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linear, bhinlisli, rugged on the edge, longer than the iulernodes, on 

 white petioles: the Howers terminating, in threes, or thereabouts, nod- 

 ding, the size of a pea, on purjile peduncles, with alternate, remote, 

 tlesh-coloured bractes. It is a native of the Cape, Uowering in April 

 and May. 



The nineteenth has a shrubby, compound stem: ilic leaves linear, 

 smooth: the flowers terminating, sessile, ola pui])!c colour. It is a 

 native of the Cape, flowering in August. 



The twentieth species has a brown, rugged stem, a foot high: the 

 branches in whorls, like the stem, flexuose-erect; branchlets tricholo- 

 mous and dichotomous, like the branches: the leaves in sixes, ob- 

 long, obtuse, incurved, above three-cornered, flat, beneath grooved, 

 rugged, especially underneath, very finely ciliatc, ind)ricate, a line 

 in lenolh: the flowers agiiregale, in wlioils, in the middle and at the 

 ends of the branchlets of a blood-red colour. It flowers in April and 

 May. 



Tlie twenty-first species has the stem seldom erect, commonly 

 decumbent, smooth, flexuose, filiform : the branches filiform, flexuose, 

 villose: branchlets capillary, frequent, tomentose : the leaves ovate, 

 spreading, rough, with long hairs: the flowers at the ends of the ex- 

 treme branchlets, peduncled, one, two, or three togethei-, the whole 

 cah'xes covered close with a white wool. 



The twenty-second has the leaves linear, even the ujiper ones, 

 ciliated the flowers terminating, solitar}^ sessile, of a purple colour. 



The twenty-third species has the leaves four-fold, smooth, and 

 long yellow flowers. It flowers from May lo August, 



The twenty-fourth has the branches compound: the leaves ob- 

 long, convex, even, grooved underneath, ciiiate, with spinules: the 

 flowers large, heaped on the side into a sort of head, sessile, jud^es- 

 cent: calyx rough, with white hairs, as it were doubled: the corolla 

 bright blood red, rough with white hairs, having the mouth obscurely 

 four-cleft. It is a native of the Cape, flowering most part of the year. 



The Iwenty-fiflh species has the branches heaped above the 

 flowers: fhe leaves linear, bluntish, erect: the flowers heaped, lateral, 

 below the top of ihe stalk. It is a native of the Cape. 



