Sypieza
(from sympiezo, to press; in reference to the stamens, which adhere to the corolla tube). ORD. Ericaceae. A small genus (five species) of small, Heath-like, greenhouse shrubs, confined to South Africa. Flowers small, clustered in terminal heads, ebracteate or tribracteate; calyx rather thick, complanate and bilabiate or tubular-campanulate and four-toothed; corolla marcescent, oblique or curved, with a shortly-bifid limb, the lobes broad and connivent; stamens four, exserted. Leaves ternately whorled, small or minute, linear or elliptic, sulcate at back. S. capitellata, the only species introduced to our gardens, is a pretty little shrub, thriving in a compost of turfy peat and sand. It may be increased by young cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass.
S. capitellata (small-headed). fl. pink, in sub-globose, drooping heads; corolla thrice as long as the shortly-ciliated, compressed, bilobed calyx. July. l. linear-trigonal or erecto-incurved; floral ones scarcely longer than the calyx. h. 1 1/2ft. 1812.