Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers almost terminal, in a spike, densely whorled, and horizontal. Blossom tubular, short, inflated, and resembling an Echium, of a deep flesh-colour, ribbed, and viscous; segments spreading, and rounded. Leaves by sixes or sevens, and irregularly whorled. Stem shrubby, and two feet high.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from February till May.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom. 3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
