DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ; stylo exserto. Corolla viscosa, ampullacea, sesquipollicaris, summa cylindracea, ad basin inflata, ore arctata; laciniis cordatis, patentibus. Folia terna, trigona, subulata, erecta, patentia. Caulis filiformis, erectus. Rami simplicissimi, filiformes, longi, patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom; the shaft without. Blossoms clammy, flask-shaped, an inch and a half long, the upper part cylindrical, swelled at the base, and pinched in at the mouth; the segments heart-shaped and spreading. Leaves grow by threes, are three-sided, awl-shaped, upright and spreading. Stem thread-shaped and upright. The branches are quite simple, thread-shaped, long, and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till November.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves.
2. The chives detached from the pointal, one tip magnified.
3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
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