Upon comparing live fpecimens of rochenjis and obtufafamih 

 the prefent plant and with each other, we can fee no reafon 

 for retaining them as diftinft fpecies. But others may think 

 differently ; by them, the varieties here given, may be pre- 

 ferved as fpecies, with the names by which we have already 

 diftinguifhed them in the prsfent work. Leaves from briftle- 

 form threads to blades half an inch in breadth j ftem from one 

 to eight or ten inches high, lnfecunda the rachis is clothed 

 with a fhort denfe nap ; here the whole ftem is naked. Bloom 

 fcentlefs. We had neglected to notice the ne&aries at the bafe 

 of the corolla in our account of obiufata No. 672. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, from whence our prefent fpecimens 

 were imported by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy of Hammer- 

 fmith. G. 



