“ water, extend for many days journeys. Their monoto- 
“nous scenery is occasionally varied by groves of Acacta 
“ Giraffe, whose thin foliage, unable to protect-these burn- 
“ing sands from the rays of the sun, serves only as food 
“for the Cameleopard and Elephant. Various plants, 
‘‘ however, in their seasons adorn the ground, and amongst 
“them this beautiful little Manernia, by its profusion and 
continued succession of scented flowers of the finest 
« scarlet, will not fail to arrest the attention of any tra- 
‘< veller, however insensible he may be to the pleasures to 
“‘ be derived from the study and contemplation of nature. 
«If the genera Hermannia and Manernia are to be 
“kept distinct, this plant must take its station with the 
“latter, and their only diagnoses will be the difference of 
** form in their filaments.” © 
The above notice and description were communicated 
to us by Mr. Burchell, by whom this plant was brought 
home, on his late return from his travels in the interior of 
the Cape of Good Hope. The drawing was taken from a 
specimen that flowered in the greenhouse at Messrs. Col- . 
villes, in the King’s Road, who have the only plants of it 
now in this country. It had been previously introduced from 
another part of the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Masson, in 
1791; but had been long since lost again. _ 
’ This beautiful plant seldom exceeds two feet; the 
branches are spreading, and abound with a bloom by far 
the largest of the genus. Leaves patent, cuneately lan- 
seolate, stellately pubescent, tapered into a petiole below, ’ 
serrately toothed above. Stipules in pairs, ovately lanceo-. 
late, shorter than the peduncles. — Flowers panicled, cer- 
nuous, somewhat less than an inch in diameter, like those of 
an Oxa.is, sweet-scented: panicles terminal, dichotomous, 
divaricate, sometimes with 3 principal divisions.  Pedicles’ 
round, haying two small bractes like the stipules. Calyx 
campanulate, cleft to below the middle, segments lanceolate, 
acute. Corolla contorted to the left; but sometimes in the. 
contrary direction, funnelformly rotate: petals oblong-obo- 
vate, rounded at the top. Filaments distinct, inserted on 
the stand of the germen, the lower portions (nectaries of 
Linneus) oblong-obcordate, the upper (filam*. of Linn.) 
subulate. presets 52 Me ees ge 
a The calyx. 6 The stamens. cA single stamen magnified. d The 
pistil. ¢ A petal, AS 
