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tfcatcdm the fame manner as thofe before ; but in 

 Autumn they fliould be placed in the ftove, -where 

 ihey will live through the winter, and flower early 

 the following fummer, fo will perfed their feeds very 



well. 



The feeds of the fifth fort were brought me from the 

 coaft of Malabar, which fucceeded in the Chelfea 

 arden. This rifes with an angular ftalk near four 

 eet high, dividing upward into three or four branches, 

 garnifhed with narrow fpear-lhaped leaves, placed al- 

 ternately on very Ihorc foot-ftalks ■, they are pretty 

 clofely covered with foft filvery hairs. The flowers 

 are produced at the end of the branches, in loofe 

 fpikes ; they are large, and of a deep yellow colour, 

 and the ftyle ftands out beyond the ftandard. The 

 flowers are fucceeded by large turgid pods, containin 

 one row of large kidney-fliaped feeds. 

 This plant is annual in England, but by the lower 

 part of the ftalk growing woody, it appears to be of 

 longer duration in the country where it naturally 

 grows ; though it will not live through the winter 

 here, for if the plants are placed in a ftove, the heat 

 is too great for them, and in a green-houfe they are 

 very fubjeft to mouldinefs in damp weather. I have 

 fown the feeds of this in the full ground, where the 

 plants have grown upward of three feet high, and 

 have flowered very well, but no pods were formed on 

 thefe ; and when they have~ been treated tenderly, 

 the plants have grown much larger, and produced a 

 greater number of flowers, but thefe have produced 

 no feeds. The only way which I could ever obtain 

 any feeds, was by raifing the plants in pots upon hot- 

 beds; and the beginning of July, turning them out 

 of the pots into the full ground on a very warm 

 border under a wall, in which fituationthey flowered 

 very well, and fome few pods of feeds were ripened. 

 The fixth fort was fent me by the late Dr. Dale from 

 South Carolina, who had the feeds fent him from the 

 country, at a great diftance from, the Englifh /ettle- 

 ments. ;Bythe defcription fent me with the leeds, 

 it grows^ with a flirubby ftalk four' or five feet high ; 

 but the plants which were raifed here, perifhed at the 

 approach of winter, fo that they only flowered, with- 

 o6t producing any pods. The ftalks of this are round, 

 and covered with a light brown bark, garniftied with 

 fmooth, oval, heart-maped leaves, which are about 

 ■ four inches long, and near three broad ; furrounding 

 the ftalk in fuch a manner, as if it were run through 

 the middle of the leaves. The flowers grow fingly, 

 fitting clofe to the bofom of each leaf, toward the 

 upper part of the branches ; they are of a pale yellow 

 colour, and appear here in Auguft; but as the plants 

 did not produce any pods, fo I can give no account 

 of them. This is one of the moft fingular plants of 

 the genus I have yet feen. 



The feventh fort rifes with an herbaceous ftalk near 

 three feet high, dividing upward into feveral branches, 

 garniftied with oblong leaves, which are narrow at 

 their bafe, but gradually widen to the top, where they 

 are rounded and indented in the middle in the ftiape 

 of a heart ; they are of a pale green, and fmooth. 

 -^The flowers are produced in fpikes at the end of the 

 branches, they are pretty large, and of a yellow co- 

 lour. Thefe appear in July, and the feeds ripen in 

 autumn, provided the plants are brought forward in 

 the fpring, and afterward treated in the fame manner 

 as hath been direded for the firft fort. This grows 

 naturally in the ifland of Ceylon,' and is an annual 

 plant, periftiing foon after it perfefts feeds. I re- 

 ceived the feeds of this plant from the late Dr. Boer- 

 haave, profeflbr at Leyden, > - \ 



The eighth fort grows naturally at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, from whence I received the feeds. This rifes 

 with a ftirubby ftalk about five feet high, dividino- 

 into feveral branches, garniftied with roundifti leaves^ 

 fitting clofe to the branches ; they are of a hoary 

 green, and foft to the touch, the branches are taper 

 and fmooth ; the flowers are produced at the end of 

 the branches in loofe fpikes; they are about the 



fize of thofe of the firft fort, and of a fine blue cour. 



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This plant flowers in June and July, and in 'v>\irrn 

 feafons will ripen its feeds in autumn. It is propao-ated 

 by feeds, which muft be fown upon a good hoc-bed in 

 the fpring, and when the plants arc fit to remove 

 ftiould be each tranfplanted into a fmail halfpenny 

 pot, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark, anj 

 after muft be treated in the fame manner as hath 

 been diredled for the fourth fort, placing the plants 

 in a moderate ftove in winter, otherwil'e they cannot 

 be preferved in England ; the fecond year the plants 

 will flower, and with proper care their feeds will 

 ripen. 



The ninth fort was fent me from Campeachy, where 

 the plant grows naturally •, this rifes with a taper up- 

 right ftalk near three feet high, dividing upward 

 into feveral hairy branches, whicli grow erecl, 

 garniflied with oval fpear-lhaped leaves, of a pde 

 green colour ; tlie flowers are produced fingly from 

 the fide of the branches, which are of a bright yellow, 

 and are fucceeded by fnort turgid pods, having one 

 row of kidney-fliaped feeds.. It flowers in July and 

 Auguft, and with the fame treatment as hadi been 

 direded for the firft fort, will perfeft feeds in autumn. 

 This is an annual plant, which perifl:ies foon after the 

 feeds are ripe. 



. The tenth fort grows naturally in India ; this rifes 

 with a flirubby ftalk four or five feet high, dividing , 

 into many branches, garniftied with ternate oval 

 leaves ending in points ; the flowers are large, yellow, 

 growing in large bunches from the fide of the 

 branches ; they appear in July, Auguft, and Sep- 

 tember, but I have not feen any pods fucceed them 

 here. However, when the plants are in flower, they 

 ;■ : rhake a fine appearance. 



It is eafily propagated by cuttings, during the fummer 



■ months, if the cuttings are planted in pots, and 



■%. plunged into a moderate hot-bed, being careful to 



fliade them till they have taken root, and frequently 



'■ refrefll them with waterr during the months of July," 



Auguft, and September, the plants may be expofed 



to the open air in a flickered fituation, where they 



will produce many flowers ; but in the autumn they 



fliould be placed in a temperate ftove, to preferve them 



in winter. w^. . . .- 



The eleventh fort grows naturally in Virginia and 

 Carolina, from both thofe countries I have received 

 the feeds ; there are two varieties of this fpecies, one 

 with a white, and' the other a blue flower ; but 

 the feeds of one will produce both varieties, as I have 

 more than once experienced. The root is perennial, 

 fending up every fpring a number of leaves, in pro- 

 portion to the fize of the root ; the foot-ftalks of the 

 leaves are fmooth, rifing two feet high, dividing 

 upward into three or five branches, garniflied with 

 ternate fmooth leaves, whofe lobes are oval, fpear- 

 fliaped, and enrire j the foot-ftalks of the flowers arife 

 immediately from the root, and advance rather higher 

 than the leaves, being terminated by a thyrfe of large 

 butterfly-fliaped flowers, near a foot in length; in 

 one variety they are white, and in the other deep blue: 

 thefe are fucceeded by large fwelling pods, of a black 

 colour when ripe, having one row of kidney-fliaped 

 feeds. It flowers in June, and the feeds ripen in the 



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It is propagated by feeds, which fliould be fown on 

 a moderate hot-bed in the fpring •, when the plants 

 come up they fliould have free air admitted to them 

 daily, to prevent their drawing up weak, and as foon 

 as they are fit to remove, they fliould be each planted 

 in a feparate fmall pot, plunging them into a mo- 

 derate hot-bed again, obferving to fliade them till 

 they have taken frefli root; then they fliould be gra- 

 dually inured to the open air^ but in the autumn 

 they fliould be placed in a common frame, or covered 

 with m^ts in winter to flielter them ; but the following 

 fpring they fliould be turned out of the pots, and 

 planted in the full ground, where, if the foil is dry, 

 and the fituation flicltered, they will live majiy years, 

 prpducing flowers and feeds anrjualjy. * 



