shrubby; the slender branches and petioles softly pubescent; leaves petiolate, cordate at base, 5-angled, or with 5 shallow, deltoid, acute lobes, the middle one longest, crenate, rough with scattered hairs; peduncles axillary, shorter than the petiole; densely setose; invol. of 5, broadly lanceolate, many-nerved leaflets, longer than the calyx; capsule ovate-acuminate, densely setose. A tall, slightly branched, slender shrub, sometimes (according to Ecklon) rising above the tops of the surrounding trees, and making them gay with the abundance of its golden-yellow flowers. It bears the name of the late Baron v. Ludwig, of Capetown, a munificent patron of botany and horticulture, whose beautiful garden of Ludwigsburg, now obliterated, was, for many years, one of the attractions of Capetown.
