Leaves by sixes, linear, shining, pointed, smooth, slightly furrowed, and spreading. Foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow at the summit of the branches, pressed together in whorls, and horizontal; foot-stalks short, having three floral leaves pressed to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, with spear-shaped clammy leaflets, pressed to the blossom.
Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, of a pale yellow, very clammy, shining, with the segments of the mouth slightly reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. The tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, furrowed, and hairy at the top. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from September till March.
REFERENCE.
| 1. The Empalement and Blossom. |
| 2. The Empalement magnified. |
| 3. The Chives and Pointal. |
| 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. |
| 5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. |