or three points which deserve notice: the flowers of the 
wild plant are flesh-coloured, not greenish-yellow; the 
leaves are clothed beneath with rufous hairs, of which 
slight traces only are perceptible in the cultivated plant; 
and the inside of the tube of the perianthium is quite 
smooth, not covered with long down. In aspect they are 
quite alike ; and with the exception of the latter character, 
which is unexpected, these differences are immaterial. The 
garden plant approaches in some points the G. acicularis 
of Sieber. | | 
A hardy green-house plant; our drawing of which was 
made in Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, in April 1826. 
A large quantity of honey is secreted by the flowers, 
and in our dried specimens it remains in the form of white 
transparent crystals. 
A shrub, in its native country. growing to the height of 
about three feet, straggling, with the aspect of a juniper 
bush. Branches round, villous, with long entangled hairs. 
Leaves fascicled, subulate, pungent, with the edges folded 
back, quite smooth above, beneath clothed with peltate 
brownish hairs, which are far more abundant in the wild 
plant. Flowers in capitate terminal. racemes, of a greenish- 
yellow colour; in the wild plant pink. Peduncle clothed 
with rufous down; pedicels the same, much shorter than 
the ovarium. Perianth slit on one side, 4-fid, downy, 
with the segments twisted back; in the inside villous, (in 
the wild plant -smooth,) with a very thick beard at the 
throat. Anthers pedicellate, seated in the concave apices of 
the segments, cordate, acute, 2-celled. Ovarium pedicel- 
‘late, ovate, oblique, 2-seeded, ‘as well as the style quite 
smooth. Style thick, bent back, with a knee-joint. Stigma 
lateral, oval, with a prominent centre. Hypogynous gland 
reniform, fleshy. Follicles ovate, rugulose, crowned with 
the indurated style and stigma. | 
J. L. 
