186 BYTTNERIACEE (Harv.) [Hermannia. 
Presl proposed to call H. leucanthemoidea. 1 cannot guess what the H. Zeyheriana, 
Pres] may be. 
6. H. candicans (Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 412.) ; suffruticose, erect or 
diffuse ; branches albo-tomentose or stellato-pubescent, rarely glabres- 
cent ; leaves on long petioles, elliptical or ovate-oblong, obtuse, sub- 
entire or undulato-crenate, flat or somewhat plaited, albo-tomentose on 
one or both sides ; stipules subulate or narrow lanceolate, much shorter 
than the petiole ; peduncles racemoso-paniculate, 1-3 flowered, brac- 
teate near the summit ; bracts swbulate or lanceolate; flower-buds to- 
mentose ; calyx cup-shaped, albo-tomentose or pubescent, angular, 
semi-5-fid, the lobes deltoid-acuminate ; petals twice as long as the 
calyx, the glabrous claw longer than the oval-oblong limb; filaments 
obovate, equalling the hastate anthers ; ovary albo-tomentose. Jacg. 
Hort. Schoenb. t. 117. DC. Prod. 1. p.'494. H. premorsa, Wendl., 
non E.§ Z, Drege 7297, 7299. 
_ Var. a. ineana; leaves albo-tomentose on both sides ; stem canes- 
cent, sub-erect. H. incana, E.& Z.! 333. H. altheoides, E.§ Z.! 
334, ex parte. H. mollis, E.& Z.1 336. Willd. Enum. 692. DC. lc. 
— Beyher, 112. 
- Var. £. discolor; leaves green and stellato-pubescent above, albo- 
tomentose below. H. candicans, BE. & Z.! 327. H. plicata E.§ Z.! 
341. H. nemorosa, E. & Z. ! 335. H. discolor, Otto | and Dietr. 
_ Var. y. fistulosa; stems fistular, decumbent, glabrescent ; leaves 
minutely stellulate on the upper, canescent on the lower surface ; 
flowers in pedunculate racemes, H. fistulosa, H. & Z.! 
Var. 6. depressa ; prostrate, robust, but dwarf; leaves smaller, 
canescent below. 
Has. Frequent in Uitenhage and Albany. George, EF. &Z./ Schneeberg and 
various places in Caffirland, Drege! Somerset, Mrs. F, W. Barber ! var. y. near the 
ad River, 2. § Z./ 8, near the Zwartkops, Zeyher! (Herb. T.C,.D.. Hook., Sond., 
other characters. 
i of E. & Z. 
