Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ. Flores terminales, numerosi, erecti, fasciculati. Pedunculi purpurei, basi bracteis binis parvis oppositis instructi. Corolla magna, inflata, ovata, apice arctata, albens, glabra, nitida: limbo æquali, patente, carneo, in centro saturate rubro. Folia quaterna, linearia, acuta, basi recurvata, apice adscendentia, ciliata, nitida. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis, teres, dumosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at their base, and within the blossom. Flowers terminal, numerous, upright, and in large bunches. The footstalks are purple, and furnished with two small opposite floral leaves at their base. Blossom large, of an inflated ovate form, and narrowed towards the end, whitish, smooth, and shining: segments of the border equal, spreading, flesh-coloured, and of a deep red in the centre. Leaves by fours, linear, sharp-pointed, with a recurved base and an ascending point, ciliated, and shining. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, round, and bushy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till August.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
