DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom. Flowers grow mostly by threes at the extremity of the small branches, forming a spike. Blossom pitcher-shaped, smooth, whitish, and small. Leaves by threes, linear, blunt, roughish on the upper side, bristly, and rolled back at the edge. Stem, branches and small branches thread-shaped, bending, slightly rough and hairy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from February till April.
REFERENCE.
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1. The underside of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives and pointal. 4. A chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal magnified. |
