Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores spicati, laxi, in medio ramulorum, axillares, dependentes. Pedunculi longi, colorati. Corolla campanulata, costata, saturate carnea: oris laciniis reflexis. Folia sena, linearia, obtusa, arcuata, petiolis longis adpressis. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis, sub-erectus, gracilis. Rami et ramuli verticillati.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers grow in large spikes, about the middle of the branches, from the footstalks of the leaves, and hang down. Flower-stalk long, and coloured. Blossom bell-shaped, ribbed, and of a deep flesh-colour: the segments of the border are reflexed. Leaves by sixes, linear, obtuse, and bowed, with long footstalks pressed to the branches. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, nearly upright, and slender. The small and large branches grow in whorls.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from November till February.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |