206 RYTTNERIACE® (Harv.) [ Hermannia. 
subulate ; petals obovate, flat, not much longer than the calyx ; fila- 
ments spathulate, rather shorter than the tapering anthers ; ovary top- 
shaped ; capsule obconic, crowned with ten divergent horns. H. lini- 
folia, E. Mey.! non Linn, . 
Has. Winterveld and Nieuweveld, Drege! Orange River, Burke & Zeyher! Somer- 
set, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.). 
A. stout woody, much-branched, scrubby bush, with densely leafy divergent 
— Leaves a line broad, nearly an inch long, mostly tufted. Flowers pur- 
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69. H. filipes (Harv.); slender, suffruticose ; branches stellato-pubes- 
cent ; leaves on short petioles, sub-distant, linear-lanceolate, acute at 
each end, quite entire, nearly glabrous, or sparsely stellulate ; stipules 
minute ; peduncles axillary, filiform, longer than the leaves, jointed, brac- 
teate, one-flowered, nearly glabrous; calyx campanulate, deeply 5-parted, 
glabrescent, segments from a broad base subulate ; petals scarcely 
longer than the calyx; fil. much shorter than the taper-pointed anthers; 
capsule glabrescent except the angles, shortly 5-horned. 
SS wa tee ——- Miss Owen! (Herb. RSs a 
istinct any described ies. I have seen a si specimen, 
soldaati-5 snag aiid The root “Syaenrs fibrous ; the stem pibcabihed, hed, 6.8 
‘inches high, the leaves 14 inch long, 1-2 lines wide, nearly an inch apart ; the 
peduncles 13-2 inches long and very slender, quite naked and strictly one-flowered. 
70. H. stricta (Harv.); shrubby, slender, minutely viscid, nearly gla- 
brous ; branches virgate, straight ; leaves sub-distant, on short petioles, 
cuneate-obovate, truncate, toothed above, glabrous, viscidulous; stipules 
minute, subulate ; peduncles racemose, one-flowered, jointed and 
minutely bracteolated below the flower ; calyx sparsely hairy and 
ciliate, deeply 5-parted, segments broadly subulate, mid-ribbed ; petals 
thrice as long as the calyx, broadly obovate, expanded ; fil. broadly spathu- 
late, much longer than the oblong, blunt anthers ; capsule with ten, plu- 
moso-villous horns. Mahernia stricta, EH. Mey.! Turcz. Mose. 1858, 
p. 222. 
Has. Between Natvoet and the Gareep, Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
_Readily known by its large, expanded flowers, which are very like those of Maker- 
nia grandiflora, or of an Ozalis, The stamens and inflorescence are those of a Her- 
mannia. It seems to be a small, slender and slightly branched shrub, more or less 
viscid, and nearly glabrous, save for a few scattered, stellate hairs. 
_ AppEnDix.—Doubtful, or little known species. 
I i. triphylla (Cav. Dis. 6. t. 178. f. 3, non Linn); “leaves roughish, 
ipartite, the parts cuneate, truncate and toothed at the apex, the inter- 
pet olate ; stipules lanceolato-subulate.” DC. Prod. 1. p. 494- 
H. glandulosa (Link, Enum. 2 = ually cre- 
maniosa (Link, Enum. 2. p, 179); “leaves oval, unequally cre 
any in? ee em acute, often incised ; stem glandu- 
H melechisiles Guach, Cal. a9¢7), © 
ually toothed: sae ee leaves glabrous, ovate, une 
—. ; Stipules ovate-acuminate : pedi | 
than the leaf ; filaments filiform-linear.”” Bebede qoecherarel shorter 
