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with 3 filiform branches ; male flowers with a short, stout pedicel ; 
sepals 3, free or united into a 3-lobed tube, split open on one side, 
<I lin. long, obovate, obtuse, or the lobes rounded, dark olive- 
green, with a tuft of white hairs at the apex ; stipes between the 
sepals and petals very long, 1% as long as the sepals ; petals un- 
equal, {2 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, or narrowly obovate, obtuse, 
ciliate at the apex, and sometimes hairy on the face, white, with a 
linear black gland at the middle or a little above it ; Stamens 6; 
anthers black. 
Eastern Reaion : Tembuland ; Bazeia Mountain, 4000 ft., Baur, 622! 
4. E. sonderianum (Kérnicke in Linnea, xxvii. 669) ; leaves 12- 
in. long, 2-4 lin. broad at the base, whence they gradually taper to 
a very fine acute point, concave down the face ; scapes 1-2 to a plant, 
6-10 in. long, 1~2 lin. thick, striate in the dried state; basal sheath 
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broad, oblong-obovate, glabrous, whitish or pallid; flowering bracts 
4-1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, oblong-obovate, subacute, concave, obtusely 
keeled on the back, pale brownish, with a fuscous or olive-green 
spot on each side, a little above the middle ; apex densely bearded with 
late ; sepals 3, free, 1 Jin. long, rhomboidal-laneeolate, boat-shaped, 
acute, acutely keeled (not wing-keeled) on the back, pale olive-green, 
with the apex and keel whitish; apex ciliate, and more or ess 
bearded with white hairs; petals 3, free, about 1 lin. Jong, + iin. 
broad, cuneate-oblong or cuneate-linear, obtuse, ciliate, and a little 
hairy on the face at the apex, white, with a linear black gland a 
little below the apex; ovary trigonons, glabrous; style with 3 
filiform branches; male flowers shortly pedicellate ; sepals 2~% lin. 
ong, 3~5 lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, concave, not at all keeled on 
the back, obtuse or subacute, densely bearded with white hairs at 
the apex, whitish, with an olive-green spot on each side, a little 
helow the apex; petals 3, free, unequal, the dorsal or larger one 
5~¢ lin. long, 1-2 Jin. broad, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or subacute, 
White, rather thick, ciliate, and bearded with white hairs on the 
inner face, and with a linear black gland a little above the middle ; 
stamens 6; anthers black. 
Katanarr Region: Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, northern slopes, 6000-7000 ft., 
Zeyher, 1731! Burke ! 
5. E. Dregei (Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 341); leaves 3-10 in. 
long, 13-4 lin. broad, linear, tapering to an obtuse point, glabrous ; 
scapes 1-4 to a plant, 9-18 in. long, 3-1 lin. thick, suleate-striate, 
glabrous ; basal sheath 3-61 in. long, obtusely bifid at the apex, 
glabrous ; flower-heads globose, moneecious and 4-6 lin, diam., or 
male and about 3 lin. diam.; involucral bracts 1}-2 lin. long, 
a—l lin, broad, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, fuscous or pale brown ; 
Hlowering bracts 11-13 lin. long, 3—} lin, broad, linear-oblong, obtuse 
