DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-fidus: lacinia superiore majore. _Legumen_ ovatum muticum subdispermum. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ ASPALATHUS _pendunculata_ foliis fasciculatis subulatis glabris, pedunculis filiformibus folio duplo longioribus. _L'Herit. Sert. Angl. t. 26. Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 16._ [Illustration: _N^o. 344_] Of the five species of Aspalathus enumerated in the _Hortus Kewensis_, four are natives of the Cape; of those, three have been introduced by Mr. MASSON: the _albens_ and _candicans_ in 1774, the present species in 1775. This is one of the plants figured by Mons. L'HERITIER, in a work of his, entitled _Sertum Anglicum_, containing new species observed by him during his excursion to this country a few years since, most of which flowered in the royal garden at Kew. It will grow to the height of several feet, produces abundance of blossoms, which open during most of the summer months, and is propagated by cuttings. [345] POLYGALA BRACTEOLATA. SPEAR-LEAVED MILKWORT. _Class and Order._ DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-phyllus: foliolis alæformibus coloratis. _Legumen_ obcordatum biloculare. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ POLYGALA _bracteolata_ floribus cristatis racemosis, bractæis triphyllis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, caule fruticoso. _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 638. Berg. Cap. 182. Buxb. Cent. 3. p. 4. t. 71. Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 4._ [Illustration: _N^o. 345_] To the vast number or ornamental plants introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. MASSON, we here add another, imported in 1787; when Mr. AITON published his _Hortus Kewensis_, it most probably had not flowered with him, as he does not notice its particular time of blowing: we now see it in most of the Nurserymen's collections of greenhouse plants, flowering from May to July. It is a plant of great singularity and beauty, the purple of its flowers is brilliant in the extreme. It is increased by cuttings. [346] PROTEA MELLIFERA. HONEY-BEARING PROTEA. _Class and Order._ TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Cor._ 4-petala: interdum basi vel apice coherentibus. _Antheræ_ lineares vel oblongæ petalis infra apicem insertæ. _Cal._ propius 0. _Nux_ supera, 1-locularis, evalvis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ PROTEA _mellifera_ foliis lanceolato-ellipticis capituloque terminali oblongo glabris. _Thunb. Prot. n. 37. Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 139. Ait. Kew. vol. 1. p. 127._ LEUCADENDRON repens foliis lanceolatis, floribus oblongis, calycum squamis glabris. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 135._ LEPIDOCARPODENDRON foliis angustis brevioribus salignis, calycis squamis elegantissimi ex roseo aureo albo atro rubro variegatis, florum plumis albis. _Boerh. Lugd. 2. p. 187._ [Illustration: _N^o. 346_]