DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, grows two feet high, and weak; larger branches few, covered with numerous shorter ones.
Leaves grow by threes, linear, curved, crowded, nearly three-sided, reflexed, sharp-pointed, foot-stalks very short.
Flowers grow by threes hanging down at the end of the smaller branches; foot-stalks very short.
Empalement. Cup double, the outer three-leaved, leaflets broad, egg-shaped, skinny, pressed to the inner, and tiled; the inner four-leaved, with larger leaflets.
Blossom conical, twice the length of the cup, yellow; the segments of the border blunt and upright.
Chives. Eight linear threads, flat. Tips beardless, without the blossom, linear, very long, tapered into the threads.
Pointal. Seed-bud oval, appearing cut off at the end, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom, a little longer than the chives. Summit obsolete, and greenish.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till January.