DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus, flexuosus; ramis longis, cum ramulis binis vel ternis, verticillatis.
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glauca, plerumque patentia.
Flores in medio ramorum, spicati: corollis dependentibus, subpollicaribus, cylindraceis, curvatis, pellucide albidis: pedunculis longis, bracteis tribus instructis.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Augusti ad Novembrem.
REFERENTIA.
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1. Folium. 2. Idem subtus. 3. Calyx. 4. Stamen unum lente auctum. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers grow in spikes from the axillæ of the leaves, hanging down: leaves by fours: stem upright.