Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 26] 
3-nate, or by arrest of branchlets often axillary, somewhat more lax 
and the flowers less crowded than ir the allied species; pedicels 
slender, minutely hairy, 2-3 lin. long; bracts 3, remote, the 2 
upper small, the lower basal, larger, or absent; sepals ovate, acumi- 
nate, acute, keel-tipped, concave, somewhat spreading, mostly about 
1} lin. long, reaching to about 3 the length of corolla-tube, pale or 
darker rosy-red, concolorous; corolla elongate-ovoid-urceolate, the 
neck rather long-tapering, only slightly contracted at the throat, 
rosy or darker red, 2-21 lin. long; segments ovate, obtuse or 
subacute, spreading or early connivent, 1 the length of the tube, 
concolorous ; anthers oblong, obtuse, pallid, 1-2 lin. long, minutely 
aristate ; pore over 3 the length of the cell; awns free, tooth-like ; 
style ineluded ; stigma capitate. Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 650. 
L. oppositifolia, var. rubra, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1060? 
Var. B, elongata (Bolus) ; sepals obovate; corolla longer than in the type; 
tube less inflated or nearly equal, reaching nearly 23 lin. in length; segments 
rounded and very obtuse anthers smaller, { lin. long, more ovate, with minute 
free awns. 
Var. y, decurrens (Bolus); anthers minutely decurrent-denticulate along the 
filament. 
Sourn Arnica: without locality, Mund! 
Coast ReGion: Caledon Div.; Klein River, Masson, 35! Genadendal Moun- 
tain, 2500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6898! near Caledon Baths, 800 ft., 
Guthrie, 2502B! and without exact locality, Ecklon § Zeyher, ex Bartling. 
Var. 6: Knysna Div.; without locality, Buchanan in Herb. Bolus, 5836! 
Var. y: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Sandfontein, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 
10346! ; 
Closely allied to E. articularis, L., differing chiefly by its laxer and more 
frequently axillary inflorescence, its relatively shorter sepals, and the smaller 
and differently-shaped anther-appendages, 
394. E. corifolia (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 355, in an extended 
sense) ; usually 1-12 ft. high; branches erect or spreading, mostly 
glabrous, rarely puberulous; leaves mostly 8-nate, in one form 
(E. patula, Klotzsch) often opposite, erect or adpressed, often 
imbricate, linear to lanceolate, rarely narrow-ovate, acute, keeled or 
sulcate, concave, the younger ciliate or naked, 13-4} lin. long, the 
floral sometimes larger, scarious or sepaloid; flowers in terminal 
clusters, rarely lax; pedicels 13-2 (rarely 3) lin. long; bracts, two 
median or nearly so, third basal or wanting, spathulate or oblanceo- 
late, mostly naked, rarely softly ciliate, 11-4 lin. long ; sepals wide- 
spreading, imbricate below, a little longer or a little shorter than the 
corolla, rarely about 4 its length, obovate or lanceolate, acute, keeled 
or keel-tipped, very smooth, sometimes shining bright rosy to white, 
11-4 lin. long; corolla varying between tubular-urceolate and 
ovoid-ureeolate, never much inflated at the base or contracted at the 
throat, bright red to white, 13-5 lin. long; segments mostly ovate, 
acute or acuminate, sometimes short and broader than long, dis- 
coloured or at length brownish, mostly from 1~} the length of the 
