300 ERICACEE (Brown). [ Grisebachia. 
CenTRaL Reeton: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 8919 
(also distributed as 8917)! Tafel Berg, Schlechter, 10091! 
I have now (by the courtesy of the Berlin authorities) examined the type of 
Eremia parviflora, Klotzsch, and find it to be this plant, The description of 
Klotzsch is very erroneous, as the calyx is not subequal to the corolla, but con- 
siderably shorter than it, and the stamens are 4, not 8 as Klotzsch states. It is 
identical with Zeyher, 1117, except that the leaves are straight, like those of 
Schlechter, 10091. 
21. G. similis (N. E. Br.); branchlets puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, 
ascending or spreading, straight, not in the least recurved, 2-12 lin. 
long with the petiole, slender, linear, trigonous, acute, glabrous, 
minutely serrulate, or with 2 or more very short stiff or gland-tipped 
hairs on each margin ; inflorescence and pedicels exactly like that of 
G. eremtoides ; bracts equal, + lin. long, lanceolate, acute, ciliate 
with short gland-tipped and simple hairs; calyx lobed to 3 of the 
way down; lobes } lin. long, linear-oblong or narrowly oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous, distantly ciliate with 4—5 short gland- 
tipped hairs on each side; corolla subtubular, slightly narrowed 
but scarcely constricted under the limb, obtusely 4-angled; tube 
about § lin. long, puberulous outside ; lobes + lin. long, ovate, obtuse, 
concave, erect or slightly incurved, glabrous; stamens subequalling 
the corolla; filaments glabrous; anthers 1 lin. long, membranous, 
with parallel noncontiguous cells, with awn-like spurs above the 
base ; ovary rather broader than long, very obtuse, glabrous; style 
exserted, } lin. long, glabrous ; stigma minute, capitate. 
Var. 8, grata (N. E. Br.) ; leaves often finely and minutely ciliate on the 
basal part; calyx-lobes 4-4 lin. long, oblong-linear and as well as the linear 
bracts rather densely ciliate with short simple hairs; corolla narrowly tubular- 
funnel-shaped, puberulous on the tube outside; ovary thinly and minutely 
pubescent at the top. 
Coast Reeion: Var. 8, Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg Range, near Sneeuw 
Kop and Wupperthal, about 4000 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8628 ! 
CentRaL ReGion: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 8896 ! 
X. ACROSTEMON, Klotzsch. 
Pedicels 3-bracteate. Calyx equally 4-lobed nearly or quite to 
the base, villous with long simple hairs or beset with gland-tipped 
hairs. Corolla hypogynous, tubular or ovoid-tubular and 4-angled 
or cylindric, 4-toothed or -lobed, often contracted at the apex by the 
lobes being connivent. Stamens 4, hypogynous; filaments linear; 
anthers basifixed, wholly or partly exserted from the corolla, 
deciduous, linear or oblong, 2-5 times as long as broad, some- 
times spurred at the base, with the cells connate at the base for 1-1 
of their length, never free, parallel. Ovary 2—4-celled (1-celled in 
A. eriocephalus) ; style exserted, filiform ; stigma simple or capitate ; 
ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous, Fruit with a thin pericarp, 
loculicidal. 
Shrublets with the habit of Erica; leaves grooved down the convex back, 
mostly more or less pubescent ; flowers shortly pedicellate, in terminal heads, 
with the calyx and bracts clothed with long white hairs. 
