Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores sub apices ramorum verticillatim conferti, horizontaliter siti. Pedunculi colorati. Corolla clavata, pollicaris, alba, pilis tomentosis densissime circumsessa: oris laciniis revolutis, obsolete crenulatis. Folia sena vel octona, linearia, tremula, glabra, subtus sulcata, attenuata in petiolos capillares. Caulis erectus, sesquipedalis, parum ramosus. Ramuli simplices, foliis tecti.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers grow near the ends of the branches in crowded whorls, and in an horizontal direction. Footstalks coloured. Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, white, and closely beset with downy hairs: the segments of the border rolled back, and slightly notched. Leaves by sixes or eights, linear, tremulous, and smooth, furrowed beneath, and tapering into hair-like footstalks. Stem upright, a foot and a half high, branching but little. The small branches are simple, and covered with leaves.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from February till July.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |