nus; and that which was originally referred to this species 
belonging, as we have already stated, to E. fragrans. 
That our plant is identical with the E. capensis of Lin- 
nzeus we have fortunately been enabled to ascertain by the 
aid of the Banksian Herbarium, in which specimens both of 
E. africanus and E. capensis, compared with the Linnean 
_ Herbarium, are preserved. On what authority Linnzeus 
describes his plant as having yellow flowers we are unable 
to judge, unless, indeed, the species was cultivated in’ the 
Upsal garden. In our plant the flowers are certainly nearly 
white. 
It does not very obviously appear, from the characters 
either of Linnzeus or Thunberg, in what the essential cha- 
racter of E. Lychnidea, as distinguished from E. africanus, 
consists; we have therefore made a slight alteration in the 
specific character, so as to indicate what seems to us to be 
the most important point of difference, the pubescent tube 
of E. Lychnidea. In all the specimens of E. africanus 
which we have examined, that part was perfectly destitute 
of pubescence. a 
Stem two feet high, erect, round, pubescent. Leaves 
alternate (the lower ones opposite), sessile, linear, toothed, 
distant, pubescent. Spike terminal, oblong, imbricate, with 
broad ovate-lanceolate, toothed bractew. Calyx sessile, 
the length of the bractez, 5-toothed, bipartite, erect, ob- 
tuse, broader at its base. Corolla pale yellow, very sweet- 
scented. ube filiform, three times as long as the calyx. 
Limb 5-parted; the lobes cleft halfway, obovate, unequal. 
Stamens in two pairs. Anthers, two, in the mouth of the 
tube; two of them below the orifice. Germen superior. 
Style filiform, the length of the tube. 
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