Heath with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft without: leaves crowded together: flowers terminate the branches in umbels, hanging down: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a foot or more high; the small branches crowded together, and recurved at the point.
Leaves mostly by sixes, scattered, linear, blunt, and flexuose: footstalks long.
Flowers grow in terminal umbels from six to nine, hanging down.
Blossom oblong, of a whitish colour: segments of the border straight, of a dark-brown colour: shaft red, and very much outside the blossom.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries: shaft thread-shaped, and very long.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till July.
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