HEBENSTRETIA (named in honour of John Ernest Hebenstreit, 1703-1757, Professor of Botany in the University of Leipsic). ORD. Selagineae. A genus containing about twenty species of greenhouse evergreen shrubs, sub-shrubs, or annual herbs, natives of South Africa (one extending to Abyssinia), few of which are seen in cultivation. Flowers white or yellow, sessile; spikes terminal, often dense, short or elongated. Leaves alternate or scattered. The species thrive in a compost of sandy fibry loam, with the addition of a little peat. Propagated by cuttings, made of short young shoots, and inserted in sandy peat, under a bell glass, in spring. HEBENSTRETIA dentata is increased by seed. HEBENSTRETIA dentata (toothed). fl. white; spikes smooth. May to September. l. linear, toothed. h. 1ft. 1739. Annual. (B. M. 483.) HEBENSTRETIA fruticosa (shrubby). fl. white, in oblong spikes, disagreeably scented at night; calyx small, bipartite; corolla tube longer than calyx, filiform; bracts entire, ovate, acuminate, sometimes ciliate. August. l. linear-lanceolate, dentate or rather pinnatifid-dentate, smooth when full grown; young ones somewhat hairy along the midrib on the under side. Stems shrubby. h. 1 1/2ft. 1816. (B. M. 1970.) HEBENSTRETIA integrifolia (entire-leaved). fl. white. May and June. l. linear, quite entire. h. 1ft. 1792. (A. B. R. 252.)