106... BYTTNERIACEE (Harv.) [Hermannia. 
his description is excellent ; but Jacquin’s (Hort. Schoenb, t, 123.) may be different. 
H. passerinoides, E. § Z. scarcely differs by a constant character ; but almost connects 
the present species with some varieties of H. flammea! 
34, H. flammea (Jacq. Schoenb. t. 129) ; erect or diffuse, shrubby ; 
branches virgate, stellato-scabrid ; leaves scattered or fascicled, sub- 
sessile, rigid, dimorphous, either linear-spathulate and acute, or cuneate, 
truncate and 3—4-toothed or sub-entire, glabrous or thinly stellulate on one 
or both sides; stipules leafy, linear-acute or lanceolate, one-nerved, 
shorter than the leaf; peduncles laxly racemose, short, 1-2-flowered ; 
bracts subulate ; calyx campanulate, 5—angled, thinly stellato-pubescent, 
semi-5-fid, lobes broadly triangular, acute ; petals about twice as long as 
the calyx, the ciliate claw shorter than the limb; fil. linear-oblong, much 
longer than the obtuse anthers; ovary pubescent; capsule oblong, 
umboned, stellulate. DC. Prod. 1.p.495. #. & Z.! 365-367, and 
partly 368, and 370. 
Var. a. Jaequini; leaves cuneate, 3—5-toothed, glabrous above, stel- 
lulate below ; calyx lobes spreading. Drege, 7271, 7273, 7292- 
Var. 8. polymorpha; leaves cuneate or linear-spathulate, often 
tufted, glabrescent ; calyx lobes erect or conniving. H. polymorpha, 
E. & Z.! 366. Drege, 7293. 
Var. y. faleata ; leaves pubescent, cuneate, 3—5-toothed ; stipules 
linear, sub-faleate. H. falcata, H.& Z.! 365. Drege, 7305, Zey. 2005- 
Has. Frequent on hills and mountain sides throughout the Colony. Uitenhage 
and Albany, common. Also about Muysenberg and Simon’s Bay. (Herb. T.C.D.; 
Hook., Sond.). 
Generally turns black in drying. Very variable in the shape, breadth-and size of 
the leaves, and the amount of pubescence ; but more constant in its flowers. Usually 
an erect, slightly branched shrub, 1-2 feet high. Nearly allied to H. filifolia. 
35. H. flammula (Harv.); erect, shrubby ; branches stellulate ; leaves 
sub-sessile, linear-cuneate, three-toothed or entire, densely stellato-pubes- 
cent on both sides ; stipules linear or lin.-subulate, leafy, not half as long 
as leaf ; peduncles somewhat racemose; one-flowered, as long as leaves; 
calyx campanulate, angular, stellate, deeply 5-parted, the lobes narrow- 
triangular, acute ; petals twice as long as the calyx, the hispid claw much 
shorter than the limb ; filaments linear-oblong, longer than the obtuse 
anthers ; capsule pubescent, umboned. J. trifurca, E. ¢ Z.! 37°, e& 
= parte; non Iinn. Zey. 2009. Drege, 7287. 
___ Has. Hartebeeste River, Caledon, and Vormansbosch, Zeyher! Swellendam, 
_ Thom! (Herb. Hook., Sond.). 
_, Very near H. fammea, but with smaller, more densely pubescent leaves, a more 
2 with narrower and more pointed segments, and smaller flowers. 
black in drying. It was formerly cultivated at Kew, and old garden 
without name, are preserved in Herb. Hook. E. & Z , confou 
‘trifurea,” the present plant, with H, flammea and H. angularis and 
@ ary.) ; shrubby, erect ; branches stellulate ; 
uneate or spathulate, the lower ones 3-toothed, 
ethulate ; stipules 4 as long as leaves, linear- ob- 
