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a gray hairy bark: leaves on the lower part alternate, but towards 

 the end of the branches opposite; the lower leaves from three to 

 four inches long, and two broad in the middle, drawing to a point 

 at both ends; they are of a pale green, and downy: the flowers from 

 the axils towards the end of the branches, one or two at the same 

 joint opposite, on short nodding peduncles; are small, of a pale 

 dirty yellow colour, with purple bottoms: berries small, spherical, 

 red, enclosed in an oval dark purple bladder. It flowers in June 

 and July. 



The ninth has a perennial creeping root: the stalks several, 

 slender, about a foot high, becoming somewhat woody, but seldom 

 lasting above two years; the leaves alternate, on short footstalks; 

 they are about two inches long, and an inch and half broad: the 

 flowers axillary towards the top, on short slender peduncles: petals 

 small, sulphur-coloured, with dark purple bottoms: they appear in 

 July and August, but are rarely succeeded by berries in this climate. 

 It is a native of Curassao in the West Indies. 



Culture. These plants are all capable of being increased by 

 seeds; the second, third, fourth, -and fifth sorts, also by parting the 

 roots; the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth, likewise by cuttings. 



In the first sort, the seed should be sown in the early spring, as 

 April, in pots of light earth, plunging them in a moderate hot-bed. 

 When the plants have acquired a few inches in growth they should 

 be removed into separate pots, gradually inuring them to the open 

 air, in order that they may be removed with balls into the clumps or 

 borders. But it is probably a better method to sow them in the 

 latter end of May in the places where they are to remain, as they do 

 not bear transplanting well. 



They must be raised annually. 



In the herbaceous kinds the seeds should be sown in the autumn 

 as soon as they are ripe, or early in the spring, in the beds, borders' 

 or clumps where they are to remain; or they may be transplanted 

 into other beds, to remain till the following autumn, when they may 

 be removed to the situations where they are to remain. 



The roots may be parted either in the early autumn or spring 



