Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Flores in ramulorum mediis verticillati, recti; corollis clavatis, rectis, pollicaribus, purpureis. Folia sena, linearia, tremulenta, acuta, glabra, attenuata in petiolos capillares semi-unguiculares. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus, basi simplex, dein verticillatim ramosus, ramis simplicibus, adscendentibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, straight out. Blossom club-shaped, straight out, an inch long, and purple. Leaves by sixes, linear, tremulous, sharp-pointed, smooth, and tapering into hair-like footstalks a quarter of an inch in length. Stem shrubby, two feet high, and upright, simple at the base, then branching out from a whorl into simple ascending branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till January.
REFERENCE.
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1. A leaf. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |