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1. Calyx. 2. Stamina a pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et pistillum stigmate lente aucto. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers nearly sessile and terminal: leaves by fours: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot high: the smaller branches numerous, between erect and spreading.
Leaves by fours, linear, blunt and smooth.
Flowers nearly sessile, terminal, in bunches of four together: blossom swelled out, white at first, but dying off a rose-colour: narrowed at the mouth: segments of the border heart-shaped, waved, spreading and large.
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 June to September.