IIEXAND. MONOG. 665. Afparagits, 
557 
Jk: 
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•'90 
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% 
’''ax, 
66c, asparagus. Cord 6-cleft, cre£l, equal: 
’ calyx o: ftyle very fhort, j-cleft: fuperior, 
3 -cellcd, with a feeds in each. 
Stem herbaceous, unarmed with fpines, moftly eredl, 
round: leaves fctaceous, foft : ftipules folitary. 
Seacoalls. Evg. Bot.t. 339. Fhr. Dan. t. 805. 
Stem unarmed, round: branches declined : leaves fetaceous. 
The Cape. Stipuks folitary, with a membranaceous point. 
Stem herbaceous, unarmed, decumbent, very much branch- 
ed; branches hextious; leaves fetaceous: peduncles 
folitary, terminal. 
The Cape. Jacq. hort. Schainb. i . 2 1 . 97. 
Stem herbaceous, unarmed, flexuous ; leaves lanceolate. 
The Cape. Thunb. prodr. 66. Willd. z.p.i^U 
Stem herbaceous, unarmed, twining: leaves lanceolate, 
falcate. 
The Cape. ‘Ihunb. prodr. Cry. W'lkd. z. p. 
Prickles folitary, reverfed: branches round; leaves fafei- 
cled, linear, falcate; pedunclesaxillary, i-nowered, 
aggregate. 
Ceylon. fiurm.ZeyL 36. tab. ^y.f 2- 
Prickles folitary: branches ftriate; leaves fafclcled, lenear- 
fubulate, falcate: racemes many-flowered, axillary. 
Eaa Indies. WiUd.fp. pl.z. p.yyz.n.y. 
Lea--jss to limes Ihorter and 4 limes narrower than the lalt. 
Prickles folitary : branches round, refledfed and broken 
back : leaves fetaceous, lafcicled. 
Africa., Pluk. amalth. /^o. >. y 7 S\f‘ . , 
Branches with a minute nodding ipine in the tora, 
Prickles folitary, reverfed: branches angular, leaves lance- 
linear. 
The Cape. Branches flexuous, angular, green. 
Prickles folitary: ftemerca: branches filiform ; leaves fe- 
taceous, fafcicled. 
Afia. Pink. aim. y^.tab. ty. f. 4- 
Prickles folitary: branches angular, flexuous: leaves fafei- 
clcd, g-fided, unarmed, deciduous. 
Spain. Stem white: fpines {Iraight, fpreading. 
Stem unarmed, angular, flitubby: leaves necdle-ihaped, 
rather rigid, perennial, mucionatc, equal. 
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ratllCl , i 
Spain. Levant. ' S/tw white, crooked : /rc'j'er pungent. 
Shrubby, unarmed : branches bent back ; leaves round- 
fubulate. , ^ 
The Cape, Pkunb.prodr, CC, kf llld, 2. p. i 54 ' fpen- 
