264 ERIcACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [ rica. 
397. E. nigrimontana (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1 ft. or more 
high, glabrous except on the younger branches and the ovary ; 
branches ascending, rather straight, subfastigiate, puberulous, 
glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, erect, adpressed, not crowded, about as 
long as the internodes, linear-trigonous, obtusely acute, sulcate, 
the younger minutely gland-ciliate, 11-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate ; 
pedicels subviscidulous, about 14 lin. long; braets, 2 subapproxi- 
mate, 1 more remote, ovate, cartilaginous, viscidulous, rosy, about 
1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broad-ovate, keel-tipped, 
imbricate at the base, about 2 lin. long, reaching nearly to the top 
of the corolla; corolla urceolate-campanulate or globose-suburceolate, 
not much constricted at the throat, viscidulous, rosy, 2 lin. long; 
segments spreading or stellate-patent, or sometimes subrecurved, 
broadly rounded, concolorous, a little over 3 the length of the tube ; 
filaments dilated and bent just below the anther; anthers manifest, 
about as long as the corolla, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong, 
obtuse, incurved, about 2 lin. long, crested; pore 2 the length of 
the cell; crests free, lanceolate in outline, deeply inciso-partite ; 
lobes linear, the whole less than 3+ the length of the cell; style 
shortly exserted, thickened towards the apex ; stigma clavate- 
capitellate ; ovary glabrous; ovules much compressed, 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg, between 1000 and 
3000 ft., Zeyher, 3278! Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6745 ! 
Allied to and resembling EL. brevifolia, but differs by (1) more adpressed and 
narrower leaves, (2) wider sepals, (3) wider corolla, (4) anthers and appendages, 
(5) exserted style. The flowers are somewhat like those of E. selaginifolia, but 
in this the pedicels are much shorter, the sepals much smaller and not foveolate 
at the base. It has also been confused in herbaria with EF. lucida, which it 
approaches in structure ; but the habit of this is different by its more fastigiate 
growth, the flowers larger and viscidulous, 
398. E. melanacme (Guthrie & Bolus); erect, 1 ft. or more 
high ; branches slender, the younger subtrigonous by the promi- 
nent decurrent leaf-cushions; leaves 3-nate, erect, somewhat ad- 
pressed, the uppermost imbricate, the lower equalling or shorter 
than the internodes, narrow-oblong or narrow-elliptic, blunt, sulcate, 
viscid-pubescent becoming glabrous, softly ciliate, about 2 lin. long; 
flowers 3-nate, somewhat clustered; pedicels thinly pubescent, 
viscidulous, 33-4 lin. long; bracts lax, 2 subapproximate, 1 infra- 
median, lanceolate, all or the lowest tipped with a green keel, ciliate, 
viscid, 1} lin. long ; sepals somewhat unequal, the outer pair ovate, 
the inner lanceolate, all softly ciliate, viscid, tipped with a sulcate, 
green keel, more or less transversely wrinkled in the dried state, rosy 
below, deeper upwards, dark purple at the apex, about 2 lin. long ; 
corolla suburceolate, very slightly contracted at the throat, prominently 
12-veined, subviscid, 2 lin. long; segments almost invariably 
spreading or reflexed, rounded, erosulate, about 1 the length of the 
tube; anthers narrow subelliptical, wider at the base, slightly 
recurved, about ¢ lin. long, crested; pore 3 the length of the cell; 
