Stem upright, grows a foot and a half high, branching but little; the smaller branches are simple, and covered with leaves.
Leaves grow by sixes, are linear, tremulous, smooth, furrowed underneath, and tapering into hair-like foot-stalks half an inch long.
Flowers are clustered together about the middle of the branches, are numerous, spreading upwards, having short foot-stalks, with three linear floral leaves pressed to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are awl-shaped, pressed to the blossom, and smooth.
Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, and of a deep scarlet colour; the segments of the mouth are rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle; tips beardless, and just without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till November.
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