DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers terminal, chiefly in threes, nearly upright. Peduncles very short. Empalement double; the outer three-leaved; the inner four-leaved longer, and broadly egg-shaped at the base. Blossom bell-shaped, and white. The segments are roundish, and spreading. Leaves by threes, spreading, wedge-shaped, broadish, rather thick, and shining, with very long footstalks. It is a dwarfish shrub. Branches spreading. The small branches are numerous, and crowded.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till July.
REFERENCE.
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1. A leaf. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. A blossom. 4. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 5. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
