HERMANNIA linifoliaE. Mey. [family STERCULIACEAE], ! non Linn.
Information
shrubby, divaricate; branches glabrous or viscidulous; leaves fascicled or scattered, narrow-linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering at base, obtuse, entire, glabrous and slightly viscid; stipules subulate; peduncles racemose, cernuous, shorter than the leaf, one-flowered; calyx semi-5-fid, glabrous, glandular, the lobes broadly subulate; petals obovate, flat, not much longer than the calyx; filaments spathulate, rather shorter than the tapering anthers; ovary top-shaped; capsule obconic, crowned with ten divergent horns. A stout woody, much-branched, scrubby bush, with densely leafy divergent branches. Leaves a line broad, nearly an inch long, mostly tufted. Flowers purplish.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Winterveld and Nieuweveld, Drege! Orange River, Burke & Zeyher! Somerset, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.).
