Mahernia.} BYTTNERIACEA (Harv.) 219 
penni-nerved below ; stipules ovate-oblong, unequal-sided, foliaceous, 
mostly entire; peduncles shorter than the leaves, with subulate, distinct 
bracts ; calyx campanulate, very deeply 5-fid, with ovato-subulate, acu- 
minate lobes, as long as the stellato-pubescent, ovate-limbed petals; 
ovary sub-globose, stellato-pubescent. 
Has. Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. Hook.) 
Stems 8—12 inches long, robust, somewhat zig-zag and and paniculately branched, 
the lateral branches floriferous, with smaller leaves. Leaves 1} inches long, 1 inch 
wide, thickish, soft and velvetty. This is nearly related to M. betonicefolia, but 
the leaves are not cordate at base, nor corrugated ; the stipules are different, the 
peduncles shorter, and the se much more ly cleft, with much narrower and 
more acuminate segments. e stem is more robust, more woody and erect. 
32. M. oblongifolia (Harv.) ; suffruticose, decumbent; young branches 
tomentose, the older pubescent or glabrescent ; leaves cuneate at base, 
narrow and elongate-oblong, obtuse, repando-denticulate, especially in 
the upper half, more or less tomentose, the older pubescent; stipules 
(withering) ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, deeply incised ; peduncles scarcely 
as long as the leaves, tomentose, 2—3-flowered, with incised bracts ; calyx 
Beotensins deeply cut, with broadly subulate segments half as 
ong as the narrow-obovate petals; petals obovate pubescent. Herm. 
humilis, E. Mey. in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Between Caledon, and Thaba Unka and Siebenfontein, Burke and Zeyher ! 
zoe 114. Between Sternsbergspruit and Kraunberg, 4500f. Drege/ (Herb. Hook., 
' Sond., T.C.D. 
A more eenabiet plant than M. abyssinica, with much larger and longer and 
less toothed leaves, much attenuated at base, an albo-tomentose calyx and larger 
(red or purple ?) flowers. Leaves 2 inches long, } inch wide, of thin texture ; sti- 
pules membranous, many ribbed. Zeyher's No. 114 is more tomentose than usual, 
but not otherwise different. 
33. M. tomentosa (Turcz. Mose. 1858., p. 218); suffruticose, sub- 
erect and sub-simple, albo-tomentose; leaves on short petioles, broadly 
linear, cuneate at base, coriaceous, entire, denticulate near the apex, 
obtuse or sub-acute, canescent on both surfaces, penni-nerved on the 
lower; stipules subulate, equalling the petioles; peduncles scarcely as 
long as the leaves, with subulate bracts ; calyx turbinate, deeply cut, with 
broadly subulate, acute lobes; petals not much longer than the calyx, 
pubescent on the claw only, with an ovate glabrous limb; jil. narrow- 
linear, hispid on the outside ; ovary oblong, canescent. M. angustifolia, 
- Has. Macallisberg, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.). 
~ Root woody. Stems tufted, 3-4 inches high, sub-simple and cesor Leaves 2 
inches long or more, } inch wide, nearly linear. Fl. stalks 1~11 inches long, mostly 
one-flowered. About the size of Melhania Burchellii, and much resembling it. Its 
stamens are scarcely those of a Mahernia, but neither are they those of a Herman- 
nia ; and the habit is that of the present genus. 
Aprenpix. Little known and doubtful species. 
“EE resedeefolin (Burch. Col. 2360); “leaves glabrous, pinnatipe- 
tite, the lobes linear, entire ; stipules deeply trifid.” 
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