Antheræ muticæ, sub-inclusæ. Flores plerumque quaterni, cernui, terminales: Corollis cylindraceis, costatis, luteolo-rubris, sub-uncialibus, arcuatis. Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glandulosa, viscosa, erecto-patentia. Caulis sesquipedalis, fruticosus, ramulis numerosis erectis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just within the blossom. Flowers grow mostly by fours, nodding, and terminal. Blossoms cylindrical, ribbed, of a yellowish red, near an inch long, and slightly bowed. Leaves by fours, linear, blunt-ended, glandular, and between erect and spreading. Stem a foot and a half high, shrubby, with numerous small upright branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till November.
REFERENCE.
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1. A leaf magnified. 2. Empalement magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
