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riflora Hortis, ramis fuscatisrugosis, fol. imbric. 

 sess. ovatobl. acutis adpresso pilosis crassiusc. 

 fl. axil. solit. sessilib. fol. equante — Soutli Africa, 

 small shrub, leaves and fl. one third of inch 

 long. 



1068, Sanum. adpressa Raf Passorina fili- 

 formis L. non omnis auct — ramulis rectis to- 

 ment. fol. adpressis imbric. sparsisoppositisque, 

 linearib. carinatis crassis glabris obt. florib. 

 term. spiciformis imbric. axil. fol. longior — 

 Central Africa, habit of Heaths, lcaves ashy, 

 flowers incarnate, nothing filiform in this nor 

 next. 



1069, Sanam. umhellat(i Raf. Passerina filif. 

 nonnulis ! non L — ramulis flexuosis rugosis hir- 

 sutis, fol. densis sparsis patulis glabris linearib. 

 planis acutis rigidis uninervis,umbelis termiha- 

 lib. sessilib. 5-10 floris fl. pubens — South Africa 

 very distinct from last, although sent me as the 

 same by a good botanist ! leaves green very 

 crowded but not imbricate, flowers white or in- 

 carnate rather large forming very pretty ombels. 



1070, Sanum. subulata Raf. ramulis virga- 

 tis hirsutis, fol. imbric, subul. acutis sparsis sca- 

 bris, fl. term. subcapit. involucris lanceol. fl. 

 subeq. adpresso piiosis — South Africa, sent me 

 by two botanists as Gnidia pinifolia, but not a 

 Gnidia, having no petals, very near the last, 

 even Linneus had 2 different plants as Gn, pi- 

 nifolia ! it is neither of them ; flowers incar- 

 nate hirsute, 7 to 15 in a small head. 



1071, Stellera passerina L. Europe, habit 

 of Thesium. 



1072, Strusiola virgata L. South Africa. I 

 have modified the Strutfiiola derwed from Stru- 

 thium: I had wrongly called it Dessenia at 62; 

 hiit my G. Dessenia sylv. tel. 1145, is formed 



