SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches: leaves by fours: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot or more high, flexuose, thread-shaped, and twiggy.

Leaves by fours, slightly downy, linear, short, pointed, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

Flowers terminate the branches by threes and fours, mostly ascending: blossom trumpet-shaped, very slender, and flesh-coloured: segments of the border equal, heart-shaped, pointed, and spreading.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers during the summer months.

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