Tips crested, and within the blossom. Flowers grow from the axillæ of the leaves, are nearly terminal, and bend downwards, mostly in threes. The empalement is large, of a broad ovate form, and flesh-coloured. Blossom egg-shaped, large, and flesh-coloured. Leaves by threes, awl-shaped, incurved, sharp-pointed, with long footstalks pressed to the branches. Stem upright, a foot or more high. Large branches few. The smaller branches in whorls, by threes.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from March till May.
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1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. The same spread open. 4. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
