various sources, that here figured flowered in the Royal 

 Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh in June 1893. 



Descr. — A dwarf, rather tortuous shrub, 6-12 inches high, 

 with a rather stout stem, clothed with black bark, and 

 numerous decussate divaricating green branches with 

 cypress-like foliage ; brauchlets one half to one inch long, 

 most minutely puberulous, terete, contracted at the nodes. 

 Leaves ro~k °^ an mcn l° n g> rather shorter than the inter- 

 nodes, to which they are appressed, shortly oblong, tip 

 rounded, very coriaceous, concave ventrally, dorsally 

 convex, very minutely ciliolate. Flowers few, smal 1 ., 

 capitate, quite sessile ; bracts about twice as long as the 

 leaves, as long as the calyx- tube, green. Calyx-tube sub- 

 campanulate, cylindric, glabrous, mouth more or less regu- 

 larly 2-lipped, lips 2-lobed, lower lip largest, lobes very 

 obtuse. Corolla J in diam., very pale bluish, tube very 

 short, lobes oblong, dorsal the largest, broadly oblong- 

 obovate, anticous smallest, linear-oblong. Stamens far 

 exserted, anthers very large, red-brown. Ovary 4-lobed, 

 quite glabrous.— J". D. H. 



Fig. 1, Branchlets with leaves and flowers; 2, leaf; 3, ovary and style; 

 4, ovary and du>k ;— All enlarged. 



