Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ. Flores in medio ramorum, verticillati, recti; verticillis alter alteri exsurgentibus. Corolla cylindraceo-clavata, uncialis, curvata, carnea; oris laciniis magnis, revolutis. Folia sena, conferta, tenuia, linearia, adscendentia. Pedunculi longissimi. Caulis sesquipedalis, erectus. Rami et ramuli longi, simplices.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers grow about the middle of the branches in whorls, straight; the whorls rising out of each other in succession. Blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and flesh-coloured; segments of the mouth large and revolute. Leaves by sixes, crowded, slender, linear, and ascending. Footstalks very long. Stem a foot-and-half high, upright. The large and small branches long and simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom during the Autumnal months.
REFERENCE.
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1. Empalement. 2. A chive, tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
