DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ inclusæ, basi bicornes. Flores terminales, umbellati, conferti, pedunculis brevibus. Corolla ventricosa, nitidissime alba, basi quadrata, ore arctata, leviter sulcata. Limbus maximus; laciniis rotundatis, patentibus; glandulis octo fauci circumpositis. Folia quaterna, reflexa, rigida, ciliata, acuminata, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus. Rami laxi, filiformes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips within the blossom, and two-horned at their base. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels crowded together, with short footstalks. Blossom bellied, of a very shining white, squared at the base, straitened at the mouth, and slightly furrowed. Border very large. Segments roundish, and spreading, with eight glands surrounding the mouth. Leaves by fours, reflexed, harsh, fringed, sharp-pointed, and furrowed beneath. Stem shrubby, a foot high, branching. The branches are loose, and thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. A segment of the border magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |
