The only figure of this syngenesious plant is in the new and rare plants of Ortega, who named it after D. Didaco Pascal, a Spanish physician. It is the only species of the genus yet known, and a fine living specimen of it was communicated to us by Mr. Lambert, who raised it from seed sent to him from Madrid by the late Cavanilles. It is perfectly hardy, and the roots so durable and spreading that they are not easily eradicated. It does not however bloom with equal facility, but seems to want a warmer sun to aid its flowers in their expansion. [Illustration] PLATE DL. HERMANNIA FLAMMEA. _Flame-coloured Hermannia._ CLASS XVI. ORDER V. _MONADELPHIA PENTAGYNIA._ One Brotherhood. Five Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX simplex, 5-fidus. Petala 5, spiraliter cucullata. Filamenta lanceolata. Styli 5. Capsula 5-locularis, polysperma. EMPALEMENT simple, 5-cleft. Petals 5, spiral and hooded. Filaments lance-shaped. Shafts 5. Capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HERMANNIA foliis cuneiformibus, apice dentatis: floribus ramos terminantibus, spicatis, laxis. Habitat in Caput Bonæ Spei. _Hermannia flammea, Jacq. Hort. Schœn. vol. i. tab. 129._ HERMANNIA with wedge-shaped leaves, toothed at the end. Flowers terminate the branches in loose spikes. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement 2. A petal. 3. The chives and pointal. 4. A chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal magnified. 6. A transverse section of the seed-bud magnified. This species of Hermannia is figured in the Hortus Schœnbrunnensis of Jacquin. We have adopted his specific title of flammea, but think the plant would have been better marked by the appellation of ignescens; particularly as we have seen it in bloom with scarcely any vestige of yellow or flame colour on the petals, but always of a fine fiery red colour. It is a very handsome hardy green-house shrub, and flowers from June till January. Our drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of Mr. Knight, King’s Road, Chelsea. [Illustration] PLATE DLI. LOPEZIA CORONATA. _Coronet-flowering Lopezia._ CLASS I. ORDER I. _MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ One Chive. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 4-phyllus. Corolla 5-petala, inæqualis. Capsula 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polysperma. EMPALEMENT 4-leaved. Blossom 5-petaled, unequal. Capsule 4-celled, 4-valved, many seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. LOPEZIA ramis longis, simplicibus, adscendentibus: foliis sub-ovatis, acutis, dentatis, lucidis: petiolis decurrentibus: floribus axillaribus, in umbellis terminalibus. LOPEZIA with long, simple, ascending branches. Leaves nearly ovate, pointed, toothed, and shining, with decurrent footstalks. Flowers growing from the axillæ of the leaves, and terminate the branches in umbels. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.