HEM 
HEMIDITONE, femiditone, or demiditone, fefqui- 
hird, ‘is 
tone, trihemitone,- minor tierce, or lefler or minor t 
an interval whofe ratio is $ = 1612 4+ 3f + 14m. See 
Minor Taira 
HEMIGENLA, in Botany, from spacvs, half, and eee 
hairinefs or beard, from the peculiar pubefcence ~~ two 
of the four anthers. Brown. Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. Ga sin 
Clafs and order, see ee Gymnofpermia. Nat. Ord. Ver- 
ticillate, Linn. Labiat ff, 
Eff. Ch. Calyx ithe five fegments, and five angles 
rolla ringent ; its upper lip fhort ; middle fegment of the 
lower ore divided half way down. ” Stamens'afe ending under 
the upper lip. Anthers each with one empty defcending 
i sgeach in ~ upper pair only is bearde 
H. purpurea. Native of Port Jackfon, New South 
Wales. A little fmovth Pps rub. Leaves te ; rl 
cylindrical. | Fiowers blueifh-purple, axillary, folitary, with 
a pair of braéeas to each. Brow n. 
EMIMERIS, from *pscvs, half, and jspic, @ part or 
fragment, ‘aluding to the corolla being, as it were, cut away 
on that very account. y 
him, nor fearcely to be gathered from his defcription ; and 
Soc. v. 6. 
Tlluftr. t. aa (Pade erota; A . 
Gen. 125 Sere Michel? s fynonym.)—Clafs and cider, 
Di. giofpermia. Nat. Ord. Per fonate, Linn. Scro- 
aria, an 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, ee 
i unequal, ovate, permanent f 
dordila: Cor. of one 
teverfed, fomewhat whee haped; without any _ in five 
very unequal tounded lobes, with a neCtarifero s thallow 
pouch at their bafe; the largeft lobe apperiot fe two 
lleft lowermott, feparate to the very bottom. 
s four, fometimes only two, fhorter than the corolla, 
ieteted into its bafe, declining, fmooth, the upper pair 
and rather the fhorteft; anthers heart 
Pift. Germen fuperior, ovate, 
ped, longer than the 
Peric. Be ono ovate, 
umid than 
24 Seeds nu neous, rth 
Calyx in fi fegments. 
taped averted, gps at the bafe, divided o 
Filamerits {mooth. pfule of two cells, 
= - Linna ae firft eftablithed this genus, by the 
above name, from a Cape fpecimen lent him 
‘wards confounc i Buonarotta of Micheli, 
Corolla wheel- 
nm one fide. 
of Jacquin, to which they are referred in the Tra 
e Linn. Soc. v. 6.96, the lat name being, on every 
ft pegs amare decided a right 
1s jaid alide, Hemimeris having no ies 
a preference on th dais han, for the enus which 
ly bore it. With regard to the {pecies of this genus, 
Stam. t 
d, ap- ments Tour. 
But mek the Walfeia 
with the W1 
HEM 
Soles rigs fringed.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
d by Thun 
puinees nberg, from whom there are many fine 
pecimens in the Linnzan herbarium. 
c ed of numerous long fibre ec 
inches high, more or lefs branched in an oppofite manner 
from the very eng seats 
ftalked, fm ooih, not ai 
ra fin ledowered. iene about the fize of dua 
gallis 2 tg yellow lifh. 
2. H. diffufa. cm Suppl 280. Thunb. Prodr. 105. 
Pederota Bone fpei; Linn, Sp, Pl. 20.)—-Stamens four. 
eaves alternate or oppofite, pinnatifid. Stem ‘pening 
Calyx acute, fringed. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
This has the habit of the former, of which the younger 
Linnzus fufpeéted it might bea variety, but to this we 
cannot affent. ‘The prefent is in every part a much larger 
siete The ‘eaves vary confiderably in the depth of their 
fegments, ve are fometimes notched. The corolla is 
the top, shots anthers ens coheri 
= —— doubt that the original Hemimeris ( 
s called Pederota,) bone fpei is this {pecies, though it 
= at firft defcribed as —— Mees ghs 
unilabiata. "Thunb. Prodr. 195. Nov. Gen. 7 
(Aerio yma Linn. Suppl. 279. Willd. y 
Leaves oppofite, pinna- 
ative of fan 
feiecnts alternate, 
about half an inch “so alan, bak 
a linear, obtufe, {mooth bragea, not <a long as itfelf, at the 
bafe of each. Segments of the calyx at ae obenfe 
hairy, a line long, much fhorter t corolla, f 
he two hindermoft orolla crimfon, violet at 
lower part, the ne€tariferous pouch at its len: 
out into two yellowifh the calyx. Fila- 
5 anthers hairy at the fummit. C. ovate, 
{quarith, compreffed and emarginate at the top.—We know 
nothing of this but from Thunberg’s am iption, 
which we have extracted the a 
Lia 
truly xical in a genus, whofe calyx is inferior ! 
4 H. «e+» Leaves oppofite, oblong, 
fin fomewhat pinnatifid. Calyx obtufe, fi Dest 
Gathered by Sparrmann at the Cape of Good Hope. The 
younger Linnzus confou unded his { Swe ithe Jah fay 
which they are coer different. The 
edges, not deeply pinnatifid. ‘The 
Of the flamens we can determine 
Lyx: however removes every difficulty, being 
aed dipisl nal obexie ol Sizily 
ents are a ? ight 
, none of them reflexed. The cap/ eset 
5: Linn. Suppl. 280. Thunb. aioe rf : 
Stamens two. Leaves ovate, bluntith, fe a 
Flower-ftalks compeetf 
ed.—Native = the Cape. 
fay 
