DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow near the ends of the branches, pressed together in horizontal whorls. The footstalks are short, having three floral leaves, which are clammy, and pressed to the cup. Blossom cylindrical, half an inch long, of a pale green, very clammy, shining, and ribbed. Leaves by sixes, linear, pointed, and spreading. Stalk erect, a foot and a half high. Branches simple, long, whorled.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from November till April.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
