REFERENTIA.
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1. Flores duo. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Flos lente auctus. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips just within the blossom: shaft without: summit large and hollow: flowers small, axillary: leaves by fours: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot or more high, upright, and flexuose: the smaller branches grow in whorls, ascending, and thread-shaped.
Flowers grow in loose spikes near the ends of the branches, mostly in twos, from the axillæ of the leaves: blossom bell-shaped, purple, and very small: empalement pressed to them.
Leaves by fours, linear, long, blunt-ended, glaucous, and spreading.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, downy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.