Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till November.
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1. The Empalement. 2. Chives and Pointal. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. |
This elegant plant resembles the E. Linnæa, and is by most cultivators as well known by the appellation of the old Linneoides as by the specific title of perspicua.
It flowers early in spring, and continues in successive bloom till late in autumn. It was first raised from Cape seed in the Royal gardens at Kew, and flowered in the nursery of Mr. Williams at Turnham Green about the year 1796.
Our figure was taken from a luxuriant specimen in the summer of 1807.[Pg 159]