DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows about a foot high, and branching; the branches are crooked, and thread-shaped.
Leaves grow by fours, are three-sided, fringed, rolled back, sharp-pointed, smooth on the upper, and furrowed on the under surface; with short footstalks, pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow in bunches, mostly of four, are clammy, and terminate the branches; the fruit-stalks are long, having three spathula-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are spathula-shaped, fringed at the edges, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom swelled at the base, and tapering to the top, striped longitudinally, nearly an inch and a half long, straightened at the mouth, which is of a deep purple; the segments egg-shaped, and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips within the blossom, are cleft in two, and two-horned at their base.
Pointal. Seed-vessel club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft without the blossom, and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered, and green.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.