DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers pitcher-shaped, downy and white, and covered totally by a woolly cup; the leaflets of the cup are egg-shaped, and flesh-coloured. Leaves by threes, linear and blunt, the edges covered with long hairs. Stem thread-shaped, very flexible. The smaller branches hair-like, numerous and downy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from February till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement.
2. The blossom.
3. The chives detached from the pointal, one tip magnified.
4. The seed-bud and pointal magnified.
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