like odour. The material from which onr figure has been 
prepared came from the garden of Lady Hanbury at 
La Mortola, Ventimiglia, to which the species was first 
introduced by the late Mr. D. Hanbury in June, 1872. At 
Kew the plant thrives well under the conditions suitable for 
South African heaths, but it does not flower at all freely, 
probably owing to the absence of sufficient sunshine during 
the winter months, 
DescripTion.— Shrub, 3-4 ft. high, much branched ; 
branches long and slender, slightly angular or nearly 
cylindric, almost glabrous; twigs grey pubescent. Leaves 
opposite, linear or oblanceolate-linear, narrowed towards 
the base, obtuse or subacute, 4-3 in. long, about 1 lin. wide, 
flat, grey pubescent. //eads numerous, about 8-flowered, 
obconic, about 3 in. long and broad, yellow. Bracts of the 
involucre 4—5-seriate, narrow lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
somewhat acute, 14—4 lin. long, under 1 lin. wide, glabrous 
and with hyaline margins. Corolla tube about 4 lin. long, 
mouth under | lin wide, slightly narrowed at the base, 
glabrous ; lobes 6, lanceolate, subacute, about 2 lin. long, 
4 lin. wide, glabrous. Anthers 2 lin. long. Style terete, 
5 lin. Jong, glabrous, deeply 2-lobed ; lobes 13 lin. long, 
with triangular stigmatic tips. Fruit narrowly oblong- 
ellipsoid, 14 lin. long, under 1 lin. wide, villous with long 
hairs below. Receptacle shortly setose. Pappus of numerous 
barbellate setae, } in. long. 
Fig. 1, leaf; 2, involucral bracts; 3, flower-head ; 4, flower; 5, setae of the 
pappus; 6, anthers; 7, style-arms :—all enlarged, 
