Italy and Spain. A specimen in the Kew Herbarium from 
the ‘‘ North of Ireland, 1834, Dr. Lloyd,” is referred to in 
the second edition of the “Cybele Hibernica”’ as being 
“either mislabelled, or gathered in a garden.” It is 
correctly named. 
This Heath was at first thought to be a Cape species, 
and greenhouse treatment was recommended for it. 
Afterwards Portugal was given as its native country. 
It has been in cultivation at Kew for many years, is 
hardy, and flowers from July to September. As J. stricta, 
it was included in the second edition of Aiton’s “* Hortus 
Kewensis,” where it is stated that it was. first introduced 
about the year 1765. 
Descr.—A shrub up to five feet high. Branches erect, 
straight, more rarely diffuse, densely leafy, the younger 
pubescent. eaves usually in fours, spreading or rarely 
ascending, linear-oblong, a quarter to a third of an inch 
long, scarcely acute, channelled on the under side, at 
first sparingly pubescent, afterwards glabrescent. Flowers 
four to twenty, rarely thirty to forty, in umbel-like in- 
florescences at the ends of the branches. Pedicels about a 
sixth of an inch long, furnished with three linear bracteoles. 
Sepals narrowly ovate-acuminate, a twelfth of an inch 
long. Corolla ellipsoid-urceolate, barely a quarter of an 
inch long, rose-coloured, glabrous; lobes very short, 
obtuse, recurved at the apex. Anthers included, furnished 
at the base with divergent, obsoletely serrulate crests. 
Ovary subglobose, densely pubescent. Style included or 
shortly exserted.—S. A. Sxan. 
Fig. 1, portion of branch with leaves ; 2, ower; 8 and 4, anthers ; 5, pistil : 
—ali enlarged. 
