— 691. 
natis, -ciliato - villosis, viridi - purpuraseentibus; dra- 
; ‚efeis cAlyei approximatis; pedicellis purpufeis, villosis; 
n antberis elongatis, glabris, „ muticis, inelusis; Alamentis 
apice flexuoso - areuatis, dentieulis duobus instructis; ' 
 stylis inclusisz stigmatibus obtusis; germinihus turbina- 
is, villosis. ' 
- E, princeps Andr. Heath, 1 e.1.140. Ait, Hort, Kew. Le. 
2 ‚38. Sprengel l. c. p. 187. E. metulaeflora Sims; in Curt. Bot. 
 Mag..4,612, cum deseriptione optima. Spreng. 1. 0. 2.187. 
Caulis robustus, erectus, 'laete fuscus, bipedalis, Rami 
sparsi,: erecti, ramuligne |foliosi. Folia linearia octo vel de-- 
eemfarlam imbrieata, squarroso - subresurya acufa, glahra, 
margine apiceque peetinato-ciliata, 'supra plana, subtus con- 
vexiuscula, -linea longitudinali sulcata, 4 lin. longa, %/z lin, 
Ita, Flores longe pedieillati, fürminales, 'aggregati, in um- 
bellis nufantes, Corolla eylindrica, inflata, glabra, laete' xu- 
bra, versus apicem. attenuato - constricta, evanescente puberula, 
wneiam longa, 3 lin. in ‚diametro, limbo brevi, obtuso, inte- 
gerzimo, palente, Sepala ovato - lanceolata, purpurascentig, 
acuminata; versus apicem pilosa,  carinato - sulcata,. ad margi- 
nem ciliata, ‚corolla quadruplo breviora. Bracteae lanceolatae, 
sepala simulantes, quarum ( duae superiores calyei axcte appro- 
ximatae, "Pedicelli } purpurei, villosi, 3 Iin. longi. Antherae 
mutiege, „ inelusae, elong gatae, glabrae. Filamenta glahra,.' 
apiee genicnlato -arcuata, dentieulis duobus recurris instrueta. 
Germen suleatum,, turbinatum, villosum. 
‚Prom. b, ep ‚(speeimina i in hortis. sulta examinavi,) 
10, E. Swainsonia Andr, Folis quinis senisve, linearibus, 
‚ obtusis P glabris, strictis „. erectis,: longis; floribus ter- 
minalibus,, aggregatis, pedicellatis, in umbellis nutan- 
: übus; corollis tubulosis, inflatis, apice | subduplo‘ CON- 
Strichis‘, glabris,, limbo obtuso, patente; sepalis ovato-. 
Bd, 6 Het, Al 
