DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, exsertæ. Corolla clavata, sesquipollicaris, lutea, basi attenuata; oris laciniis magnis, revolutis. Folia quaterna, obtusa, linearia, crassa. Flores subterni. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, tripedalis, ramosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at their base, and without the blossom. The blossoms are club-shaped, an inch and a half long, yellow, and tapering to the base: the segments of the mouth are large, and rolled back. Leaves grow by fours, are blunt, linear, and thick. Flowers grow mostly by threes. Stem shrubby, upright, grows three feet high, and branching.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement with its three floral leaves.
2. The chives detached from the pointal, one tip magnified.
3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
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