DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Flores in ramulorum apice verticillati, horizontaliter siti. Corolla sub-cylindracea, oris laciniis revolutis. Folia quaterna, linearia, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, subpedalis, ramosus. Rami sub-simplices.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom, shaft without. Flowers grow in whorls at the ends of the small branches, standing horizontally. Blossoms almost cylinder-shaped, the segments of the mouth rolled back. Leaves by fours, linear and spreading. Stem shrubby, upright, near a foot high, and branching. The branches nearly simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from August till November.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement.
2. The chives and pointal.
3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
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