Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers in fours, terminal on the lesser branches, in little sessile heads. Blossom ovately cone-shaped, smooth, shining, and of a deep flesh-colour. The segments are nearly ovate, and spreading. Leaves by fours, rather spreading, linear, smooth, and shining. Stem shrubby, a foot high, upright. The branches are often a little bundled and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from February till June.
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1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
