* 
Hermannia. | BYTTNERIACE®. (Harv.) 195 
stipules linear-lanceolate, not half as long as the leaf ; peduncles race- 
mose, mostly one-flowered, bracteate near the apex, bracts 2~3, subu- 
late ; calyx campanulate, nearly glabrous, the segments deltoid-cuspi- 
date, ciliate ; petals twice as long as the calyx, obovate, the claw as 
Jong as the limb ; fil, obovate, longer than the taper anthers ; ovary 
stipitate, ovoid, stellulate on the angles. Mahernia scoparia, L. & Z. ! 
404. H. filifolia, Drege / non Cav. 
Has. C.B.8., Masson/ Ried Valley and in Zwartland, Z.g Z/ Cape Flats, 
pr Peat Between Groenekloof and Saldanha Bay, Drege! (Herb, T.C.D., Sond., 
pode 1-1} feet long, several from the same crown, trailing and nearly glabrous. 
Leaves, save a few of the lowest ones, linear, an inch long, 1 line wide. . bright 
yellow, pendulous, in secund racemes. In Herb. Banks is a specimen marked ‘/. 
Jilifolia,” Lin. £.; and possibly it vam | be Linnewus’s plant. It certainly is not that 
of Cavanilles. Though referred by K. & Z, to Mahernia, its stamens are those of the 
most typical Hermannia. : 
32. EL linifolia (Linn.?) ; diffuse, suffruticose ; branches ascending, 
glabrous ; leaves sessile, tufted or scattered, linear-spathulate, sub-acute, 
tapering at base, flat, very entire, glabrous; stipules leaf-like, as long as 
the leaves, lanceolate, one-nerved, flat; peduncles laxly racemose, one- 
flowered, bracts subulate; calyx glabrescent, deeply 5-cleft, segments 
patent, lanceolate, acute; petals scarcely longer than the calyx, glabrous, 
the claw shorter than the broadly oblong limb; fil. linear-oblong, equal- 
ling the anthers ; ovary stellato-pubescent. 2. & Z.! 371. Drege, 7285. 
DC. Prod. 1. p. 4951 
Has. Karroo districts of George, Beaufort and Graaf Reynet, Z. ¢ Z./ Between 
Zwarteberg and Kendo, 23000 f. Drege! (Herb. Sond., Benth.). 
Nearly allied to H. filifolia, but more glabrous, with thinner and flatter leaves, 
less woody stems, and somewhat different flowers. Corolla strongly convolute, dark- 
fulvous or reddish orange. Whether this be the little known and imperfectly described 
HT. linifolia, L., I cannot tell. 
33. H. filifolia (Linn.?); erect, shrubby ; branches virgate, scabrid ;— 
leaves sessile, fascicled, narrow-linear, acute, thickish, very entire, glabrous; 
stipules like the leaves and equally long, subulate or lanceolate, one- 
nerved and somewhat keeled; peduncles racemoso-paniculate, 2-flowered, 
bracts filiform; calyx stellato-scabrid, somewhat 5-angled, 5-fid, the 
segments ovate-oblong, acuminate; petals not much exceeding the 
calyx, the ciliate claw much shorter than the broadly-oblong limb; fil. 
oblong, longer than the obtuse anthers ; ovary tomentose ; capsule 5- 
lobed and umboned, stellato-pubescent. DC. Prod. 1. p. 495. Cav. 
Diss. t, 180. f.3. H. & Z.! 372. Zeyher, 2013, 2004, 20107 126. 
Drege, 7288. 
Var. B. bides; branches and calyces more densely stellulate ; 
leaves shorter and fl. smaller. H. passerinoides, E. & Z.! 373. Zey. 
2008, ee 
ort Elizabeth and on the Karroo, near Graaf Reynet, E.gZ. Near — 
G pee sa A the Winterberg and at Gamke River, Zeyher! B. bg 2 ae 
wag elpr o Spe gpabrooe A dhecwking- black: fn deying-: Laneed san - 
souk a line wide, chanséled nbows, rounded helow, moetly us. Stipules sometimes 
longer and broader than the leaves. I haye no doubt that praia a 
