. long; — 
bracts remote, basal, minute; sepals ovate or lanceolate, acute, 
keeled, glabrous, greenish, about } lin. long, or about equalling the 
eorolla-tube ; corolla globose-cyathiform to campanulate-cyathiform, 
the mouth probably nearly equal at maturity but becoming some- 
what contracted shortly after, glabrous, rosy or sordid yellow, about 
8 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, about equal to the 
tube; anthers mostly just manifest, or a little longer or shorter 
than the corolla, subovate, smooth, brown, % lin. long, muticous ; 
pore 1 to nearly 3 the length of the cell; style exserted, mostly at 
length decurved ; stigma cyathiform, peltate (or perhaps becoming 
