Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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capsule few-seedecl ; seeds round, greenish. — Small plants 
with white or rosy, small flowers in many-flowered umbels, 
surrounded by two linear or lanceolate bracts : leaves linear, 
filiform or lorate, generally produced after the flowers. 
The generic name is given in honour of the late Rev. Mr. 
Hesse, minister of the Lutheran congregation at Capetown. 
A South African genus with JO species at the Cape Colony 
and one in the Transvaal. 
1. H. Behmanni, Baker. (F.C. VI., 190, No. 4.) 
Donkershoek, Rehmann, 6549 : Johannesburg, Miss Saunders, 
13, Galpin, 1370. 
