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Hermannia.| BYTTNERIACE. (Harv.) 193 
short petioles, oblong or ovate, entire or crenate. Pubescence copious, 
closely set, roughly stellate. Flowering branches leafy, peduncles very 
short, densely aggregated in a terminal cluster. (Sp. 26-29.). 
26. H. cordifolia (Harv.) ; shrubby, robust ; branches virgate, stel- 
lato-scabrid ; leaves on short petioles, cordate or cordato-ovate, sub-acute 
or obtuse, rugose, prominently veined below, undulato-crenulate, 
densely stellato-tomentose on both sides, thick ; stipules ob/iquely de- 
current, broadly deltoid, shorter than the petioles ; peduncles sub-ter- 
minal, aggregate ; calyx urceolate, stellato-tomentose, the segments tri- 
angular, acute ; petals broadly obovate, glabrous, the claw as long as 
the limb ; fil. obovate, as long as the acuminate anthers. 
Has. Piquetberg, Zeyher! 111. (Herb. Benth., Hook.,Sond.). = 
Apparently a large and woody shrub, with the habit of Malvastrum strictum, but — 
leaves resembling those of Sida cordifolia. Leaves 1-14 inch long, very thick like 
coarse cloth to the touch. The stipules are remarkable for their oblique insertion, 
and are broader than long. The specimens seen are scarcely in full flower ; a single 
open flower in Herb. Benth. supplied the above character. 
27. H. salvifolia (Linn.); shrubby, spreading and much-branched ; 
branches densely stellato-hispid ; leaves on short petioles, linear-oblong 
or elliptical, quite entire, densely stellato-pubescent on both sides, 
thickish ; stipules acute, deciduous, either subulate or lanceolate; pe- 
duncles crowded at the ends of the branches, very short, flowers sur- 
rounded by numerous linear-subulate bracts ; calyx oblong, 5-angled, 
membranous and subinflated, stellato-villous, the teeth short, deltoid, 
connivent ; petals somewhat longer than the calyx, revolute, the claw 
much shorter than the oblongo-spathulate limb; fil. linear, longer than 
the anthers ; ovary stellato-pubescent. H. salvifolia, H. micans and H. 
involucrata, DC. Prod. 1.p. 494. Cav. Ic. t. 180. f.2. & 177. f.1. A. 
latifolia Jac. Schoenb. t. 119. 
Var. a. oblonga; leaves linear-oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, sub-acute, i 
4-6 times as long as broad. J. salvifolia, Auct. vetust.nonE.§ Z 
Var. B. ovalis; leaves exactly oval, obtuse, twice as long as broad ;_ 
stipules subulate or linear-lanceolate. H. micans, Drege! E. & Z.! 347. 
H. involucrata, E. § Z.! 354, and H. chrysophylla, 346, ex parte. Drege, 
7280. Zey.! 1993. ao eae 
Var. y. grandistipula ; leaves oval ; stipules leafy, broadly lanceo- 
late: 2223 eee & 
Has. Winterhock’s berg, Uit., Z. § Z.! Paarl., and Aasvogelberg, Drege! Va- 
rious other localities onan the Colony. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond., Banks.) 
A much-branched, very rough shrub. vars. a and 8 are very distinct in the 
shape of the leaves, but identical in other respects. Flowers small orange, the 
the tips of the petals rolling back. According to Herb. Banks, this is the true H. 
salvifolia, L., a species frequently confounded with others. I cannot distinguish 
H. involucrata, Cav. by any certain character. E. & Z.’s “ H. involucrata” is made 
up, partly of our plant and partly (perhaps chiefly?) of H. suavis, Presl. The sti- 
pules in the present species vary much in breadth, and in var. y. are almost leafy. 
28. H. ol lla & Z.! 346, ex parte) ; erect, shighhes a 
chrysophylla (F. bby 
branches densely stellato-hispid; leaves on short petioles, roundish 
elliptical, quite entire, densely stellate and very scabrous — i 
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