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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal and nodding: leaves lance-shaped and hirsute: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a foot high; the large and smaller branches simple and flexuose.
Leaves by sixes, lance shaped, curved and spreading, flat on their upper surface and deeply furrowed beneath: margins harshly haired.
Flowers terminate the ends of the branches in umbels, nodding: blossom nearly cylindrical, swelled at the base, whitish, of a bright red colour above, and striped: narrowed at the mouth, and hairy segments rolled back.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, hairy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of September till December.