DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ exertæ, basi bicornes. Flores numerosi, terminales, umbellati, horizontaliter siti. Pedunculi longi, colorati. Corolla sub-cylindrica, incarnata, læviter tomentosa; laciniis æqualibus, erectis. Folia plerumque sena, linearia, obtusa, asperiuscula, basi recurvata, apice adscendentia; petiolis longis. Caulis fruticosus, spithamæus, teres. Rami numerosi, recurvato-adscendentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips without the blossom, and two-horned at their base. Flowers numerous, in terminal bunches, in a horizontal direction. Footstalks long, and coloured. Blossom nearly cylindrical, flesh-coloured, and slightly downy. The segments of the border are equal, and upright. Leaves mostly by sixes, linear, blunt, and roughish, bent downwards at the base, with ascending points. Footstalks long. Stem shrubby, a span high, round. Branches numerous, bending downwards, and ascending.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till September.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
