We know of no figure of this species; although cultivated 

 in our collections ever since 1774, when it was introduced 

 by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope. Willdenow 

 has made some confusion in respect to synonymy, between 

 this and the pabescens of Thunberg. That our plant belongs 

 to the synonymy above cited, we have satisfied ourselves 

 by the inspection of the specimen in the Banksian Herbarium 

 from Kew Gardens, which has been collated with the pro- 

 totype of the species in the Linnean Herbarium. The draw- 

 ing was made from a sample in Mr. CreswelFs collection, 



near Battersea. 



A brandling heathlike shrub: branches leafy, round, 

 tawnily and rather shaggily furred, upright; branchlets 

 many, congregated at the top and about the middle of the 

 branches, scattered, axillary, filiform, leafy, slender, simple, 

 ascending, twice the length of the leaves of the branches or 

 more, terminally umbelliferous. Leaves numerous, scat- 

 tered, divaricate, lanceolate, glandularly dotted, roughly 

 ciliated at the margin and underneath at the midrib, smooth 

 at the upper surface, about two thirds of an inch long, 4 

 times narrower or more. Umbels many-(about )2-)flowered, 

 convex: peduncles capillary, red, about the third of an inch 

 in length, slightly haired, braeteless. Flowers with a kind 

 of herbaceo-resinous smell, small, white, upright. Calyx 

 persistent, thickish, white and green, turbinately campa- 

 nulate, glandular dots white; segments subulate, upright, 

 ciliate. Petals turbinately spreading, alternate with the five 

 fertile filaments, spatulately oblong, twice the length of the 

 calyx. Filaments: 5 barren, petal-like, ligulate, narrow, 

 concave at the top, white, furred at the lower part : 5 fertile, 

 filiform, growing out to their full length in succession, furred 

 at the lower part, uprightly spreading. Germen imbedded 

 in a thick glandular stand, green, shaggy at the top, ob- 

 ovate, compressed, (in our sample) bilocular, two-horned, 

 horns erect with glandular dots: style setaceous or bristle- 

 shaped, persistent, white, smooth. 



A greenhouse plant. Flowers very early in the spring. 

 Requires the treatment of the Cape Heaths ; and is easily 

 propagated by cuttings. 



