Brica.] ErIcacem (Guthrie & Bolus). 295 
prominently and somewhat rigidly ciliate, about % lin. long; corolla 
broad-cyathiform, apparently red, 11-15 lin. long ; segments erect, 
broadly rounded, about as long as the tube or a little less; filaments 
linear, equal, about as long as the anther; anthers included, dorsi- 
fixed well above the base, broadly oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, 
ciliolate, dark-coloured, under + lin. long, muticous ; pore about 4 
the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender ; stigma simple ; 
ovary depressed-obconic, wider than its length, silky-villous. 
Coast RxeGIon : Swellendam Div. ; on the summit of the craggy peak near 
Swellendam, 4000-5000 ft., Burchell, 7329 ! 
A very distinct species, the flowers somewhat too corolline for this section, 
but difficult to place elsewhere. Its nearest ally seems to be E. lachneefolia, 
Salisb., which was found by Burchell on the same range of mountains, but further 
westwards, from which, so far as our material goes, it is easily distinguished at 
sight. 
447. E. saxicola (Guthrie & Bolus); dwarf, 3-4 (rarely 6) in. 
high; branches many, decumbent or ascending, diffuse, flexuous, 
often intricate, the ultimate slender, rigid, white-pubescent; leaves 
spreading or squarrose, oblong-trigonous, subacute, mostly thick and 
fleshy, glabrous, mostly 1 (rarely 14) lin. long; flowers moderately 
crowded, on short lateral branchlets, subcalycine or subcorolline; 
pedicels about + lin. long; bracts approximate, 3 lin. long ; sepals 
somewhat spreading, ovate, acute, concave, thick, rigid, keel-tipped, 
scarious, glabrous, ciliolate, less than 1 lin. long, reaching about as 
high as the corolla-tube; corolla broad-cyathiform, white, mostly 
about 1 (rarely 12) lin. long, wider when expanded than its length ; 
segments ascending, rounded, somewhat shorter than the tube ; 
anthers included, lateral, oblong-cuneate, or narrow-elliptic, obtuse, 
smooth, brown, 1—1 lin. long, crested or subulate-aristate ; pore 3 the 
length of the cell; crests or awns as long as the cells or a little 
shorter ; style subincluded or shortly exserted ; stigma capitellate ; 
ovary oblate-globose, minutely puberulous. 
Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div. ; on the ledges of steep rocks, Riet Fontein 
Poort, near Elim, 200 ft., Bolus, 8508! Schlechter, 9705! Caledon Div. ; hills 
near Papies Vlei, 300 ft., Schlechter, 10445 ! ; 
Very distinct in the section by its small leaves and flowers. The anther-ceils 
are very similar in shape and size to those of HL. lachnewfolia and i. floceosa, 
but there are considerable differences in other respects. Schlechter’s specimens 
show not a few flowers with 6-lobed corollas, 11 or 12 stamens and a 6-celled 
ovary; and it is his plants, also, which have the smaller elliptic aristate 
anthers, mentioned in the description; these occur in the normal, as well as in 
the abnormal, flowers. 
448. E. floccosa (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 640, not of Salisb.) ; 
erect, 1-13 ft. high ; branches many, ascending, straight or flexuous, 
floccose-tomentose with dense short plumulose hairs; leaves erect to 
subpatent, crowded, linear-trigonous, subobtuse, slender, glabrous, 
15-2 lin. long; flowers abundant, crowded on numerous side- 
branchlets, subcorolline ; pedicels pubescent, about 1 lin. or less 
