shrubby, slender; branches straight, strigose with appressed stellate bristles; leaves (small) on short petioles, 3-nerved, ovate-oblong, obtuse, unequally toothed and somewhat 3-lobed, the lateral lobes very short, appressedly stellato-pubescent; stipules setaceous, rigid; peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, jointed below the flower; invol. of about 10 linear-subulate pubescent leaflets, shorter than the deltoid-acuminate calyx lobes; capsule puberulous, seeds smooth. A slender shrub, with rodlike branches and a very close-pressed and short, but rigid pubescence. Leaves 1/2– 3/4 inch long; petioles 1/4 inch. Peduncles about twice as long as the leaves; flowers bright crimson, 1 1/2 inch across, with narrow, cuneate petals. The leaves in the specimens seen can scarcely be called 3-lobed, but there is a tendency to such division; and, notwithstanding the short petioles, the habit reminds us of some depauperated forms of H. pedunculatus.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In the Valley of the River Omblas, Drege! Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. Sond.)
