clothed with short rigid hairs, that are seated on little glandlike
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, spreading.
Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing anthers
: 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 Greenhouses,
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 within a
few years, has caused the present and some other interesting
species to be a great deal neglected; the present is certainly
very well worth cultivating, on account of the fragrance
of its leaves, and its neat appearance, always forming
a snug bushy plant, and is covered with its lively flowers
all the Summer, thriving well in any rich light soil;
and young cuttings, planted in pots, and placed in a sheltered
situation, will soon strike root. Our drawing was
made from a plant in the collection of the Earl of Liverpool,
at Coombe Wood, in September last.