_ Acrostemon. | ERICACE® (Brown). 355 
lin. long, straight or slightly curved, tubular, 4-angled, contracted at 
the very shortly 4-toothed mouth, and faintly narrowed at the 
middle, glabrous; teeth broader than long, obtuse, connivent- 
incurved ; filaments 11~2 lin. long, linear, glabrous; anthers wholly 
exserted, 1 lin. long, linear, without spurs; ovary obtuse, glabrous, 
2-celled; style 23-3 lin. long, glabrous; stigma simple. Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 702. 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Zeyher! Bolus, 
5194! Ecklon & Zeyher, ex Klotzsch. 
8. A. viscidus (N. E. Br.) ; branchlets pubescent with spreading 
minutely gland-tipped hairs; leaves 3-nate, ascending or somewhat 
spreading, often shorter than the internodes, 1-2 lin. long with the 
petiole, linear, obtuse, ciliate and tipped with gland-tipped hairs, 
with 2 rows of similar hairs on the back and sometimes minutely 
puberulous besides when young, viscid; flowers 3-6 (or more ?) 
together, terminal and on short lateral shoots; pedicels 1 lin. long, 
bracteate at the apex, puberulous; bracts unequal, the lateral pair 
3~§ as long as the 3-1 lin. long middle one, linear, obtuse or acute, 
ciliate and beset with gland-tipped hairs ; calyx divided to the base; 
segments $—1 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliate and 
beset on the back with 2 rows of moderately stout minutely gland- 
tipped hairs; corolla 14 lin. long, narrowly ovoid-tubular, sharply 
4-angled, minutely puberulous outside, dull red (Guthrie); lobes 
minute, rounded or obtuse, erect; filaments 1-11 lin. long, glabrous ; 
anthers + lin. long, partly exserted beyond the corolla-lobes, oblong, 
spurless, smooth; ovary oblong, obtuse or slightly emarginate, 
glabrous, 2-celled ; style 14 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma capitate. 
Coast Recion : Ceres Div.; Ceres Flats, 1500 ft., Guthrie, 2181! 
Crentrat Reeion: Ceres Div.; Skurfdeberg Range near Elandsfontein, 
4500 ft., Schlechter, 10013! 
9. A. eriocephalus (N. E. Br.) ; plant 4-6 in. high, with spreading 
pubescent or minutely tomentose branchlets ; leaves 3-nate, spread- 
ing or the upper more or less adpressed, 3-2} lin. long with the 
petiole, linear to subovate, puberulous and beset (sometimes densely) 
with long fine hairs, becoming glabrous; heads terminal, globose, 
about 3 in. in diam., 3-12-flowered, very hairy ; pedicels $—} lin. 
long, bracteate at the apex; bracts unequal, small or minute, the 
lateral pair 2-1 as long as the 1—% lin. long middle one, linear, 
densely ciliate with long simple hairs; calyx-segments 1-14 lin. 
long, 1—2 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, densely covered on 
the back with long white spreading hairs, and beset on the inner face 
with much shorter gland-tipped hairs; corolla shorter than, equalling 
or rarely slightly exceeding the calyx, 1-1} lin. long, cylindric, 
4-toothed, but appearing subtruncate at the top, puberulous 
outside; teeth very small, rounded; stamens shortly or much 
exserted, according to age ; mature filaments about 1 lin. long, hairy ; 
anthers 1-2 lin, long, linear, To scabrous on the margins, 
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