The figure quoted in the synonymy from Wendland we 
think is meant for this plant, notwithstanding the bractes 
shown on the pedicles, which we never observed in any 
sample we saw. It may also be the Diosma pubescens of 
Willdenow’s “ Enumeratio;” but clearly not that of his 
“* Species Plantarum,” where it was adopted from Thunberg, 
and prefixed to an inappropriate synonymy; a circumstance 
we have noticed in the article Diosma ciliata (vol. 5. fol. 366). 
In Thunberg’s pubescens the leaves are described as lanceo- 
late, three-cornered and villous; in the pubescens of Will- 
denow, in his ‘‘ Enumeratio,” as oblong slightly pointed 
and fringed along the edge and midrib; while the figure we 
have quoted above from Wendland is adduced for the syno- 
nym of one of the varieties into which it is divided. - 
From ciliata, to which it has a near affinity, it may 
be at once distinguished by a germen with a bare smooth 
top instead of one with the top clothed with a shaggy pu- 
bescence. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope; requiring the same 
treatment as the hardier kinds of Heaths from the same 
quarter. Cultivated by Miller in 1768, in the Physic 
Garden at Chelsea. : 
A small bushy shrub, seldom much more than a foot 
high, exhaling a very strong resinous smell, especially 
when rubbed or bruised, furred; branches villous, leafy. 
Leaves substantial, spreading, numerous, scattered, near, 
lanceolately oblong, slightly blunted, scarcely exceeding 
a quarter of an inch in length, flat with a slight rise 
on the upper surface where they are furnished with a few 
straggling hairs, fringed with longer hairs at the edge 
and along the underside of the midrib, paler under- 
neath with dotlike glands. Flowers small, terminal, con- 
vexly umbelled, often rosy red, sometimes nearly white: 
pedicles hardly longer than the ‘flowers, reddish, straight, 
shaggily furred, bespangled with crystallized resinous 
globules. Calyx twice shorter than the corolla, glandular, 
furred, reddish below, greenish: above, segments blunt 
thick. Petals campanulate, spreading, standing apart, 
ligulate, narrowishly spatulate, of one colour; lamina or 
blade oblong blunt flat; unguis (claw or stand) linear vil- 
lous. Sterile filaments 5, one opposite to each petal, shorter 
than the corolla, petal-like, linearly ligulate, at the lower 
