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1. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 2. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 3. Flos varietas rubra. 4. Flos varietas subalbida. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers grow by fours, are flask-shaped, and viscous: leaves by threes, crowded together.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, shrubby, a foot or more high: branches grow mostly by threes, in whorls.
Leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper surface, and deeply furrowed beneath; the margins are beset with long hairs.
Flowers grow by fours, spreading: the blossom is swelled at the base, and tapers to the point, red on the lower part, white in the centre, and of a deep purple towards the end, very glutinous, and shining: the segments of the border are spreading: the leaflets of the cup are lance-shaped, bearded, and pressed to the blossom.
Seed-bud pillar-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till October.