Hermannia.] BYTTNERIACEZ (Harv.) 205 
hispid; leaves sub-sessile, deeply pinnatifid, the segments patent, linear, 
acute, ciliate ; stipules lanceolate, ciliate ; peduncles racemose, pedicels 
one-flowered ; calyx sub-glabrous, divided nearly to the base, the lobes 
lanceolate ; petals deeply inciso-pinnatifid. DC. Prod. 1. p. 496. 
Has. Uncertain. (Herb. Willd.!) - 
I describe from the original specimen in Willdenow’s Herb.; but consider this 
curious plant to be a garden monstrosity. If a genuine species, none can be more 
distinct. = 
Sub-genus 2, Acicarpus. 
Capsule truncate, crowned with 5-10, divergent, simple or plumose 
horns. (Sp. 66-70.) 
66. H. trifurcata (Linn.); shrubby, wirgate, canescent; branches 
downy or glabrescent ; leaves on short petioles, linear-cuneate, truncate, 
2—3-toothed, or entire and obtuse or sub-acute, canescent and pulverulent 
on both sides ; stipules minute, subulate ; peduncles racemose, one- 
flowered, pendulous, shorter than the leaf ; calyx campanulate, villous, 
semi-5-fid, veiny, the lobes ovate, acute ; petals twice as long, obovate; 
fil. obovate, shorter than the tapering, ciliate anthers; capsule plumoso- 
villose, truncate, ten-horned. DC. Prod. 1. p.495. Cav. Diss. t. 178. 
Ff. 2. Jacg. Schoend. t.125. Thunb.! Cap. p. 503. H. bicornis, E. & Z.! 
385, and Mahernia hilaris, E. & Z.! 389. M. incana, E. & Z.! 388. 
Has. Cape, Masson! Near Saldanha Bay ; along the Berg River and near Stel- 
lenbosch, and at Brackfontein, Z. & Z./ Silverfontein, and near Groenekloof, Drege / 
(Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond., Banks., Thunb.), 
2—3 feet high, pallid and more or less velvetty with very short hairs. Flowers 
violet or purplish, in terminal pseudo-racemes. #1. trifurcata of E. & Z.! is H. angu- 
laris, Jacq., for the most part. 
67. H. spinosa (E. Mey.!); shrubby, divaricately much branched, the 
branches glabrous ; leaves (small) petiolate, scattered, cuneate, sub- 
truncate, coarsely 3—5-toothed, minutely stellulate on both sides ; stipules 
minute, subulate, deciduous ; peduncles axillary, as long as the leaves, 
jointed, one-flowered, the lower half persistent and hardening into blunt 
spreading spines ; calyx glabrescent, veiny, deeply 5-fid, the segments 
broadly subulate ; petals narrow-obovate, not much longer than the 
calyx ; fil. linear-cuneate, shorter than the tapering anthers ; ovary 
crested ; capsules villous, with ten divergent horns. Mahernia spinosa, 
Burch. in DC. Prod. t. p. 497? Mahernia, No. 88, Herb. Eck.! Zey. 124. 
Has. Gamke River, Burke and Zeyher. Nieuweveld, Drege. (Herb., T.C.D., 
Hook., Sond.). 
bush, 6-12 inches high, with pale bark, and few leaves, Leaves 
} se ag. A coal, pede The ines = a of old peduncles, are }—} inch 
long. I cannot say whether or not this be Mahernia spinosa of Burchell ; but our 
plant is a Hermannia. 
68. H. linearifolia (Harv.); shrubby, divaricate ; branches glabrous 
or viscidulous ; leaves fascicled or scattered, narrow-linear or linear-lan- 
ceolate, tapering at base, obtuse, entire, glabrous and slightly viscid ; 
stipules subulate; peduncles racemose, cernuous, shorter than the leaf, 
one-flowered ; calyx semi-5-fid, glabrous, glandular, the lobes broadly 
