We know of no figure of this species; although cultivatey 
in our collections ever since 1774, when it was introduced 
by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope. Willdenoy 
has made some confusion in respect to synonymy, between 
this and the pubescens of Thunberg. That our plant belongy 
to the synonymy above cited, we have satisfied ourselvey 
by the inspection of the specimen in the Banksian Herbarium 
from Kew Gardens, which has been collated with the prox 
totype of the species in the Linnean Herbarium.’ The draw 
ing was made from a sample in Mr. Creswell’s collection, 
near Battersea. . 
A. branching heathlike shrub: branches leafy, round, 
tawnily and rather shaggily furred, upright; _branchlety 
“many, congregated at the top and about the middle of tha — 
branches, scattered, axillary, filiform, leafy, slender, simple; 
ascending, twice the length of the leaves of the branches ov 
more, terminally umbelliferous. Leaves numerous,. scata 
tered, divaricate, lanceolate, glandularly dotted, roughly 
ciliated at the margin and underneath at the midrib, smooth 
at the upper surface, about two thirds of an inch long, 4 
times narrower or more. _Umbels many-(about 12-) flowered, 
convex: peduncles capillary, red, about the third of an inch 
in length, slightly haired, bracteless. Flowers with ‘a kind 
of herbaceo-resinous smell; small, white, upright. Calyx 
persistent, thickish, white and green, turbinately campa-— 
nulate, glandular dots white; segments subulate, upright, 
ciliate. Petals turbinately spreading, alternate with the five 
fertile filaments, spatulately oblong, twice the length of the 
calyx. Filaments: 5 barren, .petal-like, ligulate, narrow, — 
\ 
concave at the top, white, furred at the lower part: 5 fertile; — 
filiform, growing out to their full length in succession, furred: 
at the lower part, uprightly spreading. _Germen imbedded. 
ina thick glandular stand, green, shaggy at the top, ob-\ 
ovate, compressed, (in our sample) bilocular, two-horned, 
horns erect with glandular dots: style setaceous. or, bristle- 
shaped, persistent, white, smooth. ; 
_ A-greenhouse plant. Flowers very early, in the spring. 
Requires the treatment. of the Cape Heaths; and is easily 
propagated by cuttings. . ) 
