Hermannia. | BYTTNERIACES (Harv.) 181 
incised, Pobabaue stellate and tomentose, copious or scanty. Flower- 
ing branches naked, or with a few small leaves, ending in a lax raceme 
or panicle, (Sp. 1-10.) | 
* Calyx inflated ; furnished with ciliated appendages ... (1) comosa. + 
** Calyx inflated, tomentose or vilious :— 
Densely tomentose ; stipules broad; petals with nar- 
row, woolly-edged claws... ... (2) altheoides. 7 
Stellato-canescent ; stipules narrow-lanceolate ; Petals 
with broad claws, stellate at back... ... (3) leucophylla. 
Thinly aera — and bracts broad ; “claws 
of petals cilia: (4) decumbens. ? 
etiin-pebieaccat leaves green ‘above ; ; stipules ovate (7) macrophylla. 
*** Calyx campanulate or cup-shaped :— peer a 
Procumbent, glabrescent; stipulesovate;capsuleshort (5) procumbens. ~~ 
Procumbent, stell.-pubescent ; a ‘cordate ; cap- : 
| sule 3-4 times as long as the cal yx (8) prismatocarpa. ~ 
} Erect or diffuse ; albo-tomentose ; stipules. subulate ; 
| _ capsule short ... .. (6) candicans, 
j Erect, sub-dichotomous ; branches, glabrescent ; ati- 
pules triangular ; filaments linear- -oblong ... ... (9) scordifolia. 
Erect, sub-dichotomous; branches hispid and scabrous; 
stip. ovato-lanceolate ; filaments obovate ... ... (10) patula, 
Group 2. Cuneifolie. Much branched, rigid shrubs, erect or spread- 
ing. Leaves on short petioles, ewneate and entire at base, ‘toothed towards 
the point, oblong, obovate or elliptical, plaited. Pubescence copious, 
stellate, or velvetty or scaly. Flowering branches short, leafy, loosely 
panniculate or racemose. (Sp. 11-18.) 
* Pubescence tomentose or coarsely stellate :— 
@ Leaves elliptic-oblong, very densely albo-tomentose 
V4 and stellate ; stipules subulate ... (11) disermzefolia. 
Leaves sub-rotund, stell. -pubescent ; stipules ovate. (12) disticha, — 
Leaves cuneate ; mfon subulate ; anthers short, ob- 
tuse.. (13) rigida. 
Leaves cuneate or - obovate, ‘tell. -pubescent ; stipules : 
ovate-cuspidate ; calyx albo-tomentose .. 14) cuneifolia, a 
Leaves cuneate, albo-tomentose ; stip. subulate ; ‘calyx ; 
minutely stellulate .. (15) eisercwtin. 
Leaves — undulate, ‘stell, “pubescent flowers oe eee : 
icled (16) alnifolia. — ae 
very smal 1, pani 
badiad ghee and eunescent, flowers ot 
y equally spread: acca Gay aleweel 
sae Pewter squamalose and silvery: stem divaricately 
_ branched (18) pallens, 
Group. 8. : “Suifruticose or shrubby. Leaves on short 
petioles, or sessile, oblong, coarsely crenate or sinuate, rarely sub-entire. 
Stipules leaf-like, mostly amplexicaul. Pubescence copious and very 
rough, the stiff, spreading, stellate hairs not uniformly spread, but sepa- 
rated by bald interspaces. Peduncles loosely racemose. (Sp. 19-2 a 
ee ea 
* Leaves white on the under surface : 
Leaves , unequally toothed ... .. ... (19) hirsuta. — 
_ Leaves inciso-sinuate, “Ayers wee eas Aas & (20) 
** Leaves green on both sides -— ae 
Suffruticose; fl. aggregated multibracteate (2 orn, 
leaves short-stalked, oval-oblong, wake: 
Suffruticose ; 
aA Shee —— cordate ; flowers racemose (24) 
