118 prrcacem (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica. 
Bentham’s description is based on what is probably a garden plant in Herb. 
Berlin. There is also a specimen in Herb. Kew, labelled “ Koenig,” from 
Salisbury’s Herbarium with the name ‘‘ E. dilatata, Wendl.,’’ added by Bentham. 
These may or may not be the same as the figure of H#. hirta in Wendland’s Eric. 
Ic. fase. 27, quoted by Bentham. This last is a good figure, and much resembles 
E. afinis and E. propinqua, near which Bentham doubtfully placed this species. 
But the sepals of this species are not like those of § Trigemma, nor does the 
presence of an indumentum on the corolla agree. Bentham suspected this 
might be a hybrid. We have endeavoured to draw up a description embracing 
both Wendland’s and Bentham’s, but have relied chiefly on the excellent figure 
of the former. 
133. E. Alopecurus (Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 31, t. 48); 1 ft. or more 
high ; branches virgate, imbricate throughout their whole length with 
small and short or minute erect branchlets, pubescent and also setose- 
hirsute ; leaves 3-nate, incurved-ascending, linear, obtuse, sulcate, 
midrib visible beneath, coarsely pubescent or hirsute, 2—3 lin. long; 
flowers 3-nate, crowded on very short branchlets towards the ends 
of the branches into a cylindrical false spike from 1-3 in. long, 
3-5 lin. wide; pedicels under 4 lin. long; bracts remote, small or 
sometimes larger and foliaceous; sepals linear-subulate, pubescent 
or setose, setose-tipped, ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla broad- 
oveid or suburceolate-ovoid, mouth much contracted, pubescent, 
about 1 lin. long, or rarely longer; limb very short; segments 
spreading ; filaments capillary ; anthers included, broad ovate, pale 
brown, less than + lin. long, aristate; awns rough, nearly as 
long as the cell; style included, curved; stigma capitate; ovary 
villous. . 
Var. B, glabriflora (Bolus); corolla glabrous, 
Coast ReGion: Cathcart Div.; Bontebok Flats, Kennedy, 106! King 
Williamstown Div. ; Perie, Sim, 101! Stutterheim Div. ; Dohne Mountain, 
8000 ft., Sim, 172! Kaffraria, Brownlee / 
CENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div.; summits of Bruintjes Hoogte and Bosch 
Berg, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 1550! and in Herb. Norm. 34! 
Katanart Reoion: Basutoland, Cooper, 756! Transvaal; Gemsbok Spruit, 
Nelson, 389! Komati, Mrs. Stainbonk in Herb. Wood, 3652! Var. 8: ‘Trans- 
yaal; Witwatersrand, Mrs, H. Hutton, 875! 
_ Eastern Region, from 7000-8500 ft.: Griqualand East; Luhana Pass, 
Drakensberg Range, Galpin, 2321! summit of Ingeli Mountain, Tyson in Mac- 
Owan & Bolus, Herb. Norm., 457! Natal; Rovelo Hills, Sutherland! Mooi 
| River, Gerrard, 731; Kar Kloof, Rehmann, 7365! near Van Reenen, Schlechter- 
ae Var. 8: Pondoland; Murchisons Plain, in Fakus Territory, Suther- _ 
and! é 
This is very distinct by its peculiar inflorescence, which resembles that of 
Stabe cinerea, Thunb., and by its very small broad anther. 
134. E. emula (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 11-2 ft. high; branches 
flexuous or nearly straight, pubescent with pallid spreading hairs; 
leaves 3-nate, spreading, not crowded, linear, subacute, rounded at 
the back and channelled, shining, glabrous or pilose with spreading 
hairs, 21~3 lin. long; flowers umbellate or 3-nate; pedicels puberu- 
lous, about 1 lin. long; braets remote or subremote, small; sepals — 
lanceolate, acute, varying to linear-subulate from a broader — 
