Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ; flores plerumque terni, penduli, terminales; pedunculi colorati bracteis tribus instructis; corolla campanulata odorata incarnata; calycis foliolis lato ovatis adpressis, folia terna, linearia, obtusa caulis fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra; rami graciles.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom; flowers grow mostly by threes, pendulous and terminal; footstalks coloured, and furnished with three floral leaves; blossom bell-shaped, scented, and flesh-coloured; leaflets of the cup are broadly ovate, and pressed to the blossom; leaves by threes, linear, and blunt, stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high, branches slender.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCES.
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1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. A chive, magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |
