372 RUTACEH (Sond.) [Buchaetis 
1-2 feet high, leafy, with reddish branches and yellowish twigs. Leaves 2-3 
times faring sie = internodes, sub-imbricate, sub-sessile, obtuse at base, lanceo- 
late-attenuate upwards, sub-cartilaginous and acute at the point, concave, below 
with a double row of black dots along the keel, green at both sides, 4 lines long, 
line wide. Heads terminal, or by innovation, spuriously lateral, smaller than 
hazel nut. Calyx glabrous, pale, its lobes keeled, 1 line long. Disc almost 
attached to the calyx, the margin §-crenate. Petals white, rather longer than the 
calyx, white-bearded on the throat. Capsule glabrous, 3} lines long ; the round- 
backed carpels rugulose, tricarinate at point, their horns divergent, half as long 
as the carpel. 
2. E. elata (E. and Z.! 819) ; stem and branches erect, glabrous; 
leaves erecto-patent, lanceolate-linear, convexo-carinate, inflexed, obtusely- 
mucronate, the hyaline margin ciliolate ; bracts lanceolate, half the length 
of the calyx ; calyx-lobes lanceolate ; petals oblongo-lanceolate, ie 
than the calyx, bearded on the face, ciliate to the base, the sub-exserted 
portion acuminate, naked. — 
Var. £. hirsuta ; branches, leaves, bracts and calyces hairy. j 
Has. Mountain sides, Hott. Holland, Stellenb., EZ. é Z./ June. (Herb. Lehm, 
Hook., Sond.) ere: 
Habit of the preceding. Lower leaves sub-remote, upper closer, bine 
4 lines long, 4 line wide. Calyx 2 lines long. Petals scarcely narrowed at mt 
Style very short. Capsule shining, 2 lines long, the carpels scarcely beaked. 
differs from the preceding by the twice narrower leaves, scarcely ciliate at margim, 
obsoletely dotted at the keel underneath ; the heads rather laxer ; bracts twice nat 
rower, and smaller, more shortly rostrate capsules. eek 
__ 8. E linearis (Sond.) ; stem and branches straightly erect, glabrous re 
leaves appressed, narrow-linear, acute, convexo-carinate, the bya 
margin serrulate ; bracts lanceolate, longer than the calyx ; calyx-lo e 
lanceolate, subulate-attenuate ; petals lanceolate, narrowed at base, trans-— 
versely bearded in the throat, bordered with long cilia below, the ex 
serted half acuminate, naked. , glomerata. E. § Z. { 820, non B&W. 
Has. In grassy places at the Zwarteberg, near Caledon Bath, £.g¢ Z./ Dreyer 
7116. (Herb. Lehm., Sond.) e ce 
A slender shrub, 1 foot high. Leaves crowded, but not imbricate, quite appresseds 
the lower 5-6 lines long, upper 3-4 lines, 1} line broad, concave above, with 
rows of dots beneath. Heads terminal, 8-12-flowered, the outer shortly pedicellate, 
ualling the leaves. Bracts green. Calyx pale rosy, 2 lines long, the lobes ciliate, 
at the tip. Throat of the petals densely bearded, the exserted half inven 
stamens half as long as the petals. is differs from Z. glomerata in 
and narrower leaves, and the subulate-acuminate calyx. 
ore 4 E. flexilis (E. & Z.! 822); stem and branches erecto-patulous, 
glabrous ; leaves quadriferiously imbricate, erect, lanceolate-oblong, COD- 
