DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers grow by threes at the ends of all the small branches, nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, purple, and shining. Leaves by fours, awl-shaped, sharp-pointed, smooth, and upright. Stem upright, a foot high, slender. Branches few; the small branches numerous, short, and upright.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified.
2. The empalement magnified.
3. A blossom.
4. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
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