Leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, channelled beneath, and roughish; having very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow in bunches, at the end of the branches, nodding; the foot-stalks are long and coloured, with three linear floral-leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup of four leaves, which are small, awl-shaped, fringed, and coloured.
Blossom, nearly egg-shaped, of a pale flesh-colour; the segments of the border tapered, and nearly upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, bent downward on the inner side. Tips crested, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and channelled. Shaft cylindrical just within the blossom. Summit obscurely four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till December.
REFERENCE.
| 1. The Empalement, and Blossom. |
| 2. The Empalement, magnified. |
| 3. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. |
| 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. |