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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., fl. Jan., Thomas 
P. Slokoe, Rooi Els, near Hangklip (Bolus Herbarium, No. 17571 ) ; Palmiet 
River Valley (Bolus Herbarium, No. 17572). 
Allied to E. tenax, L. Bolus, and may be distinguished by the shorter 
peduncles and sepals; the corolla-tube constricted just below the middle, 
as if pressed in by the sepals, and 4-sulcate downwards ; and the narrower 
and more acute anthers. Plate I, A. 
E. Thomae, L. Bolus, var. brevisepala, L. Bolus. Sepala oblongo-lanceolata, 
05 cm. longa, ceteris typicis. 
Obtained at the Cape Town Wild-Flower Show (Bolus Herbarium, 
No. 16233). 
E. Gysbertii, Guthrie & Bolus, var. longiflora, L. Bolus. Folia ad 0-7 cm. 
longa; corollae tubus ad 1-5 cm. longus. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., Palmiet River 
Valley, fl. April, T . P. StoJcoe (Bolus Herbarium, No. 15305). 
E. Gysbertii, Guthrie & Bolus, var. ampliata, L. Bolus. Folia ad 0-6 cm. 
longa; corolla ad 1-4 cm. longa, manu expansa ad 0-6 cm. diam. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., Hottentots- 
liolland Mts., fl. Oct., T. P. StoJcoe (Bolus Herbarium, No. 17435). 
E. intonsa, L. Bolus (§ Euryloma). E. Gysbertii valde affinis, sed foliis squar- 
rosis creberrimis, multo longioribus, pedunc-ulis gracilioribus, corolla 
longiore magisque dilatata, cum bracteis sepalisque textura tenuiore. 
Erecta, 33 cm. alta, ramis adscendentibus glabris, dense foliosis, ad 
15 cm. longis; folia squarrosa 4-nata linearia, sat obtusa, angustissime 
sulcata, ciliata, pilis pluribus e tuberculo orientibus, albidis, apice pilis 
brunneis longe barbata, demum glabra, cum petiolo 0-15 cm. longo, 0-6 — 
0-8 cm. longa; pedunculi graciles, parce pubescentes, pilis crispulatis 
albidis longis, ad 0-8 cm. longi; bracteae 3, infima medio posita, ad 0-4 cm. 
longa, ceterae subapproximatae breviores, longe ciliatae, apice pilis brun- 
neis longe barbatae; sepala lanceolato-linearia, bracteis simillima, 0-2 — 
0-4 cm. longa; corolla ovoideo-urceolata glabra viscidissima, saturate 
rosea, cum segmentis acutis, vix 0-2 cm. longis, 1-6 cm. longa, manu 
expansa 0-7 cm. diam., faucibus 0-3 cm. diam.; antherae fere semi- 
lunatae acutae, basi 2-lobae, muticae, fere 0*2 cm. longae, poro dimidium 
lobi subaequante, filamentis apicem versus conspicue dilatatis; ovarium 
subcylindraceum, in basin substipitatum angustatum, glabrum, ad 0-4 cm. 
longum, stigmate capitellato. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., mountains near 
Hangklip, fl. March, T. P. StoJcoe (Bolus Herbarium, No. 17369). 
Closely allied to E. Gysbertii, Guthrie and Bolus, but differing from the 
type in having longer, squarrose, crowded leaves, more slender peduncles, 
a longer and more inflated corolla whose texture, like that of the bracts 
and sepals, is thinner. • 
