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feet in height, upright, simple, or generally so, round, pubescent, 

 and milky. The leaves opposite and decussated, petioled, acute, 

 entire, and smooth on both sides. The flowers in umbels: umbellules 

 terminating, or opposite to the terminating leaflet in pairs, pedun- 

 cled. Involucre none, but only a few subulate leaflets. The pe- 

 duncle the length of the leaves: pedicels shorter, one-flowered. Ca- 

 lyx of five, lanceolate, reflex leaflets : corolla reflex. Nectaries five, 

 round the middle corpuscle, ovate, ear-cowled obliquely inwards, 

 with a little horn from the nectareous base, sabre-shaped, bent in- 

 wards. In the middle is a truncate corpuscle, hollowed at the tip, 

 bluntly five-cornered, covered with five scales at the sides, and gaping 

 with as many chinks. Scales hollowed within. Glands five, roundish, 

 black, to which are fixed above, within the scales, pairs of glandu- 

 liferous pedicels, in place of anthers; these glands are oblong, pel- 

 lucid, panduriform, and filled with prolific moisture. Germs two, 

 ovate, acuminate; styles two, subulate, hid within the column; 

 stigmas simple, and obtuse. Follicles oblong, acuminate, toothless, 

 ventricose, and smooth. It is a native of South America, the West- 

 Indian Islands, and China near Canton, and flowers from June to 

 September. 



The fourteenth species is quite smooth, with shining branches. 

 The leaves petioled, ovate-subcordate, and veined. The umbels 

 quite simple, on peduncles the length of the petiole. The flowers 

 greenish. It is a native of Malabar, Ceylon, &c. 



The fifteenth rises to six or seven feet in height. The leaves are 

 thick; the flowers white; the pods very large; the base of the pe- 

 tiole bearded above. The nectaries do not put forth awl-shaped 

 horns, but solid converging plates. It flowers from July to Sep- 

 tember. 



Culture. The method of propagating the different hardy kinds, 

 as the first eight species, is by parting the roots and planting them 

 out, either in the autumn as soon as the stems decay, or in the early 

 spring months before the new shoots are protruded. They require a 

 rather dry soil, as when there is too much moisture they are apt to 

 have their roots destroyed by it in the winter season. They are like- 



