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MAHERNIA grandiflora. 
Large-flowered Mahernia. 
PENTANDRIA PENT.AGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Tittacem. Jussieu gen. 289. Div. I. Stamina basi aut 
omnind monadelpha, definita. Tiliacee dubia. ; ; 
MAHERNIA. Cal. 5-dentatus. Pet. 5. Nectaria 5, basi connata, 
obcordata, filamentis supposita. Caps. 5-locularis. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1565. 
M. grandiflora, caule erecto, foliis lanceolato-obcuneatis serrato-dentatis; 
paniculis divaricatis calyceque viscosis. Burchell MSS. 
Hermannia grandiflora. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 141; (fide Herbarti Bank- 
siani, ubt specimen Horto Kewensi floridum ). 
No. 2332. Burchell; Catalogus Herbarii Africani nondim edit. 
Hermannia. Paters. it. 60 cum icone picta. 
Fruticulus 7n patrid natali subbipedalis ramosus pulcherrimus floribundus, 
ramificatione patente. Tota herba, potissimiim in partibus novissimis, conspersa 
glandulis stipitatis viscosis, non nis? lente conspicuis. Fol. alterna, patentia, 
subcollapsa, lanceolato-obcuneata, stellatim pubescentia, attenuata in petiolum, 
Superiore parte serrato- dentata. Stipule gemine, ovato-lanceolate, erecta, 
integerrimae (vrarissimé \-dentate ), pedunculo breviores. Flores pantculate 
cernui, unciam vel infra lati, odorem inter PHILADELPHI coronarii et 
Jasmin officinalis medium spirantes. Paniculee ramorum primd terminales, 
demiim elongatione ramorum axillares evadentes, viscose, divaricate, dichotome, 
ramulis primariis aliquando tribus. Pedunculi mediocres, teretes, bracteolis 2 
stipularum instar suffulti. Cal. campanulatus, ultra medium 5-fidus, laciniis 
lanceolatis acutis erectis. Cor. maxima in genere, calyce triplo longior, utrin- 
que (miniato-) coccinea, sinistrorstim (aliquandd dextrorsitm) contorta, in- 
Sfundibuliformis: pet. elongato-obovata, 3 pollicis longa, apice rotundata, 
unguium lateribus tubuloso-involutis, laminis patentibus demim reflexis. Stam, 
peialis opposita, calyce multd breviora, medium styli attingentia: fil. dis- 
creta, pedicello germinis inserta ; partes imferiores (nectaria Linn.) elongato- 
obcordate humeris hirsutis, superiores (filamenta Linn.) subulate. Anth. 
sagittate, extis setulis asperse, apicibus conniventibus bifidis bisetiferis. ist. 
longitudine calycis. Germ. (lente visum) pubescens, obovatum, 5-gonum, 
abrupt et brevissimé pedicellatum. Styl. 1, teres, germine pauld longiory 
glaber, abrupté insertus, apice obtuso. Stig. obsoletum. Caps. obovata, £ 
pollicis longa 5-sulcata 5-partibilis: loc. intis pubescentia sub-5-v. 6-sperma 
(sectione germinis 10-sperma). Sem. valvularum marginibus interioribus in- 
serta, semicordata, nigricantia, glaberrima. Burchell MSS. 
« This very elegant plant was found by me in the month 
“ of October 1812, in great profusion decorating one parti- 
* cular part of the vast sandy plains northward of the town 
“ of Litakuun, a country till then untrodden by any Euro- 
“pean foot. ; 
These plains, uninhabitable to man from. want of 
