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the flowers at the ends of the extreme branchlets, 

 peduncled, one, two, or three together, the 



whole calyxes covered close with a while wool. 



The twenty-second has the leaves linear, even 

 the upper ones, ciliate : the flowers terminating, 

 solitary, sessile, of a purple colour. 



The twenty-third species has the leaves four- 

 fold, smooth, and long yellow flowers. It 

 flowers frow May to August. 



-The twenty-fourth has the branches com- 

 pound : the leaves oblong, convex, even, grooved 

 underneath, ciliate, with spinules : the flowers 

 large, heaped on the side into asort of head, sessile, 

 pubescent: calyx rough, with white hairs, as it 

 were doubled : the corolla bright blood red, rough 

 with white hairs, having the mouth obscurely four- 

 cleft. It is a native of the Cape, flowering most 

 part of the year. 



The twenty-fifth species has the branches heap- 

 ed above the flowers : the leaves linear, bluntish, 

 erect: the flowers heaped, lateral, below the top 

 of the stalk. It is a native of the Cape. 



The twenty-sixth species has shrubby fili- 

 form stems, covered all round with leaves : the 

 leaves in fours, imbricate in eight rows, very 

 short, elliptic, crowded, obtuse, ciliate, so that 

 they appear villose : the flowers red, in a. termi- 

 nating sessile head. It is native of the Cape. 



The twenty-seventh has the leaves linear and 

 crowded : the flowers peduncled, and nodding. 

 It is a native of the Cape. 



The twenty-eighth species is a brown shrub : 

 the branches covered with branchlets in threes, 

 crowded, very short, pubescent, clothed with 

 squarrose leaves ; which are also crowded, awl- 

 shaped, subtrigonal, somewhat rugged at the 

 edge, patulous, or standing out at the tip : the 

 flowers solitary, at the ends of the branchlets, 

 drooping, on a short, pubescent peduncle, of a 

 red colour. It is native of the Cape, flowering 

 from January to March. 



The twenth-ninth species- is a small shrub, 

 from a foot to eighteen inches in height, decum- 

 bent at bottom, then upright,, branched, flexible : 

 the leaves are almost covering the whole stem, 

 deciduous, resembling those of the fir, thickish, 

 having a prominent nerve, narrow, very sharp, 

 smooth : the flowers at the tops of the branchlets, 

 on short peduncles, alternate, among the leaves: 

 they come out in autumn, continue closed du- 

 ring winter, and are then green ; in May the year 

 following the flowers are unfolded ; the anthers 

 which were inclosed are protruded, the calyx and 

 corolla, opening, are bothchangedinto a pale pur- 

 ple or i'esh-colour. It is a native of Austria. 



The thirtieth species has the leaves linear, 

 four-folded: the flowers large and veliow. It is a 

 native, of the Cape, f.owcring from May to July. 



Culture. — These elegant plants must be treated 

 in different methods, according to their nature. 



The first three British sorts are capable of be- 

 ing propagated by sowing the seeds, either in 

 the places where they arc to remain, or in pots 

 filled with peaty earth in either the autumn or 

 spring seasons, but this is a tedious practice. 

 The best method is, to take them up from the 

 places where they grow naturally in the earlv 

 autumn, with good balls of earth about their 

 roots, planting them again immediately where 

 they are to grow. 



They succeed best where the soil is of the 

 peaty or moory kind, and where it has not been 

 enriched by manure ; and as they protrude their 

 roots chiefly near the surface, it should be ;ls 

 little dug about them as possible. 



The fourfollowing sorts may be increased in the 

 same manner as the former; but the best prac- 

 tice is by layers, cuttings, or slips, which should 

 be laid down or planted out in pots filled with 

 boggy earth, either in the early spring or the 

 latter end of summer, plunging them in a mo- 

 derate hot-bed, giving them proper shade and 

 water. When they have taken full root, they 

 should be removed with balls of earth about 

 them into separate pots, being replaced in the hot- 

 bed till they become well established, when thev 

 will be capable of bearing the open air in mild 

 weather. 



All the other species may be increased either 

 by cuttings or layers, but most of them by the 

 former. The cuttings should be made from the 

 best young shoots, and be planted in the spring 

 season in pots filled with a composition of light 

 boggy and loamy earth, being placed in the hot- 

 bed, and covered with bell-glasses, and duely 

 shaded from the sun, slight waterings being given 

 when necessary ; tbe layers are best made in the 

 autumn, being managed in the same. way. 



When the plants are perfectly rooted, they 

 may be removed into separate pots filled with the 

 same sort of earth, and placed in the dry, stove 

 or green-house, where many of.the plants must 

 constantly be kept. 



The ninth, twentieth, and twenty-sixth species 

 must, however, be raised by layers, as they have 

 not yet been increased by planting their cuttings. 



When seeds are made use of in producing these 

 plants, they should *be sown. in pots filled with 

 the above sort of cirth, in. the early spring, and 

 plunged in the hot-bed.of the stove. When the 

 plants have acquired a few inches growth, they 

 should be amoved into single pots with a little 

 earth about their roots, and be replunged in the 

 hot-bed in the stove, being preserved in it, or 

 the warmest part of the green-house, during the 

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