Tips beardless, without the blossom, and very long. Flowers nearly solitary, hanging down from the smaller branches, and forming a loose spike about the middle of the branches. Footstalks long, coloured: with three minute floral leaves on the lower part. Blossom conical, and purple. The segments of the border are small, upright, and of a yellowish green. Leaves by threes, linear, bowed, pointed, smooth, and bundled together. Stem upright, two feet high, and shrubby. The large branches are nearly simple, long, and covered with very short branches crowded together.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till August.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. |
