DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, grows two feet high. Branches few, covered with short branches, and crowded together.
Leaves by threes, linear, curved, and crowded, nearly three-sided, reflexed, sharp-pointed, with very small foot-stalks.
Flowers grow by threes, at the ends of the small branches hanging down, with foot-stalks very short.
Empalement. Cup double; the outer three-leaved, egg-shaped, skinny, pressed to the inner ones, and tiled; the inner four-leaved, with larger leaflets.
Blossom club-shaped, turned inwards, of a deep scarlet, and furrowed; the segments of the mouth are blunt, and turned inwards.
Chives. Eight linear flat threads; tips beardless, without the blossom, pencilled, long, linear, and tapering into threads.
Pointal. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing glands. Shaft thread-shaped, a little shorter than the chives. Summit slightly four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from September till December.