DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, upright, and branching; the smaller branches are numerous.
The Leaves of the stem grow by threes, straight out, linear, blunt, and downy; those on the smaller branches, more upright, egg-shaped, a little sawed at the edges, and sharp pointed; the foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
The Flowers are numerous, growing by threes, or fours, at the end of the smaller branches; foot-stalks very short.
Empalement. Cup double; the inner four-leaved; leaves almost egg-shaped, pointed, sawed, coloured, furrowed at the point, and pressed to the blossom; the outer three-leaved, shorter than the former, and greenish.
Blossom nearly cylindrical, curved a little at the end, of a flesh colour, and ribbed; the segments of the mouth are upright, white and blunt.
Chives. Eight threads, spathula-shaped at the base, and fixed into the receptacle. Tips within the blossom, and beardless.
Pointal. Seed-vessel almost cylinder-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft tapered, without the blossom, and curved at the end. Summit four-cornered, and green.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February, till June.