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taper-pointed ; petals more than twice as long as the calyx, the ciliate 
claw nearly equalling the obovate limb ; fil. linear-oblong, much longer 
than the obtuse anthers ; capsule stellulate, umboned. 
Has. Caledon, Miss Joubert! (Herb. Sond.). 
It differs from H. flammea and H. flammula chiefly in the very short calyx, with 
taper-pointed segments, the longer and narrower petals and smaller flowers, and 
somewhat clustered inflorescence. 
37. H. angularis (Jacq. Schénb. t. 126); erect, shrubby;; branches 
stellato-scabrid, virgate ; leaves sub-fasciculate, sub-sessile, rigid, cuneate 
or linear-spathulate, truncate, mostly 3-5-toothed, glabrescent above, 
stellato-scabrid below ; stipules leafy, linear-acute, ciliate, one-nerved ; 
peduncles laxly racemose, short, 1-2-flowered ; bracts linear ; calyx in- 
Jlated-pyramidal, prominently 5-angled, glabrous and shining, deeply 5-fid, 
the segments broadly ovate, acute, ciliolate; petals scarcely longer than the 
calyx, the claws much shorter than the limb ; filaments linear-oblong, 
scarcely longer than the obtuse anthers. DC. Prod. 1. p.495. H. tri- | 
furca, E. § Z. ! ex parte; non Linn. nec, Jacq. 
Has. Hills about Stellenbosch; Hoow Hoek Pass ; Hemel and Aarde, &e., Z. & 
Z. Caledon, Dr. Alexander Prior. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D). 
A virgate shrub, 1-2 feet high, turning black in drying. Leaves ? inch long, 1- 
4 lines wide. Near H. flammea, from which it is readily known by its 5-angled, 
glabrous calyx. H. angularis, £.d: Z.is only H. hyssopifolia. Jacquin’s figure, ex- 
cept in having such large leaves, well represents our plant. 
Group 6. VeLutinm. Canescent shrubs (rarely under-shrubs) covered 
with very short and close, velvetty or powdery pubescence. Leaves shortly 
petiolate or sessile, entire or denticulate. Stipules leafy. Peduncles 
short, crowded or racemose. (Sp. 38-48.) 
38. H. hyssopifolia (Linn.); shrubby, erect ; branches virgate, stel- 
lato-pubescent ; leaves petiolate, obovate or lanceolate, obtuse or sub-acute, 
serrulate towards the apex, puberulous and sub-canescent on both sides ; 
stipules dimorphous, the lower small and narrow, the upper large, leafy, 
ovate or ovato-lanceolate or oblong, acute, one-nerved ; peduncles sub-ter- 
minal, 2—3-flowered, short ; bracts lanceolate, deciduous ; calyx globose, 
inflated, villous, 5-angled, the broadly ovate, mucronulate lobes conni- 
vent ; petals scarcely longer than the calyx, revolute, the claw shorter 
than the narrow limb ; fil. linear, much longer than the anthers; ovary 
oblong, stellulate. DC. Prod. 1.p.494. Thunb. Cap. p. 504. E. § Z. 
355. Cav. Diss. t. 181. 7.3. H. angularis, E. & Z.! 356, non Jacq. 
Has. Hills round Capetown, common ; and generally throughout the 
Uitenhage and Albany.’ (Herb. .C.D., Hook”, Sond. gg Sonnee 
Not much branched, 2-3 feet high, with long, simple, erect branches. Pubes- 
cence generally pale, not always so. Leaves commonly obovate and very obtuse ; but 
varying as above. Calyx bladdery. Petals pale yellow. 
39. H. ternifolia (Presl, Bot. Bem. p. 21.); shrubby, diffuse, slender; _ 
branches minutely scurfy ; leaves tapering at base into a short petiole. ~ = = 
cuneate, crenulate at the blunt extremity, stellulato-canescent on both sur- 
faces ; stipules leafy, spathulate, obtuse ; peduncles sub-racemose, short, — 
one-flowered ; calyx inflated, globose, sguamulose, the teeth short, deltoid; 
petals strongly convolute, the glabrous claw longer than the obovate limb; 
