shrubby, divaricately branched, glandular or glabrous; leaves cuneate-obovate, inciso-dentate or sub-pinnatifid, with obtuse lobes, scattered or tufted; stipules small, lanceolate or ovate; peduncles elongate 2-flowered, with oblong-acute, ternate bracts; pedicels pubescent; calyx obconic, deeply cleft, pubescent, with broadly subulate lobes; petals 4–5 times as long as the calyx, spreading, obovate, tapering at base; anthers short, ovate-acute; ovary obovate, stellato-pubescent. A branching shrub, 1–2 feet high, the young parts sprinkled with minute, stipitate glands; sometimes almost glabrous. Leaves rather rigid, varying from cuneate to almost lanceolate, variably incised. Flowers large, funnel-shaped, pendulous, brick-red, sweetly scented, nearly 3/4 inch across. Stamens very short; the anthers small, ovate, shortly cuspidate; filaments with a narrow wing and obcordate, hispid, expansion below the summit. Mahernia stricta, E. Mey.! has the filaments and inflorescence of Hermannia, under which genus it will be found: in its mere corolla it closely resembles M. grandiflora.