224 rricace® (Guthrie & Bolus). [Brica. 
There are two chief forms of this species: one with diffuse habit and longer 
and more spreading: leaves; the other .with more erect and rigid habit, and 
leaves more erect and shorter. . The corolla-limb is also variable. 
325. E. crateriformis (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 14 in. or more 
high ; branchlets slender, floccose with minutely plumose hairs; 
leaves erect, adpressed, oblong, keeled, thickish, glabrous, about 
1 lin. long; flowers on short lateral branchlets ; pedicels * lin. long ; 
bracts subremote, foliaceous, rather long; sepals lanceolate, acute, 
keel-tipped, scarious-edged, ciliate, 3 lin. long, not quite reaching to 
the height of the corolla-tube; corolla broad-eyathiform, mouth 
widened, nearly 1 lin. long; segments erect, subdeltoid, obtuse, 
3-} the length of the tube ; filaments capillary, with a sharp semi-. 
circular bend about the middle, about 13 times the length of the 
anther; anthers subincluded, just manifest, broad-elliptic, very 
obtuse, smooth, about } lin. long, aristulate; pore about + the length 
of the cell; awns very minute, curved outwards, and not reaching to 
the base of the cell, caducous; style exserted, slender; stigma 
capitate, lobulate, rather large ; ovary globose, glabrous. 
Coast Reeton: Caledon Div. ; grassy hills at the foot of the Klein River 
Mountains, Zeyher, 3340! 
Near to some forms of FE. copiosa. 
326. E. subverticillaris (Diels) ; erect, 10-12 in. high; branches 
slender, leafy, thinly floccose with minute plumose hairs; leaves 
usually spreading or sometimes erect, slender, linear or narrow- 
lanceolate, semiterete, suleate, glabrous, 8-1 lin. long; flowers 
clustered on short branchlets towards the ends of the main branches, 
in appearance more or less interruptedly subspicate ; pedicels 1-14 
lin. long; bracts, one foliaceous, nearly 1 lin. long, two minute, 
adpressed or often wanting ; sepals adpressed, linear-oblong, tapering 
upwards, ciliate, $—$ lin, long, reaching to (or a little above) the base 
of the corolla-segments ; corolla broad-cyathiform, glabrous, papil- 
lose, about 1 lin. long, apparently rosy; segments continuous with 
tube, ovate or subtriangular, acute, about equalling the tube or but 
little shorter or longer; anthers included, ovate-elliptic or some- 
times subtriangular with a broader base and rounded angles, + lin. 
long, aristate ; pore about } the length of the cell; awns setiform, 
ciliate, about equalling the eell; style exserted ; stigma capitellate ; 
ovary glabrous or very minutely puberulous. 
Var. 8, revoluta (Bolus); older leaves on the main branches lanceolate, 
acute, more loosely revolute, shortly hispid, shining, 2 lin. or less long ; anthers 
tapering to the base ; awns not more than 4 the length of the cell, 
-Karanart Reeion: Transvaal; mountains near Lydenburg, Wilms, 903 a 
Sabie Valley, dry rocky hills below the Mauchs Berg, Burtt Davy, 487! Var. B : 
Spitz Kop, near Lydenburg, Wilms, 908 ! 
Closely allied both to E. leptopus and to EB. ‘erateriformis. The var. B 
looks ditferent, and possibly may be distinct; but the floral characters are in close 
resemblance. } 
