: =a BYTTNERIACEZ, (Harv.) [Hermannia. 
thickish ; stipules narrow-subulate, deciduous ; peduncles in dense, 
terminal racemes ; bracts subulate; calyx campanulate, strongly 5- 
ribbed, stellato-scabrous, the lobes triangular-cuspidate, erect ; petals twice 
as long as the calyx, pubescent, the claw equalling the oval limb ; fil. 
broadly linear, longer than the anthers ; ovary stellato-pubescent. 
Has. Mts. between Langekloof and Winterhoek, F. & Z.! (Herb. Sond., Benth.) 
This has quite the aspect of the broad-leaved vars. of H. salvifolia, but very dif- 
ferent calyx and petals, and more orange flowers. E. & Z. partly confounded it 
with that species, 
29. H. conglomerata (E. & Z. 352); shrubby, divaricately much- 
branched ; branches stellato-hispid or scabrous ; leaves petiolate, cu- 
neate-ovate or sub-rotund, very obtuse, erenate or incised, plaited and 
undulate, glabrescent on the upper, fasciculate-hairy on the lower side ; 
stipules amplexicaul, cordate-cuspidate, pilose ; flowers crowded at the 
ends of the branches ; bracts subulate; calyx somewhat inflated, 
_ densely albo-villous and hairy, the lobes broadly subulate, acute; pe- 
tals not longer than the calyx, the claw about as long as the oval 
limb ; fil. linear, much longer than the anthers; ovary sub-globose, 
pubescent. H. glomerata, E. Mey. ! in Herb. Drege. 
Has. Karroo Plains. Near Sondag and Zwartkops Rivers, Uit., 2. & Z./ 
Zuureberg, Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
_A very spri , hispid shrub, 1-2 feet high. Leaves 1-3 inch long on petioles 
of half As ee 4 sites small and yellow, sub-capitate ; the calyces covered 
with long, white hairs. 
Group 5. Fuammex. Virgate shrubs and under-shrubs. Leaves 
sessile or sub-sessile, either cuneate, lanceolate or linear. Pubescence 
scanty, never copious, but variable in quantity, thinly stellate ; the 
hairs very short or appressed. Peduncles short, in a terminal raceme. 
(Sp. 30-37). 
th.) 
woody ; branches 
leaves sub-sessile, tapering at base, 
cuneate, often 3-toothed at the point, 
