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Hermannia Alnifolia. Alder-Leaved 

 Hermannia. 



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MONADELPHIA PeNTANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Pentagyna. Cap/. 5-locularis. Petala bafi femitubulata, obliqua* 



Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 



HERMANNIA alnifolia foliis cuneiformibus lineatis plicatis 

 crenato-emarginatis. Linn, Syjl. Vegetab. cd, 

 14. Murr. p. 610. Ait. Kcw. v. 2. p. 4 12 « . 



ARBUSCULA africana tricapfularis ononidis vernae fingulari 

 folio. Pluk. Mant. 14. /. 239. /. 1. 



Hermannia is a genus of plants named in honour of Dr. 

 Paul Herman, a Dutch Botanift of great celebrity, author 

 of the Paradi/us Batavus, and other valuable works : twenty- 

 fix fpecies are enumerated in the 53th edition of the Syft* 

 Natura of Linnaus by Prof. Gmeli.v, and eight in the 

 Horius Kczven/is of Mr. Aiton ; molt of thofe in the latter work 

 are cultivated in the nurferies near town : they form a fet 01 

 the more hardy greenhoufe plants, grow readilv, and flower 

 freely ; their bloffoms are for the mod part yellow, and have 

 a confiderable affinity with thofe of the Mahernia. 



The prefent fpecies flowers very early in the fpring, from 

 February to May, producing a great profufion of bloom 

 during that period ; is a native of the Cape, and was culti- 

 vated by Mr. Miller, in 1728. 



It rarely ripens its feeds with us, but is readily increafed 

 by cuttings. 



The nurferymen near town regard this plant as the groJP 1 ' 

 larifolia of Linn. e us, calling another, equally common fpecies* 

 with longer and narrower leaves, alnifolia y and which does not 

 appear to be defcribed by Linnaeus or mentioned by M r « 

 Aiton ; our plant accords exaftly with the Linnasan defcrip- 

 tion of alnifolia, and there is we think no doubt of its being the 

 alnifolia of the. Horius KejBXtifis, and Mr. Miller's Di&Qtoty 



