DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, grows three feet high or more, and very stiff; branches very simple, upright, and grow in whorls.
Leaves grow by fours, are slightly furrowed, harsh, straight, near an inch long, with loose foot-stalks.
Flowers grow from the foot-stalks of the leaves, close to the stem, near the summit of the branches, in whorls; foot-stalks short, having three awl-shaped floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, pressed to the blossom, and smooth.
Blossom club-shaped, an inch and a half long, a little curved, smooth, and orange colour; the segments equal, nearly upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, curved inwards at the end. Tips beardless, two-cleft, adhering together by the sides, a great way out of the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud club-shaped, furrowed, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit concave at the top.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May, till September.