DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, branching and flexible; small branches are numerous, grow in whorls, mostly by fours, short and hanging down.
Leaves grow most frequently by fours, are linear, hairy, thin and furrowed beneath; foot-stalks very short and pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow at the ends of the small branches in bunches, generally of four; the foot-stalks grow straight, are coloured, having the floral leaves at a distance from the blossom.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom between bell and funnel-shaped, and flesh-coloured; the segments of the border are pointed, very large, half egg-shaped, with the ends a little spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular, eight divisions at the top and flattened. Shaft thread-shaped, upright and just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from September, till December.