Native of the Cape of Good Hope, but it does not seem 
to be known when or by whom introduced. The drawing 
was made from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, 
Brames, and Milne, at Parson's Green; where it flowers in 
February and March in the greenhouse, requiring the same 
treatment as the Cape heaths. 
Like the generality of its tribe, the whole plant has a 
very bitter taste, which seems more intense in the viscid 
secretion, that glazes the exterior. 
A suffrutescent elastic evergreen, of a uniform 
green, about a foot and a half high, paniculately branched; 
branches subtetragonal, fastigiant, leafy, internodes with 
à furrow along each side, the furrows changing their fronts 
with the alternation of the foliage, terminally one flow- 
ered. Leaves sessile, firm, rather thick, those. of a pair. 
not touching at their bases, decussated, erectly spread- 
ing, sometimes shorter than the intervals, but in general 
longer, narrowishly oblong, cuneately lanceolate, with a 
short point, chagreened by white atomical points, easily 
distinguished when slightly magnified, from an inch to 
about one and a half in length, a line and a half or two 
lines broad, flat; midrib slightly prominent beneath. Flowers 
upright, pink, viscously glazed, rather more than an inch 
long, very sweet; peduncle scarcely longer than the flower, 
foliaceously bibracteate at the base, growing thicker to- 
wards the calyx, where it is angular and nerved. Calyx 
herbaceous, thick, oblong, pentagonal, equal to the tube 
of the corolla, 5-cleft for about half its length ; segments 
Janceolate, keeled, upright. Tube of the corolla white, 
straight, nearly twice as short as the limb, more copiously 
- smeared with limy secretion than any other part; limb ro- 
tate, segments cuneately lanceolate, short-pointed. Sta- 
mens upright, connivent, twice shorter than the limb ; fila- 
ments white ; anthers rather longer than these, linear, yel- 
low, tetragonal with 4 furrows, slightly 4-cleft, inserted at 
the base, upright, not observed by us to wind in spires, 
after parting with the pollen, as in the rest of the genus ; 
but we suspect that the deviation was caused by the cold- 
row of the season at Mou we saw the plant in bloom. 
Germen green, pyrami elongated, narrow, equal to 
the tube, bisulcate; style continuous, white, shelvin A 
.. geamed along both sides, as if it. was formed of two united, 
“Шау, rigid. — 
в Calyx. "3 Corolla dissected vertitally. с Pistil, 
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