Cent = Drula sicula L Box 170 (570) RBX E. paralias L. 11-3-30 ??? Ephlurhka nicacensis All Per II 154 Bas. 415, Bon 281 Flyge. Mareb (salt) Puerto Pelleusa st to 20 in high. Tap root stoutish bearing 4 fertile sts and 6 young ifs infertile sts. Fertile sts. stiff sheath (perhaps "wooly"), demulded (bs have broken of slightly above base leaving a single v strongly marked.) reddish at base. Lvs (on young sts) many, closely placed, linear 15 x 3 mm. 1 nerved, glabrous, absolutely entire, coriaceous, acute but not sharp pointed, glaueous above, less so beneath with a line (20x) of the color beneath showing at edge. Lower side of lf. L on fertile sts evidently had been the same. Lvs spreading in downward curve but not deflexed. Infl in umfel of 3-5 usually 2-branched rays; rather irregular with more or less flowering rays below hum- bel. No broad base gumble. Beasts almost semi-circular 6 x 9 mm, broadly wedge shaped at base, very short pointed at apex, not at all cerrote. St flinf rather warty-roughened v with few blunt white spreading hairs (looks glabrous to eye). Fls solitary, sessile, the # glands yellow (a little lighter at tips)