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purple colour, simple, coloured, lanceolale, acute, shorter by halt' 

 tlian the corolla: style twice as long as the corolla: stigma enlirely 

 simple : it resembles the multifiora, but the corolla is absolutely ovate; 

 the branches angular and while. It is a native of the South of 

 Europe, flowering from ]\larch to ISTay. 



In the eighth species the stem is subdivided into narrow l^ranchcs: 

 the leaves pressed close, almost imbricate, opposite, blunt, grooved 

 underneath, a line in length: the flowers arc on the extreme branch- 

 lets, one, two, or three together, and upright, of a yellow colour. 

 The whole plant being covered with shining golden or silvery flowers 

 is very beautiful and ornamental. It is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. It varies with yellow or white flowers. 



The ninth is a lofty shrub with purplish branches: the branchlets 

 subtomentose and Avhite: the leaves crowded very much, even, rug- 

 ged about the edge. 



But, according to Thunberg, the stem is smooth, rugged, brown, 

 flexuose, decumbent, strict, a span high: the branches alternate, 

 divaricate, like the stem: the leaves in threes, lanceolate, acute, 

 smooth, flat above, convex beneath, with a slcMider groove, spread- 

 ing. It is a native of the Cape of Cood Hope, flowering in INTay 

 and June. It is distinguished from the other sorts by the size of the 

 flowers. 



In (he tenth the stem is erect, pubescent leafless, two feet high: 

 the branches scattered, frequent, spreading, covered with leaves, very 

 short, simple: the leaves in threes, ovate, obtuse, Convex beneath, 

 with a longitudinal groove, flat above, entire, imbricate, smooth, 

 scarcely a line in length: the flowers solitary, nodding, on puijcsccnt 

 reflex peduncles large and white. It is a native of Africa. This is 

 one of the most beautiful plants of this beautiful genus. . ' 



The eleventh species has a frulescent stem, delerminately branch- 

 ed, with white, awl-shaped, decurrent lines under the scars of the 

 leaves; which are linear, even, pressed close, scarcely longer than 

 the interstices: the flowers terminating, subumbelled, on peduncles 

 the length of the flowers. It is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



