Mov); 
210 BYTTNERIACEE (Harv.) [ Mahernia. 
deltoid, acute ; petals broadly obovate, flattish, twice as long as the 
calyx ; ovary obovate, puberulous. DC. Prod. 1. p. 496., non Cav. 
.& Z.! No. 446, ex parte. 
rs Rock HA oth Has. Hills about Groenekloof, Pappe! Simonsbay, WW Gillivray. (Herb. Hook., 
§. Cubwstla.ond.). te weet 
Stems trailing, 2 feet long or more, with many erect, simple branches, 4-6 inches 
3 high, branches and leaves generally scabrous, sometimes very rough, Stipules quite 
like the leaves, 3 inch long, 4 line wide. Always to be known from M. diffusa which 
- resembles, by its separate (not connate) bracts, and usually by its more simple 
eaves, 
Ned ued 4. M. diffusa (Jacq. Schoenb. 2. t, 201) ; diffuse ; the branches as- 
brous, the lobes linear, sub-acute ; stipules leafy, 3 or 4 in an imper- 
fect whorl, lanceolate, midribbed ; peduncles filiform, 2-flowered, brac- 
teate near the summit ; bracts ovate, connate into a bifid hood ; calyx 
campanulate, deeply cut, the lobes ovate, sub-acute, ciliolate ; petals 
broadly obovate, nearly flat, twice as long as the calyx ; ovary obo- 
vate, pubescent. DC. Prod. 1.p. 496. E. & Z.! No. 403. 
Var. 8. simplicifolia ; leaves varying to simple, and sparingly pin- 
natifid on the same branch. WM. verticillata, Auct. plur. ex parte. Cav. 
Ic. t. 176. f. 3. (quoad iconem) E. & Z.! No. 406, ex parte. 
Has. Hills round Capetown, extending to Hott. Holland, Blauweberg, and 
Jackal’s Valley, Zeyher ! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
_ Stems trailing, rough with raised, hard-points. Leaves and leafy stipules spu- 
riously whorled. Nearly allied to M. verticillata, with which it is very frequently 
confounded in Herbaria, and chiefly to be known by its more constantly pinna- 
tifid leaves, more deeply cut calyces, and specially by the connate bracts. 
5. M. humifusa (E. & Z.! No. 402); procumbent, all parts densely 
glanduloso-pubescent ; leaves on longish petioles, oblong, deeply incised 
or sub-pinnatifid, the lobes oblong, obtuse ; stipules leafy, 2-3-parted 
(spuriously whorled), the segments broadly lanceolate, sometimes clo- 
ven ; peduncles 2-flowered; bracts broadly ovate, connate; calyx 
campanulate, hairy or glandular, semi-5-fid, the segments ovate-oblong, 
sub-acute ; ovary roundish, pubescent ; capsule as long as calyx. 
Herm. procumbens, E. Mey. ! (non Cav.), and Herm. Drege, No. 7308, 
___, Has. Sand hills near the mouth of the Berg River and at Saldanha Bay, F. ¢ 
ee A — and between Groenekloof and Saldanha Bay, Drege! (Herb. Sond., 
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