Erica. _ ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 129 
straight, smooth, somewhat membranous and pallid, nearly 2 lin. 
long, aristate; pore about 1 the length of cell; awns somewhat 
subulate, rough, about + the length of the cell; style included; 
stigma capitate ; ovary (according to Bentham) puberulous. Benth, 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 678. £. nidicularia, G. Don, Gen, Syst. iii. 799. 
E. nudiflora and E. marioides, Hort. ex Benth. le. E. multum- 
braculata, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 635. 
Soutn Arrica: ex Loddiges; cultivated specimens ! 
This species has been founded upon garden specimens, from which alone it is 
known tous. It may be allied to E. turgida or E. distorta, but it seems so 
distinct that we are unable to find a close connection with any species. Bentham 
thought it allied to EZ. persoluta; and also suggested that it might be a garden 
hybrid. Our description is drawn partly from: Bentham’s, partly from a garden 
specimen named by him, and partly from Loddiges’ figure ; and even these do 
not well agree. We have also seen specimens at the British Museum marked 
“Hort. Reg. Bot. Berol.”’? The type of E. multuwmbraculata, Tausch, isa garden 
specimen in Herb. Royal Bot. Inst. Prague, kindly sent us for examination, and 
which we find almost identical. 
153. E. oresigena (Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 238) ; erect, rigid, 
branched, more or less hoary-pubescent in most parts; branches 
stout; leaves 4-nate, from suberect to subpatent, imbricate, 
narrow-obovate-oblong, very obtuse, sulcate, thick, cano-puberulous, 
glandular-ciliate with short rigid hairs, 23-3 lin. long; flowers 
4-nate ; pedicels glandular-pilose, 3-4} lin. long; bracts remote, 
unilateral, oblong, cano-pubescent, rigidly glandular-ciliate, or more 
rarely ciliate with plumose hairs, 11-2 lin. long; sepals like the 
bracts but more lanceolate and longer, 2-24 lin. long ; corolla urceo- 
late, mouth not very much contracted, minutely puberulous, reddish, 
23-4 lin, long; segments erect, broad and rounded, about 1 the 
length of the tube; filaments tapering upwards, slightly bent at the 
apex ; anthers included, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, cuneate- 
oblong, obtuse, over 2 lin. long, cristate ; pore 4 the length of the cell ; 
crests broad and lacerate at the base, with a terminal subulate lobe, the 
whole about 3 the length of the cell, nearly white ; style included ; 
stigma capitate or clavate; ovary thinly hispid on the top, or 
glabrous. . 
: ° id- 
Var. 8, intermedia (Bolus); leaves and sepals as in the type; corolla ovoi 
urceolate, glabrous js nearly so; mouth very much contracted; segments 
rounded, spreading, short. : ‘ 
VaR. ; elite (Bolus) ; leaves and sepals ciliate with soft subplumose hairs ; 
corolla urceolate, glabrous, or nearly 80 ; mouth not much contracted ; ea gered 
erect, about 4 the length of the tube, subacute; or, corolla pubescent, wit 
short and spreading segments as in var. B. 
Coast Reeron, at 5500-6000 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; amongst rocks on Winter- 
hoek Mountain, Vanloth; 1645! Talhdae ot Ceres Div.; on Mosterts Hoek 
Mountain, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4259! Var. y, Worcester Div.; on the 
Matroce Berg, Bolus! Clanwilliam OE ip cad Kop, Cederberg Range, near 
u in ¥ », Bolus . ’ . . 
Cuntaan Recon? Ver. A; Ceres Div.; Table Mountain, in the Cold 
Bokkeveld, 6200 ft., Schlechter, 10086! : 
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