DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers headed, terminal, and nodding. Peduncles coloured, and furnished with three floral leaves also coloured. Blossom bellied below, contracted above, flesh-coloured at the base, with a green mouth. Leaves by threes, three-sided, linear, of a sea green colour, a little incurved, and spreading. Stem stout, shrubby, a foot high, branching; the branches spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from November till February.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. A branch with the involucrum of the flowers. |
