Native of the Cape of Good Hope ; and recorded as hav- 

 ing been cultivated by MilJer, in 1752. 



The blossom is sometimes wholly white. 



A proliferous ly branching upright shrub, something like 

 a Juniper ; branches round, leafy, reddish ; branchlets green 

 with a fine down, corymbose, bearing the flowers at the 

 top. Leaves scattered, closish, imbricately spreading, 

 thickish, linearly subulate, cartilaginously pointed, keeled 

 and convex beneath, with two rows of glandular dots; vil- 

 lously fringed, otherwise smooth, from ^ an inch to an inch 

 long, flat at the upper side: petiole short, close-pressed, 

 flattened, pale. Cymules few-flowered, terminal ; flowers 

 whitish red, small, upright, with a strong resinous scent 

 like that in the leaves j peduncles in the axils of the topmost 

 leaves, and about the same length with them, once or twice 

 divided, upright, round, downy; pedicles very short, with 3 

 pale bractes at the base. Calyx downy, twice shorter than 

 the corolla or more, spreading, with ovately acuminate seg- 

 ments rose-red at the end. Petals campanulately spread- 

 ing, obovately oblong, sessile, flattish, even, rounded at the 

 top, inserted on the glandular disk of the calyx. Stamens 

 5, sliorter tlian the petals and inserted on the outside of the 

 coronal disk at the same point with them, at first inflected, 

 then extending themselves straight, one after the other, 

 when they become divaricate; sterile ones none: ^laments 

 subulate, red; anthers ovate, upright, fixed on at the base, 

 facing inwards, surmounted by a small gland of the same 

 colour as themselves originally standing upright but after- 

 wards bending flat back along the anther, at first rosy red, 

 at last black ; pollen grumous, golden-yellow. Germens 5, 

 superior connected together so as to form a star, pale green, 

 lying within a hollow crown with five lobelike plaits : style 

 cylindrical, pale, thickish, from inbent becoming upright 

 and straight, equal to the stamens ; stigma subcapitately 

 obtuse. 



A hardy greenhouse shrub. 



