I am indebted for the specimen figured here, which flowered 
in June, 1871. It would no doubt succeed under the same 
treatment as Cape Heaths, if provided with a stiffer soil, 
plenty of stones in the pot, and kept cool in winter. The 
English autumn and winter are probably far too damp to 
admit of its being cultivated out of doors with success. 
Dzscr. A small much branched undershrub, six to eight 
inches high, hoary with appressed short close-set hairs. 
Stem woody below, soon dividing into numerous stiff erect 
slender simple leafy branches. Leaves one to one and a half 
inches long, by one-twelfth to one-sixth inch broad, narrow- 
linear or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, green above, silkily 
hoary below, margins recurved. Flowers in simple, forked 
or branched short revolute terminal dense cymes, shortly 
pedicelled, one third of an inch long. Calyw 5-partite, hoary, 
segments subulate-lanceolate. Corolla glabrous, deep violet- 
blue, pinkish-purple in bud, tubular; tube twice as long as 
the calyx; lobes short, erect, rounded. Stamens with large 
exserted anthers. Style very slender, exserted.—J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, flower ; 2, ovary, style, and stigma:— magnified. 
