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H E R M A N N I A FLAMMEA.
J^lame-coloured Hermannia.
CLASS XVL ORDER V.
MONADELPHIA PENTAGYNU. One Brotherhood. Five Pointais.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX simplex, 5-fidus. Petala 5, splralker
cuculiata. Filamenta lanceolata. Styli 3.
Capsula 5-locularis, polysperma.
EMPALEMENT simple, 5-cIeft. Petals 5, spiral
and hooded. Filaments lance-shaped. Shafts
5. Capsule ä-celledj many-seeded.
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Hekmannia foliis cuneiformibus, apice dentatis
: floribus ramos terminantibus, spicatis,
laxis.
Habitat in Caput Bonae Spei.
Hsrmanniajiammea, Jacq. Hort. Schosn. vol. i.
ial. 129.
Heemannia with wedge-shaped leaves, tootheti
at the end. Flowers terminate the branches
in loose spikes.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATJÎ.
1. The empalement.
2. A petal.
3. The chives and pointai.
4. A chive magnified.
5. Seed-bud and pointai magnified.
6. A transverse section of the seed-bud magnified.
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This species of Hermannia is figured in the Hortas Schoenbrunnensis of Jacqiiin. We have adopted his
specific title of fiammea, but think the plant would have been better marked by the appellation of
jgnescens; 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 fi'om June till January.
Our drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of Mr. Knight, King's Road, Chelsea.
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