96 ERIcCACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica. 
4 lin. long; segments spreading, white, under 1 lin. long; anthers 
oblong, pallid, dorsifixed, straight or slightly curved at the base, but 
not crescent-shaped nor prognathous, slightly bilobed at the base, 
about + lin. long, muticous; style at length shortly exserted ; © 
ovary " stipitate, glabrous (“minutely hairy,” Salisbury); cells 
several-ovuled. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642. E. comptoniana, 
Andr. Heathery, t. 2551, and Col. Heaths, t. 224 1%. EE. terminalis, 
Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 509. FE. angusticollis, Bartl.in Linnea, vii. 
638. 
Var. 8, Zeyheri (Bolus) ; flowers larger, 7-8 lin. long. HE. Zeyheri, Spreng. 
Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 12; Benth. l.c. 643. 
Soutu AFRICA: without locality, Roxburgh! Thunberg. 
Coast Region: Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Mulder ! Caledon 
Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Niven, 148! Bodkin in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 346! 
Genadendal Mountain, Bolus, 5401! Swellendam Div.; Tyger Hoek, Masson, 
33! Var. B: Caledon Div.; tops of mountains near Genadendal, Burchell, 
9750! Zeyher, 437 (ex Sprengel)! Bolus, 5400! and in Herb. Norm, Aust.-Afr., 
845! Schlechter, 103221 
Chiefly variable in the size of the flowers. Salisbury appears to have founded 
the species on the smaller size (corolla 4 lin. long) and Sprengel, his E. Zeyheri, 
on the larger (7-83 lin.). E. comptoniana, Andr. Heathery, t. 255, figured from 
a cultivated specimen, only differs slightly in the corolla, 
92. E. pectinata (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 509, not of Bartl.) ; 
erect, 14-2 ft. high; branches slender, ascending, subvirgate ; 
leaves 3-nate, about as long as the internodes, erect, adpressed, tips 
slightly recurved, linear or narrow-elliptical, blunt, glabrous, pecti- 
nate-ciliate, thick, about 2 lin. long; umbels 4—6-flowered ; pedicels 
glandular-hispid, 2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, sublinear, small, 
viscid, gland-ciliate; sepals linear or linear-spathulate, glabrous, 
foliaceous, dark purple, 1-14 lin. long; corolla elongate-elliptic or 
tubular-ureeolate, mouth contracted, viscid, tuberculate-hispid, red, 
5-6 lin. leng; segments short, suberect, searcely stellate-patent ; 
filaments capillary; anthers oblong or cuneate, prognathous and 
bilobed at the base, about 2 lin. long, decurrent-aristate ; awns 
about 2 the length of the celi; ovary eylindrical, glabrous, on a 
long slender stipe from 1-2 times its own length; cells 4-ovuled. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642. 
Coast Reaion : Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 7241! Caledon 
Div.; mountains near Grietjes Gat, between Palmiet River and Steenbrass River, 
Zeyher, 3203! Klein River Mountains, 2000 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Guthrie, 
4110! 4 
93. E. trichroma (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642); erect, about 
1 ft. high; branches slender, irregularly spreading, 6-8 in. high ; 
leaves 3-nate, erect and adpressed, or spreading, somewhat imbricate, 
or only as long as the internodes, linear, acute or obtuse, glabrous, 
ciliate, about 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, gland-ciliate, small ; 
sepals linear, obtuse, margins incurved and gland-eiliate, foliaceous, 
subviseid, red, 1-14 lin. long ; corolla tubular-ovoid, inflated below the 
middle, attenuate above, very minutely tubereulate-hispid, viscidulous, 
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