Erica.] ERICACEEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 279 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 680. E. humilis, Salish. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. vi. 329, not of Benth. EH. rupestris, Andr. Heathery, t. 145, 
and Col. Heaths, t. 128; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 855. EH. semisulcata, 
Drége ex Benth. l.c. 
Coast Rucion : Cape Div.; in clefts of rocks on summit of Table Mountain 
and Devils Peak, Drége, Harvey! Alexander, 15! Bolus, 4484! Guthrie, 
1165! Wolley Dod, 855! Muizenberg Mountain, Bolus, 4472! Also Herb, 
Salisbury ! and cultivated specimens / 
Andrews’ l.c. t. 145, drawn from a cultivated plant, does not give a good 
idea of the wild plant, especially as to the corolla; whereas Thunberg’s t. 6, 
evidently drawn from a dried wild specimen, though small, is excellent. 
422. E. petiolaris (Lam. Encycl.i. 487); 1-14 ft. high ; branches 
many, erect or divarieately-spreading, rigid, white-pubeseent ; leaves 
3-nate, from suberect to spreading or squarrose, linear, lanceolate or 
elliptic, acute, sulcate or more usually open-backed, with rounded 
or revolute margins, thick, rigid, white-tomentose beneath, glabrous 
and glossy above, from 5-8 lin, long, 3-14 lin. wide; petiole long, 
pallid, adpressed, from 3 the length of the blade, to (in the smaller 
leaves) nearly as long; flowers 3-nate, often clustered in dense 
heads, subcalycine; pedicels 12 lin. long; bracts approximate, 
lanceolate, acute, cartilaginous, rigid, glabrous, white or pallid; sepals 
like the bracts, but ovate, acute or acuminate, wrinkled or striate, 
reaching a little lower than the top of the corolla, 1}—2 lin. long; 
corolla cyathiform-urceolate, glabrous, white, 2-23 lin. long; 
segments deltoid and subobtuse, or broadly-rounded, recurved, 4-1 
the length of the tube; filaments rather broad, often dilated, some- 
what darkened and angled or bluntly toothed near the apex ; anthers 
subexserted, terminal or subterminal, longitudinally semioval, sub- 
acute or obtuse, smooth, about % lin. long, muticous; pore 2 the 
length of the cell, style exserted; stigma capitate, toothed ; ovary 
minutely hairy on the top. Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 334. E. 
petiolata, Thunb. Diss. Erica, 15, t. 6; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 
27,15; Andr. Heathery, t. 136, and Col. Heaths, t. 198; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1150; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 615. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Mund! Drége! Herb. Salisbury! and 
cultivated specimens ! i 
‘Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; clefts of rocks on Table Mountain, 3500 ft., 
Thunberg, Bolus, 4483! Harvey! Wolley Dod, 3482! Devils Peak, Niven, 214! 
Constantia Berg, Bodkin ! Wolley Dod, 1936! 
423. E. selaginifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 338) ; 
erect, 11 ft. or more high; branches incurved-erect, tomentose- 
puberulous; leaves 3-nate, nearly erect, imbricate, linear-trigonous, 
blunt, glabrous, minutely gland-ciliolate, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 
3-nate ; pedicels puberulous, 23-3 lin. long > bracts remote, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, subviscidulous, 
coloured, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but ovate, less 
acuminate, not imbricate in the fully matured flower, with a peculiar 
