will doubtless be regarded, when more generally known, as 
deserving a place in every choice Collection—the disposition 
it manifests to push forth its heads of blossoms at the ex- 
treme points of the lateral branchlets, which the plant 
throws out rather abundantly, and by which it is readily 
propagated, rendering this narrow-leaved variety of our 
species, well worth the cultivator’s care. 
Descr. A smooth shrub of rather irregular growth ; in 
cultivation, seldom above two feet in height, much branch- 
ed, and inclined to a bushy habit. Branches elongated, 
spreading, often horizontal and slightly deflexed, prolife- 
rous, more or less disposed in whorls, clothed with a brown 
bark ; the branchlets covered with cinereous hairs. Leaves 
numerous, much crowded, especially at the extremities of 
the branchlets, linear-spathulate, thick, coriaceous, veinless, 
dark-green, slightly convex on the upper side, and termi- 
nated in a short, horny, red mucro, the adult ones being 
about an inch in length, smooth, and levigated. Flowers 
pale-purple, crowded together at the extremities of the 
branchlets, and forming solitary, sessile heads, encircled by 
short leaves. Bractes lanceolate, acuminate, reticulately- 
veined, and densely ciliated with long white hairs. Perianth 
slender, smooth, divided into four linear subspathulate 
lacinie, equal in length to the tube, the points of the 
lamine being dark-purple, concave above, ciliated, tipped 
with long, white, silky hairs, and in the concavities the 
anthers are immersed. Anthers four, linear, bilocular, 
yellow, each furnished at the apex with a small capitated 
_ pomt. Style filiform, smooth, the length of the perianth. 
"Stigma fusiform, studded with small, transparent, short 
points, obtusely apiculated. 
