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HERMANNIA TENUIFOLIA. FINE-LEAVED 
HERMANNIA. 
Clafs and Order. 
MoNnADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Generic Chara&er. 
Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus. Peftala 5, fpiraliter cucullata. 
Filamenta lanceolata. Styli 5, in unum approximati, Cuap/. 
_ §-locularis polyfperma. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
HERMANNIA fenuifolia ; foliis pinnatifido-linearibus. 
We know of no fpecies of Hermannia with leaves 
fo finely divided as the one of which we now prefent a figure, 
drawn feveral years ago from a plant, at that time we believe 
in poffeffion of the late Mr. Curtis; but which we have never 
Met with in any of the colleétions that we have examined. 
There is a defe€tive fpecimen in the Bankfian Herbarium, 
under the name of decompofita, which appears like it. 
Native of the Cape, requiring a greenhoufe and the fame 
treatment as the reft of the genus, © 
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