clothed with short rigid hairs, that are seated on little gland¬ 
like tubercles. Nectariferous tube about the length of the 
calyx, also clothed with the same roughness, and tinged with 
purple. Petals 5, pale violet, the two upper ones obovate, 
narrow at the base, and marked a little above the base with 
2 or 3 short dark purple lines, above which is a small light 
mark : lower petals very narrow, linearly ligulate, spread¬ 
ing. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing an¬ 
thers: pollen orange-coloured. Style flesh-coloured, hairy 
at the base, and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, of the same 
colour, spreading, the points revolute. 
The present plant is an old inhabitant of our Green¬ 
houses, having been introduced from the Cape ever since 
the year 1774; it is now much less frequent than formerly; 
so many splendid new sorts having been raised withip a 
few years, has caused the present and some other interest¬ 
ing species to be a great deal neglected; the present is cer¬ 
tainly very well worth cultivating, on account of the fra¬ 
grance of its leaves, and its neat appearance, always form¬ 
ing a snug bushy plant, and is covered with its lively flow¬ 
ers all the Summer, thriving well in any rich light soil; 
and young cuttings, planted in pots, and placed in a shel¬ 
tered situation, will soon strike root. Our drawing was 
made from a plant in the collection of the Earl of Liver¬ 
pool, at Coombe Wood, in September last. 
