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The twenty-sixth species has shrubby filiform stems, covered all 

 round with leaves: the leaves in fours, imbricate in eight rows, very 

 short, elliptic, crowded, obtuse, ciliate, so that they appear villose: the 

 flowers red, in a terminating sessile head. It is a native of the Cape. 



The twenty-seventh has the leaves linear and crowded: the flowers 

 pedunclecl, 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 squarrose leaves; which are also crowded, alw-shaped, sub- 

 trigonal, 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 a native of the 

 Cape, flowering from January to March. 



The twenty-ninth species is a small shrub, from a foot to eighteen 

 inches in height, decumbent at bottom, then upright, branched, flex- 

 ible: the leaves are almost covering the whole stem, deciduous, re- 

 sembling those of the fir, thickish, having a prominent nerve, narrow, 

 very sharp, smooth : the flowers at the tops of the branchlets, on short 

 peduncles, alternate, among the leaves: they come out in autumn, 

 continue closed during winter, and are then green; in May the year 

 following the flowers are unfolded; the anthers which were inclosed 

 are protruded, the calyx and corolla, opening, are both changed into 

 a pale purple or flesh-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, flowering from May 

 to July. 



Culture. These elegant plants must be treated in different me- 

 thods, according to their nature. 



The first three British sorts are capable of being propagated by 

 sowing the seeds, either in the places where they are to remain, or in 

 pots filled with peaty earth in either the autumn or spring seasons, 

 but this is a tedious practice. The best method is, to take them up 

 from the places where they grow naturally in the early autumn, with 

 good balls of earth about their roots, planting them again imme- 

 diately where they are to grow. 



