DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow in crowded whorls, above the middle of the branches. Footstalks short, and furnished with three leaf-shaped floral leaves. Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, whitish towards the base, and upwards of a bright rose colour. Leaves by sixes, sevens, or eights, upright, crowded, linear, attenuated downwards into capillary footstalks, and thence elegantly tremulous. Stem upright, two feet high; with simple branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
