Victorian Plants. 401 



1746. Stalklets of flowers elongated 1747 



Staiklets of flowers abbreviated or undeveloped ... 1748 



1747. Leaves from semicylindric to linear. 



A desert-species, finally tall, granular-rough from resinous- 

 glandular prominences ; leaves linear, . channelled, re- 

 curved-pointed, seldom verging into a lanceolar form ; 

 flowers large, axillary, solitary ; lower portion of stalklets 

 descending, upper ascending ; outer segments of calyx 

 almost ovate, inner nearly orbicular ; corolla outside 

 reddish, inside dotted with dark-purplish spots, four of 

 its lobes quite short, forming an upper set, the fifth 

 elongated, much longer than broad ; stamens all shorter 

 than the corolla ; fruit dry, upwards gradually and often 

 much attenuated. E. alternifolia. 



Leaves from broad- to narrow-lanceolar. 



A desert-species, finally rather tall ; branchlets rigid ; 

 leaves very firm, from ovate- to narrow-lanceolar, never 

 very long, seldom verging into a linear form, quite entire ; 

 flowers la.rge, axillary, solitary ; lower portion of stalklets 

 descending, upper ascending ; corolla very much longer 

 than the calyx, outside reddish, inside dotted with dark- 

 purplish spots, exceptionally bright-yellow, four of its 

 lobes quite short, forming an upper set, the fifth elon- 

 gated, much longer than broad ; two of the stamens 

 exceeding the corolla ; fruit comparatively large, almost 

 globular, dry. E. inaculata. 



1748. Lowest lobe of the corolla much longer than broad. 



A desert-species, finally rather tall, almost completely or 

 oftener imperfectly beset with minute hairlets ; leaves 

 from ovate-elliptical to narrow-lanceolar, exceptionally 

 linear, usually quite entire ; flowers rather large, axillary, 

 on short stalklets, solitary or occasionally two together ; 

 corolla very much longer than the calyx, reddish, rarely 

 green or bright-yellow, four of its lobes very abbreviated 

 and forming an upper set, the fifth lobe elongated, but 

 narrow ; stamens much exserted ; fruit globular, the 

 outer portion succulent, externally dark-colored. 



E. Brownii. 



Lowest lobe of the corolla hardly longer than broad 1749 



1749. Leaves opposite. 



A desert-species, slender, densely beset with silver-shining 

 scalelets ; leaves firm, linear, somewhat channelled, 

 recurved-pointed, quite entire ; flowers rather small, 



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