DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, grows a foot high; the larger and smaller branches are numerous, nearly upright, twiggy, and a little downy.
Leaves grow by threes, shine, smooth, nearly three-sided, blunt, spreading, and thick; foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow from the ends of the small branches, mostly by threes; with white foot-stalks; floral leaves egg-shaped, sharp-ended, white, close to the cup, tiled, and like those of the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, white, loose, nearly the length of the blossom.
Blossom bell-shaped, white; the segments of the mouth are rolled back, and larger than the tube.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, without the blossom, and black.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, slightly furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit shield-shaped, almost four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April, till July.