Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers bundled in the lateral branches by threes and fours. Footstalks very short. Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, of a bright brown orange colour. Leaves by fours, upright, and linear. Stem shrubby, upright, and two feet high; the small branches nearly simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till July.
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1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
