In many collections we meet with old plants of it three or four feet high; formerly, when greenhouse plants were few in numbers and the houses large, it might be proper to keep such; but now there is not that necessity, especially since the vast accession of plants from the Cape and New-Holland, made within these few years. [307] Hermannia Althaeifolia. Marsh-Mallow-Leaved Hermannia. _Class and Order._ Monadelphia Pentandria. _Generic Character._ Pentagyna. _Caps._ 5-locularis. _Petala_ basi semitubulata, obliqua. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ HERMANNIA _althaeifolia_ foliis ovatis crenatis plicatis tomentosis, calycibus florentibus campanulatis angulatis, stipulis oblongis foliaceis. _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 411._ HERMANNIA _althaeifolia_ foliis ovatis plicatis crenatis tomentosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 610._ HERMANNIA capensis althaeae folio. _Pet. Gaz. 53. t. 34. f. 2._ KETMIA africana frutescens foliis mollibus et incanis. _Comm. hort. 2. p. 151. t. 79._ [Illustration: N^o. 307] The _Hermannia althaeifolia_, a native of the Cape, is a plant of much larger growth than the _lavendulifolia_, rising to the height, if suffered to do so, of three, four, or more feet; its blossoms are proportionably large, and of a deep yellow colour, inclined to orange. It is a plant of free growth, much disposed to produce flowers during most of the summer months; hence it is kept very generally in collections of greenhouse plants: is propagated readily by cuttings. Was cultivated by Mr. Miller, in 1728. _Ait. Kew._ Our readers will see, that the specific description of Linnaeus has been altered in the _Hortus Kewensis_, and that it now comprizes all the striking features of the plant. [308] Verbena Aubletia. Rose Vervain. _Class and Order._ Diandria Monogynia. _Generic Character._ _Cor._ infundibuliformis subaequalis curva. _Calycis_ unico dente truncato. _Semina_ 2 s. 4 nuda (_Stam._ 2 s. 4.) _Specific Character and Synonyms._ VERBENA _Aubletia_ tetrandra, spicis laxis solitariis, foliis trifidis incisis. _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 33._ VERBENA _Aubletia_ tetrandra, spicis solitariis, coroliis fasciculatis, foliis cordatis inciso-serratis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 66._ _Suppl. Pl. p. 86._ BUCHNERA canadensis _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 13. p. 478._ VERBENA _Aubletia_. _Jacq. hort. v. 2. p. 82. t. 176._ OBLETIA _Journ. de Rozier introd. 1. p. 367. t. 2._ [Illustration: N^o. 308] It has fallen to the lot of this plant to have an unusual degree of attention bestowed on it by various botanists, and after being regarded as a distinct genus by several, to be finally classed with the _Verbena_; in the _Supplementum Plantarum_ of the younger Linnaeus it is minutely described.