184 BYTTNERIACE2 (Harv.) [Hermannia. | 
** Stems and branches virgate, slender ;-— 
Canescent; leaves linear-cuneate, entire or 2-3-toothed (66) trifurcata. 
Stellulate; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, entire ... (69) filipes. 
Glabrous; leaves cuneate; petals thriceas long as calyx (70) stricta. 
Sub-genus 1. EunERMANNIA. 
Capsule rounded or 5-umboned at the summit (not horned or crested). 
(Sp. 1-65.) . 
Group 1, AuruzomeE#. Diffuse or decumbent undershrubs or herbs. 
Leaves ovate or oblong, on longish petioles, plaited, crenate, or rarely 
incised. Pubescence 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.) 
1. H. comosa (Burch. Cat. 1683); “leaves tomentose, ovate, sinuato- 
dentate ; stipules lanceolate-linear ; peduncles 2-flowered ; calyx 1- 
Jflated, crinito-comose with ciliated appendices (calycibus inflatis appendi- 
cibus ciliatis crinito-comosis).” DC. Prod 1. p. 493- 
_ Has. 8. Africa, Burchell. (Unknown to me.) 
2. HL altheifolia (Linn.); diffuse or decumbent, densely tomentose 
and. patently villous; lower leaves on long petioles, ovate or sub-cordate, 
the upper oblong, rhomboid, or obovate, plaited or rugose, sub-entire OF 
sinuato-dentate or crenate, 5-7-nerved, softly tomentose on both sides, 
sub-canescent ; stipules leafy, 3—5-nerved, ovate or ovato-lanceolate; pe- 
duncles 2-3-flowered, longer than the upper leaves ; bracts linear or 
lanceolate, as long as the pedicels ; calyx tomentose and pilose, inflated, 
shortly 5-fid, the teeth deltoid-acute ; petals twice as long as the calyx, 
their narrow claws fringed with long white hairs, longer than the roundish 
limb ; ovary oblong, sub-sessile, densely hispid. Jacg. Hort. Schoenb. 
t.213. H. altheifolia and H. plicata, DC. Prod. 1. 493. Cav. Drss. t- 
179. f.2. Bot. Mag. t. 307. H. aurea, Jacq. l.c.t.214. E. § Z.! 323, 
H, diversifolia, E. & Z.! 324. H. disermefoha, E. § Z.! 325, non Jacq. 
4. fragrans, Link. Drege, 7300-7302, Zeyher, 2000. 
_ _ Has. Common on the hills round Capetown, Cape district, Clanwilliam, Beaufort, 
Swellend and Graaf Reynet, E.&Z.! Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). | 
_ _ IT cannot certainly distinguish “ H. plicata,” Willd., from the older H. althwifolia. 
Ibis said to have more cordato-ovate and hairy leaves, and ovate stipules ; but leaves 
and stipt 8 vary on the same specimen, and on specimens from same locality, 
persuaded that the more numerous the specimens examined, the less dis- 
two forms be found to be. H. diversifolia, E. § Z.! was founded on 
alf-starved specimens. H. plicata, E. & Z./ non Willd, is H. candi- 
(Presl, Bot. Bem. p. 20); diffuse or decumbent, 
tanescent ; lower leaves on long petioles, cordate at 
and crenate, plaited and rugose, 3-5-7-nerved, 
es, canescent on the lower ; stipules narrow- 
ered, short or longish, the bracts swbu- 
it, inflated, membranous, 
ich exceeding the calyx, 
