Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 237 
Sourn AFRIcA: without locality, Miller ! Rowburgh (ex Salisbury), Mund § 
Maire, Herb. Salisbury ! 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Niven, 121! Simons Berg, 
eae, Muizen Berg, 1600 ft., Bolus, 7029! Constantia Berg, Wolley Dod, 
This plant seems to be confined to the Cape Peninsula, and is becoming scarce. 
We have only once found it. 
349. E. cumuliflora (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 336) ; erect, 
1-1} ft. high; branches somewhat flexuous, puberulous; leaves 
4-nate, spreading or recurved-squarrose, not much crowded, mostly 
oblong, more rarely linear, subacute, flat above, keeled, the younger 
ciliolate, glabrous, 1}—2 lin. long; flowers capitate; heads densely 
5-12-flowered ; pedicels + lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate or 
obovate, acute, cartilaginous or submembranous, glabrous, white, 
about 1: lin. long; sepals like the bracts but obovate-oblong, 14-2 
lin. long; corolla almost exactly as in 2. genistefolia, but the tube 
slightly more inflated and somewhat more contracted at the throat ; 
anthers as in the last named, but a little narrower at the base, and 
2 larger; style exserted, cartilaginous, rigid, fusiform near the apex; 
stigma simple, remarkably small, reduced to a mere point; ovary 
glabrous or minutely hirtellous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 657. 
LE. horizontalis, Andr. Heathery, t. 70, and Col. Heaths, t. 102 
(with depauperated heads). “ EH. tricolor, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 193, 
not of Niven’’ (according to Bentham). LE. sessiliflora, Wendl. Eric. 
Ic. fase, 22, 149, t. 56, not of Linn., nor of Andr. (a colour-variety, 
due probably to cultivation). EH. aggregata, Roxb. ex Salisb, in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 336, not of Wendl. 
Sout AFRIcA;: without locality, Rovburgh! Herb, Salisbury! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast ReaGion: Paarl Div.; French Hoek Mountains, 2600 ft., Schlechter, 
9252! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Genadendal, Niven, 120b! mountains 
near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3297! Zwart Berg, 2600 ft., Bolws, 5403! and in 
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 351! mountains near the mouth of the Klein River, 
Bodkin! 
Closely allied to E. genistafolia ; may be readily distinguished by its 4-nate 
leaves and its minute stigma; usually also by its more numerously-flowered 
heads, but there are examples where the flowers are reduced to three in number. 
Wendland’s figure was cited by Bentham under E. genistefolia, but its 4-nate 
leaves and many-flowered heads point rather to the present species, It is. 
also very near to E, amphigena, and, through it, connects this section with 
Amphodea. 
Section XXVIII, ERIODESMIA. (Sp. 350-353.) 
350. E. lanata (Andr. Heathery, t. 121); erect, 2-3 ft. high ; 
branches stout, pilose; leaves mostly 4-nate (or sometimes, ex 
Andrews’ fig., 3-nate), erect-spreading, lanceolate to oblong, acute, 
open-backed, margins revolute, pilose above, canescent beneath, 
2-3 lin. long, 1 lin. wide or-less ; flowers subcapitate, calycine ; heads 
laxly 4-6-flowered, subsessile; bracts approximate, oblanceolate, 
densely villous, equalling or exceeding the sepals and corolla; sepals 
