218 BYTTNERIACH (Harv.) [ Mahernia. 
Var. 8. glabrata; leaves obovato-cuneate, deeply cut, glabrous, as 
well as the branches and peduncles ; stipules ovate. MU. grandiflora, 
Drege! M. owalidiflora, E. & Z. 1 387. (non Burch. ). 
Has. Karroo Districts, Masson! Plains north of Litakun, Burchell. Nieuwe 
veld, Beaufort, Drege/ Gamke R., Zeyher / (Herb. Hook., Banks, Benth., Sond.) 
A branching shrub, 1-2 feet high, the young parts sprinkled with minute, stipi- 
tate glands ; sometimes almost glabrous. Leaves rather rigid, varying from cuneate 
to almost lanceolate, variably incised. Flowers large, funnel-shaped, pendulous, 
brick-red, sweetly scented, nearly 3 inch across. Stamens very short ; the anthers 
small, ovate, shortly cuspidate ; filaments with a narrow wing and obcordate, his- . 
pid, expansion below the summit. Mahernia stricta, E. Mey./ has the filaments 
and inflorescence of Hermannia, under which genus it will be found: in its mere 
corolla it closely resembles M. grandiflora. 
Group 5. Tomentosz. (Sp. 29-33). 
29. M. chrysantha (Planch. in Hb. Hook.) ; suffruticose, decum- 
bent, albo-tomentose ; leaves petiolate, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, sub- 
cordate at base, crenulate, corrugated, and at first pubescent, but grow- 
ing glabrous on the upper side, albo-tomentose with prominent nerves 
and veins on the lower; stipules membranous, broadly ovate, acute, 
cut ; peduncles elongate, with incised bracts ; calyx turbinate, woolly, 
semiquinquefid, with deltoid-acuminate lobes ; petals twice as long as 
the calyx, stellato-pubescent, with a narrow cucullate claw, and ovate 
limb; ovary obovate, densely tomentose. Turcz. Mosc. 1858. p. 219. 
Melhania chrysantha, E. Mey.! Herm. geniculata, E. & Z.! 321. 
Has. On the Zuureberg and between the Keiskamma and Buffalo River, Drege / 
Dornkopf, Burke’ (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
Larger and more woody than WM. betonicefolia, with 1 leaves and flower- 
stalks, longer and narrower petals, and more acuminate more woolly calyx- 
lobes, but in other respects so similar that we suspect it is merely a very luxuriant 
variety, and retain the species chiefly in deference to the opinion of other botanists. 
30. M. betoniceefolia (E. & Z.! 320); suffruticose, decumbent, albo- 
tomentose; leaves petiolate, elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, cordate at 
base, crenulate, corrugated and at first velvetty, afterwards glabrescent 
above, albo-tomentose, with prominent nerves and veins below; sti- 
pules membranous, broadly ovate, lacero-dentate ; peduncles equalling 
the leaves, with subulate, distinct bracts ; calyx swollen, tomentose, cam- 
panulate, semi-5-fid, with deltoid lobes; petals stellato-pubescent, 
_ scarcely longer than the calyx, cucullate, round-topped; ovary egg- 
: _ Shaped, pubescent ; style glabrous. Mahernia cordata, LE. Mey. ! in Hb. 
erg 5—6ooof, Drege! Thaba Unka and near the Vaal River, Zeyher 
. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.) 
rbaceous, not much branched, 8-12 inches long. Stems, petioles, pe- 
‘the under side of leaves densely covered with white, stellate, soft 
inch long, 4 inch broad, sometimes rounded, but mostly cordate at 
side with de venation and raised areole, and the mature ones 
31. M. vestita 
bust, flexuous; 
