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.