DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, grows more than two feet high and very stout; the branches grow in whorls, spreading and upright, seldom breaking into smaller branches, and like the stem.
Leaves grow by sixes, are linear, smooth, spread outward, and very long, the foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, horizontal, and an inch in length; the foot-stalks very short, with three floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, the leaflets are awl-shaped, broadest at the base, smooth, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom tubularly club-shaped, blunt ended, and nearly white; the segments of the border are reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads shorter than the blossom. Tips beardless and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed; hairy on the upper part, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit shield-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till December,