Hriea.| ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 225 
327. E. copiosa (Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 25, 3, t. 1); erect, about 
1 ft. high, somewhat slender; branches numerous, often diffuse, 
mostly hirsute with coarse spreading hairs, with many short lateral 
branchlets bearing abundant flowers ; leaves more or less spreading, 
linear to lanceolate, thiek, suleate, rarely narrow-ovate and open- 
backed, mostly hispidulous, sometimes glabrescent, mostly 1-13 lin. 
long ; inflorescence strictly terminal, often pseudo-racemose by 
erowding on the short branchlets; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts 
variable, mostly remote and small, or minute, occasionally (as in the 
type specimen) the lowest one larger and foliaceous ; sepals lanceo- 
late or oblong-lanceolate, usually less than % lin. long, leaf-like or 
coloured; corolla narrow-eampanulate (in the type) to broad- 
campanulate, or cyathiform, from a little longer than its width to 
a little shorter, the mouth more or less widened, glabrous, or rarely 
puberulous, about 1 lin. long; segments mostly distinctly and some- 
times widely spreading, from } the length of the tube to equal its 
length ; filaments slender, bent below the anther; anthers included, 
sometimes manifest, oblong, with more or less obliquity, subcuneate, 
or narrow-elliptic, usually 1—} (rarely +4) lin. long, muticous or 
minutely or long aristate; pore less than } the length of the cell, 
style exserted ; stigma capitate; ovary usually hispidulous, or at 
least towards the summit. EE. incomta, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 690. 
Var. B, linearisepala (Bolus); leaves sometimes rather flat and open-backed ; 
sepals linear, mostly coloured with green tips, 4-$ lin. long; anthers sometimes 
subexserted, muticous or broad-cuneate and long aristate. 
Var. y, parvisepala (Bolus); sepals ovate or broad-lanceolate, acute, ciliate, 
coloured, 1-4 lin. long; corolla sometimes puberulous; anthers aristate ; awns 
3-2 the length of the cell, setiform, about 4 lin. long. i 
Var. 5, longicauda (Bolus); leaves deeply sulcate or slightly open-backed, 
linear or subterete, obtuse; sepals narrow-ovate, obtuse or subacute, ciliate, 
deep crimson or with a green foliaceous tip, about } lin. long; anthers with 
rather broad subulate, serrulate or lobed awns, or subcrested nearly as long as 
the cells. 
Sout AFRICA: without locality, Lichtenstein ! 
Coast RraGion: Caledon Div.; Caledon, Zeyher, 7! in Herb. Trin. Coll., 
Dublin. Mossel Bay Div.; near Great Brak River, Galpin, 3701! George 
Div. ; near George, Alexander, 7! Knysna _Div.; Woodlands, Galpin, 3712! 
Uitenhage Div.; Hlands River Mountains, Ecklon § Zeyher! in Herb, Berlin. 
Van Stadensberg Range, West, 4! Var. 8: Swellendam Div., Schlechter, 2089! 
Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range, Bolus, 9112! Var. y: Stellenbosch Div., 
Pappe! Tulbagh Div.; Witsenberg Vlakte, Pappe, 39! George Div., Schlechter, 
5813! Knysna Div. ; near Plettenberg Bay, Burchell, 5834! near Touw River, 
Burchell, 5722! Var. 3: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg Range, near Sneeuw Kop, 
4500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8678 ! 
Eastern ReGion ; Griqualand Hast, Tyson, 1783! 2859! 
. The type is Wendland’s excellent figure and description ; and we have besides, 
by the courtesy of Prof. Dr. Engler, Director of the Royal Bot, Mus, of Berlin 
(whose generous assistance in this and many other instances we gratefully 
acknowledge) been favoured with the opportunity of seeing the type of Klotzsch’s 
E. incomta and of dissecting the flower. This agrees very well with Wend- 
land’s, The stigma is clearly capitate, not peltate as described by Bentham. 
The varieties are fairly distinct as to the sepals, but are closely connected in 
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