* 
198 BYTTNERIACEE (Harv.)  [Hermannia. 
fil. narrow-linear, much longer than the obtuse anthers; ovary obovate, 
5-angled, pubescent. ZH. triphylla, Drege! non Cav. : 
Has. Between Groenekloof and Saldanha Bay, Drege/ (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., 
Sond.). 
A small, slender shrublet, canescent in all parts with very white, short, tufted 
hairs. The foliage is like that of H. trifoliata, but the inflorescence and calyces are 
very different. Stipules more than half as long as the leaves. 
40. H. trifoliata (Linn.); shrubby, erect ; branches virgate, stelulate; 
leaves crowded, sub-sessile, cuneate, truncate or emarginate, entire or 
erenulate at the point, stellato-canescent on both sides ; stipules leaf- 
like and nearly as long as the leaf, broadly oblong or elliptical, obtuse ; 
flowers densely crowded at end of branches, on short 1-2-flowered pedun- 
cles; calyx globose, 5-angled, somewhat inflated, 5-fid, densely stellulate, 
the lobes ovate, acute ; petals strongly convolute, the claw shorter than 
the broadly cuneate, spreading limb ; fil. oblong, longer than the sub- 
acute anthers, DC. Prod. 1. p. 494, non E. & Z. Cav. Diss. t. 182. f. 2- 
HI. imbricata, E. & Z. 381. 
Has. Between Cape L’Agulhas and Potberg, Drege! Paardekop, near Pletten- 
burg Bay, £. ¢ Z./ “Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Baa. . 
_ A densely leafy, strongly woody, but small shrub, Leaves imbricating, }-1 inch 
long, tapering much at ; the stipules 3-3 as long, called ‘lateral leaves” by 
Linneus. Pubescence short and close, often yellowish, velvetty. Corolla deep 
41. H. suavis (Presl, Bot. Bem. p.21); shrubby, erect, much branched; 
branches tomentose ; leaves obovate or obcordate, round- topped, entire, softly 
villous and stellato-canescent on both sides ; stipules leaf-like and nearly 
equalling the leaves, oblong or elliptical, obtuse ; fl. crowded towards 
the ends of the branches, sub-sessile ; bracts linear ; calyx urceolate, 
stellate and villous, 5-toothed, the teeth deltoid, connivent ; petals revo- 
lute, the claw shorter than the narrow, strap-shaped limb ; filaments 
oblong, longer than the small, obtuse anthers ; ovary stellate and tomen- 
tose, hispid at top. H. involuerata, E. &: Z.! ex parte. Drege, 7268. 
_ Has. Between Coega and Sondag Rivers ; and Cradockstaad, near Port Elizabeth, 
&e., E&Z.! Small Deel, Burke! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
Near H. trifoliata, under which name it occurs in Herbaria ; but differing in foliage, 
i iedieeclened, So allied to H. hyssopifolia. Flowers pale yellow or 
her! Breede River, Drege! 8, Storm 
*b. Hook., Sond). 
ence of a different structure. 
flat scales, stellulate at the 
