Tips beardless, without the blossom, and very long. Flowers terminal on the small lateral branches, mostly by threes, pendulous, and incurved, with short footstalks. Blossom club-shaped, incurved, an inch long, of a bright shining red, swelled and quadrifid at the base. Leaves by threes, awl-shaped, and hairy. Stem upright, a foot and a half high, and furnished downwards with numerous small branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from January till April.
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1. The under-side of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 3. A blossom detached from the empalement. 4. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
