Brica.] ERIcACEa (Guthrie & Bolus). 193 
the middle of the cell, connivent round the stigma, from elliptical 
to bluntly triangular (in front view nearly orbicular) densely covered 
and the crests ciliate with longish shred-like hairs, about 3 lin. long; 
pore 7 the length of the cell; crests sublanceolate, acute, pale brown, 
about as long as the cell; style included ; stigma capitate; ovary 
glabrous (or pubescent, Salisbury), sessile on a prominent disk. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, ii. 269; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 23; Wendl. 
Eric. Ic. fase. 1,17; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 446; Andr. Heathery, t. 
143, and Ool. Heaths, t. 53; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 658. £. 
granulata, Linn. Mant. Alt. 234. E. multumbellifera, Berg. Descr. 
Pil. Cap. 110. E. pilulifera, Berg. le. 111. E. bullularis, Salish. 
Prodr, 296, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 377. £. bullaris, Steud. 
Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 569. E. multiumbellata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 658. HH. pilularis, Benth. l.c. sub E. ramentacea. 
Soutn AFRIcA: without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and culti- 
vated specimens ! 
Coast ReGion: Paarl Div.; between Paarl and French Hoek, Drége! 
Cape Div.; common on the Cape Flats and occasional on the hills near Cape 
Town, Burchell, 377! 820! Ecklon, 85! Mund, 40! Sieber, 170! Zeyher, 1104! 
Guthrie, 191! Wolley Dod, 946! Bolus, 2962! Stellenbosch Div.; between 
Lowrys Pass «nd Jonkers Hoek, Burchell, 8316! Caledon Div.; near Gena- 
dendal, Burchell, 7776! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 2300 ft., Bolus, 5429! 
Swellendam Div.; mountain peak, near Swellendam, Burchell, 7389! Rivers- 
dale Div. ; Garcias Pass, Galpin, 3676! 
This has the look of the § Orophanes, but the corolla is viscidulous, Specimens 
from eastern stations and growing at a greater distance from the sea exhibit 
fewer and somewhat smaller flowers and a laxer habit than those from the Cape 
Peninsula. 
270. E. mucosa (Linn. Mant. Alt. 232); erect, glabrous in all 
parts, commonly from 1-2 (more rarely 3-4) ft. high; branches 
erect, spreading or straggling, rigid ; leaves 4-nate, erect or somewhat 
spreading, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, linear to linear- 
oblong, obtuse, keeled, viscid, ciliate or naked, thick, rigid, 1-3 
lin. long; flowers terminal, umbellate ; umbels 3-6-flowered ; pedi- 
eels 2-3 lin. long; bracts approximate to remote, searious, or 
foliaceous in the upper part, viscid; sepals narrow-ovate or lanceo- 
late, viscid, tipped with a thick green keel-like point, scarious, 
coloured, 1-12 lin. long; corolla urceolate, or subovoid-urceolate, 
very viscid, 13-23 lin. long, dull red or purple ; limb short, erect 
or subpatent; anthers included, dorsifixed a little above the base, 
cuneate (suboblong in front view) obtuse, glabrous, over 7 lin. long 
or somewhat less than 11 times its width at the base; pore 3 the 
length of the cell; crests sublanceolate, coarsely serrate, long- 
‘acuminate, as long as the cells; style included, short; ovary 
glabrous. Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 15; Andr. Heathery, t. 174, and 
Col. Heaths, t. 39; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 35; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 
4, 13; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 658, and var. brevifolia, Benth. 
Le. 659. LE. pilularis, Lodd. Bot Cab. t. 15634 EE. ferrea, Berg. 
Descr. Pl. Cap. 112. E. mucosoides, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1202. E. 
pilulifera, Andr. Heathery, t. 2781 Jide Benth. 
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