192 BYTTNERIACEZ (Harv.) [Hermannia. 
DC. Prod. 1. p. 495? E. & Z.!350, non Drege. H. biflora, HE. & Z.! 
35% 
Has, Tulbagh, £. § Z / Riebeck’s Casteel, Bergvalley and Langevalei, Zeyher! 
(Herb. Sond.) é 
An erect, shrubby plant, 1-2 feet high, extremely rough with rigid, scarcely stel- 
late hairs. Leaves turning dark in drying. Flowers orange-yellow. H. angularis, 
Drege! (non Jacq), judging from a fragment, seems to belong to the present 
species. : 
23. H. stipulacea (Lehm! in Eck. & Zey. En. 340.) ; shrubby, 
erect ; branches densely hirsute ; leaves sessile, oblong or sub-lanceolate, 
entire or denticulate at the point, stellato-hispid on both sides; stipules 
leafy, %as long as leaf, cordate-acuminate, ciliate and stellato-hispid ; 
peduncles racemose, short, 1-2 flowered; bracts ovato-lanceolate ; 
calyx campanulate, densely stellato-tomentose, 5-fid, the segment del- 
toid-acuminate; petals about twice as long as calyx, the hispid and 
ciliate claw equalling the ovate limb; fil, linear-cuneiform, much 
longer than the anthers; ovary ovoid, pubescent at the angles. Drege, 
4276. 
Has. Near the mouth of the Zwartkops, Uitenhage, Z. & Z./ near the mouth of 
the Orange River, Drege! (Herb. Hook., Sond.) : 
Very rough in all parts with tufted, patent hairs, but only tomentose on the calyx. 
Leaves crowded, erect, not £ inch long, about 1 longer than the leaf-like stipules. 
Flowers orange. Chiefly known from H. scabra by the sessile leaves and large 
24. H. latifolia (E. & Z.! 348.; non Jacq.); suffruticose, erect; 
branches virgate, stellato-pilose; leaves on short petioles elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse at each end, sub-entire or undulate and denticulate at point, 
sparsely stellato-pilose, specially on the ribs and margin; stipules leafy, 
broadly cordate, acuminate, tas long as leaf, 3-nerved and hispid; 
peduncles laxly recemose, longer than the leaf, 2-flowered, densely 
hispid ; bracts ovate, acuminate ; calyx campanulate, densely stellato- 
tomentose, the segments deltoid-acuminate; petals scarcely twice as 
long as calyx. 
Has. Winterhoek’s Mt., Uitenhage, Z. ¢ Z.! (Herb. Sond. 
Of this I have only seen a single ong It < veey: close re H. stipulacea, but 
the leaves are evidently petiolate and much larger ; 1-14 inches long, 3 inch broad. 
‘The flowers are similar, but rather larger 6 : 
. 
oo 25. HL decipiens (E. Mey.!) ; shrubby ; branches scabrid ; leaves 
sessile, densely set, erect, elliptic-oblong or sub-acute, 3-toothed at the 
cate extremity, stellulato-scabrid on both sides; stipules and bracts 
eduncles shortly racemose, 2-flowered, very short; calyx cam- 
ly stellato-tomentose, the teeth deltoid, petals somewhat 
azo ligpans fics yx, the woolly-edged claw longer than the limb ; fil. 
PREM Mig: a. the anthers ; ovary obovoid, tomentose. — H. 
c butrough. Flowers rather small, 
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