DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just within the blossom. Flowers grow in close whorls at the top of the branches. The footstalks are very short, the floral leaves appearing like a second cup. Blossom club-shaped, curved, and of a blood colour. Leaves by sixes, sharp-pointed, and of a blueish green. Stem upright, a foot high. The branches grow in whorls, upright and spreading, seldom branching.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from August till December.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 3. The shaft and its summit magnified. |
