Refugium Botanicum. | | November, 1871. 
TAB. 289. 
Natural Order STERCULIACE®. 
Tribe HERMANNIE. 
Genus Hermannia, Linn. 
H. rascrcunata, Baker. Fruticosa ramis gracilibus virgatis glabris 
viscosis, foliis perparvis fasciculatis sessilibus anguste ob- 
lanceolatis integris crassis glabris nigro punctatis uninervis 
apice obtusis emarginatis decurvatis, racemis paucifloris, flori- 
bus cernuis, pedicellis glabris, calycis campanulati glabri 
dentibus deltoideo-cuspidatis tubo equilongis, petalis obovatis 
unguiculatis calyce duplo superantibus, filamentis ligulatis 
antheris bifidis equilongis, ovariis glabris glandulosis. 
A native of Cape Colony, discovered by Mr. Cooper. 
A copiously-branched low shrub, with slender rigid virgate 
glabrous densely viscose branches. Leaves in numerous close 
tufts, with up to six or eight leaves in each, sessile, narrowly 
oblanceolate, entire, three to four lines long, thick and rather 
fleshy in texture, dotted with minute black glands, glabrous on 
both sides with the midrib channelled down the face and elevated 
on the back, narrowed gradually to the base from near the 
truncate rather decurved slightly emarginate point. lowers in 
sparse racemes on cernuous glabrous pedicels a line and a half to 
two lines long, each bracteated at the base by a single leaf. 
Calyx campanulate, glabrous, one-eighth of an inch deep at the 
flowering time, the deltoid cuspidate teeth equalling the tube. 
Petals more than twice the calyx, claret-purple, obovate, with a 
distinct claw with enrolled borders; which is rather shorter than 
the blade. Filaments flat, strap-shaped, equalling in length the 
connivent bifid anthers. Ovary glabrous, but densely glandulose ; 
style overtopping the stamens. 
Of described species, near only to H. filifolia, Linn., from 
which it differs by being quite destitute of hairs, and by the 
shape of its leaves and calyx-segments, and larger more showy 
flowers. 
Tas. 289.—1, portion of stem with tuft of leaves; 2, entire flower ; 
3, petal; 4, stamens and pistil; 5, a single stamen; 6, pistil; 
7, horizontal section of ovary: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
