active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

“ Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers sit close in upright bunches by fours, on the ends of the branches with scarcely any footstalks. Blossom swelled out, flesh-coloured, and narrowed at the mouth; the segments are nearly heart-shaped, waved, spreading, and very large. Leaves by fours, linear, smooth, thickish, and shining. Stem shrubby, a span high, upright, and branching. The smaller branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading. ”

“ Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, straight out. Blossom club-shaped, straight out, an inch long, and purple. Leaves by sixes, linear, tremulous, sharp-pointed, smooth, and tapering into hair-like footstalks a quarter of an inch in length. Stem shrubby, two feet high, and upright, simple at the base, then branching out from a whorl into simple ascending branches. ”

“ Stem upright, a foot and a half high, and shrubby. The large branches nearly simple, and covered with numerous very short branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till September. ”