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the flowers at the ends of the extreme branchk-ts, 

 pcdimclcd, one, two, or tlircc together, the 

 whole caivxes covered close with n \^ hite wool. 



The twentv-second has the leaves hnear, even 

 the upper ones, ciliatc : the flowers terminating, 

 solitary, sessile, of a purple colour. 



The twenty-third specie.* has the leaves four- 

 fold, smooth, and long yellow flowers. It 

 flowers frow Mav to August. 



The twenty-fourth has the branches com- 

 pound : the leaves oblong, convex, even, grooved 

 underneath, ciliate, with spinules : the flowers 

 large, heaped on the side into a sort of head, sessile, 

 pubescent: 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 oFthe Cape, flowering most 

 "part of the year. 



The twetUy-fifthspecie< has the branches heap- 

 ed above the flowers : the leaves linear, bluntish, 

 erect: the flowers heaped, lateral, below the top 

 of the stalk. It is a native ot the Cape. 



The twenty-sixth species has shrubby fili- 

 form stems, covered all round with leaves : the 

 leaves in fours, imbricate in eight rows, very 

 short, elliptic, crowded, obtuse, ciliatc, so that 

 they appear villose : the flowers red, in a termi- 

 iiatino sessile head. It is native of the Cape. 



The twenty-seventh has the leaves linear and 

 crowded : the flowers peduncled, and nodding. 

 It is a native of the Cape. 



The twenty-eighth species is a brown shrub : 

 the branches covered with branchlets in threes, 

 crowded, very short, pubescent, clothed with 

 squ-irrose leaves ; which are also crowded, awl- 

 shaped, subtrigonal, somewhat rugged at the 

 edge, patulous, or standing out at the tip : the 

 flowers solitary, at the ends of the branchlets, 

 drooping, on a short, pubescent peduncle, of a 

 red colour. It is native of the Cape, flowering 

 from January to March. 



The twenth-ninth species is a small shrub, 

 from a foot to eighteen inches- in height, decum- 

 bent at bottom. Then upright, branched, flexible : 

 the leaves are almost covering the whole stem, 

 deciduous, resembling those of the fir, thickish, 

 having a prominent nerve, narrow, very sharp, 

 smooth : the flowers at the t<ips of the branchlets, 

 im short peduncle?, alternate, among the leaves: 

 »hev come out in autumn, continue closed du- 

 ring winter, and are then green ; in May the year 

 f<)llowins the tiowers are unfolded ; the anthers 

 which were inclosed are protruded, the calvx and 

 corolla, opening, are both changedmto a pale pur- 

 ple or ilesh-colour. It is a native of Austria. 



The thirtieth species has the leaves linear, 

 four-folded: the flowers large and yellow. It is a 

 native of the Cape, flowe^ng from May to July. 



Ctihure. — These elegant plants ir.ust be treated 

 in diflerent methods, according to their nature. 

 The first three British sorti are capable of be- 

 ing propaeaied bv sowing the seeds, either in 

 the pl,ices"where they are to remain, or in pots 

 filled with peaty earth in either the autunui or 

 sprinc; seasons, but this is a tedious practice. 

 The Gest method is, to take them up from the 

 places where they etow naturally in the early 

 autumn, w ith good balls of earth about their 

 roots, planting ihcnj again immediately where 

 thev are to grow. 



They succeed best where the soil is of the 

 peatv or moory kind, and where it has not been 

 enriched bv manure ; and as they protrude their 

 roots chiefly near the surface, it should be as 

 little du2 about them as possible. 



The fourfollowing >ortsmay be increased in the 

 same manner as the former ; but the best prac- 

 tice is bv layers, cuttings, or slips, which should 

 be laid down or planted out in pots filled with 

 boffixy earth, either in the early spring or the 

 latFer end of summer, plunging them in a mo- 

 derate hot-bed, giving them proper shade and 

 water. When they have taken full root, they 

 should be removed with balls of earth about 

 them into separate pots, being replaced in the hot- 

 bed till thev become well established, when they 

 will be capable of bearing the open air in mild 

 weather. 



All the other species may be increased either 

 by cuttings or layers, but most of them by the 

 fonner. The cuitinsrs should be made from the 

 best young shoots, anil be planted in the spring 

 season in pots filled with a composition of light 

 boegy and loamy earth, being placed in the hot- 

 bed, and covered with bell-glasses, and duely 

 shadedfromthesun, slight waterings being given 

 when necessary ; the layers are best made in the 

 autumn, being managed in the same way. 



When the plants are perfectly rooted, they 

 mav be removed into separate pots filled w ith the 

 same sort of earth, and placed in the dry, stove 

 or irreen-house, where many of the plants must 

 constantly be kept. 



The ninth, twentieth, and twenty-sixth species 

 must, however, be raised by layers, as they have 

 not vet been increased by planting their cuttings. 



When >eeds are made uscof in producing these 

 plants, they should be sosvn in ptUs tilled witiL 

 the above sort of earth, in the early spring, aiui 

 pL;nged in the hot-bed of the stove. When the 

 plants have acquired a few inches growth, they 

 should be removed into sinirle pots with a little 

 earth about their roots, and be repiuneed m the 

 hot-bed in the stove, being preserveH in it, or 

 the warmest part of the green-house, during the 

 w inter. 



