Hermannia. | -BYTTNERIACEH (Harv.) 185 
their broad claws stellato-pubescent at back, much longer than the round- 
ish limb ; ovary pedicellate, broader than long, stellato-pubescent. ZH. 
plicata, BE. Me ey.! in Herb, Drege. 
Has. Winterveld and Nieuweveld, Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
Very similar to H. altheifolia, of which it has the habit and foliage ; but the sti- 
pules and bracts are smaller, narrower and more acuminate ; the pubescence is more 
stellate and less tomentose, without intermixture of long, white hairs ; the petals 
have much broader claws and smaller limbs, and are stellato-pubescent at back, in- 
stead of being fringed with long white hairs ; the ovary is shorter, and evidently sti- 
pitate. These characters, if constant, may define the species. : 
4. H. decumbens (Willd.! Suppl); decumbent, suffruticose, more or 
less fasciculato-pubescent or glabrescent; leaves petiolate, elliptic-oblong 
or ovate, obtuse, either sub-entire, crenate or coarsely toothed, sparsely 
stellate or glabrescent on the upper, more densely stellato-pilose on the 
lower surface ; ovate or ovato-lanceolate, ciliate or sub-glabrous ; 
flowers in a pedune: , terminal, lax raceme, pedicels short, very 
hispid ; bracts irondly ovate or ovato-lanceolate, glabrescent ; calyx some- 
what inflated, semi-quinquefid, hispid or villous ; lobes deltoid, acute ; 
petals twice as long as the calyx, the ciliate claw longer than the limb ; 
filaments narrow-spathulate, longer than the anthers ; ovary ellipsoid, 
pubescent. DC. Prod.1.p.494. H.& Z.! 328; also H. pratensis, E. 
& Z.! 327; and H. collina, EH. & Z. ! 326. H. argyrata, Presl! Drege, 
73°93; 7304. 
Var. « hispida ; densely stellato-hispid, especially on the young 
branches and peduncles. Willd.! Herb. Ber. 12,327. H. decumbens, H.&Z.! 
Var. £. argyrata; stellato-canescent, with very broad bracts. 
Var. y. collina; the leaves glabrescent, sub-entire or crenulate. H. 
collina and H. pratensis, Ed Z.1 
Has. Sandy flats. ee) iste Casein, and near the Pot and 
Klynrivers, Caledon, E. & Z.! LA and ton sees! 
Kalebaskraal, Zeyher! (Herb. Willd., Ton, Hook., Sond.). 
A smaller, ro her and greener plant than H. ft hetag ora - calyces, ace 
inwe Face nie folceeuieae and very broad, sub-glabrous es All the above — 
forms run into each other. Ais 
5.H. procumbens (Cay. Diss. t. 177. 4 as Kp XG Rss, pric. 
bent, glabrescent ; ia tenuis long, sub-simple, ascending, sparsely- 
stellulate ; leaves epee petiolate, oblong or obovate, obtuse, coarsely 
fla or thinly stellulate on the under-side ; 
ules ovate, - than the petiole ; * peduntles racemose, droop- 
ing, oA one flowered ; bracts minute ; calyx campanulate, nearly 
glabrous, shortly 5-fid, the lobes ovate, acute ; ; petals twice as long as 
the calyx, the claw as long as the limb; filaments cuneate ; much — 
longer than the anthers ; ovary obovoid, pubescent. DE. Prod. 1. p. 
495. £.¢ 2. 320, ex parte, 
Has. Common among the Euphorbia Caput Meduse at Greenpoint, lay 2 oe aA 
in ; where water lies in winter. (Her, T.0.D,, Hak. Fro ae 
ee ee an on the ground generally quite — 
Howe 1-2 feet | Young leaves thinly stellulate, older glabrous or SS 
‘No. "329 belong to Mahernia vesiearia ; ‘these ‘seem to 
