190 BYTTNERIACEZ (Harv.) [Hermannia. 
dance; bright yellow. Chiefly known from H. cuneifolia by its much smaller 
flowers and more branching inflorescence. 
17. H. holosericea (Jacq.! Schoenb. t. 292.); shrubby, much 
branched ; branches velvetty-canescent ; leaves on short petioles, ellipti- 
eal or obovate, somewhat cuneate at base, rounded and crenulate at 
the apex, penni-nerved, velvetty-canescent on both sides ; stipules lan- 
eeolate, as long as the petioles; flowers (small) in drooping, unilateral, 
branched racemes ; peduncles 2 or more together, short, 2—4-flowered ; 
calyx obconic, velvetty, 5-toothed, teeth deltoid-acuminate ; petals 
twice as long as the calyx, the claw exceeding the limb, nearly gla- 
brous ; filaments oblong, as long as the anthers ; ovary ellipsoidal, to- 
mentose. D.C. Prod. 1. p. 495. H. incana, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 525: 
Has. Dry, rocky ground in Uitenhage and Albany, common. E. & Z.! &e. 
(Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) . 
A much-branched shrub, resembling H. alnifolia, but differing in pubescence, 
&c. Leaves 1-3 inch, rarely 1 inch long, varying in shape from exactly elliptical 
to obovate-oblong and cuneate. Flowers abundant, but small, yellow. 
18, H. pallens (BE. & Z.! 378.); shrubby, divaricately much 
branched, stellato-squamulose and canescent; leaves petiolate, obcordate 
or obovate, entire or crenulate near the apex, one-nerved, squamulose 
on both sides ; stipules ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, shorter than 
the petioles ; peduncles racemose, 1-2-flowered; bracts short, ovate ; 
calyx cup-shaped, sgwamulose, 5-toothed, the teeth broadly deltoid, 
acute ; petals twice as long as the calyx, pubescent, the wide claw 
equalling the oval limb; ovary stellato-squamose, oblong and 5-umbo- 
nate. H. flammea, var. Drege! H. secundiflora, E. d: Z. ! 380. 
Var. 8. glabrescens ; leaves glabrescent, very sparingly scaly. /. 
multiflora, Drege! 
. ScaBeRRima, Suffruticose or shubby. Leaves on short 
oblong, coarsely crenate or sinuate, rarely sub-entire, Sti- 
ike, mostly amplexicaul, Pubescence copious and very 
aces. Peduncles loosely racemose. (Sp. 19-25.) 
& Wendl. ! Sert. Han. t. 4); suffruticose, 
pid with spreading, white bristles ; leaves 
plicate, eroso-dentate, ciliate, sparsely 
villous below; stipules cordato- 
iculate ; filiform, longer 
bracts lan- 
