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eacli cell of the seed-vessel contains one hard smooth shining seed. 

 It grows naturally at the Cape of Good Mope. 



The second species rises with a slender, branching, woody stalk, 

 about a foot high, when it grows upon good ground, but on a rocky 

 soil it is seldom more than half that heiaht. The branches are 

 closely garnished with stiff smooth leaves, of a lucid green: from 

 betweiMi the leaves, towards the top of the branches, the flowers 

 come out u])()n very siiort j)cduncles; they are white on the outside, 

 but widiin are of a pur])lish colour mixed with yellow, and have a 

 gratel'ul odour. According to Martyn, it is an elegant little ever- 

 green shrub, of low growth, with leaves like those of J5ox, producing 

 flowers from May to October, but most plenlilully in iMay and 

 June: each flower stands on a peduncle, proceeding Ironi a kind of 

 triphyllous cup, formed of floral leaves. It is a native of Austria, &c. 



Culture. — The (irst soil may be increased by seeds, which should 

 be sown in small pots, filled \villi light loamy earth; soon after they 

 are ripe, placing ihein where they may have the morning sun only 

 till October, when they should be placed under a hot-bed frame, 

 and be plunged into old tanners' bark which has lost its heat, where 

 they may be defended from fVost during the winter, and in the 

 spring the pots should be plunged into a moderate hot-bed, which 

 will bring up the planl.5. When these appear, they should not be 

 loo tend(Mly treated, but have a large share of free air admitted to 

 them; wiien I hey are iil lo transplant, they should be carefully 

 shaken out of llie pots, and separated, planting each into a small 

 pot filled with soft loaniy earth, and [)lunged into a very moderate 

 hot-bed, lo foruard their taking new root, shading them from the 

 sun, and gently refreshing them with water as ihey may recpiire. 

 When they arc rooted, they must be gradually inured to the open 

 air, and in June they may be placed abroad in a sheltered situation, 

 where they may remain till the middle or latter end of October, 

 according as the season proves favourable; then they must be re- 

 moved into the green-house; aiul treated in llu^ same way as the 

 Orangf-tree, being careful not to give them too much wel durins: 

 the winter season. 



