DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, shrubby, two feet high, with numerous small ascending branches.
Leaves by fours and fives, linear, obtuse, smooth, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers terminate the smaller branches, spreading, in umbels of two to four; footstalks short, with three floral leaves at the base.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets awl-shaped, smooth, channelled above, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom very long, curved, club-shaped, of a deep gold colour above, and yellow beneath; the segments of the border spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, which are curved, and the length of the blossom. Tips beardless.
Pointal. Seed-bud club-shaped, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, curved, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till June.