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pericarpiiim is a roundish capsule, five-sidod, 

 Jivc-cclled, gaping at the top : the seeds very 

 many, small, (kidney-t'orni). 



The s|>ecies cuUivated are: 1. H. alllifp'i folia. 

 Marsh Mallow-leaved Ilermannia; 2. //. nlni- 

 folia, Alder-leavcd Herniannia ; 3. H. hyssopi- 

 fol'ia, Hvssop -leaved Herniannia ; 4. H, laven- 

 diil'ifol'a, r>avender-leaved Hennannia; 5. H. 

 ^ro^ui'arij'olic/. Gooseberry- leaved Hennannia. 



The first seldom rises more than two feel and 

 a half high : the stem is not very woody, and 

 the branches are soft and slender. The flowers 

 are produced in loose panicles at the ends of the 

 branches ; arc larger than those of the alder- 

 leavcd sort, and have hairy calyxes : thev come 

 out in June and July, and frequently again in 

 the autumn. It is a native of the Cape. 



The second species rise* with a slirubby stalk 

 six or eight feet high, dividing into manv erect 

 irreffular branches, covered with a brown bark : 

 the leaves narrow at their base, but broad and 

 round at the top, about an inch long, and three 

 quarters of an inch broad at the top : the flowers 

 are produced in short spikes on the upper part of 

 t!ie branches ; are of a pale yellow colour, and 

 small ; appcarins: in April and May. 



The third rises with a shrubby upright stalk 

 to the height of seven or eight feet, sending out 

 many woody lateral branches, growing very 

 erect : the leaves are about an inch and half 

 long, and half an inch broad, serrate towards 

 the end : the flowers come out in small bunches 

 from the side of the stalk ; are of a pale straw 

 colour, appearing in May and June, and fre- 

 quently followed by seeds, which ripen about 

 the end of August. 



The fourth species has shrubby branching 

 stalks, which are very bushy, but seldom rise 

 more than a foot and half high ; the branches 

 are very slender, and have hairy, palc-gretii 

 leaves of diflferent sizes ; some of them two 

 inches long, and an inch broad at their ends, 

 but their common size is seldom more than one 

 inch lontr, and half an inch broad ; they are en- 

 tire, and sit pretty close to the branches. The 

 flowers come out from the side of the stalk 

 singly, are small and yellow, continuing mosi 

 part of the summer. 



The fifth is a shrub of lower stature than the 

 alder-leaved sort, but sends out a great number 

 of branches, which spread wide on every side; 

 the leaves arc smaller than in that, rough and 

 sessile : the flowers are produced in short close 

 spikes at the end of cver\- shoot, so that the 

 whole shrub seems covered with them ; they are 

 of a bright vellow, and appear towards the end 

 of April, but are not succeeded by seeds in 

 this climate. 



CiUure. — ^Tlu'sc plants ar^* aH capable of being 

 increased bv planting cuttings of their young 

 shoots in thic early .sprinfj and «i;niiiicr months, 

 in pots of good rii'h earth, plunging then) in llie 

 first cise m a moderate hot-bed, and giving 

 them proper shade and wafer. 



When they have stricken goixl root thoy should 

 he removed with balls of earth about them into 

 separate pots, filled with good light Iresii earib, 

 placuig them in a sliadrd situation till perfectly 

 re-established; when thev should he exposed to 

 the open air during the summer, but in the 

 autumn and w inter protected in the »r;-en-house, 

 being deposited in an airy situation with myr- 

 tles and other similar plants. 



They ma\ likewise be raised from seed when 

 it is good, here, or procured from abroad, by 

 sowing it in pots of good mould, and plunging 

 them in a hot-bed. The plants should be re- 

 moved when of proper growth. 



They aflord ornament and vaiiely among 

 other potted evergreen i)lants. 



IIEHNAXDLA, a genus comprising plants 

 of the evergreen exotic tree kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Alonoecia 

 Triandr'Wf and ranks in the natural order of 

 Tri(vccaf. 



The characters are : that the male flowers arc 

 by pairs, lateral in each imibel : the calyx is a 

 partial involucre, four-leaved, three-flowered : 

 leaflets ovate, obtuse, spreading very nmch : 

 there is no perianthium : the conjlla has six pe- 

 tals, subovate, spreading; the three inner ones 

 narrower: nectars', six glands, round-headed, 

 placed round the filainents : the stanuna consist 

 of six filaments (three) shorter than the petals, 

 inserted into the receptacle : anthers upright, 

 oblong, large : feiualc flower intermediate : the 

 calyx is an involucre coinmon with the males : 

 perianthium inferior, one-leafed, bell-shaped, 

 entire, permanent (inflated) : the corolla has 

 eight petals, of whicli four are interior and nar- 

 rower, all sittingon ihegerm (petalssix) : thenec- 

 tary has four glands, obovate, alternate with the in- 

 terior petals : the pistillum is a roundish germ : 

 style filiform : stigma oblique, somewhat fun- 

 nel-shaped, large : the pericarpiiim is a dry 

 drupe, ovate, eight-furrowed, one-celled, in- 

 closed in a very large, inflated, roundish, fleshy, 

 coloured perianthium, with the mouth entire : 

 the seed is a globular nut, which is slightly 

 depressed. 



The species cultivated is H. sonora, Whist- 

 ling Hernandia. 



ft is in its native situation an upright lofty 



tree, with an elegant head : the flowers are of a 



pale yellow colour, in panicled racemes ; the 



calyxes of the fruit are vellow. It i* commen 



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