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jfeuamofe : the Flowers are tuhulous, 

 And are extended a little above the 

 EntpuUment, nvhere they are cut into 

 five Segments : in the Centre of each 

 is Jttuatrd the Pointal, attended by 

 file Stamina : the Pointal afternjoard 

 changes to an oblong Seed crovjn'd 

 Kuith hng Down. 



The Species are ; 



1. Klein i a foliis lanceolatis fla- 

 ws, caule be<vi ventricofo. Lin. Hort. 

 Cliff. Kleinia with plain fpear- 

 fhaped Leaves, and a fmooth fwell- 

 ing Stalk. 



2. Kleinia foliis carnofis plants 

 e'vato-oblongis. Lin. Hort. Cliff. 

 Kleinia with oblong oval plain flelhy 

 JLeaves, commonly called Jinteupbor- 

 hium. 



3 . Kleinia foliis carnofis lanceo- 

 latis compreffis, caule tereti. Lin. 

 Hort. Cliff. Kleinia with flefhy 

 ipear-thaped Leaves, which are com- 

 prefTed, and a taper Stalk, common- 

 ly called African Groundfel - tree, 

 with a Ficoides-leaf. 



4. Kleinia caule petiolis trunca- 

 tis ob-vallato. Lin. Hort. Cliff. Klei- 

 nia with a Stem full of Protuberan- 

 ces. 



The firft Sort has been long pre- 

 ferved in many curious Gardens in 

 different Parts of Europe: it is a 

 Native of the Canary Ifiands, and 

 was firft defcribed under the Title of 

 Arbor I ive^dalr folio, i. e. a Tree 

 with a Lavender-leaf. It was after- 

 wards titled by forne a Linaria, and 

 by others a Crithmum ; but Dr. Dil~ 

 lenius, who brought thefe Plants to- 

 gether under one Genus, gave it the 

 Title of Cacalianihcmum, from a 

 Similitude between the Flowers of 

 thefe Plants, and thofe of the Caca- 

 fia; fo that in different Countries 

 this firft Species has pafled under dif- 

 ferent Appellations ; and by fome of 

 the Englijh Gardeners has been call- 

 ed the Cabbage-tree > which Name, 



I fuppofe, was given it, from a Re* 

 femblance, which they imagined, 

 between the Stem of this Plant, and 

 that or the Cabbage : by others I 

 have heard it called the Carnation- 1 

 tree, but for what Reafon I never J 

 could learn ; fo that I do not know i 

 any proper Enghjb Name for thia 

 Plant. 



This Sort will grow to the Height 1 

 of ten or twelve Feet in England ; 

 but I fuppofe, in its native Coun- 

 try, it is of much greater Growth. 

 The Stems are rather flelhy than 

 woody, and grow deformed, having 

 crooked Knees, at the End of each 

 Year's Growth; and each of thefe 

 Joints, or Shoots, fwell with a Belly 

 in the Middle. Thefe Shoots or 

 Branches are naked all their Length, 

 except toward theirTop, where they 

 are garnifhed with long narrow pale- 

 green Leaves, which are produced 

 without any Order, on every Side of 

 the Branches : and from between the 

 Clufter. of Leaves at the Extremity 

 of the Shoots the Flowers are pro- 

 duced in large Clufters, which are 

 of a pale or yellowilh-green Col- 

 our. Thefe generally appear in the 

 Autumn, at which Seafon thefe 

 Plants put out new Leaves, and are 

 in their greateft Vigour. 



The fecond Sort has alfo been 

 long preferved in Gardens, by the 

 Title of Anteuphorbium\ under which 

 Name it hath been figured and de- 

 fcribed by feveral antient Authors, 

 from a fuppofed Virtue in this Plant, 

 of abating the cauftic Quality of Eu- 

 phorbium : but as this Plant had not 

 produced any Flowers in Europe, till 

 of late, that one of thefe Plants 

 flowered in the Garden of his Grace 

 the Duke of Beaufort, at Badming- 

 ton ; fo the Botanifts were at a lofs to 

 know under what Genus to range 

 it : but by the Flowers there pro- 

 duced, it appeared to agree with 



thofe , 



