122 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hriea, 
pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts minute, remote; sepals linear-acuminate 
from an ovate scarious base, foliaceous, 11—12 lin. long; corolla 
campanulate-obconie, glabrous or minutely puberulous, rosy-red, 
31-5 lin. long; segments ovate, slightly spreading, 1} lin. long; 
anthers included, dorsifixed considerably above the base, oblong, 
about 2 lin. long, muticous; ovary glabrous, Bauer, Exot. Pl. 
t. 27; Andr. Heathery, t.142, and Col. Heaths, t. 51; Wendl. Eric. 
Te. fasc. 5, 3; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 319; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
682. E. transparens, Thunb. Prodr. 71, not of Berg. E. obpyrami- 
dalis, Salish. Prodr. 298, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 356. £. 
campanulata, F. W. Schmidt, Neue und Selt. Pf. 47. 
Var. 8, vernalis (Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 682) ; flowers much smaller in all 
parts, sepals 1 lin. long, corolla subcampanulate-cyathiform, 2}-3 lin. long, the 
limb shorter and more spreading, anthers about 4 lin. long. EH. vernalis, 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1608. E. pyramidiformis, Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 24, 181, 
t. 68. 
South ArRicA: without locality, Sieber, 169! Herb. Salisbury! and 
cultivated specimens! Var. 8: cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Zwart River near Rondebosch, Masson ! Niven, 
100! between Wynberg and Muizenberg, Werner! (in Cape Herb.). Cape 
Flats, Bolus, 2953! 8019! Paarl Div.; Drakensteen Mountains, Thunberg. 
Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Thunberg. 
There can be no question of the identity of Wendland’s EL. pyramidiformis, and 
of Loddiges’ E. vernalis ; Bentham held the latter as a variety of this species, 
and maintains the former as distinct. We have seen a specimen marked JL. 
pyramidiformis in the Berlin Herbarium, but it has clearly nothing to do with 
this species, and is probably E. pusilla, Salisb. 
141. E. chrysocodon (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1-11 ft. high ; 
branches rather slender, virgate or spreading, the upper hirsute, the 
lower glabrescent ; leaves 4-nate, erect, imbricate, linear or subulate, 
acute, keeled, hairy on the keel and ciliate, 14-2 lin. long; flowers 
on short branchlets, mostly solitary, or in pairs, usually forming a 
long dense cylindrical pseudo-raceme from 3-6 in. long at the 
ends of the branches; pedicels 3—% lin. long; bracts remote, 
subbasal, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped, 
subfoliaceous, thin, hirsute and ciliate, 14 lin. long; corolla funnel- 
shaped, lower half of the tube distinctly contracted, upper half 
widened to the mouth, variable between obconic and subcampanu- 
late, thinly pilose with longish hairs, bright yellow, 3-34 lin. long ; 
limb ample ; segments rounded or oceasionally acute, mostly spread- 
ing at maturity, occasionally recurved, less than } as long as the 
tube; anthers manifest, just reaching beyond the corolla-tube, dorsi- 
fixed a little above the base, cuneate-oblong, subacute, minutely 
seaberulous, about 2 lin. long, muticous; pore narrow, 1—} the length 
of the cell; style shortly exserted, slender ; stigma small, capitellate ; 
ovary spherical, small, glabrous. . 
- Coast ReGron: Paarl Div.; mountains around French Hoek, Bolus in Mac- 
Owan Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1629! Caledon Div.; in wet places at the foot of 
the French Hoek Pass on the eastern side, 1200 ft., Fair in Herb. Bolus, 
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