DESCRIPTION.
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves, whorled, mostly solitary, and nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, smooth, and purple. Leaves by fours, blunt, hairy, linear, and spreading. Stem shrubby, and taking various directions, a foot high. The large and small branches are thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from March till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified.
2. The empalement and floral leaves magnified.
3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
5. The seed-bud magnified.
[Pg 154]
