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In the eighth species the stem is subdivided 

 into narrow branches : the leaves pressed close, 

 almost imbricate, opposite, blunt, grooved un- 

 derneath, a line in length : the flowers are on the 

 extreme branchlets, one, two, or three together, 

 and upright, of a yellow colour. The whole 

 plant being covered with shining golden or 

 silvery flowers is very beautiful and ornamental. 

 It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. It 

 varies with yellow or white flowers. 



The ninth is a lofty shrub with purplish 

 branches : the branchlets subtomentose and 

 white: the leaves crowded vrey much, even, 

 rugged about the edge. 



i5ut according to Thunberg, the stem is 

 smooth, rugged, brown, flexuose, decumbent, 

 strict, a span high : the branches alternate, di- 

 varicate, like the stem : the leaves in threes, 

 lanceolate, acute, smooth, flat above, convex 

 beneath, with a slender groove, spreading. It 

 is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, flowering 

 in May and June. It is distinguished from the 

 other sorts by the size of the flowers. 



In the tenth the stem is erect, pubescent leaf- 

 less, two feet high : the branches scattered, fre- 

 quent, spreading, covered with leaves, very short, 

 simple : the leaves in threes, ovate, obtuse, con- 

 vex beneath, with a longitudinal groove, flat 

 above, entire, imbricate, smooth, scarcely a line 

 in length : the flowers solitary, nodding, on pu- 

 bescent reflex peduncles large and white. It is 

 •a native of Africa. This is one of the most 

 beautiful plants of this beautiful genus. 



The eleventh species has a frutescent stem, 

 dctcrminately branched, with white, awl-shaped, 

 decurrent lines under the scars of the leaves; 

 which are linear, even, pressed close, scarcely 

 longer than the interstices : the flowers termi- 

 nating, subumbelled, on peduncles the length of 

 the flowers. It is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



In the twelfth the stem is fluxuose-crect, 

 ash-coloured, two feet high: the branches op- 

 posite, or in threes, cinereous-villose, wand-like: 

 branchlets filiform, scattered, frequent, wand- 

 like: the leaves are in threes, linear-lanceolate; 

 beneath grooved from the revolutc margins, to- 

 mentose-whitish, from erect spreading, curved a 

 little : the (lowers flesh-coloured. It is a native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, flowering in May 

 and Juue. 



It varies with flowers verv hirsute and hairy, 

 red, and whitish flesh-coloured. 



The thirteenth species has the leaves three- 

 Ink! oval, downy-white underneath : the flowers 

 ovate, conic. It is a native of the Cape of 

 Good I [ope. 



In the fourteenth the branches are round and 



smooth; branchlets pubescent: the leaves li- 

 near-awl-shaped, grooved, spreading, half an 

 inch long, on appressed petioles scarcely half a 

 line in length : the flowers axillary, and of a 

 deep red colour. It is a native of the Cape, 

 flowering at various seasons. 



The fifteenth species has the branches filiform, 

 ramentaceous, long, ferruginous : the leaves very 

 narrow, upright, pressed close : the flowers um- 

 belled, of a purple colour. It is a native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, flowering in July. 



The sixteenth has the stem shrubby, smooth- 

 ish, with pubescent branches : the leaves linear, 

 obtuse, erect, channelled underneath, the length 

 of the joints, hispid'or subscabrous: the flowers 

 are umbelled, dispersed on the upper twigs, and 

 of a flesh-colour. It is a native of the Cape, 

 flowering from February to May. 



The seventeenth has a brown stem, smooth 

 below, hispid at top, erect, a foot high : the. 

 branches dichotomous, brown at bottom, and 

 smooth, above ash-coloured, hirsute, erect, fas- 

 tigiate : branchlets scattered all over the branches, 

 filiform, frequent, hairy-rough, wand-like: tl<e 

 leaves are linear-subulate, entire, smooth, flat 

 above, convex beneath, with a very slender groove, 

 incurved, from erect spreading : the flowers soli- 

 tary, or two or three together, on very short 

 drooping peduncles, ash-coloured, tomentose. 

 It is a native of the Cape. 



The eighteenth species has an erect stem, 

 branched : the leaves linear, bluntish, rugged 

 on the edge, longer than the internodes, on 

 white petioles : theflowers terminating, in threes, 

 or thereabouts, nodding, the size of a pea, on 

 purple peduncles, with alternate, remote, flesh- 

 coloured bracles. It is a native of the Cape, 

 flowering in April and May. 



The nineteenth has a shrubby, compound stem : 

 the leaves linear, smooth : the flowers terminat- 

 ing, sessile, of a purple colour. It is a native 

 of the Cape, flowering in August. 



The twentieth species has a brown, rugged 

 stem, a foot high : the branches in whorls, like 

 the stem, flexuose-erect : branchlets trichoto- 

 mous and dichotomous, like the branches : the 

 leaves m sixes, oblong, obtuse, incurved, above 

 three-cornered, flat, beneath grooved, rugged, 

 especially underneath, very finely ciliate, im- 

 bricate, a line in length : the flowers aggre- 

 gate, in whorls, in the middle and at the ends 

 of the branchlets of a blood-red colour. It 

 flowers in April and May. 



The twenty-first species has the stem seldom 

 erect, commonly decumbent, smooth, flexuose, 

 filiform : the branches filiform, flexuose, villose : 

 branchlets capillary, frequent, tomentose: the 

 leaves ovate, spreading, rough, with long hairs : 



