DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, near a foot high; large and small branches grow straddling, rather upright.
Leaves grow by fours, tapered, smooth, the younger ones upright-spreading; the older ones reflexed; with short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in the middle of the small branches, solitary or by threes, and nodding; foot-stalks coloured, the length of the blossoms, with three coloured floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets egg-shaped, tapered, coloured, concave, and spreading.
Blossom nearly globular, swelled out, white, smooth, the size of a large pea; segments a little tiled, egg-shaped, hunched at the base, upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips crested, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly cylindric, furrowed. Shaft just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May, till July.