Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 239 
352. E. bruniades (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 354); erect or diffuse, 
1-1 ft. high ; branches ascending, sometimes slender, flexuous and 
straggling, pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect and adpressed, or spread- 
ing, rarely squarrose, imbricate or rarely shorter than the internodes, 
linear, obtuse, suleate, pilose, 1-22 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, caly- 
cine, spreading ; pedicels villous, 2-4 lin. long; bracts remote, 
small, pilose ; sepals broad-oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, acute, 
very densely covered with fine spreading white or pinkish hairs, 
the whole entirely hiding the corolla except near the apex, 11—]2 lin, 
long, about equalling the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate, pilose, 
white or pale pink, 11-18 lin. long; segments recurved, 1 i the 
length of the tube; anthers exserted, almost exactly those of 
E. lanata, or sometimes more acuminate ; stigma subsimple ; ovary 
villous, chiefly on the summit. Wendl. Eric. Ie. Jase. 16, 53, t. 20; 
Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 6; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1365. E. bruinades, 
Andr. Heathery, t. 6. E. velleriflora and EB. carbasina, Salisb. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 333. H#. capitata, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 17, 
not of Linn., ex Salish. and Rach. EE. lastocephala and E. 
eriantha, Klotzsch in Herb. Berol. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. Vii. 
617. #. villosa, Wendl. Eric. Ie. Jase. 16, 55, t. 21, ex Ind. 
Kew. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated spect- 
mens ! 
Coast Ruaton, frequent, ascending to 1500 ft.: Malmesbury Div., Zeyher, 
1114 partly! Tulbagh Div., Zeyher, 1113! Bolus, 5109! and in Herb. Norm. 1! 
Worcester Div., Bolus, 5110! Cape Div., Niven, 162! 163! Burchell, 344! 
8589! Bolus, 4241! 4471! Guthrie, 144! Stellenbosch Div., Burchell, 8331! 
Caledon Div., Zeyher, 3289! 3291! 3293a! Schlechter, 9390! Bredasdorp Div., 
Bolus, 8493! 
Plukenet seems to have first given this name (Almag. Bot. Mant. 69, t. 347, fig. 9, 
1700), but Bentham refers the plant to E. villosa. As there may be some doubt 
about it, and as Plukenet was pre-Linnean, we have not cited the figure under 
either species. Plukenet says he named his plant after Alexander Brown, an 
Englishman, who first brought it from Africa. Aiton (Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 365) 
calls it the “ Brunia-like Heath.” 
353. E. capitata (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 355); erect, 10-15 in. 
high; branches ascending or slightly spreading, slender, woolly, 
glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
suleate, rather thick, subglabrous above, densely woolly below, 
becoming glabrous and scaberulous, 13-2 lin. long; flowers 1-3- 
hate, calycine, spreading, globular, the whole of a greenish-yellow, 
2-3 lin. in diam. ; pedicels woolly, 23-31 lin. long ; bracts from 
subapproximate to subremote, oblong, woolly, small; sepals ovate to 
suborbicular, densely woolly-villous with greenish-yellow hairs, 
about equalling the corolla-tube; corolla globose-urceolate, pilose, 
creamy, 2-2} lin. long ; segments rounded, recurved, 3+ the length 
of the tube; filaments broader than in the others of this section ; 
anthers subineluded but manifest above the corolla-tube, oblong and 
obtuse, or longitudinally semi-ovate and acute, dorsally bearded, 
§-1 lin. long; pore about 3 the length of the cell; stigma capitel- 
