Salazis. | ERICACE® (Brown). 403 
sharply angular ridges on the upper half, glabrous, 2-celled, with 
very thick walls; style very short; stigma nearly flat or very 
shallowly crater-like, with a narrow inflexed margin, glabrous ; fruit 
subglobose, irregularly wrinkled all over except at the apex. 
Coast Recion : Bredasdorp Div. ; Zeekoe Vley, 100 ft., Schlechter, 10540! 
3. S. major (N. E. Br.); 1 ft. or more high, densely or com- 
pactly branched; branchlets flexuose, erect, minutely puberulous, 
becoming glabrous, grey ; leaves 3-nate, 11-21 lin. long, erectly 
imbricate to shorter than the internodes, linear, acute; flowers 1-3 
together, axillary and terminal, subsessile or very minutely pedicel- 
late ; calyx (excluding the larger lobe) about 3 lin. long, obconie, 
longer than broad, usually as long as the corolla-tube, lobed to half- 
way down or less, or the larger one more deeply glabrous ; lobes 
linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, ciliate with minute sessile glands; 
corolla 3-1 lin. long, campanulate, glabrous ; stamens 8, rarely 6; 
filaments quite half as long as the anthers, at maturity connate to 
about the middle; anthers 3 lin. long, oblong; ovary minutely and 
rather thickly puberulous, 2-celled; style 41-1 lin. long; stigma 
funnel-shaped or cup-shaped, about as broad as deep, slightly and 
minutely puberulous or glabrous on the under side. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; hills about Simons Bay, Prior, 3! 
4, §. axillaris (Salisb. ex G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii, 828); much 
branched ; branchlets minutely tomentose, erect, often flexuose, 
greyish or whitish; leaves erectly imbricate or shorter than the 
internodes, 11-21 lin. long, linear, acute to subobtuse ; flowers 1-3 
together, axillary and terminal, subsessile; calyx (excluding the 
larger lobe, which is sometimes free to the base) 3—} lin. long, 
broader than long, shorter than the corolla-tube, lobed to the middle 
or beyond, glabrous ; lobes broadly ovate, acute or subobtuse or the 
larger one acuminate, minutely ciliate ; corolla }—2 lin. long, cam- 
panulate, with ineurved lobes, glabrous ; stamens 6—8 ; filaments at 
least half as long as the anthers, connate at the base or nearly to 
the middle when young, becoming free with the enlargement of the 
ovary ; anthers 1—1 lin. long, becoming quite free with age; ovary 
with several longitudinal ridges on the upper part, quite glabrous, 
2-4-celled ; style usually distinct and sometimes up to } lin, long; 
stigma more or less funnel-shaped, with a narrow rim to the cup, 
glabrous ; fruit compressed or subglobose, obscurely angular on the 
upper part, but often with several faint longitudinal ridges, promi- 
nently reticulated on the lower part, 2—4-celled. Klotzsch in 
Linnea, xii. 211; Benth..in DC. Prodr. vii. 711; Dietr. Synop. 
Pl. ii. 1261; Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 792. Erica, axillaris, Thunb. 
Prodr. Pl. Cap. 69; Diss. Erica, 16; and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 
345, 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Harvey! Ecklon § Zeyher! 
Coasr Region: Stellenbosch Div.; between Stellenbosch and Cape Flats, 
Burchell, 8354! Knysna Div.; hills near 2 Burchell, 5456! 
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