128 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Erica. 
coarsely pubescent, pale red or dull purple, nearly 2 lin. long ; 
segments suberect, broad, rounded, about } lin. long ; filaments 
slender, straight ; anthers subincluded (just visible above the tube), 
dorsifixed close to the base, obovate-oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, 
dark-coloured, slightly over 3} lin. long, aristate; awns subulate, 
rough, less than 3 the length of the cells; style subexserted ; stigma 
capitate ; ovary densely woolly with white hairs. 
KatanArRi Recion: Orange River Colony; on the higher slopes of Mont-aux- 
Sources, 8000-9000 ft., Flanagan, 2030! Thode, 33! Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 854! 
Basutoland; Machacha, Bryce. 
Eastern Reaion, at 7000-10000 ft.: Griqualand East; summit of Mount 
Currie, Tyson, 1193! 1769! Natal(?); near the source of the Umtjesi River, 
Thode, 63 ! 
151. E. turgida (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 345, not of 
Link); erect, 12-18 in. high ; branches many, spreading, hirsute, 
reddish, somewhat slender; leaves 4-nate, incurved-erect, equalling 
or often shorter than the internodes, linear, blunt, sulcate, hirsute, 
1-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, subcapitate ; pedieels 3 lin. long ; 
bracts subapproximate to remote, one long and leaf-like on a slender 
petiole, long hirsute ; sepals linear, long ciliate, 2 lin. long ; corolla 
urceolate to cyathiform, mouth contracted or only slightly so, 
hispidulous, red, 1} lin. long ; segments erect or subpatent, rounded, 
2 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, straight ; anthers 
exserted, dorsifixed above the base, ovate-oblong, with a sharp 
anterior point at the base, over + lin. long, cristate-aristate; awns 
from a broader denticulate base narrowing to subulate, acuminate, 
rough-edged, 2 the length of the cell; style exserted, slender; 
stigma large, capitate; ovary hispidulous. Benth.in DC. Prodr. vii. 
675. E. mellifera, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 370. E. fusco- 
rubens, Roxb. ex Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 345. 
Sout Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh! Harvey, 174! 187! Herb. 
Salisbury ! and cultivated specimens! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, near Wynberg, 60 ft., Niven, 47! 
Bolus, 7100! 7100b ! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1802! (erroneously marked 
“F. fimbriata, Andr. ?”’). 
Allied by its exserted anthers to § Pyronium, and by its capitate inflorescence 
to § Pseuderemia ; but best placed, #s by Bentham, in this section. 
152. E. nidularia (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 764); branches slender, 
puberulous, reddish ; leaves 4-nate, spreading or incurved, linear- 
oblong, obtuse or subacute, widely sulcate, or occasionally open- 
backed, pubescent or (according to Bentham) subglabrous and some- 
what hoary, 2 lin. long; flowers in elusters of 6-8 ; pedicels slender, 
j-12 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, rather long; sepals linear- 
subulate or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, puberulous, 1-12 lin. long ; 
corolla urceolate-campanulate or cyathiform, mouth little or not at 
all constricted, finely puberulous, white, 11~2 lin. long ; limb erect 
or slightly spreading ; anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the 
base, cells deeply parted, longitudinally semiovate, the dorsal edge 
