Native of the Cape of Good Hope; and recorded as hay- 
ing been cultivated by Miller, in 1752. 
The blossom is sometimes wholly white. 
A proliferously branching upright shrub, something like 
a Juniper; branches round, leafy, reddish; branchlets gree? 
with a fine down, corymbose, bearing the flowers at the 
top. Leaves scattered, closish, imbricately spreading; 
thickish, linearly subulate, cartilaginously pointed, keele 
and convex beneath, with two rows of glandular dots; vil- 
lously fringed, otherwise smooth, from +4 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 ; 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 that 
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, shorter than 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: filaments 
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. : Saees 
A hardy greenhouse shrub. 
