Tips crested, and within the blossom. Flowers grow in the middle of the small branches, solitary, or by threes, nodding. The footstalks and empalement coloured. Blossom nearly globular, swelled out, white, smooth, and of the size of a large pea; the segments egg-shaped, bunched at the base, and upright. Leaves by fours, sharp-pointed, and smooth; the younger ones erect and spreading, the older ones reflexed. Stem shrubby, near a foot high, and very much branched.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till July.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |
