DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright; the larger and smaller branches grow in whorles and upright.
Leaves grow mostly by sixes, linear, smooth, harsh, sharp pointed, spreading and a little curved; the foot-stalks very short, and pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in whorles at the top of the branches, close to the stem at the insertion of the leaves, horizontally, and rather in a spike; foot-stalks with floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, upright, and pressed to the stem.
Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, a little curved, smooth, scarlet; the segments of the mouth are spread out, very large and a little turned back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, turned inward at the end. Tips beardless, just without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud inversely egg-shaped, furrowed, concave at the top. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit between shield-shaped and four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of August till December.