REFERENTIA.
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1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Germen lente auctum. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with bearded tips, just within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers cylindrical, and terminating the branches: leaves by fours, glandular, and clammy.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot and half high, shrubby, with numerous small upright branches.
Leaves by fours, linear, blunt-ended, glandular, viscous, and between erect and spreading.
Flowers mostly by fours, nodding, and terminal: blossoms cylindrical, ribbed, of a yellowish red, near an inch long, and slightly bowed.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.