Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers numerous, growing close to and about the middle of the stem, peeping straight out from amongst the leaves, with scarce any footstalks. Cup double. Blossom cylindrical, near an inch long, smooth, yellow, and narrow at the mouth; border reflexed. Leaves by fours, linear, and incurved, sharp-pointed, and smooth. Stem shrubby, two feet high, and upright; branching at the base, then forming a simple pyramidal spike covered with very short branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from March till August.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 3. The shaft and its summit magnified. |
