Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the Autumnal months.
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1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Flower. 4. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. 7. Flower of a variety. |
This handsome shrub differs not only in the colour of its flowers from the E. Echiflora, figured in Vol. 3, but also in its foliage, which are much smaller, thinner, and closer together. It bears numerous bright purple blossoms, crowded together at the ends of the branches; there are two slight varieties, one of a paler colour, and the other longer in the flower and curved, a flower of which is given with the dissections. Our figure was made from plants in the Hammersmith Collection.[Pg 63]
