Lirica] . ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). 287 
434. E. consobrina (Guthrie & Bolus) ; branches (in our only 
specimen) incurved, cano-puberulous with simple, intermixed with 
minute compound, hairs on the main branches, 10-12 in. long ; 
leaves spreading, linear, acute, sulcate, subglabrous, the younger 
erect, imbricate, crowded, 1-12 lin. long ; flowers corolline ; pedicels 
pubescent, 1 lin. long; braets, 2 subapproximate, 1 median, linear, 
$ lin. long; sepals broad-ovate, acute, keel-tipped, scarious, concave, 
coloured, ~ lin. long, reaching to less than 2 the height of the 
corolia ; corolla campanulate-cyathiform, rosy, 13 lin. long; segments 
slightly spreading nearly 2 the length of the tube ; filaments narrow- 
linear, equal ; anthers subexserted, dorsifixed well above the base, 
obliquely broad-lanceolate, acute, scaberulous, blackish, 2 lin. long, 
aristate ; pore = the length of the cell; awns straightly pendulous, 
subulate, ciliolate, 1 the length of the cell; style very shortly exserted, 
searcely exceeding the anthers; stigma subsimple, of 4 short erect 
tooth-like processes, blackish ; ovary glabrous, pallid. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div.; on the Cederberg Range near Krakadouw, 
3000 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8679 ! 
This resembles E. rhodantha, but the flowers are somewhat broader, stamens 
subexserted, anthers aristate, style shorter, stigma smaller and of different 
structure, and the ovary glabrous. It has also some similarity to E. cristeflora, 
var. B. 
485. E. nemorosa (Kloizsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 688) ; 
erect, reaching 6 ft. high (Bentham); branches subvirgate or more 
rarely spreading, tomentose with simple soft hairs; leaves suberect, 
slender, linear, obtuse, sulcate, glabrous, scareely 1 lin. long ; flowers 
corolline; pedicels 2—% lin. long; bracts remote, linear, small ; 
sepals from subovate and acute to oblong-lanceolate and sub- 
acuminate, keel-tipped, glabrous or puberulous, mostly strongly 
incurved towards the apex, more rarely straight, coloured, about 
x the height of the corolla, 3—2 lin. long; corolla varying from broad- 
to narrow-cyathiform, red or rosy, 3-1} lin. long; segments erect, 
very variable, from 3 the tube to somewhat longer; anthers in- 
cluded or sometimes subexserted, suboblong, obtuse, 1-1 lin. long, 
muticous or minutely aristulate; pore 2 the length of the cell ; 
Style slender, exserted; stigma capitellate ; ovary minutely hairy, 
or at least on the summit, LF. floribunda, var. micrantha, Benth. 
Lc, 688, not of Lodd. E. polycodon, Benth. l.c. 688. 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; near Caledon, Bolus, 8497! Humansdorp 
Div. ; near the Gamtoos River, Niven, 95! near Clarkson, 900 ft., Galpin, 
3711! Uitenhage Div.; stony channel of the Zwartkops River, Ecklon Y Zeyher, 
30! Zeyher, 3338! Alexander, 9? Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 784! Albany 
Div. ; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3549! Atherstone, 2! Bathurst Div. ; 
Karega River, Zeyher, 3339! Stutterheim or Komgha Div.; banks of the 
Kabousie River, 3000 ft., Murray, 53! 
This seems to be a variable species, chiefly in respect of the shape and size of 
the corolla and its limb; and is consequently somewhat difficult of distinction, 
