78 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
58. E. versicolor (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 11, 3); erect, 2-4 ft. 
high ; branches mostly flexuous, sometimes straight; leaves 3-nate, 
erect and imbricate, or spreading, linear to narrow-elliptic, acute, 
glabrous or the younger puberulous, ciliolate or naked, 2-31 lin. 
long ; flowers 3-nate, erect or spreading; bracts approximate, like 
the sepals but about 2 of the length; sepals usually lanceolate, 
acuminate, more rarely oblong and subobtuse, keel-tipped, searious, 
glabrous, coloured, 3-4 lin. long; corolla tubular and equal, or 
widening to the apex, or inflated below, glabrous, dry or viscidulous, 
costate or smooth, mostly red below and greenish-yellow near the 
tip, 11-14 lin. long; limb short, usually more or less erose or 
crispulate ; filaments usually more or less dilated and ovate at the 
base, or at least wider and gradually contracted and tapering up- 
wards ; anthers included or subexserted, linear, usually with a sharp 
projecting point in front at the base, muticous, 1-11 lin. long; 
ovary mostly glabrous, rarely minutely hirtulous. Andr. Heathery, 
it. 47, 249 (var. longiflora), and Col. Heaths, t. 67; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
tt. 208, 1316 ( var. major); Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 631. LE. 
versicolor, var. ciliata, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 20, 115, t. 43. E. 
costata, Andr. Heathery, t. 13, and Col. Heaths, t. 16. E. ovata, 
Wendl. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 577. 
Var. 8, monticola (Bolus); anthers truncate or rounded at the base 
in front; leaves more closely and regularly adpressed than in the usual 
form. 
Sourm ArFRica: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury ! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Region: Swellendam Div.; near and around Swellendam, Masson, 
105! Niven, 198! Zeyher, 3157! 3158! near Kinko River, Zeyher, 3156! 
Riversdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, 1000 ft., Galpin, 3581! near Zoetemelks River, 
Burchell, 6571! near Tygerfontein, Galpin, 3580! Schlechter, 1981! Kamp- 
sche Berg, Burchell, 7087! Var. 8: Worcester Div.; Matroos Berg, 
oaks ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3951! Swellendam Diy., Shand in Herb. 
Bolus! 
A very variable. species; yet the lanceolate, scarious, coloured sepals seem 
constant, and serve chiefly to distinguish it from its more immediate allies. 
The spoon-shaped base of the filaments is also decisive where it exists, 
but is not a constant character, or at least is not distinctly visible in some 
specimens. 
59. E. berzelioides (Guthrie & Bolus); branches stout, ascending, 
puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, spreading, squarrose, the lower reflexed, 
oblong, blunt, glabrous, smovth and glossy, sulcate, the younger 
gland-ciliate, 13-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, pedicels, bracts, sepals 
and corolla very viscid ; pedicels 11—2 lin, long; bracts approximate, 
like the sepals but with a larger foliaceous point, 12 lin. long; sepals 
lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, about 2 lin. long; corolla trumpet- 
shaped, glabrous, viscid, red below, paler above, 1 in. long; limb 
erect; segments 1 lin. long, rounded ; filaments slender, scarcely 
widened at the base ; anthers subexserted, linear-oblong, rounded at 
the base in front, muticous, 1} lin. long; ovary glabrous, 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; Mierkraal, 200 ft., Schlechter, 10530! 
