264 EUniOKBLvcE^ (Brown). [Efq)Ju)rhia. 



with some rays in the axils of the leaves below the lunhel ; rays 

 1-6 lin. long, glabrous or puberulous, simple with a paii" of bracts 

 and 1 involucre, or once or twice forked, with 3-7 pairs of bracts 

 and 3-7 involucres; bracts 1^-3 (rarely 4) lin. long, f-3 (rarely 

 up to 4^-) lin. broad, usually rhomboid-ovate, but varying from 

 ovate-lanceolate to transversely rhomboid, acute or acuminate or 

 obtuse and apiculate, glabrous or rarely puberulous ; involucre 

 1:^-2 lin. in diam., obconic-cup-sliaped, distinctly ribbed, glabrous 

 or puberulous, with 4 glands and 5 oblong or ovate minutely 

 toothed or ciliate lobes ; glands l-l lin. in their greater diam., 

 transverse, crescent-shaped or somewhat 2-lobed, with acute or 

 obtuse points, which are apparently sometimes refloxcd or recurved ; 

 ovary obtusely trigonous, exserted on a recurved pedicel about 

 1 lin. long, glabrous or puberulous ; styles I lin. long, united at 

 the base, with spreading bifid and often thickened tips. Lmn, 



ManL AlL 5G4 ; Lam. EncycL ii. 430 ] WilhL >S^>. PL ii. 908 ; 

 Thnnh. Prodr. 8G, andFL Cop, ed. SchidL 405; Sprewj, Sjjst. Veg. 

 iii. 790 (excL syn, E, spartloldes, Jacq.) ; BernJianU in Flora , 1845, 

 86, and in Krauss^ Beitr. FL Cajj- nnd NataL 150; Boiss. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 1G75 ^*«"^^- '^^ars, major and hnocarpa. E. iaxifolia and 

 E, limfolia, Bnrm. Prodr. FL Cap, 14. GdJarhoms genistoides, Haw, 

 Sifn. PL Sncc, 144. Titlnjmahis genistoides, Klotzscli (t Gavcke in 

 AhJiandL Akad, Berlin, 18G0, 97. T, rcvolutas, Klotzscli t£* Garclcy 



Vaii. /3, puberula (N. E. Br.) ; leaves more or less puberulous, otherwise as in 

 the type. 



Vau. 7, corifolia (N. E. Br.); leaves laxly scattered along the stems, small, 

 li~2^ lin, long, ^-§ lin. broadj obloii^-linear, mucronate-acute, with revolute 

 margins, varying ou the type specmieu frum thinly and minutely puberiAlous to 

 glabrous ; otherwise as in the type. E. corifolia, Lam. EncycL ii. 431 ; Pcrs- 

 Sj/n, ii. IG ] Spreii'j. StjsL T'e^/. iii. 798 ; Boiss, in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 168. 



South Africa: without locality, Thvuhcr[/l Thorn \ Yar. p, Thunberg I Mnndl 

 Harvey, 444! Var. 7, Sonnerat in Herb, Lamarck] 



Coast Kkgion : Clanwilliam Div. ; Zeekoe Vley, Schkchter, 8496 ! mountains 

 near the Olifants River, Schleclitcr, 5091 ! Malmesbury Div. ; between M.imre and 

 Dassen Berg, />reye ! Zwartland, Ecklon & Zajhcr, Eui>horb. 2 ! near Malmesbury, 

 Bdm, 4358 1 TulbaghDiv. ; Mitchells Pass, Schltchter, 81)157 1 Bolus ! Paarl Div. ; 

 Drakensteen Mountains, L)rer/r^ 8193 ! Cape Div. ; various places near Cape 

 Town, BnrchelLSm\ Priori Ecklon & Zcy her \ Pappe\ Bidus,2^^2\ Wolloj-Dod, 

 1458 ! 2773 ! and with var. ^, 3385 ! Dilmmcr, 4821 Dicls, 1156 ! Wilms, 3626 ! 

 Wright: and mixed with var. j8, Schlccktcr, 1381! Stellenbosch Div.; near 

 Lowrys Pass, ."-'rhhchter, 1118 1 Stellenbosch, Marhth, 4893! Swellencfara Div. ; 

 Zuurbraak, GalpUi, 4563 ! Var. : Malmesb\iry Div. ; Hopefield, BacJwiann, 85 ! 

 Tulbac^h Div.; New Kloof, Dvtgel Cai>e Div.; Lion Mountain, 7>re//e, 8192. 

 Schlerhter, 1381! Wolkij-DoJ, 3104! near Cape Town, Priori Simnns Bay, 

 Wright^ 447! Var. 7: Malmesbury Div,; near Hopefield, Bachinann, 1044! 

 (^Bachmann, 1985, from near Hopefield seems to be a glabrovis form of this 

 variety.) 



Central Region ; Ceres Div. ; between Cereaftnd Leeuwfonteiu, Pearson, 3248 ! 



Western Region : Van Khynsdorp Div. ; Gift Berg, Phillips, 7388 ! 7389 ! 



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woody rootstoclc, 10-15 in. high, §-1:^ lin. thick, subumbellately 

 branching at the upper part, naked and simple or sometimes with 



