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In the twelfth the stem is fluxuose-erecl, ash-coloured, two feet 

 high: the branches opposite, or in threes, cinereous-villose, wand- 

 like: branchlets filiform, scattered, frequent, wand-like: the leaves 

 are in threes, linear-lanceolate; beneath grooved from the revolute 

 margins, tomentose-whilish, from erect spreading, curved a little: 

 the flowers flesh-coloured. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 flowering in May and June. 



It varies with flowers very hirsute and hairy, red, and whitish 

 flesh-coloured. 



The thirteenth species has the leaves three-fold oval, downy-white 

 underneath: the flowers ovate, conic. It is a native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



In the fourteenth the branches are round and smooth; branchlets 

 pubescent: the leaves linear-awl-shaped, grooved, spreading, half an 

 inch long, on appressed petioles scarcely half a line in length: the 

 flowers axillary, and of a deep red colour. It is a native of the Cape, 

 flowering at various seasons. 



The fifteenth species has the branches filiform, ramentaceous, 

 long, ferruginous: the leaves very narrow, upright, pressed close: 

 the flowers umbelled, of a purple colour. It is a native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope, flowering in July. 



The sixteenth has the stem shrubby, smoothish, with pubescent 

 branches: the leaves linear, obtuse, erect, channelled underneath, 

 the length of the joints, hispid or subscabrous: the flowers are um- 

 belled, dispersed on the upper twigs, and of a flesh colour. It is a 

 native of the Cape, flowering from February to May. 



The seventeenth has a brown stem, smooth below, hispid at top. 

 erect, a foot high: the branches dichotomous, brown at bottom, and 

 smooth, above ash-coloured, hirsute, erect, fastigiate: branchlets scat- 

 tered all over the branches, filiform, frequent, hairy-rough, wand-like: 

 the leaves are linear-subulate, entire, smooth, flat above, convex be- 

 neath, with a very slender groove, incurved, from erect spreading : 

 the flowers solitary, or two or three together, on very short drooping 

 peduncles, ash-coloured, tomentose. It is a native of the Cape. 



The eighteenth species has an erect stem, branched: the leaves 



