Hremia.| ERICACE® (Brown). 335 
short lateral branchlets, subsessile or on very minute pedicels ; bracts 
3, adpressed to and equalling the flower in length, the outer or 
middle bract 2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute, partly 
covering the rather smaller laterally excised side bracts, glabrous, 
minutely gland-ciliate ; calyx 4-partite ; segments about 2 lin. long, 
one obovate-spathulate, rather broader than the other linear three, 
puberulous, minutely gland-ciliate ; corolla 2 lin. long, cup-shaped, 
with 4 rounded lobes nearly twice as broad as long, glabrous; stamens 
as long as or very slightly exceeding the corolla ; filaments + lin. long ; 
anthers 1 lin, long, oblong, with contiguous parallel cells, bearded at 
the base and along the inner margins, opening to 2 of the way down 
by very large pores; ovary subglobose, 2-celled, minutely puberulous 
on the top; style filiform, very slightly exceeding the anthers, 
glabrous; stigma minutely 4-lobed. 
Coast REeGion: Mossel Bay Div. ; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 57! (Niven ?) 
85! 
Vila. PLATYCALYX, N. E. Br. 
Bracts 3. Calyx nearly flat, nearly square in outline, 4-lobed. 
Corolla subglobose or globose-ovoid, much contracted at the mouth, 
4-toothed. Stamens normally 6, occasionally 5 or 7, exserted ; 
filaments and anthers free. Ovary superior, seated on a thin disk, 
2-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell ; style exserted ; stigma 
simple. 
A small Erica-like shrublet ; flowers small, 1-3 together, terminal, red. 
Distris. Monotypic, endemic. 
1. P. pumila (N. E. Br.) ; a very small shrublet, 3-5 in. high, 
loosely branched; branches slender, clothed with very minute 
greyish tomentum ; leaves minute, 3-nate, adpressed, 3-1 lin. long 
with the petiole, linear-oblong, obtuse, very thick, subquadrangular, 
flattened above and on the grooved back, and slightly at the sides, 
glabrous, not ciliate ; flowers in terminal clusters of 2-3; pedicels 
2 lin. long, glabrous; bracts 3, at or above the middle of the pedicel, 
minute, linear, glabrous; calyx 3 lin. square; lobes or angles 
apiculate, much broader than long, glabrous, not ciliate, red ; corolla 
11-14 lin. long, inflated globose-ovoid, contracted at the very shortly 
4-lobed mouth, glabrous, red ; lobes scarcely } lin. long, very broadly 
_ rounded, connivent; stamens more or less exserted. ; filaments 
11-2 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; anthers searcely + lin. long and 
nearly as broad, shortly oblong, bipartite, with contiguous parallel 
cells, spurless, basifixed, minutely scabrid, opening by minute 
pores; ovary compressed-globose, very obtuse, minutely white- 
woolly, 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell; style 1¢ lin, long, 
