Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Flores ramulos terminant, solitarii, patentes, racemum sparsum formantes. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla curvata, clavata, pollicaris, rubra: limbo albicante: laciniis expansis. Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus, laxus: ramulis numerosis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and just without the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, spreading out, and forming a scattered spike. Footstalks very short. Blossom curved, club-shaped, an inch long, and red: the border of a whitish colour: segments expanded. Leaves by fours, linear, obtuse, and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high, branching, and weak. The smaller branches are numerous.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till January.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. Chives and pointal. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
