348 ERICACER (Brown). [Grisebachia. 
base, scabrous; spurs awn-like, curved, nearly $ as long as the 
cells; ovary compressed-ellipsoid, pubescent at the obtuse top; 
style exserted, glabrous; stigma simple, slightly thickened. Erica 
_plumosa, Thunb. Prodr. 73, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 364 ; Salisb. .. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 339. Bleria plumosa, Thunb. Diss. 
Bleria, 9. B. ciliaris, Linn. f. Suppl. 122; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 631; 
Roem. and Schult. Syst. Veg. iii., Mant. 108, not of iii. 170, 
Coast ReGion: Clanwilliam Div.; Middel Berg; Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 
741! 
Centrat Reaion: Calvinia Div.; Bokkeland, Thunberg ! Bokkeveld Moun- 
tains, 8000 ft., Leipoldt,740! mountains near Willems River, 2300 ft., Schlechter, 
10974 ! 
Thunberg describes the leaves of Erica plumosa as 4-nate, but those on his 
type specimen are 3-nate. I have examined the type specimen of Bleria ciliaris 
in the Linnean Herbarium and find it to be identical with the type of G. 
Thunbergii. As Rach states that this is not the same as G. ciliaris, Kl., 1 
retain them as distinct species. 
18, G. nodiflora (N. E. Br.); apparently about 4-8 in. high; 
branchlets pubescent ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, usually shorter than 
the internodes, 1-1} lin. long with the petiole, linear or linear- 
oblong, subobtuse, puberulous, becoming glabrous; flowers sub- 
sessile, in dense globose heads, sessile at the nodes or terminating 
very short lateral branchlets; heads 11~2 lin. in diam., 6—12- 
flowered, often 2 at a node; bracts adpressed to the calyx at the 
base, with spreading tips 3 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, ciliate with minute branched hairs; calyx-tube } lin. long, 
obconic, not angular, puberulous outside; lobes nearly } lin. long, 
spreading, oblong, acute, puberulous on the back, with 3-5 stout 
hispid cilia on each margin ; corolla equalling or exceeding the calyx 
variable in the same cluster, funnel-shaped or obconic-tubular, not 
constricted at any part, glabrous outside and within; tube 2 to 
nearly 1 lin. long; lobes 4 lin. long, rounded or shortly oblong, 
obtuse, erect ; stamens sometimes slightly exceeding the corolla; 
filaments glabrous; anthers 4-1 lin. long, oblong, with parallel 
sides, spurred on the back near the base, minutely scabrous ; spurs 
awn-like, 1-1 as long as the cells; ovary obtuse, puberulous at the 
top, 2-3-celled ; style 1-14 lin. long, glabrous; stigma minute, 
very slightly thickened. 
CentRAL Re@ion: Ceres Div.; Schoongezicht, in the Cold Bokkeveld, 
4500 ft., Schlechter, 10188 ! 
19. G. minutiflora (N. E. Br.) ; branchlets densely white-puberu- 
lous; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, equalling or shorter than the inter- 
nodes, 3-1 lin. long, linear-oblong, subobtuse, at first slightly 
puberulous in the groove down the back, soon becoming glab- 
rous, minutely glandular on the margins, apparently viscid ; 
heads globose, lateral on very short axillary branchlets and 
terminal, about 14 lin. in diam., 6-15-flowered ; pedicels 4-1 lin. 
long, bracteate at the apex close to the calyx; bracts applied to the 
calyx, } lin, long, linear, subacute, ciliate with minute gland-tipped 
