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resembling the Casuarina; exceedingly pleasing when in full 

 blossom, as it nearly always is, with its little stems terminating 

 in a spike of small lilac flowers. 



CRASSULACE^]. 



Crassula. 



C. nitida, and C. miniata. Small herbaceous pot-plants of a 

 succulent nature, very showy and beautiful when in flower, 

 with their trusses of crimson blossom, much like that of a 

 Phlox. I brought down plants from Ootacamund, where they 

 thrive well, but found them unable to exist in the climate of 

 the plains, as is indeed the case with the majority of plants of 

 this description, natives of the Cape. 



Kalanchoe. 



1. K. heterophylla. An herbaceous plant with thick succulent 

 leaves, weedy-looking, and hardly suited for the garden, though 

 somewhat cheerful when in blossom in February with its bright 

 yellow oxalis-like flowers. 



2. K. laciniata, and 



3. K. varians. Much the same kind of plant as the preceding, 

 but somewhat different in the form and divided character of the 

 leaves. 



Bryophyllum. 



B. calycinum. An herbaceous plant, in some places found 

 growing common by the wayside ; well known for the curious 

 property its thick succulent leaves have of throwing out roots 

 and soon becoming young plants by merely lying upon the sur- 

 face of the damp ground ; very ornamental when in blossom in 

 February, with its numerous large globular-formed flowers of 

 pale-green tinged with red, drooping prettily like little bells 

 from their erect flower-stem. 



TURNEKACE^E. 

 Turnera. 



1. T. trioniflora. A small herbaceous shrub, native of Brazil, 

 with oval dull-green leaves two inches long ; bears, mostly 



