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Mahernia.| BYTTNERIACEZ (Harv.) 213 
_ Stems trailing, with ascending or sub-erect branches. Leaves very generally bi- 
pinnatifid, but sometimes on the same root, simply pinnatifid, now and then 
sprinkled with minute, tubercular asperities, which also occur on stem, peduncles 
and calyx. Peduncles as long as, or much longer than the leaves. E. & Z.’s speci- 
men in Herb. Sond. has more obtuse flower-buds and broader and shorter calyx- 
lobes, but otherwise it closely agrees with the more common variety. The incision 
of the stipules, which De Candolle attributes to his M. resedafolia, seems to be a 
very variable character. Ecklon’s ‘‘ M. pinnata” is Hermannia tenuifolia. Our var. 
‘y- may possibly be a species. 
13. M. anthemifolia (Harv.) ; suffruticose, diffuse or procumbent ; 
stems pubescent ; leaves bi-pinnatifid, puberulous, the lobes very nar- 
row, linear, obtuse, channelled ; stipules ovate, amplexicaul, cut ; pe- 
duncles short, 2-flowered, with connate bracts ; calyx pubescent, deep- 
ly 5-fid, its lobes broadly subulate, acute ; petals ovate-oblong; ovary 
stellato-pubescent, obovate. 
Has. S. Africa, Zeyher! (Herb. Sond.) 
Very near M. bipinnata, but the leaves are more finely decompound, the lobes 
are much narrower and manifestly channelled, and the peduncles shorter. The 
habit is rather difterent, and the pubescence more copious. 
14. M. marginata (Turez. Mose. Bull. 1858. p. 221); suffruticose, 
decumbent, many-stemmed, small, thinly clothed with short, white, sub- 
stellate hairs ; leaves petiolate, ovate, obtuse, inciso-pinnatifid, the lobes 
obtuse, sub-canescent on both sides ; stipules ovate, acute; peduncles 
scarcely equalling the leaves, spreading, 2-flowered ; bracts ovate, acute, 
connate ; calyx deeply 5-fid, the lobes ovate-oblong, acute, half as long 
as the petals ; anthers longer than the filaments; capsule sub-globose, 
pubescent. M. geranioides, Harv. in Herb, 
Has. Springbokkeel, Zeyher/ No. 133. (Herb. Sond., Hook., Benth.) _ 
Root woody and thick. Stems cespitose, 3-6-inches long, slender and sub-—_ 
simple, spreading from the crown. Leaves t-1 inch long, deeply cut. Very like 9 ~~ __ 
the more pinnatifid forms of M. erodioides, but much more hairy, and with a diffe- _ a 
rent hairiness, with shorter peduncles, patent or deflexed in fruit, and shorter, 
nearly globular capsules. It is also allied to M. nana, of which it has the pubes- 
cence, but differs in foliage and flower-stalks, &c. , 
Group 3. Lacurironiz. (Sp. 15-19). 
15. M. coccocarpa (E. & Z. No. 397) ; sufiruticose or woody, much 
branched, erect or diffuse, glandularly pubescent and sub-glabrous ; leaves 
petiolate, oblong or linear, deeply incised or pinnatijid, the lobes obtuse, 
entire, or sparingly toothed, glandular or glabrous, or thinly stellulate ; 
stipules amplexicaul, ovate-acuminate, much shorter than the petiole ; 
peduncles filiform, much longer than the leaves, the bracts connate ; 
calyx-segments broadly subulate, acute, more than half as long as the 
obovate petals; ovary elliptic-oblong ; capsule thrice as long as the 
calyx. Drege, 7312. 
Var. @. ustulata; scrubby, rigid; leaves depauperated and more gla- — 
brous; flower stalks shorter. 
Haz. Konabh le, £. d Z./ Somerset, Dr. Atherstone, Mrs. Barber, 
Hills, beyond Fish River, Mr. Bunbury. 8. Assagaisbush, Burke. (Herb. T.C.D., — 
Hook., Sond.) 
A densely-tufted, branching, sub-erect, suffrutex, 6-12 inches high, sometimes — 
