bright green, rather ample foliage and flowers, larger than and 
as waxy as those of any Heath. 
Descr. At present our plant forms a shrub only a foot and a 
half to two feet high, (six to twelve feet, according to Hartweg) 
with glabrous slightly angled branches, the young ones green. 
Leaves alternate, on short petioles, oblong-ovate, acuminate, 
but in. general rather obtuse, between coriaceous and fleshy, gla¬ 
brous, or only with a few short pale brown, scattered, paleaceous 
hairs beneath, rather obscurely penninerved in the recent state, 
but in the dry state very conspicuously so; and the nerves, besides 
the mid-rib, consist of two on each side from below the middle, 
generally (but not invariably opposite), the lowest pair is directed 
upwards and usually become obsolete above the middle, slightly 
anastomosing, the two upper nen^es converge towards the point 
and are connected to the costa and margin by a few faint trans¬ 
verse nervelets. Racemes axillary and subterminal, of from four 
to six or more flowers. Peduncle shorter than the leaves, and, as 
well as the pedicels, inclining downwards (towards the under-side 
of the leaves), bracteated: hracteas minute. Calyx red (with its 
adherent ovary') turbinate, articulated upon the pedicel, quite 
glabrous, the limb cut into five, short, triangular, acute teeth. 
Corolla deep rose-red, waxy, paler at the mouth, nearly an inch 
long, urceolate; limb of five, equal, rather spreading, acute teeth 
or segments. Stamens included : filaments very broad, membrana¬ 
ceous, slightly cohering at the margin: anthers linear-subulate, 
downy, the broad portion attached to the front, or inner-side of 
the filament, the narrow, aciuninated portion free, and opening 
by two linear pores or shts at the summit. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Two stamens:— magnified. 
