238 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica. 
spathulate, acute, margins revolute, densely villous in the upper 
part, whitish, nearly equal to the corolla, 2 lin. long; corolla cyathi- 
form-campanulate (globose-urceolate, ex Andreuws’ fig.), hispidulous 
or puberulous, white, about 2 lin. long; segments rounded, spread- 
ing, 3—§ the length of the tube ; filaments nearly straight or strongly 
bent below the anther; anthers exserted ; cells bipartite to the base, 
narrow-elliptical, acute, scaberulous, dark-brown, % lin. long ; stigma 
subsimple, small; ovary pubescent or pilose. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 
179; Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 617. E. flaccida, Link, Enum. 
Hort. Berol. i. 367. 
SouTtH AFRIcA: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Region, from 1000-2500 ft.: George Div.; Barbiers Kraal, Niven, 
164! Masson, 75 ! Outeniqua Mountains, Schlechter, 2336! near George, Bolus, 
8674! and Guthrie, 2456! Montagu Pass, Schlechter, 5798! Knysna Div. ; 
mountains near Millwood, Tyson in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 972! and without 
precise locality, Buchanan ! and in Herb. Bolus, 5832! 
351. E. villosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 200); 1-12 ft. high; branches 
ascending or straggling, pubescent, somewhat slender ; leaves 3-nate, 
erect or spreading, imbricate or lax, linear, obtuse, sulcate, pilose or 
pubescent, glabrescent, 11-2 lin. long; flowers umbellate, subcaly- 
cine or sometimes (by the more spreading sepals) subeorolline or 
corolline on the same plant, 3-4-nate; umbels lax, spreading ; 
pedicels pilose, 3-5 lin. long; braets remote, spathulate-linear, 
pilose, 1 lin. or more long; sepals broad-lanceolate, subobtuse, 
pilose, the lower half pallid, the upper green, leaf-like, with revolute 
margins, about equal to the eorolla-tube, or occasionally only reach- 
ing to about half its height, 13-2 lin. long; eorolla urceolate, sub- 
tetragonous, pilose, white, 2 lin. long; segments rounded, erect or 
spreading, about + the length of the tube; anthers exserted ; cells 
deeply parted, oblong and obtuse, or sublanceolate and subacute, 
scaberulous, dark-brown, about 1 lin. long; pore &-Z the length of 
the cell; style tetragonous; stigma simple, or (rarely ?) capitate ; 
ovary pilose with long ereet hairs. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 216: 
Wendl. Erie. Ie. fasc. 16, 55; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 617. | E. 
canescens, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed, 2, ii. 407% not of Wendl. 
E. eriocephala, Andr. Heathery, t. 61% and Col. Heaths, t. 89? 
not of Lam.; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1270, E. pilosa, Lodd. le. t. 
606, 
Souru AFRica: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Reerton: Caledon Div.; mountains near Klein River, Zeyher, 1114 
partly! near Vogel Gat, Schlechter, 9519! hills near Babylons Tower Mountain, 
Bolus, 8493! near Hermanus, Bolus, 9843! Guthrie, 4109! 
A fairly distinct and rather local species. Bentham remarks that cultivated 
specimens are with difficulty distinguishable from FE. bruniades, but that the 
wild specimens appear different. We have never found any difficulty whatever 
in separating the two species. We quote E. eriocephala, Andr., with great 
doubt. It looks very different, and seems undeveloped; the author himself 
describes the stamens as “ exserted,” but figures them as included! It may be a 
distinct species, with the aspect of some species in the § Ephebus, but can hardly 
belong there, 
