172 ERIcACExX (Guthrie & Bolus). [Prica, 
A distinct species, although it is difficult of location. In general appearance 
and in its small inconspicuous dull-coloured flowers, it resembles species of the 
§ Arsace, but is separated by the exserted anthers. It approaches E. demissa, but 
is smaller and more slender in habit and the corolla and sepals are quite different. 
There appear to be two forms: one, with yellowish flowers, and paler and 
shorter anthers, is Schlechter’s 10377 ; the other, with rosy flowers, darker and 
longer anthers, is his 7789. 
232. E. kraussiana (Klotzsch in Walp. Rep. ii. 728) ; branches 
everywhere plumose-puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, short, thick, glabrous, 
densely imbricate, evanescent, plumose-denticulate on the margin ; 
bracts approximate, lanceolate; sepals lanceolate, lilac, glabrous, 
shortly ciliate; corolla oblong-globose, small, contraeted at the 
throat ; limb very short, straight; anthers exserted, muticous; style 
exserted ; ovary glabrous, 
Coast Recaion: Caledon Div.; mountain-sides near Genadendal, 1000- 
2000 ft., Krauss, 957 ! 
Section XVIII. OROPHANES. (Sp. 233-259.) 
233. E. pilulifera (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 355); erect, virgate, 
1-1} ft. high, simple and naked below, branched and leafy above, 
surmounted by umbels of red flowers ; branches slender, channelled, 
glabrous ; leaves 4-nate (or sometimes 3-nate ?) or scattered, crowded, 
suberect, linear, subacute, sulcate, pubescent, glabrescent, ciliate on 
the edge and on the folds at the meeting of the margins, 21—4 lin. 
long; flowers 4-nate or more commonly umbellate with a few axillary 
immediately below the umbel ; pedicels glabrous, 3-31 lin. long; 
bracts 2, remote, linear, scarious, over 1 lin. long (the third appears 
to be wanting) ; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
keeled, scarious, glabrous, red, 14-12 lin. long; corolla suburceo- 
late-cyathiform, very little constricted at the throat or widened at 
the mouth, about 2} lin. long; segments erect or subspreading, 
4-3 the length of the tube; anthers included, oblong-cuneate, 
smooth, glabrous, Jess than } lin. long, aristate; pore about 2 the 
length of the cell; awns minutely ciliolate, about equal to the cell; 
style included ; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. EH. nudicaulis, 
Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 113. . piluliformis, Salisb. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vi. 378. E. umica, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 188. ZL. 
pedunculata, Andr. Heathery, t. 229, and Col. Heaths, t. 252. 
LE. pilulaformis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 680. 
SoutH AFRica: without locality, Rowburgh! Bowie! Miller! Herb. Salis- 
bury / and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Rxreion: Cape Div. ; moist or marshy places on the Lower Plateau of 
Table Mountain, about 2500 ft., Niven, 221! Zeyher, 5003! Bolus, 37121 
Wolley Dod, 138721 mountains between Cape Town and False Bay, Thunberg. 
234. E. subulata (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 20, 123, t. 47); erect, 
rigid, much branched, 1-21 ft. high; branches puberulous, with 
long hairs sparsely intermixed; leaves ereet or spreading, always 
