Volume 8 — PLATE DL.

HERMANNIA FLAMMEA.

Flame-coloured Hermannia.

CLASS XVI. ORDER V.

MONADELPHIA PENTAGYNIA. One Brotherhood. Five Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx simplex, 5-fidus. Petala 5, spiraliter cucullata. Filamenta lanceolata. Styli 5. Capsula 5-locularis, polysperma.

Empalement simple, 5-cleft. Petals 5, spiral and hooded. Filaments lance-shaped. Shafts 5. Capsule 5-celled, many-seeded.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Hermannia foliis cuneiformibus, apice dentatis: floribus ramos terminantibus, spicatis, laxis.

Habitat in Caput Bonæ Spei.

Hermannia flammea, Jacq. Hort. Schœn. vol. i. tab. 129.

Hermannia with wedge-shaped leaves, toothed at the end. Flowers terminate the branches in loose spikes.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The empalement 2. A petal. 3. The chives and pointal. 4. A chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal magnified. 6. A transverse section of the seed-bud magnified.

This species of Hermannia is figured in the Hortus Schœnbrunnensis of Jacquin. We have adopted his specific title of flammea, but think the plant would have been better marked by the appellation of ignescens; particularly as we have seen it in bloom with scarcely any vestige of yellow or flame colour on the petals, but always of a fine fiery red colour. It is a very handsome hardy green-house shrub, and flowers from June till January.

Our drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of Mr. Knight, King’s Road, Chelsea.