DESCRIPTION.
Tips within, and two-horned at the base. Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels, nodding. Footstalks very long, and glandularly hairy. Blossom globular, and flesh-coloured. The segments of the border are obtuse, and turned inwards. Leaves by threes, spathula-shaped, and keeled beneath: the margins are glandular, and rolled back. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high. The large and smaller branches are numerous, hairy, and between erect and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from August till November.
REFERENCE.
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1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
