ERYTHR2EA. 
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f. 1. Obs. the two states of this pi. viz. a, with a many-fid. re- 
peatedly branched bushy st., and b, with a simple 1— ' 1-fld. st., 
mixed up in the preceding syn., are not worth distinguishing ; 
the latter being a mere depauperated form of the pi. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1, rrr. Machico towards and about the old Fort on 
the E. side of the bay ; Paul do Mar above the Waterfall. 
June, July. — Whole ph smooth, varying greatly in size and 
luxuriance from 1 or 2 to 12 or 15 in. high, but normally from 
6-9 or 10 in. St. straight stiff erect leafy throughout and not 
chiefly at the base, mostly branched all the way up from the 
base, and bushy with the branches rising to the same height, 
but sometimes simple and 1-3-fid., or branched only upwards 
and few-fld. Foliage copious light gr. ; st.-l. large anti close- 
set, 6-12 lines long, 3-6 broad. FI. rather small and delicate 
bright rose-pink, very numerous in well-grown pi., not crowded 
or congested by themselves, but dispersed in a broad leafy level- 
topped cyme of 1. and h. intermixed. Br. none except the floral 
1. at base of pedic. Cor. -limb 3-4 lines in diam., exserted about 
2 lines beyond the finely acuminate (not aristate) tips of sep. ; 
base of its limb or throat abruptly w. like its long slender tube ; 
lobes mostly 5 distinct (not laterally imbricate), rather narrow, 
elliptic or lanceolate, nearly or quite 2 lines (3^-4 mill.) long, 
1^ mill, broad, bright rose-pink. Anth. pale y. exserted to or 
beyond base of cor. -lobes ; fil. finely capillary w. Style and 
stigma 3 mill, long or half the length of ov. and reaching to base 
of cor. -lobes; stigma very distinctly capitate subobovate finally 
dark-coloured ; style purplish. Caps, subunilocular, the length 
of cal. 
The EB. fig. above quoted gives a very imperfect idea of the 
usual habit and appearance of this pi., having been evidently 
drawn from a depauperated, starved or stunted spec. 
§ 2. Xanthcea Reichenb. ; fl. v. ; style simple, stigma elon- 
gato-capitate or clavate formed of 2 erect parallel distinct 
linear-oblong lamellae, as long as the style itself. Cyme 
dichotomous. Valves of caps, subinflexed. 
2. E. maritima (L.). 
St. stiffly erect straight fork-branched from the base or at top 
only, not bushy or leafy, lower 1. not rosulate small soon wither- 
ing obtuse, upper ovate, oval, or ovate-oblong, acute, uppermost 
or floral lanceolate ; cyme or pan. few-fl. lax irregular 2-3-cho- 
tomous stiffly erect, fl. dispersed, of different height or rarely 
fastigiate, all distinctly stalked ; sep. acuminato-aristate as long 
as cor.-tube ; lobes of cor. ovate-oblong or elliptic subobtuse ; 
stigma clavate rising above the stam. — Pers. i. 2S3 ; WB. iii. 20, 
