Hermannia. | BYTTNERIACEZ (Harv.) 201 
1-14 inch long, $-3 inch wide. Flowers very rough. Petals strongly convolute, 
reddish-orange (?) Not nearly related to any other species. 
50. H. candidissima (Spreng., fide E. & Z.! 331); shrubby, much 
branched, canescent; branches albo-tomentose and stellato-hispid; leaves 
on long petioles, ovate or cordate-ovate, obtuse, sinuate or lobulate, crenate, 
plaited and undulate, densely stellato-tomentose on both sides; stipules 
lanceolate-linear, obtuse ; peduncles axillary, 1—2-flowered, short ; bracts 
linear, small ; calyx sub-globose, densely stellate and tomentose, the teeth 
deltoid, acuminate ; petals about twice as long as the calyx, pubescent 
and ciliate, the claw longer than the oval limb ; fil. broadly obovate, 
scarcely longer than the hastate anthers ; ovary pedicellate, ovoid, 
sparsely pubescent. J. vestita, ZH. Mey. in Herb. Drege. | 
Has. Karroo, between Beaufort and Graaf Reynet, £. & Z./ ssi okt Viekport 
River, Zeyher! Graaf Reynet, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
A bushy shrub, wholly covered with rough, pungent, densely fascicled white hairs, 
‘*which” (says Mrs. Barber) ‘“‘sting something like a nettle.” Leaves as broad as 
long, rarely exceeding} inch. In luxuriant specimens the lower leaves become some- 
what lobed. Drege’s 7298, from between Zwarteberg and Kendo, scarcely differs, 
except that the leaves are flat, not plaited, the stipules rather broader, and the habit _ 
less woody. 
51. H. floribunda (Harv.); shrubby, erect ; branches virgate, roughly 
stellato-pubescent ; leaves on longish petioles, ovate or sub-cordate, obtuse, 
repand or crenate, stellato-pubescent on the upper, tomentose on the lower 
side ; stipules subulate, scabrous ; peduncles axillary, two or more from 
the same axil, short, 1-2 or more flowered ; calyx campanulate, semi-5-fid, 
stellato-pubescent, the lobes deltoid-acuminate ; petals scarcely exceed- 
ing the calyx, the broad claw equalling the oval limb ; fil narrow- 
linear, longer than the acute anthers; ovary canescent ; capsule tomen- 
tose, as long as the calyx. 
‘Has. Vaal Rivier, Burke and Zeyher. Jan. (Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.).. 
Pte allied th a mete any other, but far less bay : 
orescence, , an . wering specimens, gathered Jan., are 
Herb. Hook’ ; tha cther specials sotn, eeliseied tn the wane toeslily, ai May have 
withered leaves and are in fruit. ‘ ee 5 oi 
52. H. boraginiflora (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 597); suffruticose, erect, stel- 
lato-pubescent and glandular; branches scabrous; leaves on short peti- 
oles, oblong or obovate, flat, dentate, thinly pubescent above, more 
thickly stellulate below ; stipules minute, ovate, acute ; flower-stalks 
axillary, 1-flowered, as long as the leaves, minutely bracteate above the 
middle ; calyx campanulate, laxly stellate, deeply 5-fid, the lobes subu- 
late; petals scarcely as long as the calyx, obovate ; fil. obovato-spathulate, 
much shorter than the taper-pointed, connivent and exserted anthers; ovary 
obovoid, pubescent. 
Has. Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher. (Herb. Hook , T.C.D.). es 
1-2 feet high, rather thinly pubescent ; the branches leafy below, flowering towards ee 
the ends, the upper leaves gradually smaller and narrower. Lower leaves 1 inch Mae 
long. The mae ee tapering, exserted anthers, in this and the two following = 
species, stand together in a cone, like those of a Borage. a ee 
53. H. micropetala (Harv.); suffruticose, erect, stellato-pubescent ; a 
leaves on short petioles, the lower oblong or obovate, toothed, the | pper - 
