SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with twisted, bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches in bunches: leaves scattered.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem scarce a foot high, shrubby: branches long and ascending.

Leaves scattered, linear, long, and blunt-ended: footstalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers crowded together in bunches at the ends of the branches: footstalks very long and red, with two floral-leaves set at a distance on them: blossom pitcher-shaped, and of a deep flesh-colour: segments of the border equal and spreading.

Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till October.

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