sprain aia 
Erica. | ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 275 
yellow, a little less than 3 the length of the tube; filaments tapering 
from a broad base, flexuous ; anthers included, dorsifixed almost at 
the base, cuneate, brown, about } lin. long, narrow-crested ; pore 
% the length of the cell; crests subulate, acute, serrulate, about 
1 the length of the cell; style included; stigma subsimple ; ovary 
glabrous. 
Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div.; alpine dry stony places near Platte Kloof, 
Masson, 123! Kannaland, Ecklon § Zeyher, ex Bentham ; summit of Muiskraal 
Ridge, near Garcias Pass, 1500 ft., Galpin, 3626! 
415. E. baccans (Linn. Mant. Alt. 233) ; erect, entirely glabrous, 
2-5 ft. high; branches numerous, ascending, subflexuous; leaves 
4-nate, erect-incurved, imbricate, narrow-linear, subobtuse, sulcate, 
entire or obscurely serrulate, 23-3} lin. long; flowers terminal, 
4-nate; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, keeled, 
scarious, coloured, 2-3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broad- 
lanceolate to obovate-oblong, acute, imbricate, keel-tipped, very 
concave, about 22 lin. long, mostly reaching to the length of the 
corolla-tube ; corolla globose-ureeolate, distinctly constricted at the 
throat, bluntly 4-gonous below with deep intermediate depressions 
between the angles, about 21 lin. long; segments short, broad, 
spreading, about 1 the length of the tube; filaments rather broad, 
bent below the anther; anthers included, lateral, broad-oblong, very 
obtusely rounded; cells completely divided to below the base, each 
on a branch of the decurrent connective, and at length becoming 
subdistant, pale brown, about } lin. long, crested ; pore large and 
wide, 2 the length of the cell; crests obliquely lanceolate-acuminate, 
serrulate, pallid, somewhat longer than the cell; style included, 
very short and stout; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary 
glabrous, Bauer, Exot. Pl.t. 22; Wendl. Erie. Ie. fase. 6, 18; 
Andr. Heathery, t.53, and Col. Heaths, t. 4; Bot. Mag. t. 358 ; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 656. E. bacexformis, Salish. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vi. 352. E. moniliformis, Salish. Prodr. 293, ace. to 
Index Kew. 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; near Wupperthal, Wurmb, ex Drége; 
Cape Div. ; frequent on the mountains and occasionally on the Flats, Thunberg, 
Burchell, 43! 376! 8425! Ecklon, 281; Zeyher, 1110! Drége, 77461 Me- 
Gillivray, 444! Bolus, 2969! Guthrie, 1461 MacOwan, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 
24! Worcester Div.; Cooper, 1595! Also cultivated specimens ! 
A well-marked species, allied to E. tegulefolia, differing in corolla and anthers. 
Salisbury says the leaves are sometimes 3-nate; we have not seen such, It is 
also allied to Z. irregularis. 
416. E. irregularis (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680); erect, a 
foot or more high; branches subvirgate, the younger, with the 
pedicels, shortly and softly pubescent, otherwise glabrous ; leaves 
3-4-nate on the same branch, erect-incurved, linear, semiterete, 
tapering upwards, somewhat obtuse, sulcate, 21-3 lin. long; flowers 
abundant, in a somewhat long irregular pseudo-raceme, on very short 
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