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one, entire, flat, hoary, white tomentose beneath, on short round 

 petioles: the flowers in a sort of spike: the peduncle terminating, 

 erect, -a foot long, simple, round, many-flowered: flowers close, 

 biggish, peduncled, yellow. It is a native of the West Indies; 

 flowers there in May and June. 



The ninth species has the branches round, even, purplish: the 

 leaves alternate, unequally pinnate; leaflets subopposile, 011 very 

 short petioles, oblong, blunt with a point, quite entire, glaucous 

 beneath, smooth, spreading an inch long: the flowers on panicled 

 racemed branchlets, of a white colour. It is a native of Japan. 



The tenth is a tender pubescent shrub, when more advanced in 

 its wild state naked : the leaves alternate, unequally pinnate: leaf- 

 lets twenty-three, narrow-lanceolate, equal, quite entire, shining 

 above, subtomentose beneath: the raceme terminating, composed 

 of white recurved flowers. It is a native of the Cape. 



The eleventh species is a shrub the height of a man: the root 

 has the smell and taste of liquorice: the stem upright, rourtd tuber- 

 cled, gray: branches alternate, spreading, like the stem: the leaves 

 alternate, unequally pinnate, spreading, eight inches long: petioles 

 round on one side, channelled on the other, pubescent: the leaflets 

 from twelve to fifteen pairs, opposite, on short petioles, those of the 

 outmost longer, quite entire, one-nerved, bright green, paler beneath, 

 spreading very much, flat: the stipules linear, acute, pubescent, 

 brownish, erect, permanent: the racemes axillary, solitaiy, pedun- 

 cled, spreading, bracled, pubescent, four or five inches long: the 

 flowers alternate, nodding, yellow, eight or nine lines in length, on 

 round pedicels jointed at the top. It is a native of Africa, and 

 flowers there in July. 



The twelfth has a shrubby, round, leafy, even stem: the branches 

 almost upright, tomentose, somewhat angular towards their tops: the 

 leaves scattered, on short petioles, ten lines long, and four broad, 

 quite entire, rounded at the end with a reflexed point, grooved above 

 and keeled beneath, coriaceous. On each side of the petiole an 

 awl-shaped tomentose stipule, twice as long as the peliole: the 

 flowers towards the end of the branches from the axils of the leaves, 



