Tips beardless, and without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches by threes, nodding. Footstalks long. Blossom turban-shaped, flesh-coloured at the ends, and whitish at the base; the segments of the border are very small, obtuse, and upright. Leaves by threes, blunt, linear, harsh, and between erect and spreading. Stem shrubby, upright, near a foot and a half high, and branching. Branches by threes, spreading, and upright.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. Empalement and blossom, magnified.
2. A blossom without its empalement, magnified.
3. A chive magnified.
4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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