270 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica. 
spreading, lax, broad-ovate, acute or acuminate, keeled, papery, 
white, 23-32 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but nearly erect, 
imbricating for about + their length more or less, much wrinkled in 
the lower part (in the dried state), 4-5 lin. long, mostly reaching 
1—] lin. lower than the corolla or sometimes equalling it; corolla 
varying between campanulate, broad-cyathiform and subobconie, 
always widening to the mouth, glabrous, 43-5 lin. long, apparently 
varying from pale rose to nearly white; segments erect or very 
slightly spreading at maturity, shortly afterwards becoming connivent 
and giving the corolla a somewhat ovoid shape, semiovate, about 
1 the tube in length; filaments tapering upwards from a broader 
base, sigmoid, 1-14 lin, long; anthers dorsifixed well above the 
base, broad-linear, much ‘tapering to the acuminate point, and 
produced sometimes much beyond the pore, scabrid, about 1} lin. 
‘long, or sometimes a little more, aristate ; pore about } the length 
of the cell; awns upeurved, 4—1 of the length of the cell ; style 
4 
slender; stigma simple; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Recon: Caledon Div.? from the Caledon “ Wild-Flower Show,” 
1893, Herb. Guthrie, 2448! and 1897, Herb. Bolus, 6383! Riversdale 
Div.; Garcias Pass, 2000 ft., Bain in Herb. Bolus, 3163! Schlechter, 1917! 
Galpin, 3622 ! 
Allied to BE. inelusa, but differs a good deal in appearance by its stouter habit, 
much longer and acuminate leaves, larger flowers, differently coloured sepals, and 
aristate (but otherwise very similar) anthers. Has been confused with LE. 
holosericea from which, however, it is even more distinct. 
407. E. holosericea (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 352) ; erect, 
apparently 1-11 ft. high ; branches rather stout, puberulous, glab- 
rescent; leaves 3-nate, suberect, linear-subulate, acute, mucronate, 
pilose-pubescent or glabrous, the younger ciliate, 5-8 lin. long; 
flowers 3-nate, or sometimes solitary, cernuous ; pedicels puberulous, 
22-4 lin. long; bracts remote, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, 
puberulous, about 1 lin. long; sepals ovate, acute, imbricate, 
puberulous, mostly somewhat spreading at full maturity and shorter 
than the eorolla, rosy red, 23-41 Jin. long; corolla campanulate- 
cyathiform, sub-4-gonous, glabrous or less commonly puberulous, 
rosy, 83-5 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, at length con- 
nivent, ovate, 3—2 of the tube in length; filaments about 14 lin. long; 
anthers oblong, obtuse, dorsifixed above the base, seabrid, about 
2 lin. long, crested ; pore over } the length of the cell; crests free, 
straight or spreading, oblong, toothed towards the apex, from }—-} 
the length of the cell; stigma small, clavate-capitellate; ovary 
on a prominent dark-coloured disk. . andromedeflora, Andr. 
Heathery, t. 151, and Col. Heaths, t. 146; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t.521; Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii. 654. EH. pomifera, Hort, ex Benth. 
lc. 
The following appear to be mere colour varieties, or, as Bentham supposed, 
garden hybrids: —E. triumphans, Lodd, Bot, Cab. t. 257. E. andromedeflora, var. 
triumphans, Bot. Mag, t. 2322, (So far as we know they have not been met with 
in a wild state). 
