354 ERICACEX (Brown). | Acrostemon. 
shortly pedicellate ; bract solitary at the top of the pedicel, adpressed to 
and about as long as the calyx, leaf-like, pubescent ; calyx cup-shaped, 
lobed to 2 (rarely only to half) of the way down, pubescent all over ; 
lobes erect, oblong or deltoid-oblong, obtuse, ciliate with sessile 
glands and having a whitish pulverulent patch on the back between 
the slightly raised margins ; corolla 1-1} lin. long, tubular, slightly 
narrowing downwards, 4-angled, slightly oblique, glabrous ; lobes 
erect, broader than long, rounded; anthers shortly exserted, basi- 
fixed, about as long as broad, oblong or cuneate-subquadrate, bifid 
to half-way, spurless, smooth; ovary 2-3-celled, glabrous; style 
1 lin. long, stigma simple. 
Coast Reeion: Bredasdorp Div. ; Rhenoster Kop, 50 ft., Schlechter, 10576! 
Cape Agulhas, 250 ft., Schlechter, 10559! 
The Cape Agulhas plant is much more slender and straggling than the other, 
and has a different appearance, but I do not find any other distinction. 
6. A. incanus (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 228) ; branchlets rather 
stout, whitish-tomentose; leaves 3-nate, closely imbricate, about 
1 lin. long with the petiole, 1-1 lin. broad, oblong to elliptic- 
ovate, obtuse, glabrous, at first ciliate with deciduous long 
white hairs; heads globose, 6-12-flowered; pedicels } lin. long, 
bracteate at the apex; bracts adpressed to the calyx, unequal, 
obiong-linear, obtuse, 3—3 lin. long, the lateral pair 2 as long as the 
middle one, all villous with long white hairs ; calyx 4 lin. long, lobed 
to & of the way down, villous with long white hairs; lobes ¢ lin. 
broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse ; corolla 2 lin. long, often slightly 
curved, tubular, 4-angled, glabrous; lobes very small, rounded, 
connivent-erect ; filaments about as long as the corolla, glabrous; 
anthers wholly exserted, 1 lin. long, linear, spurless ; ovary orbicular- 
oblong, obtusely pointed, glabrous, 2-celled; style 24 lin. long, 
renee exserted, glabrous; stigma simple. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vii. 702, 
Soutrn Arrica: without locality (distributed as Blairia articulata, L.), 
Drége! 
Coast Reaion: Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Heklon & Zeyher, ex 
Klotzsch. 
7. A. equisetoides (Klotzsch in Linnea, xii. 228) ; branchlets 
puberulous ; leaves 3-nate, adpressed-imbricate, 3-1} lin. long with 
the petiole, 11 lin. broad, ovate-oblong to linear-oblong, subobtuse, 
glabrous, ciliate with minute sessile glands and the youngest some- 
times tipped with a few hairs; heads globose, terminal, 6—9-flowered ; 
pedicels 2—$ lin. long, puberulous, bracteate at the apex ; bracts 
adpressed to the calyx, unequal, the lateral pair }—} as long as the 
3_] lin. long middle one, linear-oblong, subobtuse, ciliate with sub- 
sessile glands and long white hairs and more or less hairy on the 
back; calyx nearly 1 lin. long, divided nearly to the somewhat 
flattened base ; segments ovate or deltoid-ovate, acute, ciliate with 
subsessile glands and long hairs, hairy on the back; corolla 13-24 
