﻿PLATE DL. 

 HERMANNIA FLAMMEA. 



Flame-coloured Hermann? a. 



CLASS XVI. ORDER V. 

 MONADELPHIA PENTAGYNIA. One Brotherhood. Five Pointals. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Calyx simplex, 5-fidus. Petala 5, spiraliter II Empalement simple, 5-cleft. Petals 5, spi 

 cucullata. Filamenta lanceolata. Styli 5. and hooded. Filaments lance-shaped. Sta 



Capsula 5-locularis, poh/sperma. II 5. Capsule 5 -celled, many-seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Hermannia foliis cuneiformibus, apice denta- l! Hermannia with wedge-shaped leaves, tootl 

 tis: floribus ramos terminantibus, spicatis, I at the end. Flowers terminate the branc 



Habitat in Caput Bonae Spei. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 



a, Jacq. Hort. Schoen. vol. i. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



, A chive magnified. 



. Seed-bud and pointal magnified. 



. A transverse section of the seed-bud magnified. 



nia is figured in the Hortus Schcenbrunnensis of Jacquin. We have adopted 1 

 but think the plant would have been better marked by the appellation 

 _ ■ we have seen it in bloom with scarcely any vestige of yellow or flame cole 

 e petals, but always of a fine fiery red colour. It is a very handsome hardy green-house shrt 



a drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of Mr. Knight, King's Road, Chelsea. 



