282 ERicacrz (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica, 
aristate; pore nearly as long as the cell; awns decurrent along the 
filament for about 3 their length, then free, spreading, subulate, 
about as long as the cell; style included, short; stigma. capitellate ; 
ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 657. #. callosa, 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 18, 87, ¢t. 33. EH. obtusa, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t.1027? 2B. pachyphylla, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 199. 
Soura Arrica: without locality, Drége, 1155! and cultivated specimens! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; frequent on the mountains of the Cape | 
Peninsula, up to 2700 ft., Bolus, 3771! 3876! 4894! Guthrie, 691! Wolley 
Dod, 1714! Paarl Div. ; mountains at French Hoek, Schlechter, 9298! Stellen- 
bosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 53899! Caledon Div.; mountains near 
Genadendal, 5000 ft., Burchell, 7684/2! Galpin, 3628! near Vogel Gat, 
3000 ft., Schlechter, 9564! Swellendam Div.; summit of a mountain peak, 
near Swellendam, Burchell, 7343! George Div.; mountains near George, 
Alexander, 23! 
427. E. fimbriata (Andr. Heathery, t. 63); erect or subdecum- 
bent, 6-8 in. high ; branches numerous, spreading, flexuous, rigid, 
pubescent ; leaves 3-nate (or, also 4-nate, Andrews), erect-spreading, 
imbricate, elliptic or oblong, subobtuse, trigonous or round-baeked, 
sulcate, thick, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, about 1 lin. long; flowers 
3-nate, calycine ; pedicels tomentose with subplumose or barbellate 
hairs, about 1 lin. long ; bracts approximate, ovate to lanceolate, 
cartilaginous, deeply and prominently pectinate-ciliate, whitish or - 
tinged-lilac, about 1 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broad- 
ovate, or nearly orbicular, keel-tipped, the closely-ranked cilia on the 
margin in well-grown plants barbellate and gland-tipped, concave, 
a little over 1 lin. long and broad; corolla campanulate-cyathiform 
(in age becoming more globose) glabrous, dry, white or rosy, mostly 
1} (rarely 2) lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded, about 
% of the tube in length; filaments slender, sometimes dilated at. the 
base, thickened and bent near the anther ; anthers included, lateral, 
dorsifixed at, or just above the base, oblong or subsemiovate, some- 
times recurved, smooth, ciliate at the base, 4 lin. long or a little 
more or less, awned ; pore $ the length of the cell ; awns spreading, 
subulate, ciliolate, about } the cell in length; style included, 
4-gonous; stigma simple (or sometimes capitellate, or “ subpeltate,” 
Bentham); ovary depressed, densely woolly with longish white 
hairs. Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 169; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1047; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 658. 
SoutH Argrica: without locality, Masson, Mund § Maire, ex Bentham, and 
cultivated specimens ! ‘ 
Coast Reaction: George Div.; Devils Kop, Niven, 115! Montagu Pass, 
3500 ft., Schlechter, 5833! Oudtshoorn Div.; Zwartberg Pass, near the Victoria 
Hotel, 3900 ft., Marloth, 2408 ! 
Andrews’ figure is the type, but is a very poor representation of the plant as 
known from Schlechter and Marloth’s excellent wild specimens. Loddiges’ figure 
is much better. With these plates Bentham identified Niven’s specimens, which we 
have examined, and also one from the Berlin Herbarium, probably Mund’s; these 
are both past maturity, The species is very distinct, yet somewhat anomalous 
