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Tlie fifth species rises with slender uprifflit 

 stalks, at the top of which grow umbels of 

 small white flowers, appearing in Julv, Ijut never 

 succtetletl bv pods in this cliuiatc. The leaves 

 are irequcntiy tuur together. The peduncles 

 torniins an umbel are opjiosite to the leaves. It 

 is a native of North America. 



The sixth has diclining stalks, which are 

 hairv^, and eighteen inches in length. The leaves 

 are narrow. The umbels grow at the extremity 

 of tile branches, are compact, and the flowers 

 of a bright orai'.ge colour. It is a native of 

 North America. 



In the seventh species the stems arc a foot 

 high, hairv, round, andduskvrcd. The leaves al- 

 ternate, except on the upper part of the stem. 

 Below where it branches are generally two leaves, 

 and at the place of branching four: on the 

 branchf's themselves the leaves are again alter- 

 nate. The flowers are of a bright orange colour. 

 The tuberous roots very large. It is a native of 

 North America, and flowers from the end of 

 Julv to September, sometimes ripening seed in 

 this climate. 



The eighth, according to Linnaeus, is allied to 

 the third; but Dillenius thinks that it approaches 

 verv near to the Amoena, but that the stems 

 are shorter, and commonly variegated with dusky 

 purple spots ; the leaves broader and rounder, 

 more excavated, less rigid, not shining or hoary 

 underneath, with the oblique veins deeper, so 

 as to be even grooved ; the flowers larger, 

 pale, dusky flesh-coloured, sweet-smelling, the 

 horns of the nectaries standing out and gaping 

 more. 



According to Miller, it resembles the fourth 

 sort, but the leaves are rough, and the umbels 

 of flowers more compact ; thev come out on tlie 

 side of the sulk, are of an herbaceous colour, 

 and are not succeeded by pods in this climate. 

 It is a native of North America. 



In the ninth jpecies the stem is shrubby, 

 rough with hairs, upright, as thick as the linger. 

 The leaves opposite, on very short petioles, end- 

 ing rather obtuselv, but with a minute point, 

 and fiiiooth. The peduncles from the sunmiit 

 of the stem, umbelled, villose. The corollas arc 

 white. It is a native of the Cajie of Good Hope, 

 and flowers in December. 



In the tenth the nectaries are compressed 

 without a claw, instead of which are two long 

 reflex ears. The follicles are inflated, and set 

 with soft prickles. It is also a native of the 

 Cape, and flow ers from June to September. 



The eleventh is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and flowers here in July. 



The tw elfth has the stem pubescent, branch- 

 ing at bottom. The leaves subscssile, repand. 



One umbel of yellow flowers terminates the 

 stem. I'oiind at the Cape of (Jood I lo)ii-. 



The lhirte*;nth species has the stem irom a 

 foot to two or three feet in lieiglil, uprijiht, 

 simple, or generally so, round, pubescent, and 

 milkv. The leaves opposite and decussated, 

 jictioled, acute, cntiR", and smo<'ih on both sidci. 

 The flowers in umbels: unibellules terniinaling, 

 or opposite to the terminatins leaflet in pairs, 

 pcduncled. In\'ohirre none, but only a few 

 subulate leaflets. 'I'he [U'duuele the length of 

 the leaves: pedicels shorter, one-flowered. Calyx 

 of five, lanceolate, refle.x leaflets; corulla reflex. 

 Nectaries five, round the middle corpuscle, 

 ovate, ear-cowled obliquely inwards, with a 

 little horn from the jiectareous base sibre- 

 shaped bent inwards. In the miitdlc is a trun- 

 cate corpuscle, hollowed at the l.p, bluntly 

 five-cornered, covered with five scales at the 

 sides, and cajVmg with as many chinks. .Scales 

 hollowed within. Glands live, roundish, black, 

 to which are fixed above, within the scales, 

 pairs of glanduliferous pedicels, in place of 

 anthers; these elands are oblong, jKllucid, 

 panduriform, anJ filled with prolific moisture. 

 Germs two, ovate, acuminate; styles two, subu- 

 late, hid within the column ; stigmas simple, and 

 obtuse. Follicles oblong, acuminate, toothless, 

 ventricose, and smooth. It is a native of South 

 America, the \\'cst-Indian Islands, and China 

 near Canton, and flowers from June to Sep- 

 tember. 



The fourteenth species is quite smooth, with 

 shining branches. The leaves petioled, ovate- 

 subcordate, and veined. The umbels qifiie 

 simple, on peduncles the length of the petiole. 

 The flow ers greenish. It is a native of Malabar, 

 Ceylon, 8cc. 



The fifteenth rises to six or seven feet in 

 height. The leaves are thick ; the flowers 

 whUe; the pods very large; the base of the 

 petiole bearded above. The nectaries do not 

 put forth awl-shaped horns, but solid converg- 

 ing plates. It flowers from .hily to Septem- 

 ber. 



Cuhnre. — ^The method of propagating the 

 different hardy kiiKls, as the first eight species, 

 is bv parting the n>ots and pi.mting them out, 

 either in the autunm as soon as the stems decay, 

 orin theearlvsprini: months before the new shoots 

 are protrxided. They require a rather dry soil, 

 as when there is too much moisture they are apt 

 to have tlu-ir roots destroyed by it in the winter 

 season. They are likewise capable of beii\g 

 raised from seed, when it can be procured, by 

 sowing it in beds or pots of light fresh earth in the 

 sprinir months. With the seventh and eighlii 

 species, the pots should be plunged in a liot-ned, 



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