336 ERICACE® (Brown). [ Platycalyz. 
slightly exceeding the anthers, filiform, glabrous ; stigma simple, 
very slightly thickened. 
Coast Reeion : Riversdale Div.; near Riversdale, Rust, 543! 
In general appearance this peculiar plant might be likened to Erica tubercu- 
lavis, Salisb., but in structural characters it is distinct from Erica and every 
other genus as at present established, and to no genus except Erica does 
it outwardly bear any general resemblance. The name is in allusion to the 
nearly flat calyx. 
VIII. HEXASTEMON, Klotzsch. 
Bracts3. Calyx 4-partite ; segments erect, white-woolly. Corolla 
elongated-ovoid or inflated at the base and tubular above, 4-toothed. 
Stamens 6, much exserted; filaments and anthers free. Ovary 
2-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell; style much exserted ; 
stigma minutely capitate or 2-lobed. Fruzt not seen. 
A small shrub or shrublet, densely covered with white woolly hairs on the 
leaves and flowers, which are in small terminal clusters. | 
DistrrB. Monotypic, endemic. 
1. H. lanatus (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii, 220); a white-woolly 
shrub or shrublet ; branches moderately stout, more or less divergent, 
at first covered with a minute tomentum, naked below, densely leafy 
on the upper part; leaves 3-nate, densely imbricate, {-1; lin. long, 
1-1 lin. broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, slightly incurved, flat and 
glabrous above, convex, grooved and white-woolly or glabrous on the 
back, densely white-woolly-ciliate ; flowers 1-6 together in terminal 
clusters ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; bracts 3, adpressed to the calyx, 
equal or unequal, all 1 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, or the 
middle one larger and oblanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or acute, 
densely fringed with long white woolly hairs, otherwise glabrous ; 
calyx-segments erect and agglutinated to the corolla, about 14 lin. 
long, 1~2 lin. broad, lanceolate, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, 
densely white-woolly on the margins and sometimes on the back, 
very viscid and broadly bordered with a series of papille on the 
inner face; corolla 12-14 lin. long, acutely 4-angled, elongate-ovoid 
or obovoid or pear-shaped inflated at the base and tubular above, 
shortly 4-toothed, glabrous ; stamens 6, much exserted, free ; fila- 
ments 13—2 lin. long, linear, glabrous ; anthers }—} lin. long, linear, 
bipartite, spurless, dorsifixed close to the base, smooth, opening by 
longitudinal slits; ovary compressed-ellipsoid, obtuse, glabrous, 2- 
celled; style 21-43 lin. long, exserted much beyond the anthers, 
filiform, glabrous; stigma minutely capitate and entire or 2-lobed 
and somewhat crutch-like. Evremia lanata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
700. Erica wxeranthemifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 339. 
Bleria zeranthimifolia, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 805; Klotzsch in_ 
Linnea, xii. 246. 
Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Ecklon J Zeyher! 
Guthrie, 4540 ! “ 
