306. ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
ovary turbinate, silky-villous. . polyantha, Klotzsch ex Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 688. 
Soutn AFRIcA: without locality, Chamisso, Wallich ! 
Coast Reeton: Uitenhage Div.; without exact locality, Zeyher; Van 
Stadens Berg (EZ. polyantha, Kl.) Zeyher, 218! 786! Port Elizabeth Div.; 
Kemsley, 357! Miss West, 3! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 
3557! MacOwan, 33! Tyson in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb, Norm. Austr.-Afr., 
983! Guthrie, 2369! 
We have examined the types of E. polyantha, and do not doubt that they are 
merely poorly-grown plants of this species, of which they have all the characters, 
but of a reduced size, and all parts (especially the calyx) less hairy. 
464. E. longipes (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 684, not 
of Bartl.) ; branches erect, rigid, rather rough, pubescent with simple 
hairs, 10 in. or more long; leaves erect-incurved, imbricate, linear, 
deeply sulcate, hispidulous or glabrous, 2-12 lin. long; flowers on 
short lateral branchlets, somewhat copious, corolline; pedicels 
puberulous or densely woolly, 13-23 lin. long; bracts remote, very 
small; calyx obconic, thick, rigid, scarious, glabrous, concave, 
strongly keeled, the keel prominent from the very base and the 
whole thus somewhat truncate at the base, 1 lin. long, or slightly 
less ; segments ovate, erect, acute, ciliolate or naked, 3-4 times the 
length of the tube ; corolla between funnel-shaped and campanulate, 
rosy, about 2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, rounded, about as 
long as the tube; or sometimes longer; anthers dorsifixed above the 
base, oblong, obtuse, minutely scaberulous, reddish-brown, 1-8 Jin, 
long; pore 3—2 the length of the cell; ‘style exserted, slender ; 
stigma subsimple or capitellate ; ovary turbinate, silky-villous on the 
conical summit. 
Soutu Arrica: without locality, Masson ! Mund! 
Coast Reeion: Knysna Div. ; near Forest Hall, Miss eudigate, 63! Uiten- 
hage Div.; Grass Ridge, Ecklon & Zeyher. 
We have not seen Ecklon & Zeyher’s type; but have examined Masson’s and 
Mund’s specimens, both named by Bentham, and Miss Newdigate’s, all of which 
agree well. 
465. E, canaliculata (Andr. Heathery, t. 156, and Col. Heaths, 
t. 157) ; ereet, reaching to 6 ft. high (Galpin) ; branches ascending, 
greyish-puberulous, in some specimens floccose with minute com- 
pound hairs, with many subverticillate spreading copiously floriferous 
branchlets ; leaves erect-spreading, very straight, linear, deeply 
sulcate or more or less open-backed, showing a paler tomentulose 
under-surface, scabrid-puberulous above, sometimes becoming glabrous 
and smooth, 2-3 lin. long; flowers apparently normally 3-nate, but 
often by arrest of the lateral branchlets so crowded as to appear 
umbellate with 4-6 flowers, subcorolline ; pedicels slender, puberu- 
lous, 2-27 lin. long; bracts remote, minute ; calyx glabrous, roughly 
papillose, pallid outside, red within, the central line closely adpressed 
to the corolla, deeply 4-fid; segments ovate, acute, 2-4 times 
_ the length of the tube, ciliate at the base, sides more or less strongly 
