Leaves in the smaller branches grow by threes, and are ascending: in the large branches they grow by fours and fives, and bend downwards on the lower part of the plant: they are convex on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath, with long hairs on their margins: some of them shorter and glandular: footstalks glandular.
Flowers terminate the branches in irregular umbels mostly in a horizontal direction: footstalks very long, thread-shaped, and coloured, covered with glands, and furnished with three floral leaves, also glandular.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, furrowed, coloured, glandular, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom tubular, ribbed, and slightly haired, of a deep purple at first, and afterwards paler.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips two-horned, and just without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till October.
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1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Flower. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. [Pg 90]5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. |