Fricinella. | ERICACER (Brown). - 319 
with awn-like spurs at the base, very minutely scabrid; ovary 
subglobose, slightly 4-grooved, puberulous; style just reaching the 
tips of the eorolla-lobes, about 3 lin. long, glabrous; stigma 
peltate, + lin. in diam. ; ovules 8-9 in each cell. 
CENTRAL Reaion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Koudeveld Mountains, 5000 ft., 
Bolus, 2582! 
IV. BLZAERIA, Linn. 
Pedicels 3- (rarely 2-) bracteate. Calyx equally 4-lobed or 4- 
partite. Corol/a small, tubular or campanulate, shortly 4-lobed, often 
4-angled. Stamens 4-6; filaments free, glabrous; anthers usually 
much exserted, bipartite, with or without basal spurs, opening by 
oblique pores or short slits. Ovary 4-celled; cells 2-5-ovuled; 
style filiform, persistent, iong and much exserted, except in one 
species, glabrous ; stigma simple or slightly enlarged, peltate in one 
aie Capsule loculicidally 4-valved; seeds 1 to few in each 
cell, 
Shrubs or shrublets, with the habit and foliage of Hrica; leaves usually 
grooved down the back, rarely open-backed ; flowers in 2- to many-flowered 
umbels, terminal and often head-like or terminating very short axillary branch- 
a Rl eo are racemosely arranged along the branches, rarely axillary and 
whorled, 
DIsTRIB. Species 14, endemic. 
I. Anthers spurred at the base, 
* Anthers with almost parallel sides down to the 
spurs : 
Leaves glabrous, but sometimes ciliolate : 
Leaves open-backed, 4-1 lin, broad ; corolla 
3 lin. long... cae $i tH we 
Leaves convex and grooved down the back, 
3-4 lin. broad; corolla under 2 lin. 
long : 
Anthers % lin. long; ovary puberulous (2) fuscescens, 
Anthers 4 lin. long; ovary glabrous .... (7) purpurea. 
Leaves pubescent or puberulous, at least when 
young : 
(1) grandis, 
Leaves 3-nate; ovary puberulous at the 
top: 
Sepals and young leaves puberulous, - 
without long hairs... ... (3) fastigiata. 
Sepals and young leaves puberulous, 
beset with long white hairs ... ... (4) coccinea. 
Leaves 4-nate ; ovary glabrous Se ... (14) kraussiana. 
** Anthers distinctly narrowed at the base above the 
spurs : 
Corolla yellow, drying blackish-brown ... or £8 ae 
Corolla rosy-purple ... (8) dumosa. 
II. Anthers without spurs at the base (see also B. flava, 
in which they are very minute and 
may be overlooked), 
