DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom, shaft included. Flowers globular, purple, nodding, and smooth. Flowers grow by fours, at the ends of the small branches. Cup reflexed. Leaves by fours, linear, fringed and flaccid. Stem weak, a foot and a half high. Branches numerous and twiggy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified.
2. The chives and pointal, summit magnified.
3. A chive magnified.
4. The seed-bud magnified.
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