genus, is native of Teneriffe, and in the Hortus Kewensis 
said to have been introduced by Mr. Masson in 1779; but 
in Lamarck’s Encyclopedia it is mentioned as having been 
received at the Paris Botanic Garden from our celebrated 
countryman, Sherard, a fact which would make it a plant 
of 40 or 50 years older introduction into this country than 
is stated in the Hortus Kewensis. 
A shrub about 4 or 5 feet high; stem branching upright, 
round, with a reddish ash-coloured bark, branches furred. 
Leaves opposite, oblong, tapered at both ends, acute, furred, 
reticulately veined, wrinkled and paler underneath like those 
of Sage, slightly viscid, 3-4 inches long, having a balsamic 
smell: petioles united below, so as to form a striated sheath 
round the branches, of half an inch in length or more; floral 
leaves with a winged or dilated petiole having little or no 
sheathing at the base. Flowers rose-coloured at the ends of the 
branches loosely panicled ; peduncles 1-2-flowered, generally 
with a bracte under the division, lowermost axillary; pedicles 
jointed below, when two, one longer than the other. Calyx 
pubescent, persistent, white and silky within, two outer 
segments several times smaller. Petals cuneately obcor- 
date, large, wrinkled, spreading. Germen roundly ovate, 
pointed, with five raised silky pubescent angles. Style 
higher than the stamens, flexuose, white, thickish. Stigma 
pileately or flattishly headed, granulately roughened, obso- 
letely 5-lobed. 
A hardy greenhouse plant. Flowers about May and 
June. Propagated by seeds, layers, or cuttings. The 
drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, 
Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Parson’s Green, Fulham. 
