Hermannia. | BYTTNERIACE (Harv.) : 189 
from any of these. It is a tall, straggling plant, remarkably rigid when dry, with a 
rough, but not a copious pubescence. The leaves are strongly plaited on the upper 
surface, the ribs very prominent below ; they are 3 inch long, 4 inch wide ; the pe- 
tioles ¢ inch long. Flowers yellow. ’ 
14. H. cuneifolia (Jacq. ! Schoenb. t. 124.) ; shrubby, much branched; ¢ mts 
branches stellato-pubescent ; leaves on short petioles, cuneate or obo- —— 
vato-cuneate, obtuse, crenato-dentate toward the point, stellato-pubes- af 
cent on both sides ; stipules ovate-cuspidate or broadly subulate ; pe- 
duncles racemoso-paniculate, 2-flowered, spreading ; bracts ovate-acute ; Soi 
calyx cup-shaped, albo-tomentose, 5-fid, the lobes deltoid ; petals twice 
as long, the claws equalling the limb ; filaments obovate, longer than 
the anthers ; ovary oblong, tomentose. DC. Prod. 1. p. 495. #. & Z. 
342, and H. premorsa, E. § Z.! 338. H. alnifolia, Drege! H. mul- 
tiflora, Jacq. ! Schoenb. t. 128. ~ ae 
Has. About Capetown, &c. on mountain sides, Z. dé Z.! &c. common. (Herb. 
T.C.D., Sond.) ; 
A rigid, much-branched, scrubby, sometimes prostrate bush, much resembling 
H. alnifolia in foliage ; but with flowers twice as large as in that species. I can- 
ee: distinguish H. multiflora, Jacq. by any tangible characters. owers bright 
yellow. 
15. H. desertorum (E. & Z. 382.); shrubby, divaricately much 
branched ; young twigs thinly tomentose; leaves on short petioles, 
broadly cuneate, plaited, coarsely toothed near the rounded apex, albo- 
tomentose on both sides ; stipules swbulate, equalling the petioles ; pe- 
duncles racemose, short; calyx campanulate, angularly ventricose, 
minutely and sparsely puberulous, 5-toothed, the teeth distant, cuspidate ; 
petals twice as long as the calyx, the claw equalling the limb ; fila- 
ments obovate, as long as the taper-pointed anthers ; ovary 5-lobed, 
pubescent. 
Has. Desert plains near Graaf Reynet, £. d Z.! Gamke River, Burke & 
123. (Herb. Sond., Hook.) =e eer sidan Zo 
A scraggy, small bush with woody branches and few leaves and flowers. It is 
closely allied to H. cuneifolia, but has canescent leaves and young branches and a _ 
issimilar calyx. It has the habit of some forms of H. pallens, but a very different 
16. H. alnifolia (Linn.) ; shrubby, much branched ; branches stel- _ 
lato-pubescent ; leaves on short petioles, broadly cuneate or obovate, —- 
undulate and plaited, subtruncate, and crenlato- entate toward the 
point, stellato-pubescent on both sides; stipules ovate cuspidate ; 
flowers (small) racemoso-paniculate, peduncles 2-3-flowered, short ; 
calyx cup-shaped, Paened, sparsely stellate, 5-fid, with deltoid-acumi- 
nate lobes ; petals twice as long as the calyx, the ciliate claw as long 
as the limb; filaments obovate, as long as the cuspidate anthers ; 
ovary albo-tomentose, ovoid. Jacq. Schoend. t.291. Cav. Diss.t. 179. 
ft. Bot. Mag. t.229. Zey. 1985. H. almfolia and H. multiflora, 
E.§ Z. H. hirsuta, Drege. ee 
eso Hook., Sond. bed kavian ton 
ther erect, spreading or ; when starved, having Ves 4-3 
upper surfaces of old leaves glabrescent, Flowers of small size, but in rehk aie 
