Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1909) Author: By H. BOLUS, F. GUTHRIE, and N. E. BROWN.
Names
ERICA nivalisAndr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 274;—Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 250; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 674.
Information
erect, branched, 1 ft. or more high; leaves 3-nate, from subpatent to squarrose, linear, obtuse, glabrous, straight, 2–3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, subcernuous; pedicels about 2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, acute, about 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, mouth much contracted, covered with soft hairs, white, 2 1/2 lin. long; limb very small; segments erect or subconnivent; anthers included, oblong-cuneate, aristate; style included; stigma capitellate. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Locality unknown.
Notes
The specimens we have seen under this name belong to E. Peziza, Lodd. We have seen no authentic specimen of this species, but accept Andrews' t. 274, with its accompanying description as the type. The shape of the corolla is there so different from that of E. Peziza, that it is quite impossible to regard the two as one species.