180 BYTTNERIACE® (Harv.) [ Hermaninia. 
‘| I. WALTHERIA, Linn. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, ro-nerved, with or without a 3-leaved, 
lateral involucel. Petals 5, attached to the base of the stamen-tube, 
oblong, with slender claws. Stamens 5, opposite the petals ; filaments: 
united below into a tube; anthers oblong, erect, 2-celled. Ovary un- 
equal-sided, unilocular; ovules 2, one over the other. Style one, lateral ; 
the stigma multifid. Capsule unilocular, two-valved, one-seeded. Hndl. 
Gen. 5336. DC. Prod. 1. p. 492. 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees, common throughout the tropics of both hemispheres, 
and straggling into the warmer temperate zone. W. indica, our only species, is an 
extremely variable plant, being sometimes almost herbaceous and sometimes nearly 
arborescent. Under various forms and names it is found in all hot countries. The 
name is in honour of Augustin F. Walther, a Saxon botanist of the last century, the 
owner of a botanical garden at Leipsic, and author of several botanical works, 
1. W. indica (Linn.); shrubby, densely clothed with stellate and 
simple hairs ; leaves ovate, oblong, or ovato-lanceolate, petiolate, plaited, 
unequally serrate, penninerved, tomentose; stipules subulate, withering; 
heads of flowers axillary, sessile or pedunculate, dense. DC. Prod. 1. p. 
4933; also D. Americana, L., DO. 1. ¢., and several other reputed specres, 
see W.§ A. Prod. Fl, Ind. p. 67. 
_ Has. Macallisberg, Zeyher / (Herb. Sond., T.C.D., Hook.). : 
A more or less tomentose, erect or prostrate, branching shrub, very variable in 
aspect and in the form of the leaves, which are 1-2 inches long, and very roughly 
hairy. Flowers small, in dense clusters, not quite sessile in our specimens. When 
the heads are manifestly pedunculate, it becomes W. Americana, Auct. 
1G~To : Il. HERMANNIA, Linn. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, exinvolucrate, often inflated. Petals 5, 
hypogynous, with hollow claws, spirally twisted in estivation. Stamens 
5, opposite the petals ; filaments connate at base, flat, oblong or obovate. 
Ovary shortly stipitate, 5-celled ; styles coalescing, separable. Capsule 
coriaceous, 5-celled, 5-valved, many-seeded, simple or crested at the 
summit. Hndl. Gen. 5340. DC. Prod. 1. p. 493. 
_ Small shrubs and undershrubs, almost all South African ; a very few from North 
_ Africa and from Mexico/ Pubescence stellate or woolly, rarely glandular, copious 
oo alternate, either entire, toothed, or pinnatifid, sinuated or lace- 
rated, often plaited ; stipules petiolar, leafy or small, very rarely absent. Peduncles 
y or sub-terminal, often 2 pene or panicles, 1-3-flowered. Flowers 
yellow or orange, y cream-colour, or reddish ; often sweetly-scented. 
ur of Paul Hermann, a botanical traveller, afterwards Professor of 
nm; died in 1695. The species are subject to much variation, and 
are here retained may eventually be cut down, when fuller 
