EBrica.] pricacea& (Guthrie & Bolus). 149 
from Hornemann’s very brief description to come to the conclusion that this is 
even probably the species so named by him at an earlier date (Hortus Haf- 
niensis, i. (1813) 374). He describes the leaves of his plant as 4-nate, while 
on Graham’s specimens they are clearly 3-nate; nor does the shape of the 
corolla seem to agree. 
192. E. thimifolia (Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 48); diffuse, 1 ft. 
or more high; branches numerous, straggling, puberulous and also 
sparsely pilose, glabrescent, red; leaves 3-nate, spreading, not 
crowded, linear-laneeolate to ovate, acute, open-backed, margins 
recurved or often almost flat, midrib prominent, thickening upwards 
as a smooth callosity, sparsely glandular-hairy and ciliate, 1-2 lin. 
long; flowers terminal, 3-nate, sometimes also axillary ; pedicels 
slender, pilose, about 2 lin. long; bracts 2, remote, basal, linear (or 
sometimes a third, foliaceous?) ; sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, 
margins revolute, long glandular-ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla 
urceolate-campanulate or tubular-campanulate, mouth scarcely 
widened, glabrous, 12 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spread- 
ing, 1! the length of the tube ; filaments much dilated at the base, 
tapering upwards ; anthers exserted, dorsifixed above the base, oblong, 
about % lin. long, aristate; pore } the length of the cell; awns 
small, ciliolate, scarcely reaching to the base of the cell; style ex- 
serted, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary pubescent. EH. thymzfolta, 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 325, var. y only; Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 669. . planifolia, Wendl. Eric. Ie, fase. 16, 59, t. 23 ; 
Andr. Heathery, t. 185% and Col. Heaths, t. 201% 4. distans, 
Spreng. f. Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. 13, not of Benth. 
Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Sieber, 146! 181! Herb. Salisbury / and 
cultivated specimens ! z 3 
Coast Re@ion: Tulbagh Div.; Witsenberg Range, Pappe! Cape Div.; 
foot of Table Mountain, east side, 300 ft., Bolus, 4487! near Hout Bay Nek, 
800 ft., Guthrie, 145! Orange Kloof, Wolley Dod, 2176! Constantia Berg, 
Wolley Dod, 461! ‘ wens - 
Closely allied to E. planifolia, from which it differs chiefly in its longer a 
d it rted and slightly different anthers. There has been 
aoe ween 0 en aasibly due to hybridization under 
fusion between the tw ) n un 
coleivuiion. fie “E. thymifolia” of Andr. Heathery, t. 195, is, there is little 
doubt, E. planifolia, L. ; while *‘ E. planifolia” of Andr. l.c, t. 185, is either a 
fo “thimifolia, Wendl., or a hybrid between the two. We have seen no 
pai aneeae fei present species as it occurs wild. The best is that of Wendi. 
Eric. Ic. fase. 16, where, while the analytical figure of the corolla is not very 
incorrect, the shape of those on the branches, is very much so; the corollas not 
being much contracted at the mouth as there represented. The species is not 
s0 common as E. planifolia ; we have seen six different gatherings, and amongst 
them none which are not clearly distinguishable by the characters above 
stated. 
193. E. filiformis (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 345, not of 
Bartl.); procumbent, sometimes almost prostrate, much branched, 
spreading 6-8 in. from the stem in every direction ; branches puberu- 
lous, leafy; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, usually shorter than the 
internodes, linear-subterete, sulcate, hirsute or glabrescent, mostly 
with a tuft of white hairs at the apex, 13-3 lin. long ; flowers 
