280 EkIcACEX (Guthrie & Bolus). [ Brica. 
depression in the centre at the base, nearly 1} lin. long, reaching as 
high as 3-2 of the corolla-tube; corolla globose-urceolate, narrowed 
not much constricted at the throat, 4-conous towards the base, sub- 
viscidulous, rosy red, 13-2 lin. long ; limb slightly spreading, broad 
_ and rounded, about 3 the length of the tube; filaments from a 
broader base tapering upwards, not much longer than the ovary ; 
anthers included, or scarcely exceeding the corolla-tube, dorsifixed 
near the base ; cells deeply parted, suboblong, obtuse or subacute, 
brown, under? lin. long, crested ; erests ovate-lanceolate, denticulate, 
pale brown, longer than the cells ; style subincluded ; stigma sub- 
simple, small ; ovary glabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 657. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Masson! 
Coast REGIoN: Clanwilliam Div. ; on the Cederberg Range, 2600 ft., Marloth, 
2683! Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, Marloth in Herb. Bolus, 6375! 
Riversdale Div. ; Muiskraal, near Garcias Pass, 1500 ft., Galpin, 3627! Union- 
dale Div.; Long Kloof, Paterson in Herb. Salisbury ! : 
424. E. gracilipes (Guthrie & Bolus) ; erect, 3 ft. or more high ; 
glabrous, except the puberulous pedicels ; branches stout, ascending, 
mostly marked with the scars of prominent leaf-eushions ; leaves 
3-nate, erect-incurved, imbrieate, not very crowded, linear, obtuse 
or subacute, round-backed, faintly suleate, 3-4 lin. long; flowers 
1-8 pseudo-axillary, on short arrested branchlets, somewhat copious, 
calycine; pedicels spreading, slender, eurved, puberulous, red, 
4-6 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 submedian, 1 nearly basal, lanceolate, 
scarious, under 1 lin. long ; sepals adpressed, imbricate for about 
¢ their length, ovate, acute, shortly keel-tipped, cartilaginous, 
coloured, rosy, wrinkled when dried, reaching to the top of the 
corolla-tube ; corolla urceolate, slightly constricted at the throat, 
4-gonous, rosy, 1} lin. long; segments spreading, about 1 the length 
of the tube; anthers exserted, subterminal, longitudinally semi- 
lanceolate, the dorsal margin curved, acute, dark-coloured; cell 
produced beyond the pore, 2 lin. long, very shortly aristulate at the 
base ; pore nearly + the length of the cell; awns free, about 1 of 
the cell in length ; style slender, well-exserted, dilated near the apex ; 
stigma subsimple; ovary glabrous, 
Coast ReGion: Bredasdorp Diy.; hills near Rict Fontein Poort, 200 ft., 
Schlechter, 9687! Bolus, 8511! 
The anthers are caducous, or most of them in our specimens have dropped 
from age ; in this state the flowers resemble those of E. selaginifolia or E. affinis. 
But the species is remarkable, and even anomalous here, by its exserted anthers 
and pseudo-axillary inflorescence. Yet its calycine flowers, with their large 
imbricate sepals, indicate a nearer approach to this section than to § Gypso- 
callis. 
425. E. acuta (Andr. Heathery, t. 1); erect, probably 1-12 ft. 
high; branches numerous, ascending, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, 
crowded, subrecurved-spreading, linear-subulate, acute, mucronate or 
setaceous-acuminate, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 
