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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