266 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
becoming glabrous and naked, 6-11 lin. long; flowers 1-3-nate, 
cernuous; pedicels cano-pubescent, reddish, 4-5 lin. long; bracts 
remote, linear to ovate, pubescent, subsearious, 1-21 lin. long ; 
sepals ovate, acutely keel-tipped, thick and rigid, concave, finely and 
closely tomentose, dull red, 3-5 lin. long, mostly from §—{ the 
length of the corolla ; corolla from subeyathiform to ovate, 4-partite 
very nearly to the base; segments lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, 
_ obtusely acute, suberect, at length connivent, externally puberulous, 
dull pink or nearly white, 4-6 (mostly about 5) lin. long; filaments 
strongly bent at the base, much bent and dilated at the apex, about 
2; lin. long; anthers lateral, dorsifixed well above the base, but 
(owing to the narrowness of the cells at the base) appearing sub- 
terminal ; cells deeply partite and subdistant, oblong, about 2 lin. 
long, crested ; pore about 2 the length of the cell ; crests partially 
adnate to the filament above, then free and spreading, oblong, 
lacerate, subtruneate, 2—* the length of the cells; style included, 
or rather subexserted ; stigma capitellate. 
Coast ReGion, at 400-1200 ft. : Bredasdorp Div. ; mountains between Elim 
and Napier, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8456! mountains between Fairfield and 
Elim, Bolus, 6892! near Napier, Schlechter, 9660! Caledon Div. ; Shaws 
Mountain, near Caledon, Bodkin! 
Habit and general appearance of E. holosericea, from which it is to be known 
by its larger flowers, deeply parted corolla, with more acute segments, three 
times larger and differently shaped anthers. In floral structure, however, it 
is tgs to the preceding, distinguishable by its remote bracts and smaller 
corolla, 
401. E. Halicacaba (Linn. Plant. Rar. Afr. 11); procumbent, or 
erect against the steep sides of rocks ; branches divaricate, flexuous, 
stout, woody, rigid, brittle, puberulous, densely leafy or covered with 
the sears of old leaf-cushions, 6-12 in. long ; leaves 3-nate, very 
closely set, spreading or squarrose-recurved, linear, round-backed, 
suleate, rigid, glabrous, 4—7 lin. long ; flowers mostly solitary, some- 
times 2—3-nate, at length pendulous; pedicels puberulous, 2-3 lin. 
long ; bracts approximate, ovate, acuminate, keeled, scarious, about 
3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but much larger and more 
adpressed, 4~5 lin. long; corolla ovoid or ovoid-tubular, inflated, 
glabrous, pale yellow, 8-11 lin. long, by about 3 lin. in diam. at the 
widest part ; segments erect, and at length connivent, long, tapering, 
obtuse, nearly 2 the length of the entire corolla ; filaments rather 
broad, dilated and thickened below the anther, very little bent, 5-6 
lin. long ; anthers oblong, acute, affixed dorsally at the very base of 
the deeply parted divaricate cells, 4-1$ lin. long, aristate or 
muticous ; pore nearly 2 the length of the cell ; awns spreading and 
upeurved, or decurved, from 3—s Of the cell in length; style straight, 
shorter than the corolla-segments, but mostly manifest; stigma 
subsimple, small; ovary globose, rough, glabrous. Amen. Acad. vi. 
88, and. Mant. Alt. 374; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 2; Wendl. Erie. Ie. 
Jase. 6,7; Andr. Heathery, t. 164, and Col. Heaths, t. 99; Benth. 
