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each cell of the seed-vessel contains one hard smooth shining seed. 

 It grows naturally at the Cape of Good Hope. 



The second species rises with a slender, branching, woody stalk, 

 about a foot high, when it grows upon good ground, but on a rocky 

 soil it is seldom more than half that height. The branches are 

 closely garnished with stiff smooth leaves, of a lucid green: from 

 between the leaves, towards the top of the branches, the flowers 

 come out upon very short peduncles; they are white on the outside, 

 but within are of a purplish colour mixed with yellow, and have a 

 grateful odour. According to Marty n, it is an elegant little ever- 

 green shrub, of low growth, with leaves like those of Box, producing 

 flowers from May to October, but most plentifully in May and 

 June: each flower stands on a peduncle, proceeding from a kind of 

 triphyllous cup, formed of floral leaves. It is a native of Austria, c. 

 Culture. The first sort may be increased by seeds, which should 

 be sown in small pots, filled with light loamy earth; soon after they 

 are ripe, placing them where they may have the morning sun only 

 till October, when they should be placed under a hot- bed frame, 

 and be plunged into old tanners' bark which has lost its heat, where 

 they may be defended from frost during the winter, and in the 

 spring the pots should be plunged into a moderate hot-bed, which 

 will bring up the plants. When these appear, they should not be 

 too tenderly treated, but have a large share of free air admitted to 

 them; when they are fit to transplant, they should be carefully 

 shaken out of the pots, and separated, planting each into a small 

 pot filled with soft loamy earth, and plunged into a very moderate 

 hot-bed, to forward their taking new root, shading them from the 

 sun, and gently refreshing them with water as they may require. 

 When they arc rooted, they must be gradually inured to the open 

 air, and in June they may be placed abroad in a sheltered situation, 

 where they may remain till the middle or latter end of October, 

 according as the season proves favourable; then they must be re- 

 moved into the green-house; and treated in the same way as the 

 Orange-tree, being careful not to give them too much wet during 

 the winter season. 



