- fomewhat wrinkled, middle part nearly white, upper part bright 
-pink colour, each fegment marked at its extremity on the 
under fide with a green calyx-like fabfiance, and terminating ina 
reddifh mucro or point: Corolla within the calyx, tube nearly - 
ovate and white, limb fpreading, divided into four fegments, 
ovate, long-pointed, and pink-coloured: Stamina eight, en- 
clofed within the tube of the Corolla: Anthere at firft bright 
red, afterwards brown: Awns two, fhort and fomewhat bifid: 
Germen green: Style the length of the tube: Stigma fome- 
what large and blunt. 
A vein of. great peculiarity runs through the whole of this 
plant, which is a native of the Cape, of modern introduétion, — 
flowers early in the fpring, often in the depth of winter, and 
is ufually propagated by cuttings. 
