68 rricace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [Hrica. 
slightly curved, glabrous, dry, yellow, darkened at the throat, 8-10 
lin. long; limb short, subcordate-reniform, spreading; anthers in- 
eluded, oblong, papillose, 8 lin. long, with spreading awns as long as 
the cells; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630. E. 
pauciflora, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 656 in syn. ; 
Coast Recton: Paarl Div.; in a valley near Kehrwieder, French Hoek, 
Le Roux in Herb. Huguenot Seminary, 302! and in Herb. Bolus, 5949! mountains 
of French Hoek, 1600-1700 ft., Bolus, 6333 ! 6900! Mac Owan, Herb. Norm. Aust.- 
Afr., 958! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Masson (ex Salisbury). 
38. E. foliacea (Andr. Heathery, t. 263); erect, 2-3 ft. high ; 
branches stout, spreading or virgate, glabrous or puberulous (the 
plant entirely glabrous elsewhere) ; leaves 4-nate, somewhat spread- 
ing, curved, linear, rather stout, 3-5 lin. long ; flowers 4—5-nate, 
on distant spreading lateral branchlets }—1 in. long, upon pedicels 
1 lin, long; bracts approximate, narrow-lanceolate, acute, rigid, 
keeled, margins scarious, 2-3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but 
broader and a. little longer; corolla tubular, mostly somewhat in- 
flated, straight or slightly curved, distinctly contracted at the throat, 
dry, stout in texture, clear sulphur-yellow, 7-8 lin. long; limb 
subspreading, semi-ovate, short; awns included, oblong, scaberu- 
lous, 2 lin. long, aristate ; awns 1}—2 times the length of the cells ; 
ovary glabrous, broad-based, sessile. Andr. Col. Heaths, t, 2385; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630. 
Var. B, fulgens (Klotzsch in Linna, xii. 507); more virgate; flowering 
branchlets more numerous, shorter, mostly densely crowded and forming a 
pseudo-spike of flowers several inches long; leaves shorter and straighter, 
24-34 lin. long, clogely imbricate ; sepals somewhat smaller in proportion to the 
corolla; corolla orange or reddish orange; anthers smaller, about 4 lin. long. 
E. fulgens, Klotzsch, l.c. 
Coast REGIoN: Caledon Div.; without precise locality, Bolus, 6870! Var. B: 
Caledon Div.; Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 173! near the mouth of Klein River, 
Masson, 114! mountains near Palmiet River and near Lowrys Pass, Ecklon Sf 
Zeyher, Guthrie, 3551! 3766! 
. CenTRAL REeton: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, in moist places, 5000 ft., 
Schlechter, 8925 ! 
Taking Andrews’ figure as the type, the specimens first above cited are the 
only ones we have seen which entirely agree with it. Klotzsch’s var, has a very 
different appearance, usually more resembling E, abietina, yet quite distinct from 
that by its 4-nate flowers, besides other characters ; but the floral differences of 
var. fulgens from the type are not considerable. Bentham appears to have 
described from the variety, which seems to- be much more frequent than 
Andrews’ type. In its flowers it also resembles E. nana, but the corolla is 
somewhat smaller, the ovary quite sessile and broad-based, and the habit very 
different. 
39. E. nana (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 355); procumbent, 
robust, a span high or less; branches divaricate, flexuous,. rigid, 
glabrous; leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved or spreading, imbricate, 
linear, glabrous, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 3-4-nate; pedicels 1 lin. 
long ; bracts approximate, lanceolate, 3-4 lin. long ; sepals ovate, 
acuminate, keeled, 3-31 lin. long, margins wide, scarious, sub- 
lacerate ; corolla subclavate-tubular, wide, thick in texture, slightly 
constricted at the wide throat, glabrous, dry, yellow, 10-11 lin. 
