SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom: shaft without flowers, terminal: footstalks very long: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot high, shrubby; small and large branches between; erect and spreading.
Leaves by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped, and straight; flat on their upper surface, and keeled beneath.
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels of five to ten, with very long red footstalks: blossom pitcher-shaped: segments of the border spreading and equal.
Seed-bud turban shaped, with honey bearing nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till September.
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