Leaves in sixes, sevens, or eights, erect, crowded, bristle-shaped, and attenuated downwards into capillary foot-stalks, and thence very elegantly tremulous.
Flowers in crowded whorls above the middle of the branches, patulous; peduncles short, furnished with three leaf-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets broad awl-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, a little curved, whitish towards the base, upwards of a bright rose colour.
Chives eight hair-like threads, tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furnished with honey-bearing pores at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May until August.
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1. A Leaf. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Calyx magnified. 4. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified. 5. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud magnified[Pg 269]. |