DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers grow in whorls near the middle of the branches, straight out; the whorls rise out of each other in succession. Blossom cylindrically club-shaped, of a deep orange-colour, half an inch long. Leaves by sixes, linear, smooth, and sharp at the point. Stem shrubby, a foot high. The branches are upright and simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from June till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and blossom.
2. Flower of a yellow variety.
3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified.
4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
5. The seed-bud magnified.
[Pg 94]
