212 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
shorter and more strictly obconic corolla, relatively broader at the base, longer 
pedicels and hirsute ovary. From the latter it is separated by its entirely 
different bracts and sepals, and its corolla more regularly widening from the base 
upwards, whereas in E. viscaria it is usually wider and more cup-shaped at the 
base. 
304. E. hemantha (Bolus in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxiv. 181); 
erect, 1-1} ft. high ; branches ascending, puberulous; leaves 4-nate, 
erect-incurved, imbricate, not crowded, linear, round-backed, faintly 
suleate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; inflorescence axillary and also 
terminal, flowers 4-nate; pedicels slender, puberulous, 23-3 lin. 
long ; bracts remote, small ; sepals narrow-ovate, acute, very concave, 
subscarious, glabrous, keeled, about 1 lin. long; corolla suburceolate- 
tubular, mouth scarcely widened or contracted, glabrous, viscidulous ? 
or dry, crimson, 33-4 lin. long ; segments erect, about + lin. long; 
anthers dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, subobtuse; cells 
deeply partite, glabrous, about 2 lin. long, crested at the base; 
pore nearly 4 the length of the cell ; crests sublanceolate, acuminate, 
with one or two short side teeth, 1 as long as the cell; style 
subexserted, tapering upwards ; stigma capitate ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Reaton: Ceres Div. ; rocky mountain slopes, near Ceres, 1700 ft., 
Bolus, 5844! ' 
This species is a somewhat anomalous member of this section, owing to its 
partially terminal inflorescence. But there are similar difficulties in regard to 
other sections, and we place it here chiefly on account of its apparent connection 
with #. awvillifora and EB. viscaria. 
305. E. pulvinata (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 3-1 ft. high; 
branches ascending, glabrous, roughly scarred and channelled by the 
cushions of old leaves; leaves scattered, or sometimes 4—6-nate, 
crowded, spreading or squarrose or reflexed, flexuous, commonly 
incurved towards the apex, linear, callous at the apex subpungent- 
mueronate, round-backed, suleate, sometimes white-tomentose along 
the channel, thick, rigid, glabrous, 3-5 lin. long ; inflorescence a 
short pseudo-raceme at or below the ends of the branches, sometimes 
crowded ; flowers subcalycine ; pedicels slender, 4-5 lin. long; bracts 
small, remote, almost basal ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, 
keeled, 2 lin. long; corolla broadish-urceolate, throat not much 
constricted, but gradually narrowed to the mouth, 2-2} lin. long; 
segments slightly spreading, rounded, about + the length of the 
tube ; anthers dorsifixed above the base, cuneate-ovate, subscaberu- 
lous, 3 lin. long, broad-aristate ; pore about 3 the length of the 
cell; awns subulate-acuminate, irregularly rough-edged or smooth, 
about § the length of the eells; style straight, shortly exserted ; 
stigma capitate, 4-lobed ; ovary glabrous, 
Var. 8, montana (Guthrie & Bolus) ; leaves more ascending ; sepals shorter, 
141} lin. long ; anthers oblong, } lig. long, much narrower than in the type. 
, Codst. Region: Bredasdorp. Div. ;- hills, at -Rict. Fontein -Poort, near Elin 
200 ft., Schlechter, 9704 ! Bolus, 8512! Var, 8: Riversdale Div. re ica rad 
Kamipsche Berg,.Burchell,7111!) ee Pio anginal 
Se 
