74 pricacem (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
corolla clavate-tubular, curved, more or less hairy, viscidulous chiefly 
in the lower half, tube red, the throat and limb greenish-yellow, 
12-15 lin. long; anthers subexserted, linear-lanceolate, tapering to 
each extremity, aristate; awns straightly pendulous, }—{ the length 
of the cell; style usually decurved at the apex ; ovary glabrous. E. 
decora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 354, not of Andr. E. Uhria, 
Andr. Heathery, t. 149, and Col. Heaths, t. 141; Wendl. Eric. Ic. 
fasc. 18, 91, t. 35; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 628, and var. pilosa, 
Andr. Heathery, t. 150, and Col. Heaths, t. 142. EH. ewerana 
[Dryand. in| Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, ii. 368; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
1303, and var. pilosa, t. 1992. 
Coast Rrcion: George Div.; Outeniqualand, Niven, 202! Montagu Pass, 
1400 ft., Bolus, 8669! Schlechter, 5837! Uniondale Div.; near Groot Fontein, 
in Lange Kloof, 2000 ft., Drége, 7713! Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Pappe ! 
Buchanan! and in Herb. Bolus, 5834! Also cultivated specimens ! 
50. E. xerophila (Bolus); erect, reaching 6 ft. high; branches 
ascending, rigid, the younger puberulous, glabrescent ; leaves 3-nate, 
crowded, erect or spreading, incurved, narrow-linear or subfiliform, 
subobtuse, deeply suleate, minutely hispidulous and tuberculate, 
shining, 3-4 lin. long ; petioles pallid; flowers solitary, few ; pedi- 
cels puberulous, 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, linear, inecurved, 
foliaceous, 3-1 lin. long; sepals linear from a short broader base, 
leaf-like, incurved, sulcate, sparsely ciliate, 2 lin. long; corolla 
trumpet-shaped, or nearly straight, narrow at the base, thinly puberu- 
lous, dry, thin in texture, crimson, 10-11 lin. long; segments erect 
or spreading, subdeltoid, concolorous, under 1 lin. long; anthers 
affixed to the filament about + of the length of the cells above their 
base, included, narrow-oblong, slightly bilobed but not at all pro- 
jecting at the base, + lin. long, aristate ; pore about 2 the length of 
the cell; awns setiform, 2 the length of the cell; style exserted, 
thickened and channelled at the base; stigma capitellate; ovary 
cylindrical, slightly contracted at the base, pallid, glabrous, 
Coast Recion: Ladismith Div.; slopes of the Klein Zwartberg Range, 
near Ladismith, about 2000 ft., Marloth, 2935! 
From E. cruenta it differs by its much more slender rough leaves, solitary 
flowers and narrower sepals. ‘he species is one of the few stragglers far 
inland, the station above recorded being about 63 miles from the nearest sea- 
coast. 
51. E. speciosa (Andr. Heathery, t. 192); erect, 2-4 ft. high; 
branches virgate or spreading ; leaves 3-nate, suberect and imbricate 
or spreading, linear, narrow-lanceolate, or oblong, sulcate, glabrous or 
viscid-puberulous, ciliate or naked, 2—4} lin. long; flowers 3-nate, 
occasionally solitary ; bracts usually approximate, rarely remote, 
like the sepals, but shorter; sepals narrow- to broad-lanceolate, 
searious below with a leaf-like keeled tip, glabrous or pubescent, 
ciliate or naked, usually coloured, 23—41 lin. long; corolla clavate- 
tubular, curved, dry or viscid, glabrous or rarely sparsely pilose, 
10-15 lin. long, crimson, limb usually greenish-yellow ; filaments 
slender, linear ; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, subobtuse 
