: PLATE CLXI. | 
HERMANNIA PULVERATA. 
Powdered Hermannia. 
CLASS: AVI. - ORDER Il. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Threads united. Five Pointals, 
GENERIC CHARACTER, : 
Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- Empatement. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, roundith 
fidum, fubrotundum, inflatum; lacinulis and {welled out; fegments turned inwards; 
inflexis ; perfiftens. maining. 
Coroxva pentapetala, fpiralis; ungues longitu- Bossom, five petals, fpiral; claws the length 
ine calycis, utrinque auéti: membranula ot the cup, widened on both fides by a {mall 
connivente in tubum cucullatum nectari- fkinny fubftance forming a honey-bearing, 
ferum; limbus patens, latiufculus, obtufus. cow]-fhaped tube; border {preading, broadith, 
blunt 
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, latiufcula, in- Cuives. Five threads, broadith, Mlightly joined 
ferne leviflime in unum corpus coalita. at the bafe into one body. Tips upright, 
Anthere ereéte, acuminate, conniventes. red, and approaching each other, 
Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum, pentago- Pointat. Seed-bud r. ndith, five-fided, fiye- 
num, quinquangulare. Styli quinque, fili- angled. Shafts five, thread-thaped, clofe 
formes, approximati, fubulati, ftaminibus together, awl fhaped, longer than the Chives, 
longiores. Stigmata finiplicia. Summits fimple. 
Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda. pentagona, SEED vesseL. Capfula roundith, five-fided, five- 
quinque-Jocularis, apice dehifcens. celled, fplitting at top. : 
Semina plurima, parva. | SEEDs, many, {mall. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Hermannia foliis bipinnatifidis, deabriufculis, Hermannia with doubly wing-cleft leaves, rather _ 
albicantibus; pedunculis bifloris, longif- rough and whitith; flower-ftems t 
fimis; corollis fordidé luteis, si haa very long; bloffoms of a dirty 
yellow. 
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< REFERENCE TO_.THE PEAT R. 
1. The Empalement.  - 
2. A leaf of the Blotfom, to thew its incurved charaéer at the bafe. 
3. The Chives, magnified, with the pointals remaining, to thew their length with regard 
to the Chives, 
4. The Seed-bud, Shafts, Summits, magnified. 
ee, 
‘Tical diftinétion refts, approaches very near to thofe in Mahernia; for, although they have not abfo- 
i than is ufual in Hermannia, as may be 
; the t offoms which terminate the flower-ftems, each taking a 
to damp, though not to cold; therefore, th Id ; 
_ native of the Cape, from nes it Wa ould be kept in 
rd hg ae vt ws mae ri aS : may be preferved, and increafed, as it is not a long-lived 
‘ » WIth a ima portion o ol rotten dur a . P| a “aan ask 
at the Nurfery, Hammerfinith, in June 1800, | : = goth — il Sid ae => 
By 
Be oy 
Seen 
likewife that fingularly curious 
