EBrica.} eRIcAcEs (Guthrie & Bolus). 203 
Var. 8, grandiflora (Bolus); flowers usually solitary, rarely in pairs; corolla 
8-10 lin. long; anthers 14 lin. long. 
SoutH AFricé: without locality, Bain in Herb. Bolus, 3193! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Reeion: Swellendam Div.; Grootvaders Bosch, Masson, 47! near 
Tradouw Pass, MacOwan Sf Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 603! Zuurbraak, 
3000 ft., Galpin, 3639! Riet Kuil, Niven, 51! Var. 8B, Riversdale Div.; exact 
locality unknown, Miss Borcherds in Herb. Bolus, 6310! and in Herb. Guthrie, 
2364! Bredasdorp Div. ; De Villiers in Cape Govt. Herb. 
Our var. B appears to be somewhat rare; there is a striking difference in size, 
but in structure it is too close to be specifically distinguished. 
289. E. ixanthera (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 660); decumbent, 
glabrous; branches slender, simple, curved, distantly leafy, 6 in. or 
more long; leaves 3-nate, spreading, curved, distant, but mostly 
longer than the internodes, slender, linear, obtuse, subcallous at the 
apex, flattish above, sulcate below, somewhat thin, shining, 3-5 lin. 
long; flowers terminal, umbellate, 5-8-flowered (or sometimes sub- 
racemose with the terminal branch continued, Bentham) ; pedicels 
slender, spreading, 3-6 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals 
lanceolate, subacute, keel-tipped, thick, rigid, viscid, about 1 lin. 
long; corolla “ urceolate-globose ” (Bentham) or suboblate-urceolate, 
throat slightly constricted, viscid, about 2 lin. long, 2} lin. wide ; 
segments rather large, 1 the length of the tube, subereet ; filaments 
subequal, bent in a simple semicireular curve round and close to the 
ovary ; anthers included, dorsifixed at the base upon a prolongation 
of the connective, spreading at nearly a right angle from the cell, 
oblong, pubescent, about $ lin. long; pore about $ the length of the 
cell; awns deeurrent along the connective with free points (of about 
1 lin. long), the whole about as long as, or sometimes much exceed- 
ing, the cells; style included; ovary oblate, much depressed, width 
twice the length, lobed, glabrous, 
Coast ReGion: Riversdale Div.; lower part of the Langeberg Range, at 
Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6942! 
290. E. carduifolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 330) ; erect, 
6-12 in. high ; branches ascending or spreading, somewhat flexuous, 
roughly hispid; leaves 3-nate, mostly somewhat distant, either longer 
or shorter than the internodes, spreading, squarrose or recurved, 
linear-oblong, obtuse, convex above and thick, sulcate or open- 
backed, long-setose-ciliate, the younger with gland-tipped hairs, 
2-4 lin. long; flowers terminal, umbellate, or (by the arrest of 
lateral branchlets). sometimes pseudo-racemose ; pedicels slender, 
viscid, 4—5 lin. long; bracts remote, small, the lowest basal or nearly 
so ; sepals linear-lanceolate to subovate, acute, thick, viscid, minutely 
gland-ciliolate, about 1} lin, long ; corolla suburceolate or urceolate- 
cyathiform, wide-mouthed, scarcely contracted at the throat, viscid, 
red, 3-33 lin. long, 2+22 lin, wide; segments erect, about } the 
length of the tube; filaments remarkably short, _broad-lanceolate, 
scarcely over 1 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed above the 
base upon a prolongation of the connective bent downwards at an 
