Lyrica.] FRICACEH (Guthrie & Bolus). 51 
bracts, but. narrower, about 23 lin. long; corolla-limb short, erect, 
entirely crimson, 2-2} times the length of the sepals; filaments 
x lin. wide, slightly broader than the 21 lin. long linear anther, 
slightly curved at the articulation with it. Andr. Heathery, t. 129; 
Benth, in DC. Prodr. vii. 622; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii.396. FE. furfurosa, 
Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 348. 
Coast Rraton: Cape Div. ; Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 441! Caledon Div. ; 
Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 130! Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 3187! Hermanus, 
Guthrie, 4124! Bredasdorp Div.; Elands Kloof, 1200 ft., Schlechter, 9750! 
near the mouth of Ratel River, Bolus, 8509! Riversdale Div.; above the water- 
fall at Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7002! also cultivated specimens ! 
Bentham remarks that the younger filaments are submonadelphous, whence 
the name. We have not observed this; perhaps it is less. frequent in wild 
specimens, 
7. E, Banksia (Andr, Col. Heaths, t. 5, and Heathery, t. 105) ; 
procumbent; branches stout, flexuous, rigid, brittle, cano-pubescent, 
6-9 in. long; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, broad-linear, acute, 
thick, pallid, somewhat glossy, 2-4 lin. long; flowers mostly cer- 
nuous; pedicels 1 lin. long or less; bracts ovate, acute, keeled, rigid, 
thick, concave, 3-4 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but more 
scarious and more acuminate (sometimes “‘ very unequal,” Bentham), 
3-6 lin. long ; corolla 7-10 lin. long; tube rosy, white or yellowish ; 
segments erect or spreading, acute, sometimes discoloured ; filaments 
1 lin. wide; anthers somewhat spathulate, cells at length very 
divaricate ; ovary villous with white hairs, sometimes glabrescent. 
E. Banksii, Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 395 ; Bauer, Huot. Pl. t. 29; 
Wendl. Eric. Ic. fase. 14, 21; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 623. £. 
aristata, Salisb. Prodr. 292. E. fragilis, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. vi. 346. E. pilifera, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 350 ; Rach 
in Linnea, xxvi. 772. 
Var. 8, purpurea (Andr. Heathery, t. 106) ; corolla-limb bright purple; pore 
of the anther shorter; ovary glabrous. Andr. Col. Heaths, t.151. HE. mona- 
delpha, Curt, Bot. Mag. t. 1870, not of Andr. EH. banksiana, Paxt. Mag. vii. 
243, with plate. : 
Sours Mack without locality, Thunberg, Mund! and cultivated specimens 
of the type and var. B! : 
Ctaee Baas: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 
3189! Niven, 131! Masson (ex Salisbury). Caledon Div.; mountains near 
Lowrys Pass, 1800 ft., Guthrie, 2025! Houw Hoek, 3600 ft., Schlechter, 7572! 
Bolus, 5457! Var. 8: Caledon Div.; on Babylons Tower, Guthrie, 4092! 
8. E. primulina (Bolus); procumbent, much branched, under 
1 ft. high; branches spreading, flexuous, rigid, brittle, cano-puberu- 
lous, glabreseent, 3-6 in. long; leaves 3-nate or somewhat irregular, 
crowded, spreading or suberect, incurved, oblong, subobtuse, thick, 
flattish above, rounded and deeply suleate below, pale grey-pubescent, 
3-4 lin. long; flowers 2-3-nate, subcernuous, pedicels copiously 
woolly, 13-2 lin. long; bracts approximate, imbricating the sepals, 
unequal, ovate, acute, concave, subscarious, ciliate, 2-23 Jin, long ; 
sepals erect, adpressed, in opposite pairs, the lower imbricating the 
upper, oblong or narrow-ovate, aaa concave, keel-tipped, sub- 
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