DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, about a span high; the larger and smaller branches are thread-shaped, scattered, upright, spreading, and twiggy.
Leaves grow alternate, scattered, linear, blunt, the end bent back, and thick with glandular hairs.
Flowers are terminal, nearly in bunches, almost upright; the foot-stalks are thread-shaped, and twice as long as the leaves; the floral leaves are small, and coloured.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaves nearly egg-shaped, clammy, pointed, coloured, and bent outward at the top.
Blossom big-bellied, purple, ribbed, and downy, with the mouth oblique, narrowed, and of a deep blood colour; the segments are heart-shaped, and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, which are twisted, and fixed into the receptacle; the tips are crested, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and purple. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.