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a gray hairy bark: leaves on ihe lower part alternate, but towards 

 the end of the branches op|iosilc; the lower leaves from three to 

 four inches long, and two broad in the middle, draAvino to a point 

 at both ends; they are of a pale green, and chnvny : the flowers from 

 the axils towards the end of the branches, one or two at the same 

 joint opposite, on short nodding peduncles; are small, of a pale 

 dirty yellow colour, with purple bottoms: berries small, spherical, 

 red, enclosed in an oval dark purple bladder. It flowers in June 

 and Jnly." 



The ninth has a perennial creeping root: the stalks several, 

 slender, about a foot high, becoming somewhat woody, but seldom 

 lasting above two years; the leaves alternate, on short footstalks; 

 they are about two inches long, and an inch and half broad: the 

 flowers axillary towards the top, on short slender peduncles: petals 

 small, sulphur-coloured, with dark purple bottoms: they appear in 

 July and August, but are rarely succeeded by berries in this climale. 

 It is a native of Curassao in the West Indies. 



Culture. — 'I'hcse plants are all capable of being increased by 

 seeds; the second, third, Iburth, and fifth scjris, also by i)aiting the 

 roots; the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth, likewise by cuttings. 



In the (irst sort, the seed should be sown in the early spring, as 

 April, in j)ots of light earth, plunging them in a moderate hot-bed. 

 When the plants have ac(piircd a few inches in growtli they should 

 b(> removed into separate pots, gradually inuring ihcm to the open 

 air, in order that they may be removed with balls into the clumps or 

 borders. Ihit it is |)ro!)ably a better method to sow them in llie 

 latter end of May in the places where they arc to remain, as ihey i!o 

 not bear transplanting well. 



'Ihey must be raised annually. 



In the herbaceous kinds the seeds should be sown in the aulnmn 

 as soon as ihey are ripe, or early in the s])ring, in the beds, borders> 

 or clumps where they arc to renuiin; or they may be transplanted 

 into o h M- beds, to remain till tl^e following autumn, when they may 

 be removed to the situations where they are to remain. 



The roots may be parted either in the early autumn or sprino- 



