352 ERICACEE (Brown). [ Acrostemon. 
hairs on the back, elammy ; corolla 14 lin. long, tubular, 4-angled, 
glabrous, purple; lobes erect, 1+ lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse ; 
filaments of the stamens 1 lin. long, glabrous; anthers half-exserted, 
1 lin. long, linear, spurred at the base, smooth, minutely ciliate on 
the inner margins of the cells ; spurs subulate, about 3 as long as the 
cells, parallel with or slightly ineurved towards the filament ; ovary 
oblong, 4-angled and 4-celled, glabrous; style much exserted, 2 lin. 
long, glabrous ; stigma simple. 
Coast Rreion: Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Bodkin in 
Herb. Bolus, 9228! 
2. A. hirsutus (Klotzsch in Linnea, xij. 228, excl. synonym) ; 
branchlets puberulous or pubescent; leaves 4-nate, ascending, laxly 
imbricate or shorter than the internodes, straight, 1-3} lin. long 
with the petiole, linear, obtuse, thinly pilose or pubescent with soft 
hairs, becoming scabrous; heads globose, terminal and on short 
lateral branchlets, 4—16-flowered ; pedicels 3 lin. long, bracteate at 
the apex; bracts adpressed to the calyx, very unequal, the middle 
one leaf-like, 2-1 lin. long, 2-4 times as long as the lateral pair, all 
villous with long white hairs; calyx 3—1 lin. long, divided nearly to 
the base, villous with long white hairs; lobes 3—% lin. long, } lin. 
broad at the base, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute; corolla 14-14 
lin. long, tubular, 4-angled, glabrous ; lobes minute, deltoid, obtuse, 
connivent-erect ; stamens much exserted; filaments 11—1% lin. long, 
glabrous; anthers 1 lin. long, linear, spurless, smooth’; ovary oblong, 
obtuse, 2-celled; style 1 in. long; stigma simple. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr, vii. 702. — 
Coast Recion : Cape Div. ; mountains near Simonstown, 800 ft., Schlechter, 
1074! in Herb. Bolus. Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, 1200-2000 ft., 
Burchell, 8048! Zeyher, 3316! Scott-Elliot, 1189! Schlechter, 7408! Bolus in 
Herb. Norm. Austr-Afr. 195! Galpin, 3720! near the Palmiet River and near 
Grietjes Gat, Ecklon & Zeyher, ex Klotzsch, Bredasdorp Div.; near Elm, 
Schlechter, 7715 ! 
3. A. incurvus (Benth. in DO. Prodr. vii. 702); branchlets 
pubescent or densely puberulous intermingled with longer hairs ; 
leaves 4-nate, closely placed or loosely imbricate, incurved-erect, 
13-21 lin. long, linear, subobtuse, villous on the back with long 
hairs which often fall away, rugose, glabrous on the upper side; 
heads globose, terminating short lateral branches, 6—9-flowered ; 
pedicels 1— lin. long, bracteate at the apex, pilose ; bracts adpressed 
to the calyx, very unequal, the middle one 1-14 lin. long, equalling 
or exceeding the calyx, leaf-like, incurved, the lateral pair 4—} lin. 
long, linear, all villous; calyx lobed to more than 8% of the way 
down; lobes 2 lin. long, + lin. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, villous with long simple hairs on the back ; corolla 14-13 lin. 
long, tubular, 4-angled, faintly narrowed at the middle, glabrous; 
lobes very small, rounded or deltoid-ovate, obtuse, connivent-ereet ; 
filaments 12-2 lin. long, glabrous; anthers much exserted, }—} lin. 
long, linear or oblong-linear, spurless, smooth, or minutely scabrous 
