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purple colour, simple, coloured, lanceolate, acute, shorter by half 

 than the corolla: style twice as long as the corolla: stigma entirely 

 simple : it resembles the multiftora, but the corolla is absolutely ovate; 

 the branches angular and while. It is a native of the South of 

 Europe, flowering from March to May. 



In the eighth species the stem is subdivided into narrow branches: 

 the leaves pressed close, almost imbricate, opposite, blunt, grooved 

 underneath, a line in length: the flowers are on the extreme branch- 

 lets, one, two, or three together, and upright, of a yellow colour. 

 The whole plant being covered with shining golden or silvery flowers 

 is very beautiful and ornamental. It is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. It varies with yellow or white flowers. 



The ninth is a lofty shrub with purplish branches: the branchlets 

 subtomentose and white: the leaves crowded very much, even, rug- 

 ged about the edge. 



But, according to Thunbcrg, the stem is smooth, rugged, brown, 

 flexuose, decumbent, strict, a span high: the branches alternate, 

 divaricate, like the stem: the leaves in threes, lanceolate, acute, 

 smooth, flat above, convex beneath, with a slender groove, spread- 

 ing. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, flowering in May 

 and June. It is distinguished from the other sorts by the size of the 

 flowers. 



In the tenth the stem is erect, pubescent leafless, two feet high: 

 the branches scattered, frequent, spreading, covered with leaves, very 

 short, simple: the leaves in threes, ovate, obtuse, convex beneath, 

 with a longitudinal groove, flat above, entire, imbricate, smooth, 

 scarcely a line in length: the flowers solitary, nodding, on pubescent 

 reflex peduncles large and white. It is a native of Africa. This is 

 one of the most beautiful planls of this beautiful genus. 



The eleventh species has a delitescent stem, dcterminately branch- 

 ed, with white, awl-shaped, decurrcnt lines under the scars of the 

 leaves; which are linear, even, pressed close, scarcely longer than 

 the interstices: the flowers terminating, subumbclled, on peduncles 

 the length of the flowers. It is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



