Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, plerumque bini. Pedunculi breves, bracteis duabus minutis adpressis. Calyx magnus, ovatus, acutus. Corolla urceolata, alba: laciniis suberectis. Folia binatim opposita, triquetra, nitida, adpressa, magna. Caulis pedalis, filiformis. Rami et ramuli numerosi, erecti.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches mostly by twos. Footstalks short, having two small floral leaves pressed to them. The empalement is large, egg-shaped, and pointed. Blossom pitcher-shaped, and white. The segments of the border are nearly upright. Leaves grow opposite in pairs, three-sided, shining, pressed to the stem, and large. Stem a foot high, and thread-shaped: the large and smaller branches are numerous and upright
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from March till May.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |