Acrostemon. | ERICACEZ (Brown). 353 
on the margins; ovary subquadrate, obtuse, 3—4-angled and -celled, 
glabrous ; style 2} lin. long, glabrous; stigma simple. rica 
hirsuta, Thunb. Prodr. 72, and Fl. Oap. ed. Schultes, 358, partly 
(sheet B of Thunberg’s Herbarium) ; Salisbury in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
vi. 3389. Bleria hirsuta, Thunb. Diss. Bleria, 8. B, Thunbergii, 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 805. Comacephalus incurvus, Klotzsch in 
Linnea, xii. 224; Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 790. 
SourH AFkIcA: without locality, Thunberg! Roxburgh! Sieber, 152! 
Coast Reeion : Tulbagh Div.; mountains near Saron, Schlechter, 10680! 
near Tulbagh Waterfall, Bolus, 7583! Winterhoek Mountain, Witsenberg 
Range and Vogel Valley, Ecklon § Zeyher, ex Klotzsch. 
The descriptions of Thunberg are doubtless chiefly, and that of Salisbury 
probably exclusively, based upon the specimen on sheet 8 of Erica hirsuta in 
Thunberg’s Herbarium. Salisbury has evidently dissected it and has written 
upon that sheet, but not on sheet a, which contains a very poor specimen (the 
type of A. glandulosus), with the flowers mostly destroyed. A specimen in the 
British Museum, collected by Masson and named Erica hirsuta by Salisbury, is 
Grisebachia hispida, Klotasch. 
4, A. glandulosus (Rach in Linnea, xxvi. 790) ; apparently 
laxly branched; branchlets minutely tomentose; leaves 4-nate, 
adpressed or imbricate, *-1} lin. long with the petiole, straight, 
linear-oblong, obtuse, flat with a median ridge above, very convex on 
the back (not compressed as originally described), shortly pubescent 
on both surfaces, ciliate with long simple hairs, and perhaps some- 
times with similar long hairs on the back; heads several-flowered ; 
pedicels 4-3 lin. long, bracteate at the apex; bracts adpressed to 
the calyx, the middle one about % lin. long, not much longer than 
the lateral pair, all linear, pilose and ciliate with long simple hairs, 
clammy; calyx # lin. long, divided to the base; segments about 
x lin. broad, lanceolate, obtuse, pilose and ciliate with long simple 
hairs, clammy ; corolla 1% lin. long, tubular, 4-angled, glabrous ; 
lobes + lin. long, rounded, erect; stamens 4, much exserted ; fila- 
ments nearly 2 lin. long, glabrous ; anthers { lin. long, linear, 
spurless ; ovary ovoid, subacute, 2-celled, glabrous; style imperfect, 
glabrous. Erica hirsuta, Thunb. Prodr. 72, and Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schultes, 358 partly, and Thunb. Herb. sheet a. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Rach has described the hairs on the branches, bracts and calyx as glandular, 
but I do not find them so on the type specimen, they are all simple, but very 
clammy. The leaves are also distinctly 4-nate, not 3-nate as Rach describes 
them. 
5. A. Schlechteri (N. E. Br.); about 6 in. high; branchlets 
erect or divergent and straggling, softly pubescent with spreading 
hairs; leaves 4-nate, suberect to spreading, 1-2 lin. long with the 
petiole, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, linear, obtuse, 
straight, about equally convex on both sides, minutely rugulose or 
tuberculate and pubescent with short spreading hairs, apparently 
viscid ; flowers in globose terminal heads about 3 lin. in diam., 
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