274 gricacem (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Hrica. 
The species is only known to us from Andrews’ figure cited above, and his short 
description, from both of which we have drawn the preceding. Bentham thought 
it ‘* perhaps some hybrid *” but he wrongly identified with it specimens in Herb. 
Kew., which are really E. Corydalis, Salisb., a quite different species, 
413. E. tegulefolia (Salisb. in Trans. Linn, Soc. vi. 351); stout, 
erect, 12-21 ft. high; branches nearly straight, pubescent ; leaves 
8-nate, erect and closely imbricate, or spreading, mostly incurved, 
linear or oblong, to broad-elliptic, obtuse, ciliolate, sulcate, keeled, 
mostly glabrous (or “pubescent,” Salisbury), 13-3 lin. long, the 
floral a little larger, coloured, sepaloid; flowers 3-nate (in our wild 
specimens, but described by Andrews from cultivated plants as 
“ ymbellate 3—6-nate ”), sometimes abundant and clustered ; pedicels 
pubescent, red, 13—2 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate, acute, 
strongly keeled, incurved and deeply concave at the apex, scarious, 
rigid, coloured, 2-24 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but larger, 
much wrinkled, 2 lin. long, reaching to 2—% of the height of the 
corolla; corolla urceolate or globose-urceolate, slightly contracted at 
the throat, 4-gonous at the base, glabrous, rosy-red, about 21 lin. 
long ; segments slightly spreading, at length connivent, ovate, $-} 
the length of the tube ; filaments tapering upwards from a broader 
base, bent below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed above the 
base, subcuneate, acute, about $ lin. long, crested ; pore 8—2 the 
length of the cell; crests broad-ovate or suborbicular, spreading, 
free, margin toothed, as long as or longer than the eells; style 
included, thickened towards the apex, 4-gonous; stigma simple ; 
ovary glabrous. EH. squamosa, Andr.? Heathery, t. 91, and Col. 
Heaths, t. 207; Benth. in DC. Prodr, vii. 655. 
Coast Raion: without locality, Masson, in Herb. Brit. Mus. Paarl Div. ; 
French Hoek, Bolus, 6891! Caledon Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, near 
Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 3549! 8764 ! 
We have not been able to find Salisbury’s type in his Herbarium, but have 
ween Masson’s specimens, in the British Museum, which are probably the same 
which Salisbury quotes. These agree substantially with Andrews’ figure of 
E. squamosa, cited by Bentham. Both, however, appear immature and poorly 
grown. But in floral characters they agree so nearly with the finer specimens 
quoted under Guthrie, 3549 and 3764, and Bolus, 6891, that we assume them to 
be the same species, and have chiefly described from these latter. 
414, E. gigantea (Klotzsch ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii, 656) ; 
4-7 ft. high; branches stout, rigid, erect, cano-puberulous, all except 
the lowest parts densely leafy; leaves 4-nate, erect-spreading, 
crowded, imbricate, oblong, obtuse, thick, rigid, sulcate, glabrous, 
gland-ciliolate, 2-4 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, on short branchlets ; 
pedicels 8 lin. long; bracts approximate, scarious, acute, the two 
upper longer than, and exceeding in height the sepals; sepals erect- 
incurved, broad-ovate and obtuse to broad-lanceolate and acute, 
subscarious, 2-23 lin. long, somewhat shorter than the corolla ; 
corolla urceolate, throat slightly constricted, of thick texture, white, 
about 21 lin, long; segments slightly spreading, broad, rounded, 
