Tips beardless, and without the blossom. Flowers nearly sessile, upon the ends of the smaller branches, growing solitarily, or by twos and threes. Blossom tubularly club-shaped, curved, an inch long, of a dirty yellow colour, and hairy: the segments of the mouth rolled back. Leaves grow by fours, linear, hairy, and blunt. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, upright, and hairy at the top.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from August till December.
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1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. Chives and pointal, summit magnified. |
