Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are bell-shaped, and clammy; the flowers grow from the foot-stalks of the leaves close to the branches forming close spikes; the cups are like the leaves of the plant, and are double; the leaves grow by fours, are linear and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, and upright; the larger and smaller branches are simple, long, loose and clammy at the ends.
Leaves grow by fours, are linear, pointed, and smooth, the younger ones are clammy at the ends of the branches; foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in spikes about the middle of the branches, spreading out, and growing from the foot-stalks of the leaves; the foot-stalks very short.
Empalement. Cup double; the leaves unequal, clammy and pressed to the blossom, with small glands on their margins.
Blossom bell shaped, very clammy, purple, half way cleft into four, the segments bent back.
Chives. Eight linear threads. Tips beardless and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud globular. Shaft within the blossom and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.