248 BRICACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). | Hrica. 
glabrous, 14-21 lin. long, a little longer or shorter than the corolla ; 
corolla subcyathiform or ovoid, glabrous, 11—2 lin. long ; segments 
broad-oblong, rounded or subtruncate, always more or less concave or 
with inflexed margins, naked or ciliate, 12 the length of the tube ; 
filaments usually dilated at the apex; anthers terminal, narrow- 
lanceolate, tapering much to the apex and setaceous-acuminate, 
glabrous and smooth, light brown, 13-2 lin. long; pore about 2 the 
length of the cell; ovary glabrous. . penicilliformis, Salish. 
Prodr. 297. E. peniciiliflora, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 348 ; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 621. E. calyeulata, Wendl. Eric. Ic, 
Fase. 4, 5. EE. rostella, Sinclair, Hort. Eric, Wob.21. EH. rastellum, 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 196. #. rostrata, Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 
652. ' 
Var. 8, chrysantha (Bolus); leaves broader ; anthers subobtuse or scarcely 
acute, not setaceous-acuminate, minutely scaberulous, ~ lin. long; ovary 
sometimes minutely hirtellous. EH. chrysantha, Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vii. 620. 
Sourn AFrica: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! 
Coast Reeion, between 1200 and 4500 ft.: Caledon Div. ; Genadendal 
Mountain, Galpin, 3553! Sweetmilks Valley, Niven, 122! Swellendam Div.; 
mountains near Swellendam, Masson, 48! Mund, 30! Zuurbraak Mountain, 
Galpin, 8552! Schlechter, 2151! George Div.; Montagu Pass, Schlechter, 
5851! Unioudale Div.; mountains near Avontuur, Bolus, 2388! Var. 8: Clan- 
william Div.; on the Cederberg Range, 2500 ft., Bolus, 9108! Leipoldt, 209! 
Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, Ecklon §* Zeyher! Galpin, 3545! near Hawston, 
50 ft., Schlechter, 9470! 
Section XXXI. ELYTROSTEGIA. (Sp. 372-376.) 
372. E. lasciva (Salish. in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 349); erect, 
2-3 ft. high; branches ascending, subvirgate, tomentulose, with 
numerous lateral, erect or decurved, short flowering branchlets of 
from 3-1 in. long; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, linear-lanceo- 
late, trigonous, subobtuse, suleate, glabrous, smooth, 13-21 lin. long ; 
flowers often clustered, calycine; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts and 
sepals broad-ovate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, very concave, pallid, 
completely concealing the corolla, the former 1—% lin., the latter 
about 1 lin. long; corolla subtubular, white, about 1 lin. long; 
segments erect, rounded, 5~} the length of the tube; filaments very 
broad ; anthers exserted, sublateral, oblong, subacute, nearly smooth, 
brown, about 4 lin. long, muticous ; pore 8 the length of the cell ; 
stigma narrow-peltate, 4-dentate. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 689. 
E. pachycephala, Klotzsch ex Benth. l.c. 689. E. exserta, Hort. ex 
Benth. l.c. E. brachycrossa, Tausch in Flora, 1839, 634. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; sandy downs on the Cape Flats, Thunberg in 
Herb. Salisbury! Niven, 123! Mund, 31! Bolus, 3292! and in Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 46! Guthrie, 1448! Woliey Dod, 986! 
‘ We have seen and examined Tausch’s type of his EZ. brachycrossa, evidently a 
garden specimen, and find the identity complete. 
