268 ERIcACER (Guthrie & Bolus). — [ Brica. 
numerous ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long ; bracts large, remote, lax, broad- 
lanceolate or subovate, coloured, 3-6 lin. long; sepals ovate or 
obovate, acute or obtusely apiculate, often with a broad white 
margin, rosy, 5-6 lin. long; corolla elongate-ovoid, or subovoid- 
ureeolate, more rarely the tube somewhat eonical above the base, 
generally much narrowed at the throat, 8-101 lin. long, rosy; seg- 
ments spreading, ovate, obtuse, about 1-1 of the tube in length; 
filaments narrow, not rigid, rising well above the ovary, 4-6 lin. long ; 
anthers oblong-cuneate, acute, about 1 lin. long, crested; pore 1—1 
the length of the cell; crests affixed well above the base of the cell, 
straightly pendulous, lanceolate to oblong, free from the filament, 
variously incised, as long or nearly as long as the cells; style 
included, sometimes just manifest, somewhat 4-angled; stigma 
capitellate. 
Coast Reerton: Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 216! 
Marloth! Herb. Bolus, 6325! Mader, 209! 
Allied to EZ. glawca, and much resembling our var. 6 of that species. 
404. E. glauca (Andr. Col. Heaths, t, 24); stout, erect, entirely 
glabrous, 2-3 ft. high; branches rigid, ascending; leaves 3-nate, 
from suberect to spreading, mostly curved, linear-semiterete, acute or 
mucronate, suleate, glaucous, the floral often larger and subpetaloid, 
3-6 lin. long; flowers in 4—7-flowered umbels, at length cernuous; 
pedicels mostly about 4 (rarely 10-12) lin. long; bracts remote, the 
lowest subbasal, laxly spreading, ovate ; sepals spreading, elliptic 
or subovate, obtusely acute, keel-tipped, about 3 lin. long, or 2 the 
length of the corolla more or less; corolla subglobose-urceolate, with 
a rather long neck, not much contracted at the throat in the mature 
state, but becoming more so as the capsule ripens, 4—6 lin. long, of 
very thick texture and becoming indurated in age, variable in colour, 
dull red and more or less livid purple about the throat and limb, or 
pallid with green tips, or entirely green ; segments short, spreading, 
about 3} of the tube in length; filaments broad, rigid, strongly 
bent below the anther, 11-21 lin. long, about as long as the capsule, 
so that the anther-crests rest upon its apex ; anthers oblong-cuneate, 
acute or subacute, 1-1} lin. long, crested ; pore over 3 the length of 
the cell; crests spreading, broad-ovate or semiorbicular, affixed at the 
base of the cell and adnate to the upper part of the filament, or 
partially free at the apex, finely crenulate or incised, from 1—2 the 
length of the cells; capsule globular, glabrous. Andr. Heathery, 
t. 25; Bot. Mag. t. 580; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 26, 9; Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. vii. 654. E. elegans, Bot. Mag. t. 966, not of 
Andr. 
Var. 8, elegans (Bolus); aspect of E. nobilis ; sepals nearly as long as the 
corolla-tube, longer than in the typical form, somewhat less spreading, and mostly 
of paler colour ; corolla like the type, but sometimes reaching to 54 or 6 lin. in 
length; for the rest as in the type. E. elegans, Andr. Heathery, t. 111, and 
Col. Heaths, t. 165 ; Benth. in De. Prod. vii. 654, 
we Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens of the type and 
var. 
