DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels of from 3 to 5, nodding. Footstalks short, with three floral leaves of the shape of the cup, and pressed to it. Blossom egg-shaped and swelled out, of a crystalline white, shining, and of the size of a pea: segments of the border rolled back. Leaves by threes, obtuse, linear, and between erect and spreading. Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high, with numerous small branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till October.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
