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riflora Hortis, ramis fuscatisrugosis,foi. imbric. 

 sess. ovatobl. acutis adpresso pilosis crassiusc. 

 fl. axil, solit. sessilib. fol. equante — South Africa, 

 small shrub, leaves and fl. one third ot" inch 

 long. 



1068, Sanum. adpressa Raf. Passcrina fih- 

 formis L. non omnis auct — ramuhs rectis to- 

 ment. fol. adpressis imbric. sparsis oppositisque, 

 linearib. carinatis crassis glabris obt. florib. 

 term, spiciformis imbric. axil. fol. longior — 

 Central Africa, habit of Heaths, leaves ashy, 

 flowers incarnate, nothing filiform in this nor 

 next. 



1069, Sanam. umbellat(i Raf. Passerina filif. 

 nonnulis ! non L — ramulis flexuosis rugosis hir- 

 sutis, fol. densis sparsis patulis glabris linearib. 

 planis acutis rigidis uninervis.umbelis termiha- 

 lib. sessilib. 5-10 floris fl.pubens — South Africa 

 very distinct from last, although sent me as the 

 same by a good botanist ! leaves green very 

 crowded but not imbricate, flowers white or in- 

 carnate rather large forming very pretty ombels. 



1070, Sanum. subulata Raf. ramulis virga- 

 tis hirsutis, fol. imbric, subul. acutis sparsis sca- 

 bris, fl. term, subcapit. involucris lanceol. fl. 

 subeq. adpresso pilosis — South Africa, sent me 

 by two botanists as Gnidia pinifolia, but not a 

 Gnidia, having no petals, very near the last, 

 even Linneus had 2 different plants as Gn. pi- 

 nifolia ! it is neither of them ; flowers incar- 

 nate hirsute, 7 to 15 in a small head. 



1071, Stellera passerina L. Europe, habit 

 ofThesium. 



1072, Strusiola virgata L. South Africa. I 

 have modified the Strutfdola derived from Stru- 

 thium: I had wrongly called it Dessenia at 62; 

 J>at my G. Dessenia sylv. tel. 1145, is formed 



