Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores ad apices ramulorum quaterni, pedunculis brevibus. Corolla tubæformis, tenuissima: oris laciniis acuminatis, patentibus, albicantibus: tubo pellucido. Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glabra, erecto-patentia. Caulis fruticosus, debilis, pedalis et ultra. Rami et ramuli filiformes, virgati.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow by fours at the ends of the small branches. Footstalks short. Blossom trumpet-shaped, and very slender. The segments of the border are sharp-pointed, spreading, and very white. The tube is of a transparent white. Leaves by fours, linear, blunt, smooth, and between erect and spreading. Stem shrubby, weak, a foot or more high. The large and small branches are thread-shaped, and twiggy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till December.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. Chives and pointal, summit magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. |