Tips bearded, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches mostly by threes, between spreading and hanging down. Footstalks very short. Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, and green. The segments of the border are obtuse, and upright. Leaves by threes and fours, linear, straight, blunt, and hairy, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. Stem upright, a foot and a half high, and hairy. The small branches grow by threes, in whorls.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from October till January.
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1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement. 3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
