The flowers are pink or white. The specimen figured 
was communicated by Dr. Balfour, F.R.S., from the Royal 
Botanic Garden of Edinburgh in July, 1894. 
Deser.—A small woody, tufted, erect shrub, growing in 
patches. Stem terete, brown, woody, as thick as a goose- 
quill below, marked with the close-set scars of fallen leaves ; 
branches erect, sparingly divided, densely clothed with 
decussate closely imbricating appressed scale-like leaves, 
nearly terete, bright green. Leaves one-sixth of an inch 
long, very coriaceous, broadly orbicular-oblong, connate 
to the middle in pairs, dorsally convex, bright green, 
shining; margins of young leaves ciliate. lowers few, in 
small terminal heads, bracts (the uppermost leaves) rather 
larger than the cauline leaves, ciliate. Calyx four-lobed 
nearly to the base; sepals linear-oblong, ciliate. Corolla 
one quarter of an inch broad, white (or pink) ; tube hardly 
longer than the sepals ; lobes oblong, obtuse, the anticous 
much narrower than the others. Anthers oblong, red- 
es ery oblong, quite glabrous ; style very slender. 
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Fig. 1, Summit of branch wi lo daauke 
4 ovaty <All tf an with calyces and styles; 2, calyx; 3, flowers 
