DESCRIPTION.
Stem supple, upright and rough, four or five feet high; the branches are loose, simple and long.
Leaves grow by sixes, are harsh, blunt, furrowed underneath, linear, and thick, having the foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in whorls, about the middle of the smaller branches, forming a spike, with short foot-stalks, with three floral leaves close to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are awl-shaped, concave, and the length of the foot-stalk.
Blossom near an inch long, four-sided, ribbed, of a yellowish-orange colour; the segments of the mouth are notched, and bent backward.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle; the tips beardless, and just within the. blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel cylindrical, and furrowed; shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom; summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till January.