Erica. | ERICACEE (Guthrie & Bolus). 219 
Var. B, serpyllifolia (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 691); leaves broadish open- 
backed with narrow reflexed margins, or sometimes nearly linear, closed and 
suleate, glabrous and smooth above, pallid or puberulous below, E. serpylli- 
folia, Andr. Heathery, t. 289; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 744. 
Soutn AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg (E. serrata and E. absinthotdes). 
Coast REGI0N, from Paarl Div., eastward to George Div., generally on the 
mountains up to 3500 ft.; many collectors :—Thunberg (EF. virgata and E. 
hispida), Zeyher, 3259! 3333! Bolus. Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 609 partly! Bolus, 
4051! 4582! 6987! Schlechter, 2041 (or 2042, ticket uncertain)! 10382! 
Galpin, 3707! Guthrie, 2278! 4658! Wolley Dod, 178! Var. B: Cape Div.; 
near Cape Town, Burchell, 8404! Table Mountain, Bolus, 3705! 4479 ! 4756! 
and Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 609 partly! Galpin, 4:08! Guthrie, 1010! 
Wolley Dod, 892 ! 1004! 
We have not seen any type of this species; and Linnzus’ brief description 
gives no account of the shape of the corolla, nor of the stigma. Hence we have 
had to depend upon the figures and descriptions of post-Linnean writers. We 
quote only such specimens as have passed through our hands. Briefly stated, we 
have included here only such as have three usually remote bracts, small in- 
conspicuous sepals, and small urceclate corollas, with a cyathiform or peltate 
stigma. Even as thus restricted the species remains a variable one, and our 
var. B is connected with what we can only term the commoner and more widely 
spread form, by intermediate specimens, most, if not all, of which have narrow 
leaves, closed and only suleate below, though they appear to be invariably smooth, 
shining and usually quite glabrous. 
316. E. arachnoidea (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 691) ; 
stout, much branched ; branches hirsute with longish, coarse, taway, 
hairs; leaves spreading or squarrose, those upon the primary 
branches mostly gemmiferous with internodes longer than the leaves, 
those on the ultimate branchlets more crowded, broad-ovate, sub- 
acute, subcordate at the base, open-backed, margins reflexed, hirsute 
and rough with raised tubercles above, becoming glabrous and 
shining, closely-felted, white-tomentose below, 14-21 lin. long; 
inflorescence pseudo-spicate on short lateral branchlets, or in in- 
terrupted tufts, flowers solitary to 3-nate; pedicels > lin. long; 
bracts 3, basal or remote, small; sepals oblong, tapering to the 
inflexed apex, subpubescent or glabrous, ciliate, greenish, 2—3 lin. 
long, reaching mostly about } the height of the corolla; corolla 
broad-urceolate, throat contracted, glabrous or hirtulous, viscid, 
11 lin. long; segments deltoid, acute, }—} the length of the tube ; 
filaments rather broad, more or less bent below the anther, 3—% lin. 
long; anthers lateral or sublateral, subovate or ovate-cuneate, obtuse, 
smooth, about 2 lin. long, mutieous; pore }—j the length of the 
cell; style exserted, dilated at the apex, rather slender; stigma 
obconic, and truncate or slightly cyathiform at the apex, or sub- 
peltate ; ovary densely woolly. E. hispidula, var. crassifolia, Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 691. 
Coast Region: George Div.; Cradock Berg, 3000 ft., Galpin, 3695! Devils 
Kop, near George, Niven, 35! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 
787! 3216! 
This is very near to E. cordata (§ Ceramia) both in appearance and in floral 
structure and might almost be regarded as a variety of that. In spite of the 
fact that Bentham quotes E. punctata, Bartl,, as a synonym of E. cordata and 
