334 ERICACER (Brown). | Hremia. 
in habit; branchlets rather rigid, ascending or spreading, very 
minutely puberulous and sometimes thinly beset with rather long 
spreading white hairs, becoming glabrous, usually greyish; leaves 
3-nate, spreading-recurved, }—2 lin. long, 1-4 lin. broad, ovate, 
apiculate, thick and rigid, rather more convex above than beneath, 
at first ciliate with 8-4 long white stiff caducous hairs on each 
side, shining, but at first most minutely puberulous above, 
becoming glabrous, flowers 1-3 in terminal clusters; pedicels 4—% 
lin. long, puberulous with or without an intermingling of long white 
hairs; bracts 8, close to the calyx, usually more or less spreading, 
3 lin. long, leaf-like, but often thinner, more acute, and more beset 
with long white hairs ; calyx 4-partite ; segments lanceolate or ovate 
acute, 2—% lin. long, 41 lin, broad, thinly covered with long 
white hairs; corolla 11 lin. long, campanulate, 4-angled, glabrous ; 
lobes erect, 2 lin. long, broadly rounded; stamens ineluded ; fila- 
ments linear-lanceolate, tapering into the filiform apex, glabrous ; 
anthers + lin. long, narrowed upwards, with contiguous cells, 
bigibbous in front at the base and dorsaliy spurred, smooth ; 
spurs 2 as long as the cells, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, 
inserted on the back of the cells at about + above their base ; ovary 
ellipsoid or globose-obovoid, obtuse, 2-celled, thinly pubescent at the 
top; style 1 lin. long, ultimately shortly exserted, filiform, glabrous, 
eae ; stigma simple, not thickened. Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 
00. 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Blue Mountain, and at Ezelsbank on the 
-Cederberg Range, Drége, 2965 ! 
CENTRAL ReEGion: Ceres Diy. ; at Klyn Vley in the Cold Bokkeveld, 5500 ft., 
Schlechter, 10053 ! 
3. E. parviflora (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 498) ; leaves 3-nate, 
very spreading, trigonous, subobtuse, evanescently scabrid on the 
margin ; flowers in terminal elusters of 3, subsessile ; bracts minute, 
ovate, acute, close to the calyx; calyx-lobes subequalling the 
corolla, oval, carinate-apiculate, glabrous, pectinate on the margins, 
white; corolla minute, tetragonous, glabrous; anthers included, 
aristate ; ovary obtusely conical, hairy at the apex, 2-celled; style 
-exserted. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 700. Erica shalliana, Hort. ex 
Klotzsch l.c. 498. 
Coast Reeion: Robertson or Swellendam Div.; mountains near Kogmans 
Kloof, Ecklon & Zeyher, and hills between Kogmans Kloof and Puspas Valley, 
Ecklon § Zeyher, ex Klotzsch. 
T have not seen this species, 
4, E. brevifolia (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 700) ; a shrub, 3-4 ft. 
high ; branches erect, puberulous, more or less intermingled with 
long spreading often gland-tipped hairs or subhispid, greyish ; leaves 
4-nate, incurved-spreading, 1-1 lin. long, oblong-ovate, subacute, 
thick, flat and glabrous above, openly grooved on the very convex 
minutely hairy back ; flowers in terminal clusters of 4 or fewer on 
