DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow by fours, at the ends of the small branches, spreading. Footstalks very short. Cup double; the outer one is three-leaved; the leaflets lance-shaped; the inner one is four-leaved, and longer than the outer. Blossom trumpet-shaped, very slender and yellow; segments of the border sharp-pointed, and spreading. Leaves by threes and fours, linear, and upright. Stem shrubby, a foot high, and weak; the large and small branches are twiggy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till June.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |
