The foliage when handled diffuses the resinous smell 
which belongs, under various modifications, to all the 
genus. 
The drawing was taken at Messrs. Colville’s nursery in 
the King’s Road; where the plant is kept along with the 
Cape Heaths. 
An upright proliferously branched leafy shrub, about 3 
feet high; branches subverticillate leafy round villous as- 
cending rodded with a brown streakily cracked rind. Leaves 
substantial, widespread, linearly lanceolate, about 3 of an 
inch long and about a line or a line and a half broad, dark 
green and smooth above, frosted and pale underneath, de- 
flexed along the edge with glandular specks as if denticu- 
lated, somewhat ovate at the base, slightly pointed at the 
top, midrib obsolete above, underneath deep green and 
sunken; ower leaves decussately opposite, upper (floral) in 
whorls of three; petiole very short. Barren PLANT. Flowers 
without scent, axillary, congregated in threes; fascicles so- 
litary numerous racemosely disposed along the branches 
below the top: peduncles filiform, oneflowered, about twice 
shorter than the leaves, papulously glandular, environed at 
the base with several minute thick ovate glandular bractes. 
Calyx continuous with the peduncle and similarly papulous, 
thickish, campanulate spreading thrice shorter than the 
corolla or more, half 5-cleft, segments angularly ovate. 
Petals of the corolla white tinged at the upper part of the 
disk with pink, inserted at the bottom of the calyx, spread- 
ing, oblong, obtuse, inflected at the top: crown (abortive 
stamens) nearly thrice shorter than the corolla, converging, 
of 5 laminar oblong white villous thin pieces surmounted by 
a green gland. laments setaceous, protruded, uprightly 
spreading, equal, before complete expansion doubled close 
back from about the middle, gradually extending them- 
selves: anthers small, oblong, obversely sagittate, before they 
shed their pollen reddish and variegated with yellow and 
brown. ’ 
