Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers grow at the ends of the smaller branches, mostly by threes, and nodding. Footstalks short, and furnished with three spatula-shaped, tiled floral leaves. Blossom egg-shaped, white at the base, and of a dark brown towards the point. Leaves by fours, obtuse, linear and smooth; standing out horizontally. Stem upright, near a foot high, and branching. The large and small branches are twiggy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till November.
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1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A blossom, natural size. 3. The same magnified. 4. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal magnified. |
