TO THE FIRST VOLUME. 589 
Stems 2-3 feet long, trailing, subsimple or branched. Petioles about uncial. 
Leaves 24-5 inches long, 13-3 inches wide, of thinnish substance, with prominent 
nerves and reticulate veins. Pubescence copious and rough, chiefly of stalked, 
stellate hairs, especially on the older parts. Flowers orange-yellow. This has quite 
the habit and even the cloven stipules of Mahernia chrysantha, but the filaments are 
those of a Hermannia, though extremely narrow. 
Page 209, after Mahernia heterophylla, Cav., introduce :. 
3.* M. Elliottiana (Harv.); erect, suffruticose ; the stems, leaves, 
peduncles and calyces densely glandular, with stipitate glands; leaves 
spuriously whorled, 2 or 3 or more in each whorl, pinnatifid or sub- 
bipinnatifid, the rest linear, entire ; peduncles much longer than the 
leaves, 2-flowered ; bracts 3—6-parted, the lacinie linear ; calyx deeply 
parted ; the segments narrow-lanceolate, acute, much longer than the 
calyx, obovate, retuse, tapering at base ; anthers bicuspidate. 
Has. Damaraland, Miss Elliott. (Herb. T.C.D., Hk.) 
Stems 6-12 inches high? copiously glandular and viscidulous in all parts. Leaves 
4-3 inch long ; leaf-stipules 3-4 lines long. Peduncles 14-2 inches long. The 
flowers are nearly as large as those of M. grandiflora, and of similar form and 
colour ; the foliage quite different. 
Page 211, after Mahernia pulchella, Cav., introduce : 
9.* M. vernicata (Burch. Cat. 1461. Trav. 1, p. 278); erect, suffru- 
ticose, glabrous, resiniferous ; leaves petiolate, inciso-pinnatifid or 
sub-bipinnatijfid, the bluntly-lobed lacinie and the sinuses very obtuse, 
the margin somewhat inflexed ; stipules small, oblong, subacute ; 
peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2-flowered; bracts connate, hood- 
shaped, incised ; calyx semi-quinquefid, resinous-dotted, the segments 
ovate, subacute, half as long as the obovate petals; ovary obovoid, 
stellato-pubescent. DC. Prod. 1, p. 496. 
Has. South Africa, Burchell; Modderfontyn, Namaqualand, Rev. H. Whitehead! 
erb. D. 
Ce yecy viailar to M. pulchella, but more copiously resinous, with a different calyx. 
In M. palchella the calyx-lobes are sensibly acuminate ; here they are broader, and 
barely acute. I describe from Mr. Whitehead’s specimen. 
Page 221, after Dombeya rotundifolia, H., introduce: 
4. D. densiflora (Planch.!); young branches stellato-tomentose, 
older glabrous; leaves subsessile, suborbicular, wnequally denticulate or 
multilobulate, densely stellato-pubescent on both sides, prominently 
3—5-nerved and netted beneath; peduncles equalling the leaves, sim- 
le or forked, tomentose, each arm densely 6—12-flowered ; involucel 
Teaflets narrow-linear, shorter than the bud, deciduous ; sepals lanceo- 
late, reflexed, tomentose ; ovary tomentose. 
. isberg, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 
Fels gcce a B this og DB. rothadifolia to which it is very nearl. allied, 
but from which it differs in the subsessile, much more densely stellate, thicker, and 
more acutely toothed leaves, and crowded flowers. Petioles 1-2 lines long. Leaf 
about an inch long and broad, subacute. 5 : 
5. D. osa (Harv.); young branches thinly stellulate, older gla- 
brous ; inte Melk stellato-tomentose petioles, cordate, acute or 
