134 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
about $ lin. long, muticous ; style shortly exserted ; stigma eapi- 
tate ; ovary hirsute. WL. eriopodon, Ind. Kew. Suppl. i. 156. 
Coast REGion: Tulbagh Div.; on the slopes of the Winterhoek Mountain, 
1500 ft., Bolws, 5190! 
This has somewhat the habit and appearance of FE. bicolor, but the flowers 
are usually fewer and less prominent. It is very distinct in this section by its 
anthers: none of those which are muticous being so small and few even of 
those which are appendiculate. 
162. E. patens (Andr. Heathery, t. 133); erect, ‘*2 ft. high”; 
branches pubescent and pilose; leaves 3-nate, spreading, elliptic- 
oblong, acute, open-backed, puberulous, sparingly gland-ciliate, 
1} lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 11 lin. long; 
bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate-ovate, acute, foliaceous, 
pubescent, gland-ciliate, less than 1 lin. long; corolla broadly 
obconic, mouth widened, puberulous, rosy red, 2 lin. long; segments 
subacute or rounded and obtuse, erect or spreading, about equal to 
the tube ; anthers included, semi-ovate, sublateral, lobed above the 
base, dark-eoloured, scabrid, under 3 lin. long, aristate ; awns sub- 
decurrent, subulate, ciliolate, short ; ovary densely villous with long 
hairs. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 115; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 26, 7; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1228; Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 686. E. 
expansa, Hort. ex Benth. l.c. 
SourH Argica: without locality, Niven (ex Loddiges), cultivated speci- 
mens ! 
This species is only known to us from the descriptions, figures, and several 
garden specimens in Herb. Kew. It is very distinct and peculiar, having the 
corolla-form of § Ewrystoma, but in every other respect the characters of this 
section. The anther is unusual in shape, tapering very much to the base, but 
scarcely subterminal, 
163. E. perlata (Sinclair, Hort. Eric. Wob. 18); erect, 1-2 ft. 
high ; branches ascending, often straggling, tomentose and glandular- 
pilose ; leaves 4-nate, squarrose, narrow-oblong, or the shorter 
subovate, open-backed, obtuse, gland-pilose, 2—3 lin. long; flowers 
umbellate ; umbels 4—10-flowered, often clustered ; pedicels 2-3 lin. 
long ; bracts remote ; sepals lanceolate-oblong, pubescent and gland- 
ciliate with long hairs, about 1 lin. long, pedicels, bracts and sepals 
all glandular-pilose ; corolla oblong or cyathiform-campanulate, mouth 
not contracted, pubescent, yellowish, about 12 lin. long; segments 
spreading, more than 4 as long as the tube ; anthers subexserted, oblong, 
narrowed to the base, minutely aristulate or sometimes muticous (‘) ; 
awns not reaching beyond the base of the cell, or sometimes with a 
minute tooth on either side of the filament near its apex; style 
exserted ; stigma clavate-eapitate; ovary lanate. Benth. in DOC. 
Prodr. vii. 670. EE. barbata, var. minor, Andr. Heathery, t. 5, and 
Col. Heaths, t. 78. E. barbata, Drege in Linnea, xx.187. EE. pura, 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 72% E. procumbens, Lodd. lc, t. 19932 LE. 
ephemera, Tuusch, in Flora, 1839, 635, 
